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Tag Archives: language teaching
Call for Papers: Working Papers in LCLE
Indiana University is putting out a new Working Papers collection. The Working Papers in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education (WPLCLE) are calling for relevant papers not to exceed 9,000 words. The deadline for their 2012 issues is March 2012. See their … Continue reading
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Tagged and Language Education, assessment and evaulation, bilingual education, bloomington, call for papers, classroom research, Cultural, culture, curriculum design, discourse analysis, Education, educational achievement, first language acquisition, heritage language, indiana university, indigenous literacy, Language, Language acquisition, language and gender, language measures, language planning, language policy, language revitalization, language teaching, Lingusitics, literacy, multilingual, pragmatics, Research, SLA, Sociolinguistics, sociology of language, Working Papers in Literacy, WPLCLE
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Resources: FirstVoices
This website hosts material for Canadian First Nation (Native American) languages. They appear to have materials (including language learning games and mobile apps) for over 60 languages, though some are not currently available to the public. FirstVoices: FirstVoices.
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Tagged aboriginal, apps, audio, Cahuilla, culture revitalization, Cupeno, Dakelh, Dene, Diidiitidq, endangered languaes, First Nation, First People's Cultural Foundation, First Voices, Gitsenimx, Gwich'in, Haisla, Halkomelem, Han, Hlgaagilda Xaayda Kil, huron-wendat, iTunes, ituns, Klahoose, Ktunaxa, Kwadacha Tsek'ene, Kwakwala, Language Archives, language archiving, language games, language learning, language learning games, language revitalization, language teaching, Language Tutor, Lil'wat, Luiseno, Maskwacis Cree, Mi'kmaw, mobile dictionaries, Mohawk, Native American, New Relationship Trust, Nisga'a, Northern Salishan, Nuxalk, second language acquisition, Secwepemctsin, Sliammon, Southern Tutchone, Tagish, TELUS Video, Tlingit, Tse'Khene, Tsilhqot'in, Wet'suwet'en, World Indigenous Cultures, Yekooche
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Tools: Graphic Organizers from eduplace.com
What you’re doing with your words is different from what you’re saying. This is often a very difficult concept for young writers to master, so it helps to have some visual aids to talk about the structure of a paragraph … Continue reading
Classroom Activities: Kinetic Typography of Stephen Fry’s Language
Stephen Fry (as featured in the previous post with House‘s Hugh Laurie) has eloquently written on the subject of language, and Matt Rogers has set Fry’s voice in motion through a process called Kinetic Typography. The mesmerizing combination of Fry’s … Continue reading
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Tagged American English, Animation, Arts, BBC, British English, Classroom, Classroom Activities, classroom English, classroom language, descriptive rules, dialect, Education, Educational Linguistics, friendly milk, grammar, grammar rules, House, Hugh Laurie, kinetic type, Language, language in the classroom, language teaching, language variation, language variation in the classroom, Linguistics, Matt Rogers, plural, pluralization, Poetry, poetry and grammar, poetry in motion, prescriptive rules, rogers creations, rogerscreations.com, Social Sciences, Stephen Fry, Student, subject verb agreement, teaching grammar, teaching poetry, teaching writing, Television, tricky linguist, tricky linguistics, Twitter, video, words, Writing, www.rogerscreations.com, YouTube
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Classroom Activities: Space Language
Here’s a langauge-based activity for very young students. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is actively searching for aliens in planets that NASA thinks show potential for life. You can read NPR’s coverage of this search in the link below. The … Continue reading
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Tagged alien language, aliens, Classroom Activities, classroom language, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Extraterrestrial life, Language, Language acquisition, language teaching, NASA, NPR, Outer space, Science fiction, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, SETI, space language
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Classroom Activities: Celebrating International Mother Language Day
Today (February 21, 2011) is the 11th annual International Mother Language Day. It’s the day that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) asks us to recognize and honor the strength that linguistic diversity brings us. This blog has … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, African American languages, American, and Cultural Organization, Beowolf, bilingual, Classroom Activities, democratic, English language, English Only movement, English-only, First language, hedge schools, human rights, International Mother Language Day, Irish, Jon Reyhner, language education, language policy, language rights, language teaching, Linguistic relativity, linguistic rights, Linguistics, literature, Mayan, minority language, minority language groups, monolingual, mother tongues, multilingual, Native American, Native American langauges, Navin Singh, Northern Arizona University, Old English, Patricia K. Kuhl, Patricia Kuhl, pedagogy, Sapir, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Scientific, Second language, social studies, standard, Steven Pinker, TED, TEDx, translation, UN, UNESCO, United Nations, United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights, United Nations Educational, Whorf
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Resources: Academic articles on Linguistic Pedagogy
The scholarly journal Language and Linguistics Compass runs a series on Education and Pedagogy in language teaching and linguistics. Here’s a link to part of that series: Education & Pedagogy : Language and Linguistics Compass. You can navigate to other parts … Continue reading
