We, language teachers, usually have hundreds of students under our teaching. So running a pronunciation assessment on every single student can be tricky. I mean, is that even possible? When talking about this with colleagues we often end up wondering: "Can students...
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💌🍬 Love & Friendship Day in your Language Classroom 🗣️
¡Feliz día del amor y la amistad, language teacher! Candies, presents, secret friends, dates, letters, poems… That 's what Love & Friendship Day is about. It’s quite popular in some Latin American countries like Colombia, Mexico and Ecuador. Let’s dive into this...
👍 Using ChatGPT & AI in your Language Classroom 💡
We’re living in a brave new world. ChatGPT was just released last fall, and it has brought some new challenges for us as language teachers. Student’s are using it to write essays and, in some cases, outright cheat on assignments 😨 So we cannot help thinking: Is AI...
Language Teachers Unite Newsletter Vol. 6
6th edition 🌐🎉 Let's explore these handpicked web wonders for Language Teachers like you: 🧡 3 Safe Ways to Integrate AI into Your Language Classroom 🤖 ACTFL statement, students and their phones in the classroom and oral communicative performance - Top Articles 📰 What...
🧡 3 Safe Ways To Integrate AI Into Your Language Classroom 🤖
When it comes to integrating AI into our classroom, we're likely to hesitate and think things like: “Is AI dangerous?”, “Is AI a threat?”, “Is AI safe for my students?”. As language teachers, we want to protect their privacy and make sure that the AI tools we use are...
Language Teachers Unite Newsletter Vol. 5
💻📚 Uncovered digital gems just for you: 🙀 Is Your Fear Of AI Holding You Back? ⛔ Gender-inclusive teaching methods, EFL novice teachers’ professional development and more on New Research 🔬 Check out these 5 Cool Resources 🛠️ 🙀 Is Your Fear Of AI Holding You Back? ⛔...
🙀 Is Your Fear Of AI Holding You Back? ⛔
Is fear of AI keeping you from becoming the best language teacher you could be? Most don’t want to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI). Language teachers fear they’re getting replaced. But integrating is not the same as getting replaced. Since the time has come to...
Language Teachers Unite Newsletter Vol. 4
Hello, dear language instructor! 🌟 🌐 These web delights await you: 🧐 Is It Irresponsible To Auto-grade Speaking Assessments? 🔍 Speaking and Listening practice on Youtube 🎦 Dual-language models debate in Arizona schools and more on Twitter 🐦 🧐 Is It...
🧐 Is It Irresponsible To Auto-grade Speaking Assessments? 🔍
As a language teacher, you often face the challenge of assessing students' speaking skills. The traditional approach: you listen to each student individually and provide personalized feedback... This is pretty time-consuming, not to mention exhausting too, right? Yet,...
Language Teachers Unite Newsletter Vol. 3
🌐 Let's dive into these curating web wonders for Language Instructors like you! ⚠️ Are You Biased When Giving Feedback To Students? 🗣️ Most relevant News on World Languages education 📰 Safe West Virginia University World Language Program and more on Twitter 🐦 ...
⚠️ Are You Biased When Giving Feedback To Students? 🗣️
As a language educator, you understand the feedback impact on students' language acquisition. But there's a less explored facet of this process. That is: a potential for unintentional bias ⚠️ Can you recognize and address bias when giving feedback to students? ...
Language Teachers Unite Newsletter Vol. 2
Hi, dear language teacher! This is the current buzz among language educators on the internet: 🕰️ Spending too much time creating Speaking activities? 🗣️ 🔬 Research papers on the teacher's role, multilingualism and more! 🙋 Interesting questions from colleagues and...
🕰️ Spending Too Much Time Creating Speaking Activities…
...for your world languages classroom? Managing a large number of students while creating effective speaking activities... that's pretty challenging! But know that you don't have to spend too much time on it 😮 In this article you’ll find some useful strategies, such...
Language Teachers Unite Newsletter Vol. 1
Hi, dear language teacher! Here's whats going on around the web amongst language instructors this week: 🌐 World Quotient In Language Teaching 🧑🏫 Trending Videos on Youtube 🎦 What are language teachers tweeting? 🐦 🌐 World Quotient In Language Teaching 🧑🏫 As...
El Coeficiente Global En La Enseñanza De Idiomas
Read in English here. Ludwig Wittgenstein una vez dijo: “Los límites de mi lenguaje representan los límites de mi mundo”. Y el Coeficiente Global (World Quotient - WQ por sus siglas en inglés) es la habilidad para ver el mundo a través de los ojos de otra persona 👀...
World Quotient In Language Teaching
Lee en español aquí. As Ludwig Wittgenstein once said: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." And World Quotient (WQ) is the ability to see the world through someone else’s eyes 👀 Did you know that, as a language teacher, you help students to expand...
