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  by  Beth Rankin  Performances and cultural events are only some of the ways teachers are advocating for proficiency-based language methods. Love was in the air at Thursday’s Valentine’s #langchat, but not the romantic kind. Participants at the night’s chat seemed to be focused on finding ways to love their colleagues and administration more in order to […]

  by  Fort Worth Squatch  Are changes on the foreign language AP exams going to break your students, or build their language skills? “Students that know a second language statistically score higher on any standardized test compared to monolinguals. That’s something!” @darcypippens pointed out on Thursday night. Although her enthusiasm for teaching a second language was universally […]

  by  roland  Should language classrooms be translator-free, or can online translators be beneficial to learning? This Thursday at #langchat, educators weighed the benefits and drawbacks of online translators and dictionaries. Although participants agreed that online dictionaries and translators can be a beneficial part of the language classroom, it was also clear that they can become a […]