Tag: teaching
Get Real, Teacher! -Virtual Reality Teaching
Rene Gadelha believes that only careful implementation will realize the promise of virtual reality in education
Revolutionizing Education
Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to revolutionize education as we know it. Specifically, it immerses students in their learning more than any other available medium. It blocks out both visual and auditory...
The New Digital Divide
Keith Oelrich argues that teacher preparation and curriculum design are the keys to closing the digital technological opportunity gap
A Gap Emerges
In the mid-’90s, as personal computer and internet access was becoming more available to many in the U.S., a correlation could be observed between access to technology and socioeconomic status. Scholars, policy makers, and advocacy groups referred to this...
Diversity Through the Big Screen
Chita Espino-Bravo explains how to use film to introduce diversity into advanced conversation classes
Teaching an advanced Spanish conversation course at the university level can be challenging for many reasons, but for me, the biggest challenge was trying to find a...
Tensions in Teaching Spanish
Ann Abbott sees tensions in Spanish programs that cannot hold
In one of my roles as a director of Undergraduate Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), I work closely with our advisor, I speak directly with potential students and their parents, and I am on our department’s...
The Art of Teaching
M. Elhess, E. Elturki, and J. Egbert offer strategies to support creativity in the language classroom
“Our students aren’t creative,” claimed one of the language teachers in the professional development workshop. The other participating teachers nodded in agreement.
“How do you know?” asked the workshop facilitator.
The teacher hesitated. “Well,” she said, “I guess I don’t. We don’t ask them to do anything creative, mostly...
From Language Skills to Teaching Prowess
Montserrat Villar González offers a personal view on developing as a language teacher
There are many paths to becoming a teacher of a second or foreign language: for some, it’s the natural progression from studying a language; others start by giving informal individual, private, or group classes or helping friends study their own language. Having lived in a country where...
New Bill to Support Language Teaching at School
LAUTENBERG, HOLT INTRODUCE BILL TO SUPPORT INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
U.S. Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) have introduced, in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, the "Foreign Language Education Partnership Program Act." The legislation would create a new U.S. Department of Education initiative to support revolutionary classroom programs that provide...
Tools for Teaching English
Language Magazine’s selection of products
that incorporate technology into the ESL classroom
Alloy Multimedia
ESL ReadingSmart is a web-based English language learning environment
founded on a unique instructional design. It is easily implemented
as a student-centered, stand-alone application or a blended learning
environment, integrating online student work and classroom instruction.
The program offers individualized, content-based instruction to
develop English language proficiency with emphasis on literacy and
cross-curricular vocabulary...
Tools for Teaching English
Language Magazine’s selection of products
that incorporate technology into the ESL classroom
Alloy Multimedia
ESL ReadingSmart is a web-based English language learning environment
founded on a unique instructional design. It is easily implemented
as a student-centered, stand-alone application or a blended learning
environment, integrating online student work and classroom instruction.
The program offers individualized, content-based instruction to
develop English language proficiency with emphasis on literacy and
cross-curricular vocabulary...