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Andrew Jeppesen

WorldLanguages21stcentury - home - 13 views

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  • Andrew Jeppesen on 15 Nov 09
     
    This is a place to collaborate and communicate on how our 21st century students can participate in the world community using the many tools of technology.
Barbara Lindsey

NEA: World Languages - 0 views

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articulation culture glastonbury language learning lifelong

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  • "The fact that our students study a language from grade one not only teaches them how to learn languages, it gives them the mindset that languages are just as important as any other subject," says Janet Eklund, now in her 20th year at Glastonbury, where she's one of two Russian teachers.
  • "All along, we're working to make them not just language proficient, but culturally aware," says Oleksak. "We always remind them that they have to learn more than just the words to relate to people from other cultures."
  • "There's a Chinese saying, that if three people pass by, one of them is your teacher. We learn from just about every experience we have," says Wang. "Then we make sense of it through our language."   
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  • Asia Society's Shuhan Wang cautions against a "language of the month" approach for districts working to build their language programs. It's more important, she says, to build on community resources and to do what you can to make language learning real-world and relevant to them.
  • Presidential candidate Barack Obama hit on some deep-seated anxiety when he remarked in July that we should emphasize foreign language learning from an early age.
  • "The U.S. will become less competitive in the global economy because of a shortage of strong foreign language and international studies programs at the elementary, high school, and college levels," the Committee for Economic Development stated plainly in a 2006 report. "Our diplomatic efforts often have been hampered by a lack of cultural awareness," the report went on to say. The world is becoming so interrelated, if we don't teach our young other languages and cultural values, says Wang, "We are denying them access to the new world. It is just plain and simple. If we continue to view language learning as for the elite, for the "smart ones," or for the family who can afford to pay for it, we are really widening the gap."
  • What does it say about America that we are the only industrialized nation that routinely graduates high school students who speak only one language? Frankly, it says that if you want to talk to us—to do business with us, negotiate peace with us, learn from or teach us, or even just pal around with us—you'd better speak English.
  • "The norm is still either no foreign language or two years in high school," says Marty Abbott, director of Education at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
  • Foreign language programs are often among the first things cut by urban school administrators desperately adding math and reading classes to raise test scores.
  • "It's time to reassess what 'basic skills' really means for the 21st century," says Asia Society's Wang.
  • Not only will students learn new vocabulary in the target language, but they get to work on the concepts they need to master for other classes, and yes, for high-stakes tests. That's how they do it in Glastonbury, says Oleksak: "We pre-teach, co-teach, and post-teach what's going on in the elementary classroom."
  • The kids reason out what you get when you add three butterflies plus four butterflies: Seven, yes, but really it's practice in Chinese and math, as well as a reminder that caterpillars turn into butterflies.
  • Right now, districts like Glastonbury—with an articulated, sequential program spanning grades 1–12, state-of-the-art language labs, and all the support an administration could give—are the exception.
Dianne Krause

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    LEARN FRENCH IN FRANCE If you are thinking about increasing your business or taking advantage of the French culture start here.
Patrick Higgins

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nj worldlanguage standards curriculum actfl levels

shared by Patrick Higgins on 12 Feb 09 - Cached
  • In Preschool, children are just beginning to learn about language and how it works. Exposure to multiple languages is advantageous for all children and can be supported by developmentally appropriate teaching practices that make use of songs, rhymes, and stories. In programs for beginning learners that offer appropriate time and frequency of instruction, students communicate at the Novice-Mid level using memorized language to talk about familiar topics related to school, home, and the community. After three-six years of study in programs offering the appropriate time and frequency of standards-based instruction, Novice-High through Intermediate-Mid level students communicate at the sentence level creating with language to ask and answer questions and to handle simple transactions related to everyday life and subject matter studied in other classes. After nine-twelve years of well articulated standards-based instruction, Intermediate-High through Advanced-Low level students communicate at the paragraph level and are able to handle complicated situations on a wide-range of topics.
  • Integration of technology within the CPIs necessitates its use as a tool in instruction and assessment.
  • Patrick Higgins on 12 Feb 09
     
    # In Preschool, children are just beginning to learn about language and how it works. Exposure to multiple languages is advantageous for all children and can be supported by developmentally appropriate teaching practices that make use of songs, rhymes, and stories. # In programs for beginning learners that offer appropriate time and frequency of instruction, students communicate at the Novice-Mid level using memorized language to talk about familiar topics related to school, home, and the community. # After three-six years of study in programs offering the appropriate time and frequency of standards-based instruction, Novice-High through Intermediate-Mid level students communicate at the sentence level creating with language to ask and answer questions and to handle simple transactions related to everyday life and subject matter studied in other classes. # After nine-twelve years of well articulated standards-based instruction, Intermediate-High through Advanced-Low level students communicate at the paragraph level and are able to handle complicated situations on a wide-range of topics.
Patrick Higgins

Best Foreign Fiction Of 2008 : NPR - 0 views

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  • Patrick Higgins on 02 Dec 08
     
    NPR's best foreign fiction for 2008
Dianne Krause

French Speaking People | Make cultural and professional connections in French anywhere ... - 0 views

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connections cultural french web2.0 worldlanguage

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  • Dianne Krause on 16 Sep 08
     
    Meet French-speaking people on your travels or in your own country and improve your French. Make social or professional French-speaking contacts.
Patrick Higgins

Yabla » Language Immersion - 0 views

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language immersion worldlanguages speaking video

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  • Patrick Higgins on 26 Feb 09
     
    One of our teachers found this site. It looks promising.
  • Patrick Higgins on 26 Feb 09
     
    I like this.
Patrick Higgins

eufeeds - over 1000 newspapers, updated every 20 minutes - 0 views

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contemporaryissues currentevents worldlanguage languages

shared by Patrick Higgins on 04 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 04 Mar 09
     
    Every newspaper in the EU in it's native language. Awesome for World Languages and current events. Google Translator works well too.
Dianne Krause

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom: - 0 views

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  • Dianne Krause on 12 Jul 08
     
    Blog about integrating technology into world language classrooms.
Patrick Higgins

Russian Keyboard and Cyrillic fonts, download Russian Phonetic Keyboard, Russian fonts ... - 0 views

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russify russification russian worldlanguage

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  • Patrick Higgins on 18 Nov 08
     
    Paul Gorodyansky
Patrick Higgins

How Global Language Learning Gives Students the Edge | Edutopia - 9 views

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language edutopia worldlanguages competency

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  • Patrick Higgins on 02 Mar 10
     
    In fact, some of the greatest obstacles to world-language education are parents who recall their own miserable experiences. Many Americans were introduced to foreign languages in middle school or high school classes that emphasized conjugation of verbs and other dull grammatical tasks rather than relevant communication skills. "Language teaching in the U.S. has been ineffective," Stewart says. "We start it at the wrong age. Teacher skills are not great. There's a focus on grammar and translation." The result: "Adults who took three years of French don't speak a word," she states.\nBut the trend toward competency and away from conjugation is helping create a new generation of language learners, one that gains real-world skills with many practical applications.
  • Patrick Higgins on 02 Mar 10
     
    the key here lies in the paragraph I clipped: the focus should be on competency rather than on conjugation.
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