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The Essentials of Language Teaching
This is a how-to Web site for university-level language teachers who want to review or develop their skills in communicative language teaching. Whether you are just starting out in university-level language teaching in the United States, or are an old hand in the language classroom, we think you'll find useful material on this site.

Portfolio Assessment Guide
This free, web-based tutorial is designed to guide educators in creating and implementing a standards-based, foreign language portfolio assessment tied to their own curricula. It includes teacher and student questionnaires, FL standards checklists, planning worksheets, sample rating scales, self-assessment activities, and sample lessons.

Elementary Immersion Learning Strategies Guide
This is a guide to incorporating learning strategies into an existing immersion curriculum in Grades K-6. Included in the guide are chapters on teaching learning strategies, selecting strategies to introduce to students in language and content areas at each grade level, sample lessons, a model for developing a learning strategies lesson, learning strategies lists and definitions in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Russian.

Sailing the 5 Cs with Learning Strategies
This guide focuses on how the teaching learning strategies can aid the teacher meet the ACTFL Standards. It includes suggestions about how to teach learning strategies, suggestions about which strategies are appropriate to introduce at different stages, and a segment on FL learning strategies written specifically for the high school student.

Developing Autonomy in Language Learners
Learning Strategies Instruction in Higher Education: To learn a foreign language effectively, students need to know how to learn as well as what to learn. Having a repertoire of learning strategies can help students become better and more autonomous learners. This guide introduces 20 particularly useful learning strategies and demonstrates how teachers can present these strategies in the classroom.

Russian for Russians
This web-based interactive program is designed to help heritage Russian speakers develop their language, and learn to read and write in Russian. The site includes chapters on the Russian alphabet, business, and history.

Russian Web casts
bi-weekly, fifteen-minute web casts based on major news stories delivered in simplified standard Russian. Scripts are prepared based on media reports from radio and TV web outlets such as ORT, NTV and Mayak. The scripts are recorded by native speakers trained in pedagogical delivery, and come with pre- and post-script exercises on the website.


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  • March 1-29, 2013.  Center for Applied Linguistics. Assessment for Language Instructors: The Basics. 5 session course.  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AssessmentBasics2013 or vnier@cal.org

  • March 7 – 10, 2013. NECTFL 2013: Developing Leaders for Tomorrow’s Learners. at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, MD In partnership with the Maryland Foreign Language Association and the Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages. More info

  • March 14th to 16th Central States CTFL. Multi-Tasks, Multi-Skills, Multi-Connections. Columbus OH http://www.csctfl.org/

  • April 11 - 13 SCOLT. World Language Learning: Setting the Global Standard. Birmingham AL http://scolt.org

  • May 30th - June 1st. The Eighth International Conference on Language Teacher Education: Preparing Language Teacher Educators to Meet National and Global Needs. More info

  • June 11-15, 2013.  IALLT International Association for Language Learning Technology.  Sunshine and Cloud Apps: The Next Generation in Language Learning Technology.   Fort Lauderdale, FL.  http://2013.iallt.org/home

  • October 17-19, 2013.  Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association.  Fuel Their Future with Languages.  Sheraton Keystone, Indianapolis, ID.  www.iflta.org

  • October 4-5, 2013. FLAVA 2013 Conference: Go Global. More info

 

 




 

 

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