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Electronic Archive of Materials for Critical Languages Find syllabi, activities, and suggestions created by our faculty: Online Resources for Language Teaching General Langnet: Even though most of the activities on this site are not suitable for a basic course, you may find it useful for your higher level students. This site requires you to have an account, which has already been created for critical languages faculty. Foreign Service Language Resources Site: The home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain. (Japanese and Persian are not available) MERLOT: A general multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching. Use the seach field to type your language and see what's available in their archive. You might get links to culture, history, literature, or language teaching sites. Pearson Language Teaching: From the language teaching publisher Pearson. Even though it focuses on ESL, the various teaching strategies offered here are generally applicable to any language. UCLA Language Materials Project: Teaching resources for the less commonly taught languages. (Search for "Mandarin" instead of "Chinese"). There is also a section on curriculum design, standards, and proficiency-based teaching. Asia Society's Teacher's Resources: A collection of sample lessons, background essays, maps, images, and more related to the teaching of Asia. World Language Asessment: This website "supports and empowers world language educators to improve student proficiency through a variety of assessment strategies, focusing on the three modes of communication (interpretive, presentational, and interpersonal)". Startalk. A resource website for Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian, and Urdu. "The purpose of this site is to share information on implementing programs as well as to share resources on curriculum design, instructional materials, assessment tools, and useful links." Virtual Item Bank (VIB): it provides teachers with practical ideas and models for developing classroom assessments. Incorporating online technology in your class (adapted from Cindy Kendall's wiki on the use of instruction technology) Flashcard Exchange and Quizlet: Interactive flashcards for language practice and study (grammar, vocabulary, reading). All Critical Languages are available. Recorded Materials Archive: Audio Materials from the Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment at Indiana University, Bloomington. Creative Commons: A database of works (pictures, music, videos, etc) that are free to use or share. SurveyMonkey and Google Docs Forms: An easy and free way to collect information about your students and present it. Poll Everywhere: This website allows you to poll your students, just as clickers would. They respond by simply texting the answer from their cellphones. Voice Thread: This is a tool for creating digital storytelling. You can add text, audio, or video to each slide or picture. Voki: Create your own talking avatar! Comiqs, ToonDoo, and Pikistrips: Websites that allow you to build comic strips. Glogster: Create your own poster online. Scrapblog: Create your own scrapbook online. xtranormal: Create your own animated movie online. BubblyPLY: Add comentary bubbles to any video. Gcast: Make podcasts using your cellphone. A great way to get students to record their language production. Edublogs and Blogger: Create a classroom blog, as well as student blogs. Playlist: A database of songs from all over the world that you can play online. Moodle: An open source class management system. Wikispaces, pbwiki, and webpaint: Build a classroom website as well as student websites. TubeCaption: Add captions to your favorite videos. Media Converter: Convert files to different formats. TeacherTube: Teacher videos, appropriate for use in the class. Using Powerpoint for Language Classes (prepared by Dr. Ming Jian) PowerPoint Tutorials: This Microsoft PowerPoint Training offers various multimedia online training courses for both beginners and advanced users. They include hands-on practice sessions, tests, and a printable Quick Reference Card. Some other Tutorial sites http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2007/ppt/index.asp http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR100654571033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/FX100648971033.aspx http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/office/ppt03/ http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm Adding an Animation http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/learn/animationsandtransitions/addingananimation.html Active Learning with PowerPoint http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/powerpoint/index.html Download PowerPoint Games and Templates These games were created in PowerPoint. Download the templates and modify the games to fit your curriculum needs. http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/ http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html http://teach.fcps.net/trt14/Power%20Point%20Games/power_point_games.htm http://www.elainefitzgerald.com/jeopardy.htm http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/powerpoint/games/index.html http://www.cobbk12.org/sites/literacy/fetc/ppt/ppt_index.htm Embed YouTube Video into PowerPoint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzUxNbi1h4&feature=related Embed YouTube into PowerPoint Offline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwqyg5uNClY&feature=related Video File Converter Video Downloader Javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php Chinese Read Chinese: More than 70 Reading Lessons for Beginning and Intermediate Readers Cheng & Tsui Chinese Characters Flashcards: These flashcards are great for practicing new vocabulary and character recognition. Just download and print the PDFs! They are available in traditional or simplified characters, arranged either by lesson or alphabetically by pinyin. Plus, you can download the accompanying audio. Global Chinese Language and Culture Center Hindi Hamaarii Bolii: A compilation of short video clips taken from interviews produced by the Hindi Urdu Flagship Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Japanese Japanese at Union College: Japanese program, events, and internet resources. Cheng & Tsui Kanji Flashcards: Study kanji efficiently with this new, easy-to-use flashcard program! Korean The American Association of Teachers of Korean
The Center is in the process of compiling materials relevant to the teaching of our eight critical languages. Below are the titles currently available for faculty to borrow.
