You’re Speaking My Language
Thoughts, Tips, and Practical Ideas for World Language Teachers
How to Help When Students Struggle with Comprehension
Help students tolerate ambiguity and embrace the language learning process through intentionally crafted lessons
Authentic Vocabulary Instruction
Teaching vocabulary within cultural and linguistic context
The First Day of World Language Class
Begin the School Year by answering students’ questions and communicating clear expectations
Using Social Media Quizzes in your World Language Classroom
A one-stop instructional tool for reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and tech integration!
5 speaking activities to captivate your students
Low-prep, high-interest activities to get your students speaking
3 Fun Poisson d’Avril Activities for your French classes
Bring smiles into your French classroom with a funny April Fool’s video, or prank your students for major street cred!
Sharing the Benefits of Learning Another Language
4 ways to advocate world language instruction with students, parents, administrators, and beyond
How to Make Sure Your Students Hate Speaking
3 practices that discourage speaking proficiency - and how to avoid them
By Kids, For Kids - When Students Write the Speaking Rubric
Embracing the language-learning journey through effective self-evaluation
10 Tips to Enhance Your Writing Instruction
How to assign quality writing practice, give good feedback, and maintain a reasonable grading load
How to be Sure Your Students Never Use Spanish Again
3 Practices that discourage language proficiency… and how to avoid them
Teaching Students to Embrace Feedback and Self-Evaluation
5 strategies to improve student performance and save time on your grading in the process
Rejuvenating Your Assessments with Student-Friendly Rubrics
How a few simple tweaks to my rubric led to faster grading and better feedback.
5 Language Learning Fears
How you can help students overcome Foreign Language Anxiety to improve their speaking proficiency
How to find pop songs to use in your French or Spanish classroom
Free resources to bring the joy of music to your students!
5 Activities to Use Pop Music in your World Language Classroom
Harness your students’ natural interests for listening, speaking, and reading instruction
3 Activities On Attention, Concentration, and Multitasking
Or, why you can’t be on your phone or play computer games during this class!
A Workable Classroom Phone and Computer Use Policy
How I declared war, and made peace with cell phones, social media, and video games in my classroom
St. Nicholas Day
Resources to teach students about St. Nicholas Day, the unofficial kickoff to the French Christmas season.
4 Activities for Teaching Circumlocution
Give your students tools to speak using the language they already know!