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Last week’s #LangChat participants discussed their strategies for helping students acquire vocabulary. @tmsaue1 correctly noted that the wording of the topic was deliberate: participants were asked how to help students “acquire vocabulary,” not just how to “teach” or “introduce” it. Participants shared their best practices for ensuring that students are exposed to and retain meaningful […]

Last week’s #LangChat participants discussed the challenge of maximizing target language use when teaching beginners, and strategies for overcoming that challenge. ACTFL recommends that language teachers aim to stay in the target language 90% of the time. The ACTFL magazine, The Language Educator, recently featured an article on this very topic. But the 90% goal […]

Last week, #LangChat participants shared their insights on the best classroom management practices and techniques. It was a dynamic discussion, and teachers with all levels of experience were able to come away with new ideas! As @placido noted, the discussion was more focused on general goals and philosophies, as well as some helpful tricks and […]

Last week, #LangChat participants tackled a much-used buzzword in education. It seems that “rigor” gets thrown around a lot by educators, but the definition remains somewhat unclear – especially in the world language classroom. As many participants pointed out, the dictionary definition of “rigor” is certainly not in line with the goals of most teachers. […]