Tag: august
August 2015
Making Words Dance
Kwame Alexander and Chris Colderley explain why we need to read and write more poetry in (and outside of) the classroom
Precision Rotation
Lance Knowles applies real-world knowledge to the implementation of the Flipped Classroom
Clearing Virtual Hurdles
Sylvaine Montaudouin tackles the challenges of developing content and teaching online
Composition Tools
These innovative programs can help build student confidence in their writing...
August 2014
Retool for Fall
A selection of the latest technological products for language educators
Bright Learners, Big City
Kristal Bivona returns from China full of its promise
We are Family
Mary Catherine Thomson enthuses about the long-term success of a sister school program
Cutting to the Common Core: My Student’s Can’t Read So How Will They Write?
Hillary Wolfe recommends building strategic scaffolds to assist adolescent writing...
August 2013
Cutting to the Common Core
Making Vocabulary Number One
Dr. Kate Kinsella offers strategies for prioritizing vocabulary for competent text analysis, discussion, and constructed response
Child’s Play
Kennedy Schultz surveys language learning and technology programs for elementary students
Apps That Snap and Tools That Rule
Christopher DiStasio recommends free online resources for the language classroom
A Country of Many Canadas
Learning French in Canada has never...
August 2011
Joining the Digital Dots
Traditionally every August, we publish our annual focus on technology, hoping that many readers will have a little extra time over the summer to assess the latest developments and work out where they can find the means to finance them. However, technology has now become so much a part of not only the language education process...
August 2008
Creating Global Classrooms
As fuel prices inflate the cost of travel and concern for the environment increases, the ideal that everyone should have the opportunity to study abroad becomes less attainable. At the same time, such trips and other intercultural experiences are being recognized as an essential part of education in our global economy, so we have to make the...
August 2010
Keeping Up With Styles
As educational spending budgets are squeezed, the return on investment in educational technology is also coming under increased scrutiny. We cut such spending at our peril. Of course, we must invest in books and teachers but technology offers students more opportunity to learn according to their own style. Since the earliest language labs with reel-to-reel tape recorders,...
August 2009
Suckering the Supreme Court
August 2009 Cover
The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor are affording the American people an invaluable insight into the ingrained prejudices that prevail in our society, as well as the procedural anomalies that assist in their continuance.
Beneath the disturbing questioning of the validity of being a “wise Latina” and Oklahoma...
August 2008
IN THIS ISSUE:
The World as We Speak
Our forum for changes in world language
Online Testing
Language Magazine’s guide to choosing the right assessments for your students
Teaching Language for Learning
Jim Cummins offers strategies to help teachers overcome the challenge of academic English
Mind Blocks
Lance Knowles explains how Recursive Hierarchical Recognition, a brain-based theory of language acquisition, is shaping the design of...
August 2007
IN THIS ISSUE:
The World as We Speak
Our forum for changes in world languages
East Meets West
Mei-Jean Kuo Barth and Lori Langer de Ramirez explain how foreign-born Chinese language teachers can find success teaching in American classrooms
Mandarin Materials
A sample of some of the latest Mandarin Chinese learning materials on offer
New World Spanish
Hannah Zeiler heads south of the equator to see...
August 2006
IN THIS ISSUE:
The World as We Speak
Our forum for changes in world languages
Will the Web Fulfill Its Educational Promise?
Steven Donahue ponders the future of the convergence of technology upon the educational system and personal privacy
Latest in Classroom Technology
Hannah Zeiler and Fiona Nottingham check out the latest offerings for the language classroom
The Lure of Remote Labs
Dr. Richard Laden lays...