World Languages

Fostering an environment where it’s OK to make mistakes is step one in getting students to speak a new language.

Three ways to use tweets to introduce students to real uses of language in a context they’re likely already familiar with.

A book club can help students who mainly use English but speak another language at home gain valuable literacy skills in the home language.

Every teacher has faced the struggle of encouraging students to speak. Here's a list of a fun activities to get your students to talking.

It’s a myth that learning a new language interferes with a child’s development.

In an excerpt from his book with fellow teacher Katie Hull Sypnieski, blogger Larry Ferlazzo looks at a few basic ways to reach students who are learning English as well as the subject at hand.

More than 30 exercises to keep your students engaged and learning.

Twenty ideas for getting engaging projects going in your classroom.

Language classes often don't focus on the aspect of learning a language that intrigues students most -- speaking it. We should get students talking more.

A district has overhauled instruction by focusing on project-based learning and communicative proficiency rather than grammar.

Using target language videos, news articles, music, and more can spark engagement even with students who are just getting started.

Blogger and PBL specialist Andrew Miller offers an array of creative suggestions for using Quick Response codes in the classroom.

Blogger Larry Ferlazzo and fellow teacher Katie Hull Sypnieski, in another excerpt from their book "The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide," share six fun ways to help students develop positive, trusting and enriching classroom relationships.

Six tips for using the powerful discussion model with students who are still acquiring the target language.

World Languages community discussion group facilitator Don Doehla uses project-based learning to teach foreign language and meet state standards. He supplies three lessons as examples.