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Google Maps Mania: 50 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups - 6 views

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    Thx to Toni Theisen over at: http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com/ Absolutely incredible resources!
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Measuring English Proficiency in Real-World Situations - Language Testing International - 6 views

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    "The 2012 Guidelines are available online, supported with glossed terminology and annotated, multimedia samples of performance at each level for speaking and writing, and examples of oral and written texts and tasks associated with each level for reading and writing. ESL teachers will be particularly interested in exploring the English Proficiency Guidelines online." (Cutshall, 2015, ¶18, 2015.11.09)
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How tablets accelerate the ease of learning a foreign language | TabTimes - 9 views

  • French Yelp, the Spanish-version of Craigslist, or the Japanese-language weather app.
  • best route from Le Louvre to Notre Dame in Paris. Students can use the same technology that a native speaker would use to accomplish any given task
  • mobile devices connect users with foreign language newspapers, videos, podcasts, and streaming online radio. This level of remote accessibility into other cultures and languages is completely unprecedented.
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  • how you might use the technology if your first language wasn’t English
  • electing applications that align with personal or professional interests
  • recipes in French
  • chord charts, and share recordings
  • Musicians
  • Cooking
  • majority of tablet applications are designed for just one task
  • ask-based approach to language learning relies on authentic language used in authentic ways. Tablets are now proving to serve this purpose
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    Using real apps for real language learning through taks based activities and practice in the ways that native speakers function daily. Authenticity at its best. . 
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