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an evaluation tool for online course sites

These topics involved different cultural traditions, common European history, comparable cultural processes, European citizenship and multiplicity of perspective: - Migration - causes and consequences for Europe - Urban development in the 19th Century - The Treaty of Versailles - The European Community: life and working space for citizens The partners promised to exchange suitable materials on these topics, to develop teaching units, and to test, document and evaluate these units

Strategies and techniques for autonomous recording activities in (or outside of) language classes with portable mp3 recorders, including sample materials, and guidelines for evaluation\n

A brief overview of how student portfolios can be used for assessment and evaluation. Contains references

Learn German online and for free: 10 German lessons for total beginners and 24 German grammar lessons for advanced learners are complemented by numerous interactive German language exercises, an introduction to new German language orthography and 2 online German language tests to improve and to evaluate your German language proficiency.

"Apprendre le français en jouant avec des chansons françaises, Améliorer sa compréhension orale, Correction d'orthographe,"Analyse des difficultés, Jeux de dictée, Définitions des mots, Evaluation en temps réel, Statistique des fautes, 3 niveaux de difficulté...

These are excellent resources to use for assessing language programs and teaching in general!

An outlined how-to article on feedback essay writing by an English teacher.

Advice for language learners General warning: what follows may or may not apply to you. It's based on what linguistics knows about people in general (but any general advice will be ludicrously inappropriate for some people) and on my own experience (but you're not the same as me). If you have another way of learning that works, more power to you. Given the discussion so far, the prospects for language learning may seem pretty bleak. It seems that you'll only learn a language if you really need to; but the fact that you haven't done so already is a pretty good indication that you don't really need to. How to break out of this paradox? At the least, try to make the facts of language learning work for you, not against you. Exposure to the language, for instance, works in your favor. So create exposure. * Read books in the target language. * Better yet, read comics and magazines. (They're easier, more colloquial, and easier to incorporate into your weekly routine.) * Buy music that's sung in it; play it while you're doing other things. * Read websites and participate in newsgroups that use it. * Play language tapes in your car. If you have none, make some for yourself. * Hang out in the neighborhood where they speak it. * Try it out with anyone you know who speaks it. If necessary, go make new friends. * Seek out opportunities to work using the language. * Babysit a child, or hire a sitter, who speaks the language. * Take notes in your classes or at meetings in the language. * Marry a speaker of the language. (Warning: marry someone patient: some people want you to know their language-- they don't want to teach it. Also, this strategy is tricky for multiple languages.) Taking a class can be effective, partly for the instruction, but also because you can meet others who are learning the language, and because, psychologically, classes may be needed to make us give the subject matter time and attention. Self-study is too eas