World Languages

This experienced teacher argues places language in its cultural contexts to boost student engagement and learning.

Teachers can set up engaging, interactive lessons on vocabulary and culture—and check on students’ well-being.

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.

Starting the year by creating a strong community and tapping into the target culture is a good strategy no matter where students are learning.

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.

See how to adapt popular apps to get students speaking, listening, reading, and writing in the target language.

To give his students repeated exposure to relevant vocabulary terms, the author relies on a tried-and-true tool: index cards.

Neuroscience can suggest ways to keep students working toward their learning goals after their initial excitement wears off.

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

Students with academic challenges benefit from these simple strategies as they develop confidence using the target language.

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.

One way to raise students’ engagement is to ask them to do more work—meaningful work with authentic materials from the target culture.