Monthly Archives: February 2011

Do you need some fresh ideas to motivate your students to write more in the target language? Your colleagues at #LangChat shared many wonderful ideas, as usual. Read on to discover fresh ideas, links to inspiring sites and even see … Continue reading →

Thanks to all our dedicated #LangChat twitter participants who shared great ideas and resources to help encourage and increase student use of target language (TL) in class. Thanks especially to the moderator, Elle_Spanish, also known as Elvira Deyamport. While the … Continue reading →

Our #LangChat on “Games in the language classroom” was full of great ideas and discussion. I’ll try to summarize most of the ideas here. Pull up a chair and grab a cup of coffee, there are so many great ideas … Continue reading →

Here at Calico Spanish and Kids Immersion, we are increasingly interested in facilitating teacher collaboration. To that end, we are co-moderating a Twitter chat focused on topics related to world language learning. How does a Twitter Chat work? Each week … Continue reading →

The #LangChat discussion on Feb 3rd was full of ideas and discussion on “Rethinking the ‘teaching’ of vocabulary.” We had a great group of participants sharing ideas, links and insights. After all, this is a group of language educators and … Continue reading →

The results of this week’s poll are in! Language teachers across the globe are rethinking the way vocabulary is taught in foreign language classes. Join our conversation on Twitter at 8 pm ET using the hashtag #langchat to hear from … Continue reading →