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That Quiz - Math Test Activities
You can create your own quizzes or use those of others. It let's you register your classes online and provides them with a key to access the tests you create.
Fonética: Los sonidos del español
Spanish phonics with videos to show you how to move your mouth to create the sounds.
BBC - Languages - Spanish - Mi Vida Loca
This is a very well-done game from the BBC that places students in real situations and asks them to complete realistic tasks.
"Anglo-Saxons - World’s Worst or Best Linguists?" - Telegraph
Why are English-speakers the worst linguists?
What the Research Shows - American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Links between studying second languages and cognitive benefits.
Thinking about languages in a new way | Supporting the new secondary curriculum for languages
Interesting outline for approaching curriculum design in languages. Most of what is stated is self-explanatory, but true nonetheless.
Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning/Interaction/Finding Language Exchange (eTandem) Partners - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
This is a huge list of sites that can help you connect your students to native speakers so they may practice their target language.
eufeeds - over 1000 newspapers, updated every 20 minutes
Every newspaper in the EU in it's native language. Awesome for World Languages and current events. Google Translator works well too.
New Jersey Department of Education
# 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.
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- 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.
- Levels of expected proficiency for World Languages in New Jersey - on 2009-02-12
- 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.
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Integration of technology within the CPIs necessitates its use as a tool in instruction and assessment.
worldlanguagelab » dashboard
This is an extensive version of what I have in mind for our WL department.
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