Features
The Bilingual Teacher Shortage: A Vicious Cycle
Allison Briceño, Eduardo Muñoz-Muñoz, and Claudia Rodríguez-Mojica present reasons and suggest solutions for the chronic shortage of Spanish/English...
Conquering U.S. Admission Exams
Philip Bates shares how international students can effectively prepare for the SAT and ACT
Getting Social in the Classroom
Jennifer Parker offers suggestions to help you co-create with social media so that everyone has a voice
Stressing Classy Communication
In a midsized school, a veteran second-grade teacher is working diligently with her students on a...
Literacy
Making Learning Come to Life
“Ultimately, the outcome of maker education and educational makerspaces leads to determination, independence, and creative problem...
Drawing on Ideas for Language Learners
For more than 40 years, education researchers have advocated the use of concept mapping as an...
States Classify Long-Term English Learners Very Differently
Variations abound in state classification of long-term English learners (LTELs).The
broadest study ever undertaken of
long-term English learners (LTELs)...
Reaching English Learners Act Gains Support
TESOL International Association has pledged its support for the bipartisan Reaching English Learners Act (H.R. 1153, S....
World Language News
AI Detects Psychosis Risk Through Conversational Language
A new study has found that machine-learning artificial intelligence (AI) can successfully detect and predict which individuals...
Unpacking the Box
Technology has become so prevalent in modern, mainstream educational systems over the last few years that it...
Ontario Invests in French
The Canadian province of Ontario will invest about CAN$20 million in projects and initiatives to support students,...
Spanish-Language Cuban Radionovelas to Be Digitized
From the 1930s to the 1950s, Cuba exported more Spanish-language daytime and nighttime radio shows than any...
Resources
Spoonfuls of Reading to Fundraise
Elementary schools often struggle with the parallel challenges of raising money to support a range of activities...
Languages
Destination Andalucia Video Blog Part 2
Bienvenidos! Here is part two on my video blog, where I talk about class, excursions, and what it's like in Granada. If...
Quality, Not Quantity
Andy Kaufman urges U.S. schools to recognize and credit Costa Rican immersion schoolsAs...
Destinación Andalucía Video Blog Part 1
Hola & Bienvenidos! Welcome to part one of Language Magazine's Video Blog for Destinación Andalucía, with me,...
Last Chance to Register for San Diego Spanish Conference
101st Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese (AATSP), ...
Professional Development
Poor Students, Rich Teaching
Solution Tree has released the revised edition of Eric Jensen’s best-selling book, Poor Students, Rich Teaching, along...
Corwin’s Five Recommendations for Building Professional Expertise
1. Tonya Ward Singer’s EL Excellence Every Day: The Flip-To Guide for Differentiating Academic LiteracyThis book has some...
Have Fun Learning
If kids are having fun while learning a language, it is much more likely they will enjoy...
Personalize Literacy and Language Instruction with OverDrive E-Books and Audiobooks
OverDrive offers teachers an ever-growing collection of tools for literacy and language instruction and access to an...
Spanish Resources
Some free online resources for Spanish teachers
Teachers’ blogs:
Miscositas www.miscositas.com Lori Langer de Ramirez offers a plethora of resources for Spanish teachers: Thematic curriculum units with...