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in title, tags, annotations or urlSo…how do we 'teach' listening? | The Language Gym - 6 views
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In this blog post, Conti reiterated inadequacies in methods from previous posts about teaching listening to secondary-level additional (modern) language learners in the UK. He then outlined skills and conditions necessary for successful listening comprehension. As he enumerated practical implications of those skills for learning and teaching activities, he provided illustrative sequences of tasks that teachers could set for learners to help them develop their listening comprehension.
Spell Up - 6 views
Improving SPAG for All Ages - 1 views
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"The teaching of grammar has changed completely in a generation. While formal teaching of spelling and punctuation have been a mainstay of the classroom, just a few decades ago there was very little teaching of grammar. Many pupils formally encountered grammar through the study of other languages. Now SPaG takes up a large part of the primary curriculum, but have secondary colleagues noticed a difference? In this session we are discussion how to improve SPaG skills and usage at all levels of schooling and beyond."
Spanish language learning games - 1 views
How to encourage students to pursue languages at GCSE and A-level | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional - 3 views
Le système scolaire français - 5 views
Leer en la EOI de Luarca: Breaking the ice - 1 views
Interactive sites | frenchteacher.net - 5 views
NEA: World Languages - 0 views
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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.
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"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."
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"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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Sans problèmes!: AS level - 0 views
News: The Web of Babel - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
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Some adventurous professors have used Twitter as a teaching tool for at least a few years. At a presentation at Educause in 2009, W. Gardner Campbell, director of the academy of teaching and learning at Baylor University, extolled the virtues of allowing students to pose questions to the professor and each other — an important part of the thinking and learning process — without having to raise their hands to do so immediately and aloud. And in November, a group of professors published a scientific paper suggesting that bringing Twitter into the learning process might boost student engagement and performance.
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But while Lomicka and her tech-forward peers are not advocating that every college go the way of Chapel Hill, they are finding out that some relatively novel teaching technologies that are used by academics of all stripes, such as Twitter and iTunes U, are particularly useful for teaching languages.
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At Emory University, language instructional content is far and away the biggest export of its public repository on iTunes U, where visitors from around the world have downloaded more than 10 million files since Emory opened the site in 2007.
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Word Dynamo - Free Study Guides, Quizzes, Games and Flashcards | Word Dynamo - 4 views
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A superb English vocabulary site from the makers of Dictionary.com. Test your knowledge of words and their meanings to build your word power. The site also has levelled sections and resources for learning French, Spanish and Latin. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Scandal of class divide at A-level - Education News, Education - The Independent - 0 views
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