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Engage your learners with a Word of the Week today! – Follow us on Twitter – On social media, we’ve been posting a brand-new resource: Word of the Week! Teachers in our Teacher Team group on Facebook (which our members should definitely join) suggested we give our subscribers a template to create their own Word of the Week […]

You want the best Spanish curriculum. How do you choose? As a teacher or parent who wants the young children in your life to speak real Spanish to real people, you have a lot of choices to make. You’ll find an array of programs that claim to help you teach Spanish to children. How do […]

Almost every world language class has learners that span a spectrum of proficiencies and needs. Strategies teachers use to meet that variety of needs are collectively called differentiation.  In a recent #langchat, world language teachers discussed how to use differentiation in the interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes. – Follow the blog on Bloglovin – Defining […]

  by  James Jordan  #langchat teachers discuss the delicate balance of teaching students a love for world language in addition to the required skills and modes of learning that makes them proficient and AP-bound   Balancing Proficiency Skills and Activities World language teachers have traditionally organized their classes around the skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. […]

  by  The-Lane-Team  Recycling excellent content can be the key to solidify new concepts, but what are the best ways to renew, re-use and re-teach in the world language classroom? Although most teachers know the necessity of re-teaching and re-using concepts to help scaffold language learning, it can be difficult to decide the best way to do […]

  by  tm-tm  #langchat participants vote on when and how grammar instruction should be incorporated into world language curriculum. Grammar is a necessary part of language teaching and learning. During #langchat last Thursday, many participants shared that they realize the importance of teaching grammar in order to help students feel more confident and have better communication. On […]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! We hope your holidays are starting off nicely and that everyone is enjoying this festive season. This past Thursday we held a fun #langchat conversation that we haven’t done before — lesson plan sharing and discussion. If you weren’t able to make it, open up a new tab […]