Lonely Planet travel

Learn about possible traveling destinations, things to do, and places to visit.

Source: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/places 

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2016 09 1Max Planck Psycholinguistics Institute

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is an institute of the German Max Planck Society. Our mission is to undertake basic research into the psychological,social and biological foundations of language. The goal is to understand how our minds and brains process language, how language interacts with other aspects of mind, and how we can learn languages of quite different types."

Source: http://www.mpi.nl/ 

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Plaza Santillana

At the Plaza Santillana Spanish Classroom Blog you will find resources specifically geared towards:

  • Spanish Elementary, Spanish Middle School and Spanish High School
  • Professional Development for Spanish Teachers
  • Common Core State Standards
  • Classroom Activities and much more!

Source: http://www.santillanausa.com/ 

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I Speak Arabic

This site from the Qatar Foundation International provides provides resources for teachers, parents, and students on the Arabic language and culture.  

Click HERE for more information.

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COERLL Heritage Spanish

Heritage Spanish is a space for Spanish instructors who want to collaborate, share, and communicate with others about heritage language teaching and learning. Here you can:

  • start a conversation with other instructors of Spanish as a heritage language
  • share SHL resources (syllabi, activities, lessons, event information, etc.) that you have created or found
  • browse SHL resources from other teachers
  • stay up-to-date on new resources and professional development events
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MultiTreeMultiTree is a digital library of language relatioships. "MultiTree presents scholarly hypotheses about language relationships and subgroupings in a user-friendly database that is integrated with other LINGUIST List projects, providing access to a wealth of information." Source: http://new.multitree.org/about

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ScriptSource

"ScriptSource is a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world, with detailed information on scripts, characters, languages - and the remaining needs for supporting them in the computing realm. It is sponsored, developed and maintained by SIL International."

Source: http://scriptsource.org/

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JNCL NCLIS"JNCL-NCLIS represents over 100 national, regional and state organizations encompassing virtually all areas of the language field: the major and less-commonly taught languages, including English and English as a second language, bilingual education, the classics, linguistics, exchanges, research, technology, and translation."

 

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Language Learning Challengesmall mountain

what confused language challengeThe World Languages Department is inviting all students to get ready to continue their language learning by participating in the Summer Language Learning Challenge.  The challenge consist on a set of daily tasks that will challenge your speaking, listening and reading comprehension, writing, and creativity during 30 days!  You can do it yourself, but it more fun with friends.  Get a friend and complete the activities together or challenge each other to stay on track. Start on Day 1 and move through the calendar until you complete 30 days of activities before school starts!

   Explore Learn Practice  Create  Interact 
Friends and Family 

Day 1

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 2 

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 3

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 4

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 5 

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

The World Around Me

Day 6

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 7

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 8

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 9

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 10

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Health and Nutrition

Day 11

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 12

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 13

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 14

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 15

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Sports and Activities

Day 16

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 17

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 18

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 19

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 20

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Celebrations and Shopping

Day 21

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 22

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 23

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 24

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 25

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Professions and Places

Day 26

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 27

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 28

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 29

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

Day 30

K-5 : 6-8 : 9-12

 

This challenge is a modified version of the original idea from the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the University of Oregon (https://casls.uoregon.edu/30-day-challenge/ ). We modified their concept for novice to intermediate language learners in middle school and high school.

 

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Student 30-Day Challenge

Grades: K-5  Day 21

Theme: Celebrations and Shopping Skills: Interpersonal - Reading

 

Activity Name: Halloween in the world

Description: Find out if Halloween is celebrated in the countries of the language you are learning and share with a friend an interesting fact you learned.

Resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVjYa6q0Sr0

 

Click HERE to go back to the main challenge page

 Want to share your activity? Post it on twitter @CCSDLanguages

 

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Student 30-Day Challenge

Grades: 9th-12th  Day 30

Theme: Professions and Places Skills: Interpretive - Reading

 

Activity Name: Professional travel

Description: What professions/careers will take you to places? Do you like to travel? Research for professions that will allow you to travel to other places and use the language you are now learning in your future job/profession.

Resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U_dACVzJ1g

 

Click HERE to go back to the main challenge page

 Want to share your activity? Post it on twitter @CCSDLanguages

 

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Student 30-Day Challenge

Grades: 9th-12th  Day 29

Theme: Professions and Places Skills: Presentational - Speaking

 

Activity Name: Who I am

Description: Create a video using the language you are learning. You might introduce yourself, talk about your current occupation, discuss what you would like to be(profession) when you grow up.

Resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOv4EnaeM9w

 

Click HERE to go back to the main challenge page

 Want to share your activity? Post it on twitter @CCSDLanguages

 

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Student 30-Day Challenge

Grades: 9th-12th  Day 28

Theme: Professions and Places Skills: Presentational - Listening & writing

 

Activity Name: Lunch at School

Description: Listening to the audio provided about lunch at school. Record yourself saying what kind of lunch you eat or bring to school.

Resource: https://www.audio-lingua.eu/spip.php?article2590

 

Click HERE to go back to the main challenge page

 Want to share your activity? Post it on twitter @CCSDLanguages

 

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