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By engaging ELLs with creating, identifying, and narrating through photographs, you can help them learn language by challenging their thinking in other media. 
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Studies show learning another language helps people develop cognitive advantages that improve attention.
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From vibrant communities on social media to inventive lessons using video conferencing, Joe Dale explores how languages teachers have embraced technology in the classroom
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The latest language knowledge statistics for Europe. Find out which languages are most widely spoken in Europe, see how it's evolving from one generation to another, and compare mother tongue vs. learned.
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The 6th Virtual Round Table Web Conference on language learning technologies welcomed an attendance of 628 participants in Adobe Connect and 155 participants on livestream on facebook. For those who missed it and would like to recap the program, all of the sessions were recorded.
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A list of the top 101 websites for English & Language Arts (ELA) chosen by real teachers from prominent LinkedIn groups.
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There are several cognitive benefits of multilingualism: Speaking different languages means you get different frames, different metaphors, and also you’re learning the culture of the language so you get not only different words, but different types of words. But the benefits of speaking multiple languages extend past just having access to different words, concepts, metaphors, and frames. Multi-linguals tend to score better on standardized tests, especially in math, reading, and vocabulary; they are better at remembering lists or sequences, they are more perceptive to their surroundings and better at focusing in on important information while weeding out misleading information. ...
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Among a raft of new initiatives, integrated learning is to be enthusiastically embraced as a highly efficient means of increasing exposure to foreign languages while adding to, rather than subtracting from, other curriculum areas: it really is great value for money.
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Nik Peachey's curator insight,
June 4, 2014 2:11 AM
Good to see CLIL catching on in the UK MFL classroom.
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The Web offers huge opportunities to improve any foreign language you’re learning, from news stories, blog posts, comments and all that content. So, find sites with your favourite topics and read them regularly. Phraseum will help you save and organize all useful sentences you come across while reading, in order to learn them later.
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Scientists have discovered insights that indicate children can learn two native languages as easily as they can learn one.
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University of Melbourne graduate student Sara Ciesielski explains how children growing up in the Sherpa culture learn a lot more than words from their elders. Research like Sara’s is important because it shows that there is more than one way to raise a child to speak a language and that there are so many other factors as well. Sara was one of the winners of the PhD Comics two minute thesis competition, which is why her discussion of her research has been so wonderfully animated by Jorge Cham. (via http://goo.gl/x1APY)
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Fixoodle is a social website that connects people all around the globe who are studying languages to help each other learn. Post something. We'll fix it. Enter something. We'll translate it.
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