Guide to Creating Engaging Speaking Assignments
When we create speaking assignments for our students, we often focus on communicative goals like being informative or persuasive. However, to make our speaking assignments even more effective, let's dive deeper into the target language system. By concentrating on...
La mejor guía para enseñar la pronunciación del español
Como aprendiz autodidacta, sé lo difícil que es estar en contacto con el idioma meta. Sin embargo, hoy en día es posible gracias al Internet. Esta es una lista de algunos recursos que podemos encontrar: - Música (letras de canciones), podcasts, - Películas, series,...
The Ultimate Guide to Teaching Spanish Pronunciation
As a self taught language learner, I know how difficult it is to be in contact a the target language. Yet, today it is rather easy to do so, thanks to the Internet. Here's a list of some resources we can find: - Music (song lyrics), podcasts, - Movies, series,...
Cómo Crear Actividades de Speaking con Propósito
Read in English here. Como profesores o tutores de idiomas, tendemos a relacionar el propósito de cualquier actividad de Speaking con el objetivo comunicativo (ya sea informativo o persuasivo). Sin embargo, tiene más que ver con identificar los engranajes que hacen...
Creating Speaking Assignments with Purpose
Para leer en español, haz click aquí. As language teachers and tutors, we tend to relate any Speaking Assignment purpose to a communicative goal (informative or persuasive). However, it has more to do with identifying the gears that make up the target language system...
Speaking Assignments For Developing a Natural Accent in Spanish
Students often feel self-conscious about their accent and this discourages them from speaking in the target language. Nevertheless, you can get them develop confidence at home first by practicing a little bit everyday! Keep reading to find out how. Native...
Speaking Assignments for Getting Used to Words in Spanish
Once a student asked me: How do I know whether a word in Spanish starts and ends? After approaching Syllable breaking, his listening skills got strengthened and he was able to pronounce clearly. In other words, if you teach your students how to break words down by...
Speaking assignments for sounds unique to the French language
New languages and their sounds One of the things we notice most immediately about a language is how it sounds. We may enjoy listening to it or it may be completely incomprehensible to our ear. Either way, we're curious how natives reproduce it so naturally. We may...
Speaking assignments for teaching all Spanish sounds
Languages and its sounds One of the things we perceive most immediately from any language is how it sounds. We may enjoy listening to it. We are curious about how natives reproduce it so naturally. Then we probably think how difficult it may be for us to do so,...
Spanish Vowel U Hack (⏳ in 2 minutes)
https://youtu.be/XrCOpV5ugr4 🔗 🗣 Click here so you can practice Speaking now! More Quick Pronunciation Lessons! 🔊 Spanish Vowel A ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel E ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel I ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel O ▶️ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More about Profe Mar Happy...
Spanish Vowel O (⏳ in less than 3 minutes)
https://youtu.be/syba6TnlQBY 🔗 🗣 Click here so you can practice Speaking now! More Quick Pronunciation Lessons! 🔊 Spanish Vowel A ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel E ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel I ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel U ▶️ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More about Profe Mar Happy...
Spanish Vowel I Hack (⏳ in 2 minutes)
https://youtu.be/tp5-4-JenL4 🔗 🗣 Click here so you can practice Speaking now! More Quick Pronunciation Lessons! 🔊 Spanish Vowel A ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel E ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel O ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel U ▶️ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More about Profe Mar Happy...
Spanish Vowel E Hack (⏳ in less than 2 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y-fHRGmpek 🔗 🗣 Click here so you can practice Speaking now! More Quick Pronunciation Lessons! 🔊 Spanish Vowel A ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel I ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel O ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel U ▶️ Happy learning! 🤓...
Spanish Vowel A Hack (⏳ in less than 2 minutes)
https://youtu.be/0C5geXMZz1I 🔗 🗣 Click here so you can practice Speaking now: More Quick Pronunciation Lessons! 🔊 Spanish Vowel E ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel I ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel O ▶️ 🔊 Spanish Vowel U ▶️ Happy learning! 🤓 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More about...
A Practical Approach to Teaching Vocabulary
This is one of the questions we, Spanish teachers, naturally ask ourselves, especially when starting the process of teaching Spanish to our students. We may instinctively tend to prioritize the teaching of grammar in order to construct sentences correctly; however,...
¿Qué Vocabulario debería empezar a enseñar?
Esta es una de las preguntas que nosotros, los profesores de Español (tanto tutores privados como de escuela) naturalmente nos hacemos, sobretodo al iniciar el proceso de aprendizaje de este idioma en nuestros estudiantes. Puede que, instintivamente tendamos a darle...