World Languages
Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop in world languages.
4 Brain Breaks for World Language Learners
When students who are learning a new language engage in playful games that include movement, they return to lessons energized and refreshed.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Jump-Starting Academic Learning With Movement and Dance
The benefits of movement in the classroom aren’t limited to younger students. Pairing new words and concepts with gestures or dance moves locks in understanding—and active brain breaks prime students to learn even more.499.8kYour content has been saved!
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12 Fun Speaking Games for Language Learners
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.2.1MYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.8 Creative Performance Tasks for World Language Classes
Try these ideas to move from vocabulary quizzes to activities where students communicate in real-world situations.12.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.60-Second Strategy: Whiteboard Relay
The team competition is fierce in this informal assessment activity, in which students have to work together to win.159.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.The Benefits of Learning a Second Language
It’s a myth that learning a new language interferes with a child’s development.256.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.To Motivate World Language Students, Tap Into Their Goals
Teachers can use resources connected to students’ goals—such as traveling for work or pleasure—to make coursework meaningful to them.1.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Transforming Vocabulary Review Into an Active Game
In a fast-paced competition called Running Dictation, students are challenged to use reading, speaking, and listening skills to convey a story to a partner—in another language.Authentic Activities for the World Language Classroom
More than 30 exercises to keep your students engaged and learning.184.9kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Maintaining Students’ Motivation for Learning as the Year Goes On
Neuroscience can suggest ways to keep students working toward their learning goals after their initial excitement wears off.115.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Boosting Engagement in World Language Classes With Games
Middle school teachers can use a variety of tech and no-tech games to help students build skills in the target language.5 Top Tech Tools for World Language Classes
See how to adapt popular apps to get students speaking, listening, reading, and writing in the target language.97kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Design Thinking in World Language Classes
Teachers can use the five-stage approach of design thinking to boost students’ engagement, motivation, and comprehension.4 Activities to Boost Target Language Vocabulary Acquisition
To give his students repeated exposure to relevant vocabulary terms, the author relies on a tried-and-true tool: index cards.85.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.In Language Classrooms, Students Should Be Talking
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.134.3kYour content has been saved!
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