Rewire Your Classroom with These 6 Digital Language Lab Software Solutions Who would have thought that what used to be frowned upon, even banned, in classrooms can make this kind of …
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Teach and Learn with These 7 Resources for Language Teaching Videos We’ve come a long way in education. My mom considered the TV a distraction, and I would have to turn …
10 Language Games for Kids That Even Grown Ups Love Ready to set your class on fire? No, you don’t need the firetrucks on this one. I’m talking about getting …
Need Immersion Teaching Strategies, and Stat? Here Are 10 to Shock Your Lessons Back to Life Ever wondered what they mean when they say, “Make the language come alive for your students?” One of the best …
7 Immersion Activities to Help Your Language Students Soar Wish you could whisk your class away to a country where the target language is spoken? Have you daydreamed …
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Teach by Talking: 5 Direct Method Techniques That Let Students Learn Like Natives Ever heard of this language teaching approach that professes never to teach any grammar? You won’t hear a word of …
Make It Real: 7 Foreign Language Speaking Activities That Simulate Real-world Conversation Do you want your language students to go further than parroting back given words and sentences? Are you looking for …
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10 Flexible Language Teaching Approaches That Are Totally Approachable Ever heard the saying, “There’s more than one way to crack an egg”? For the flexible language teacher, that’s …
Wax On, Wax Off: 3 Task-based Language Teaching Activities for the Smart Sensei What does the 1984 movie “Karate Kid” have to do with teaching languages? A lot, as it turns out. The …
How to Teach a Foreign Language in High School: 5 Tips That Will Keep Your Students Coming Back for More “Know your audience.” (Before you open your mouth.) It’s as good of a piece of advice as any other, and …
5 Top Techniques for Mixing and Matching Second Language Teaching Methods Ever see kids who are completely overwhelmed in a candy store? You know, where there’s so much candy they just …
3 Exciting Ways the Grammar-translation Method Is Still Great for Language Teaching For centuries, the grammar-translation method was It. It was the go-to way to teach a language to anyone. These …
The Multisensory Approach: The Best Way to Teach Languages You smell a flower or hear a song, and all the memories come flooding back. You remember everything as if …
Why Teach a Foreign Language, You Ask? Here Are 5 Booming Benefits That Should Be on Your Radar “What’s in it for me?” you ask. As you will soon find out, a lot, actually. Are you considering a …
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CLIL: What It Is, and Why Language Teachers Will Find It Delightful It’s time to take a break from teaching language. Why? Because with a rich, meaningful context, your students can …
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5 Total Physical Response (TPR) Activities That Every Language Teacher Should Know Want a teaching technique that’ll make your students jump for joy, dance with delight and finish off with high fives…
Stamp of Approval: 5 Reasons Your Language Students Want You to Use Authentic Materials in the Classroom “How do I make this experience come alive for my students?” As language educators, we’re constantly mulling over this question.…
7 Engaging MFL Activities That Make Your Classroom an Awesome Place to Be Remember the excitement you felt that morning when you had something special prepared for your class, an activity that …
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7 Foreign Language Vocabulary Games to Banish Boredom from Your Classes Do you know what games and ninjas have in common? They both sneak up on you, then pack a mean …
