Tag: november
November 2015
Fact or FICTION: The PLOT thickens Stephen Krashen argues that self-selected pleasure reading of fiction is key to complex text comprehension for first- and second-language learners
Skills for a Multilingual, Global Learning Community Edynn Sato offers educators strategies to help multilingual learners develop academic literacies
Transforming Teaching A Harvard white paper analyzes teaching problems and suggests a ‘system’ to build teachers’...
November 2014
Elementary Practicals
Lisa Lucas discovers what we can learn from the UK’s mandating of world language education in all elementary schools from second grade
When Language and Learning Get Tough
John Carr offers strategies for identifying and serving the growing population of English learners with learning difficulties
The Play’s the Thing
Lori Langer de Ramirez recommends using suspension of disbelief and simulations as means...
November 19 in History
Richard Lederer gives us a sesquicentennial look back at the Gettysburg Address
“Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope,” once wrote a student. In one fell swoop — and one swell foop — that young scholar managed to misplace a modifier and perpetuate an inaccurate myth.
In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning Lincoln...
November 2013
Infants, Words, and Income
Bjorn Carey reports on research showing that two-year-old children of lower-income families may already be six months behind in language development
Taking Europe to Task
Miriam Plieninger explains how the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages has influenced intermediate online learning
Cutting to the Common Core: Be the Change
Armando Zúñiga explains how we need to transform...
November 2012
Improving Character Recognition in Chinese
Stephen Krashen argues that meaningful reading is the route to literacy, whatever the language
Accenting Improvements
Lois Spitzer examines the sensitive subject of accent modification
Stirring Up Passion
Alexandra Méndez advocates falling in love with language as the route to mastery
Breaking with Tradition
Kristal Bivona encourages the promotion of non-traditional study destinations like...
November 2011
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United Indignation
It is about 75 years since the likes of Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell risked everything to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Over two thousand Americans joined volunteers from all over the world to form the 35,000 strong international brigades that fought alongside Spanish socialists, communists, anarchists, and libertarians to try to prevent the...
November 2008
Greater Expectations
In a recent commentary published online in Education Week (Give Latin a Chance, September 22, 2008), Baynard Woods, a public school teacher from Washington DC, explained how his experience convinced him that the teaching of “Latin might play a role in eliminating the achievement gap between disadvantaged and affluent students.”
Woods’ theory is that the prestige and aura...
November 2010
Devolve and Evolve
So often when we talk about learning, we refer only to students in educational institutions even though we know that it is an ongoing process which hopefully continues for every single day of our lives. When it comes to educational methodologies, however, most of our policymakers seem to have such entrenched, preconceived opinions that they seem unable...
November 2009
Two is Always More Than One
As we near the end of President Obama’s first year in office, we are reaching a crucial point for the future of language education in the U.S. Federal education funding is at an all-time high and there is a general consensus that a revamped Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) needs to...
November 2008
IN THIS ISSUE:
The World as We Speak
Our forum for changes in world language
Animating Young Learners
Jenn Reese describes how a new, animated TV show is inspiring love for languages from an early age
Taking Class Online
Lori Langer de Ramirez explores new Internet technologies revolutionizing the language classroom
Language Rules
Michael Bell argues that globalization of language will muzzle the...