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"Lindsey Wright is a keen linguist and she is fascinated with the potential of emerging educational technologies.... In this guest blog post, she considers the advantages and possible barriers to studying languages online.  

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in list: Educational Technology

Cover piece with links to "audio highlights from the speaker's [sic] presentations and ... specially written articles that explore the themes and issues" (¶3):

+ Robert Phillipson: Principles and policies for a multilingual Europe;
+ Juliane House: English as a lingua franca for Europe
+ John Walsh: Can minority languages survive?
+ Barbara Seidlhofer: Teaching English as a lingua franca for Europe
+ Jennifer Jenkins: Accents of English in Europe

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in list: Global Education

Wheeler reports on findings that "Speaking two languages confers lifelong cognitive rewards that spread far beyond the improved ability to communicate" (¶1), and "The chief benefit of being bilingual is stronger 'executive control,' ... the chief building block of higher thought" (¶5).

Wheeler, David L. (2011). Being bilingual: beneficial workout for the brain. <i>Chronicle of Higher Education</i>, Research: February 20, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011. from http://chronicle.com/article/Being-Bilingual-Beneficial/126462/

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in list: Brain Matters

This article entitled Multiple Intelligence Theory Revisited suggests an alternative and readily applicable "model derived from ritual theory which has the advantage of being suitable for use on initial teacher training courses."

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in list: Teacher Education

Represents "a list of 10 ‘motivational macrostrategies’, which ... [Zoltan Dornyei & Kata Czizer] called the ‘Ten commandments for motivating language learners’" (¶9, retreived 2011.08.08).

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in list: Teacher Education

Abeywickrama, Priyanvada. (2011). The validity of nonnative speaker input in listening comprehension tests. [TESOL] <i>Applied Linguistics Interest Section Newsletter</i> (June 2011).

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in list: Language Assessment

A social networking system for learners of various languages seeking correction of their writing by native speakers of those languages, in exchange, return, or pay-forward for correction they provide for peer learners of their own languages.

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in list: Social Networking

"[L]anguage education policy [in Korea] needs greater coordination so that it can effectively promote individual development and the national interest" (¶1).

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in list: Language Policy

Password protected files--password on p. 2 of TLT

JALT proceedings education languages teaching learning professionalism conference jalt2009

in list: Teacher Education

English
Communication
Assessment
Profile

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in list: Language Assessment

Eaton, S.E. (2010). Global Trends in Language Learning in the Twenty-first Century. Calgary: Onate Press.

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in list: Language Acquisition

Blended participation, 2010.08.09-13 (PDT): "What’s happening with blogs, wikis, podcasts and social networking?  How can we use the tools our students use to connect, share, and inform in the language classroom?"

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Cool tool for finding associated pages in Wikipedias in various languages

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in list: Concept Mapping

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in list: Online Collaboration

"Free Online Courses ... in 36 different languages" (2010.02.22)

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in list: Language Acquisition

Resources available here:

* links to curriculum documents
* suggestions and a checklist for teachers planning units of work which incorporate skills from the Thinking Processes domain.
* sample units of work in different languages, with explicit links to Thinking Processes
* links to useful websites: - information about specific thinking tools and strategies, with practical examples in different languages - graphic organiser software to assist students in visualising thinking

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in list: Teacher Education

Presentation by Barbara Lindsay (April 2009)

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in list: Language Acquisition

Handbook of Research on...

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in list: Language Acquisition

Primary and Secondary Continuity in Foreign Language Teaching

multi-national (European) educational endeavor: contacts, coordinators, documents, events, forum... - website under construction (2009.01.07)

Project Description: http://www.pri-sec-co.eu/en/the-project/project-description.html

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in list: Teacher Education

"basic tran[s]lator that can handle several languages simultaneously. Looks good but as with any basic translators, not very reliable for more than single words" (Isabelle Jones).

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in list: Online Dictionaries