Barbara Lindsey | April 21, 2011
Every Thursday night (8-9 p.m. EST: Time zone converter) for the past four months language educators across the United States have been meeting online to discuss and share ways to improve their professional practice. They do this using Twitter, the free online service that allows you to send out public or private messages of 140 [...]
Kevin Gaugler | April 20, 2011
In March I spoke at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenneesee about the future of language education and post-secondary education as a whole. Particularly, I set out to speak about the ACTFL map for 21st Century Skills and how I designed and have been teaching for nearly a decade a course that attempts to fosters 21st century skills [...]
Barbara Lindsey | April 14, 2011
A great session I attended at NECTFL 2011 was The Impact of the National Standards on Language Education & National Initiatives with Marty Abbott, Eileen Glisan and June Phillips. Shared in this session were the results of a national (U.S.) survey of world language teachers on how and to what extent the Standards for Foreign [...]
Barbara Lindsey | April 10, 2011
In the early nineties a blind student enrolled in my beginning level German course. In addition to her guide dog, she also had a student assistant who would help by describing to her the texts and graphics he saw displayed during class and tell her what I and the other students were doing. Since I [...]
Kevin Gaugler | April 3, 2011
Last year, for the first time, I taught an intensive two-week pre-college Spanish summer course at Marist College. In designing the course I set out to produce a 21st century Spanish composition and conversation course. In the class students discussed global issues, enhanced their media and information literacy skills, explored Hispanic culture in their local [...]