RESOURCES FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING

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Don't Just Stand There: Engage Students in Active Language Learning

 Get your students up and moving, using language in everday situations. Join us for an interactive workshop providing hands-on training in language tasks for the classroom that maximizes the learning experience.

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Language Resources          2012 Workshop Video 

 

Lets Talk About Teaching Foreign Languages Preview

 

 

 

 

 Let's Talk About Teaching Foreign Language Complete Video

Part One: Language Proficiency: What it Means to “Know” a Language

 Stephen Tschudi introduces the history of language learning in academic contexts, currently evolving conceptions of the role of student and teacher, characteristics of the student-centered classroom, distinctions between listening/ speaking versus reading/writing, the difference between authentic language use and academic literacy, and introduces the context of using ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.

Part Two: Tasks in Language Teaching: What We Ask Students to Do

 Stephen Tschudi discusses: language use in real life; learning concepts of closed-endedness and open-endedness; relating proficiency level to actual language use; the characteristics of language tasks and how they differ from exercises; some possible classroom task configurations; rubrics for performance assessment.

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Part Three: Standards for Foreign Language Learning 

  Stephen Tschudi gives a history of the standards, defines the five key goal areas, explains how to use the standards to plan curriculum, and introduces standards-based performance rubrics.

Language Resources

| General |

| Arabic | Chinese | French | German  | Hindi |Indonesian  Italian | Spanish | Tagalog | Urdu | 

 

GENERAL

Interagency Language Roundtable
Information about assessing skill levels, resources for professional teachers and students of all languages

Testing and Assessment webinars offered by the Language Acquisition Resource Center.
 

ARABIC

"Aswaat Arabiyya," University of Texas at Austin. Provides authentic listening texts for all learning levels. Texts can be sped up or slowed down to facilitate understanding. 

"Phone Conversations" in Egyptian, Iraqi and Levantine dialects. Defense Language Insttute Foreign Language Center. 

Good listing of lyrics of Arabic songs
 

CHINESE

Video Clips for Listening Practice

Beginning Chinese Characters

Chinese Online Flashcards

Simplified Chinese Character Tutor

Instruction in Stroke Order for Chinese

Read and Write Chinese Characters

FRENCH

RFI – Radio Francais International:

 

BBC Languages French – French TV, Radio, vocabulary trainer

Le Point du FLE Resources for teaching and learning French
 

Podcast Francais facile
 

 GERMAN


Goethe Institute
Goethe Institute

Introduction to German language, language trainer
Teaching German as a second language (including teaching materials)
Deutsche Welle – Radio : German news read at reduced speed, news articles with vocabulary

Teachmaster.de – vocabulary trainer

Blinde Kuh – Suche : Search engine for kids

Slow German : podcast with study material

German-English online dictionary

 


 

HINDI or URDU

Guide to Establishing a Hindi or Urdu Language Program

University of Washington Resources for Learning Hindi. Includes course materials, conversatoin lessons, web based Hindi materials, and much more

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The University of Texas Hindi-Urdu Flagship Program. Includes glossaries, thesaurus of Hindi, worksheets, textbooks, and much more

 INDONESIAN

Learning Bahasa Indonesia on the Internet

Warung Sinema: Indonesian Language Project

 

ITALIAN

BBC Italian
 

In Italia : L’Italia e l’italiano per stranieri
 

Italica Italian Course online
 

Zanichelli Class room materials
 

Language Guide.org : Image dictionary
 

Centro Studi Italiani : Online exercises in Italian
 

AlterVISTA : Noi parliamo italiano … e tu? : Teaching material for all levels

 

SPANISH

Cervantes Institute : Listening exercises
 

Radio FLE – Spanish learning radio

EU Delegation to Spain : Study Spanish Material A2-C1
 

Study Spanish.com
 

BBC Spanish
 

Hispadictos : Resources to teach and study Spanish

 

TAGALOG


Interactive Language and Filipino Culture Resources


UC Berkeley Filipino Language and Culture Resources