World Languages
Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop in world languages.
How Integrating Coding Can Enhance World Language Studies
Coding can help students understand the building blocks of world languages, and it provides an authentic way to tell stories.1.4kYour 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.704.2kYour 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.Responding to Students’ Questions With (Better) Questions
When students run into problems, it can be tempting to immediately provide help, but guiding them to engage in productive struggle is more effective in the long term.630Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.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.104.6kYour 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.190.5kYour 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.324.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Authentic Activities for the World Language Classroom
More than 30 exercises to keep your students engaged and learning.185.1kYour 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.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.113.3kYour 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.14.2kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.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.Twenty Ideas for Engaging Projects
Twenty ideas for getting engaging projects going in your classroom.202.2kYour 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.133kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.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.85.6kYour content has been saved!
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