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World Languages

Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop in world languages.

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  • A Protocol to Make Project-Based Learning Easier in World Language Classes

    With the proper scaffolding, students can provide feedback on their classmates’ projects in the target language.
    Rachel Paparone
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  • Jump-Starting Academic Learning With Movement and Dance

    The benefits of movement in the classroom aren’t limited to younger students. Pairing new words and concepts with gestures or dance moves locks in understanding—and active brain breaks prime students to learn even more.
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  • 60-Second Strategy: Whiteboard Relay

    The team competition is fierce in this informal assessment activity, in which students have to work together to win.
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  • A group of high school students gathered at a table in a circle, doing a language game together

    12 Fun Speaking Games for Language Learners

    Every teacher has faced the struggle of encouraging students to speak. Here's a list of a fun activities to get your students to talking.
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  • The Benefits of Learning a Second Language

    It’s a myth that learning a new language interferes with a child’s development.
    12.9k
  • Do’s & Don’ts for Teaching English-Language Learners

    In an excerpt from his book with fellow teacher Katie Hull Sypnieski, blogger Larry Ferlazzo looks at a few basic ways to reach students who are learning English as well as the subject at hand.
    13.5k
  • 5 Playful Strategies That Reduce Language Learning Anxiety

    We visited a classroom in Denmark to see how a playful learning philosophy can put students at ease and make language learning joyful and engaging.
    1.2k
  • Authentic Activities for the World Language Classroom

    More than 30 exercises to keep your students engaged and learning.
    9.5k
  • Maintaining Students’ Motivation for Learning as the Year Goes On

    Neuroscience can suggest ways to keep students working toward their learning goals after their initial excitement wears off.
    5.9k
  • 5 Top Tech Tools for World Language Classes

    See how to adapt popular apps to get students speaking, listening, reading, and writing in the target language.
    5k
  • 4 Activities to Boost Target Language Vocabulary Acquisition

    To give his students repeated exposure to relevant vocabulary terms, the author relies on a tried-and-true tool: index cards.
    4.4k
  • In Language Classrooms, Students Should Be Talking

    Language classes often don't focus on the aspect of learning a language that intrigues students most -- speaking it. We should get students talking more.
    6.8k
  • Twenty Ideas for Engaging Projects

    Twenty ideas for getting engaging projects going in your classroom.
    10.1k
  • 5 Ways to Support Struggling Students in World Language Classes

    Students with academic challenges benefit from these simple strategies as they develop confidence using the target language.
    3.3k
  • Highlighting World Languages in Elementary School

    The elementary grades are a great time for students to learn about world languages. Simple strategies include having signs in multiple languages.
    399

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