Looking for some easy-to-prep, engaging activities for your world language class? Check these out for some low and no prep fun. Hot Potato Beginner/A. Use this for any vocab recall you have. It’s great fun. When the music goes off, the students start asking questions, making for a naturally communicative activity for the world language… Read More World Language Class: 5 Weeks of Low and No Prep Fun-Week 3
Looking for some more easy-to-prep language class activities? Check out these activities for language classes at any level. Errors Errors are completely unavoidable when you’re learning a language and you want to master them. They need to be seen as one of your most valuable assets in any language lesson. There are many fun, engaging… Read More Language Class Activities: Five Weeks of Low and No Prep Fun- Week Two
Teach Languages: Checklist for a Proficiency-oriented Classroom The internet provides us with more opportunities to learn and teach languages than at any time in history. Did you know that less than 1 percent of Americans are proficient in a language that they studied at school, according The Atlantic? In 2016, there were 110 million… Read More Teach Languages: Checklist for a Proficiency-oriented Classroom
As a language teacher and student of languages, I am always thinking about how to learn languages in the fastest, most efficient and enjoyable way. I LOVE all that we have available to us now with the connections that the Internet offers. We can hear radio from all over the world, see television programs, listen… Read More Language at the Table
Do you know about italki? If you do you know it is a great way to connect with speakers of the language that you are learning. We learn languages by understanding (Krashen) and build our skills through practice. Communicating in the target language provides the perfect opportunity to get the input we need to understand… Read More Italki for the Language Classroom
Duolingo is EVERYWHERE. The founder, Luis Von Ahn, is a genius. He took his passion and curiosity to combine the power of the human brain and computer science to make a completely free language learning program for people all over the world. While I think that focusing on an application to learn a language should… Read More Using Duolingo for Assessing Language Proficiency
Do you want an amazing way to build fluency in any language, at any level? If so, you should definitely try fluency journals if you’ve not done so thus far. They work great for independent language learners as well as structured classes. Basically, this is how it works. It doesn’t matter what the level is,… Read More Fluency Journals