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The weekly #LangChat conversation was fast paced as everyone tweeted away about how valuable music is in the language classroom. Highlights of why it is valuable included the ability to really engage students as you introduce culture, teach new vocabulary and grammatical structures, and give kids opportunities to hear native speakers. Thank you to all […]

Hello everyone and welcome back to #langchat! This past Thursday’s discussion led us through a challenging topic in language education—listening strategies that improve comprehension of native speakers. Even some of the most fluent speakers can still have trouble with this, so how do we best nurture our students’ comprehension? Participants shared many awesome ideas that […]

Do you need some fresh ideas to motivate your students to write more in the target language? Your colleagues at #LangChat shared many wonderful ideas, as usual. Read on to discover fresh ideas, links to inspiring sites and even see some work samples from students. Blogs are a great way to get your students writing […]

Thanks to all our dedicated #LangChat twitter participants who shared great ideas and resources to help encourage and increase student use of target language (TL) in class. Thanks especially to the moderator, Elle_Spanish, also known as Elvira Deyamport. While the focus of our conversation was TL use in the classroom, it was noted that it […]

Our #LangChat on “Games in the language classroom” was full of great ideas and discussion. I’ll try to summarize most of the ideas here. Pull up a chair and grab a cup of coffee, there are so many great ideas to share! Thanks to Diego Ojeda and Elvira Deyamport for moderating and for all the […]

The #LangChat discussion on Feb 3rd was full of ideas and discussion on “Rethinking the ‘teaching’ of vocabulary.” We had a great group of participants sharing ideas, links and insights. After all, this is a group of language educators and “they” have a lot to say (as noted by @tmsaue1.) – Follow the blog on […]