Recent Changes

Linguafolio Sites (Washington World Languages)
Language Passport
European Language Passport
Class Participation Assessment/Rubrics
Spanish Class Participation Rubric (Rubric and scoring conversion by Bill Heller)

Linguafolio
Linguafolio Sites (Washington World Languages)
Language Passport
Class Participation Assessment/Rubrics
Spanish Class Participation Rubric (Rubric and scoring conversion by Bill Heller)

Reading Quest (Reading comprehension strategies)
Impact of Stategies-Based Instruction on Speaking a Foreign Language
Teaching communication strategies to beginners (Angela Gallagher Brett)
Below are examples of the implementation of Marzano's nine strategies in the classroom. They are snippets of total lesson plans which use a variety of strategies.
{http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR0qwFnmQ_DvznnENVl9WOtrd60vH61ABYMqONVW7iAUbtRWUvGAg} Marzano's website

Best Innovative Colleges for Foreign Languages
Top Ten Best Colleges
Review of language teaching methods
Taking communication to task? A critical review of recent trends in language teaching

ELLOPA and SOPA
Wiki Links for Assessment
Kansas Assessment Tools
For assessment to be authentic and fair to the student, it must measure what students have learned to do and in the manner they learned it. Said another way, if students spend their class time in learning how to “do” foreign language, assessment must measure the same thing. (Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey)
Acknowledgments:

Instructional Strategies
Reading Quest (Reading comprehension strategies)
Impact of Stategies-Based Instruction on Speaking a Foreign Language
Below are examples of the implementation of Marzano's nine strategies in the classroom. They are snippets of total lesson plans which use a variety of strategies.
{http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR0qwFnmQ_DvznnENVl9WOtrd60vH61ABYMqONVW7iAUbtRWUvGAg} Marzano's website

Assessment Tools
NOELLA (National Online Early Language Learning Assessment) (Available in Chinese, French, Korean, Japanese, Spanish and Russian)
ELLOPA and SOPA
Wiki Links for Assessment
For assessment to be authentic and fair to the student, it must measure what students have learned to do and in the manner they learned it. Said another way, if students spend their class time in learning how to “do” foreign language, assessment must measure the same thing. (Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey)
Acknowledgments:

Proficiency Levels
Proficiency Levels of High School Students (Report by CASLS - Center for Applied Second Language Studies)
Attaining High Levels of Proficiency: Challenges for Language Education in the United States

Oral Language Development in Second Language Acquisition
Improving Immersion Student Oral Proficiency by Fostering Extended Discourse (CARLA)
Communicative Language Teaching: An Introduction and Sample Activities (Ann Galloway)
Communicative Games for Presentation and Practice of New Language (Rosemary Bevis)
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Communicative Lesson Plans (UCLA - Language Materials Project)
Communicative Language Teaching: Can We Do It Better? (Jim Cummins)
Teaching for Communicative Competence (National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy)
Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers - Michael McCarthy
Developing Oral Proficiency in the Immersion Classroom (Miriam Stein, PHD)
Oral Language Development in Second Language Acquisition
Improving Immersion Student Oral Proficiency by Fostering Extended Discourse (CARLA)
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/verve/_resources/two_circles.jpg
http://assets.pearsonpd.com/prodImages/worldlanguages_1551.jpg