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In San Antonio's Harlandale school district, pre-kindergarten students learn English and Spanish together. They help one another through instructions and ass... 
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Although language learning in 3D Virtual Worlds (VWs) has become a focus of recent research, little is known about the knowledge and skills teachers need to acquire to provide effective task-based instruction in 3D VWs and the type of teacher training that best prepares instructors for such an endeavor. This study employs a situated learning approach to teacher training and explores what online teaching skills emerge in the process of collaborative situated learning, how these skills develop, and whether collaborative situated learning is an effective method of training instructors to teach in 3D VWs. Via Nik Peachey
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
February 7, 2015 11:42 AM
This takes me back a bit. Glad to see that we haven't given up on Virtual Worlds.
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"Walk along the streets of London and it’s not uncommon to hear a variety of langauges jostling for space in your eardrums. Step inside a tube carriage on the underground and the story is no different. Oliver O’Brien, researcher in geovisualisation and web mapping at University College London’s department of geography, has created a map showing what the most common second language (after English) is at certain tube stops across the capital. Using a map of tube journeys and busy stations that he had previously created, O’Brien used 2011 Census data to add the second most commonly spoken language that people who live nearby speak."
Kristin Mandsager San Bento's curator insight,
April 6, 2015 9:29 PM
This made me think of how this could be done in New York City. I imagine results would be similar. You could map out the languages for sure.
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The term “dual language” makes most educators think of Spanish.
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This article looks at how to use text chat to develop English language students' linguistic competence. Via Nik Peachey
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January 6, 2015 11:14 AM
Some tips for activities that use the text chat feature of online learning platforms.
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After the heated battles decades ago when bilingual education was outlawed, mainstream appetite for dual-language education is growing in California. The Los Angeles Unified School District recently announced that it will ...
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Delaware schoolkids prepare for global careers by becoming fluent in Mandarin in dual language immersion classes.
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To help her children become bilingual, a travel writer investigates options from public school programs at home to day camps abroad.
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We will one day soon speak one tongue, and it won't be English or Chinese. Beloved personality and prolific writer Nury "Mr. Jam" Vittachi has been described...
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I’ve started a somewhat regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention: Immigrant Minors From... Via TeachingEnglish
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Bilingual education is better than all-English for English language development: http://t.co/77C30GpILQ
Dennis Swender's insight:
Not just better for English language development -- but for surpassing NCE scores of mainstream English-only students in mathematics and reading for more than 2 decades!
Collier & Thomas longitudinal studies at http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/CMMR/CollierThomasComplete.pdf
J. David Ramirez longitudinal studies at http://www.ncela.us/files/rcd/BE017748/Longitudinal_Study_Executive_Summary.pdf
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November 28, 2015 9:00 PM
Studies show that students in Bilingual education do better on English testing than all-English classes, despite what some upset parent's may say.
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by Tabitha Dell'Angelo
"Enter most schools and you will hear about literacy instruction or the "literacy block." However, literacy is not a subject -- it is something much bigger. Paulo Freire encouraged a broader definition of literacy to include the ability to understand both "the word and the world." Literacy includes reading, writing, listening, speaking, and analyzing a wide range of texts that include both print and non-print texts.
"This post will describe some ways in which teachers can use photography to support literacy standards. Photography supports literacy in several ways:" Via Jim Lerman
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The webcam can be a vital tool in helping to support our students’ pronunciation habits and helping them to ‘see’ how words and expressions are pronounced and what particular pronunciation features they need to be aware of. So here are a few tips and examples to help you use your webcam to help with your students’ pronunciation. Via Nik Peachey
Dennis Swender's insight:
Reinforcing the visual intelligence realm -- with particular applicability for higher ed EL pedagogy
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
December 3, 2014 10:23 AM
This is my latest post for the EnglishUp Teachers' Blog. This one is about using the webcam to help develop pronunciation when teaching online. 
Janet McQueen's curator insight,
December 3, 2014 5:11 PM
A great idea to support ELLs pronunciation in the classroom by using webcam. |
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As someone who teaches a whole range of different classes every day, I find myself consistently turning to a core set of apps that have made my teaching better, more organised and more effective. I wanted to share with you 5 of those apps that, when combined with Apple TV and a solid wireless network, have transformed the way I teach English forever… Via John Evans
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Jonathan Dykes runs a group of language schools in Barcelona as well as one of the first Web-based schools, Net Languages, which makes for a unique perspective on the merits and shortcomings of bot... Via Nik Peachey
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February 9, 2015 11:26 AM
Interesting interview and some useful points
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Educators behind a new Vietnamese-language immersion program at White Center Heights Elementary School hope to prove the power of dual-language learning.
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At Echo Shaw Elementary School, students are taught in both Spanish and English, with the goal of becoming bilingual, biliterate and bicultural.
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Dual-language classes are new trend. August 2014. By Teri Carnicelli In 2000, Arizona voters passed a ballot measure stipulating that instruction in public schools be offered only in English. Bilingual teachers who had been instructing in ...
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Take in some of the sights and sounds from a day at Collinswood Language Academy, a K-8 dual-language school in Charlotte, N.C..
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On a quiet street near downtown Forest Grove, Jennifer Weston's four children are growing up bilingual. Via Charles Tiayon
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December 5, 2017 11:06 AM
Here we can find two different cases in which the children of each family has been exposed to a bilingual learning process. First, two brothers learning in the Echo Shaw bilingual school talk about their experience and how they adapted and now feel very comfortable talkin to people they wouldn't have known if they hadn't learned the language. Second, three spanish speaking children talk about their experience learning English in the same school and they are now more concious about the importance of being bilingual.
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Many children who were educated exclusively in U.S. schools still can't speak the language well.
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London, UK, 18th Dec, 2014: Proofread My Essay, a leading proofreading service provider offering academic and non academic proofreading services, has now begun ..., Free Press Release Submission - Proofread My Essay Incorporates New ESL...
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Here are some tips to help you build good learning habits and make your lessons more productive and to make English language learning part of your life. Via Nik Peachey
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August 31, 2017 12:09 PM
This article is awesome for people who are looking for success in their English Learning. It offers ten advices in order to be a great English learner. Some actions which the article is recommending are simples such to take notes or revise a new vocabulary.
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“We need to catch up with the rest of the world,” says a high school principal in Oregon. His school is part of a national push to offer students a bilingual seal on their diplomas.
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by Todd Finley
"Below are a list of websites and books that suggest ways to support English-language learners. The strategies will also benefit other students in your classes." Via Jim Lerman
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