Italki: 3 Ways to Get Started Welcome to The Five-Week Linguist Show. We are going to talk about three ways to get talking on Italki. (0:54) – There’s a range of language teachers from all over the world giving lessons on Italki. And there are native speakers or very proficient non-native speakers, professional language teachers.… Read More Italki: 3 Ways to Get Started
Language Teaching Activities Welcome to The Five-week Linguist Show. We’re going to talk about some language teaching activities inspired by travel. (0:54) Activities from travel for classes, postcards. (1:19) Kids can really easily make their own postcards. (1:50) Write everyone’s names on small slips of paper. I write places from all over the world. (1:56)… Read More Language Teaching Activities
Hollywood has a lot to offer language classes. Here are some ways to use it in your language classes. Stories Many actors love telling stories. Combine this inclination with wanting (and often needing) to make opportunities for their own work as actors. Remember when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote Good Will Hunting? They… Read More Hollywood in Your Language Class
Second Language Acquisition Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. If you want to learn a language, or you teach a language, you’ve come to the right place. Join Janina each week for tips, resources and advice for making engaging language learning happen anytime, anywhere. Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. We’re wrapping up five weeks… Read More 5-week crash course for teachers: second language acquisition
Here are some fun ways to get your students talking in any world language class. Hot Seat: Break up students into groups. They devise questions on the topic of your choice. They take turns sending members to the hot seat to answer their questions. Fun- LOTS of talking… Partner Pictionary: One talks, the other draws… Read More Get Them Talking: 10 Activities for ANY World Language Class
Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. If you want to learn a language or you teach a language, you’ve come to the right place. Join Janina each week for tips, resources, and advice for making engaging language learning happen anytime, anywhere. Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. This week, I wanted to talk about starting… Read More 5-week crash course for language teachers: anxiety
I absolutely love to use drama in my classroom. Drama is a huge passion of mine. I have one of my BA in Theatre Arts and have worked as an actress. Throughout my career teaching languages, I absolutely love to incorporate so many things that I have done and do as an actress and… Read More 5 Improv Activities for Language Class
I have published this content multiple times over many years. I wish I knew this when I was a beginning language teacher. This works in any language, too! Use Spanish days, months and the weather as a part of your daily routine in class. I came to public school teaching after working as a language… Read More Spanish Days, Months & Weather: Daily Routines
Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. If you want to learn a language or you teach a language, you’ve come to the right place. Join Janina each week for tips, resources, and advice for making engaging language learning happen anytime, anywhere. Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. Over these five weeks, we’ve been talking a… Read More 5-week crash course for language teachers: routines and procedures