For suggestions on future purchases, please email Agustina Carando, at carandoa@wpunj.edu.
Stephanie Pace Marshall. The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life. Jossey-Bass, 2006. (Recently purchased, no call number available). Dobbs, Jeannine. Using the Board in the Language Classroom Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers, CUP, 2001. P53.15 .D6 2001 Sanderson, Paul. Using Newspapers in the Classroom. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers, CUP, 2999. LB1044.9.N4 S24 1999 Woodward, Tessa. Planning Lessons and Courses Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers, CUP, 2000. P53.47 .W66 2000. P53.47 .W66 2000 Educating for advanced foreign language capacities : constructs, curriculum, instruction, assessment / Heidi Byrnes, Heather Weger-Guntharp, and Katherine A. Sprang, editors. P53 .G39 2005 Multicultural and multilingual literacy and language : contexts and practices / edited by Fenice B. Boyd and Cynthia H. Brock with Mary S. Rozendal ; foreword by Lisa Delpit. LC151 .M84 2004 Teaching language in context / Alice Omaggio Hadley. PB35 .H24 2001 Teacher’s handbook : contextualized language instruction / Judith L. Shrum, Eileen W. Glisan. P51 .S48 2005 Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage. PJ6640 .O93 1972 English-Arabic conversational dictionary : with a grammar, phrases, an Arabic-English vocabulary and a supplement of new words and new phrases / Richard Jaschke. PJ6309 .J3 1990 Dictionary of modern written Arabic / Hans Wehr ; edited by J. Milton Cowan. PJ6640 .W4313 1976 Oxford Chinese Dictionary: English-Chinese/Chinese-English. PL1455 .O87 2003 Shower, a film by Yang Zhang. DVD 151 Not one less, a film by Zhang Yimou. DVD 444 Ruswa, Mirza Hadi. Umrao Jan Ada. Tr. Khushwant Singh. Harper Collins, India. PK2199. R8 U5713 2007 Tagore, Rabindranath. The Home and the World. Penguin Classics, 2005. PK1723.G5 E5 2005 Kant Agnihotri, Rama. Hindi: an essential grammar. Routledge, 2007. PK1933 .A53 2007 Oxford Hindi-English dictionary / edited by R.S. McGregor. PK1936 .O94 2003 Hindi and English dictionary : Hindi-English, English-Hindi / Rupert Snell. PK1933 .S59 Shin Konsaisu Wa-Ei jiten = Sanseido's new concise Japanese-English dictionary / Nakajima Fumio hen. PL679 .K64 1975 Kodansha's romanized Japanese-English dictionary / Timothy J. Vance.Kenkyusha's new Japanese-English dictionary. Koh Masuda, general editor.Kenkyusha's new English-Japanese dictionary on bilingual principles. PL679 .V36 1993 Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar. PL533 .M25 1989 Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar. PL533 .M259 1995 Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar. On order Essence English-Korean dictionary PL937.E5 E77 2003 Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America. Random House, 2004. E184.I5 D86 2004 Shorter English-Persian dictionary : treating some 40,000 of the commonest and the most essential English words and idioms for use by Iranian students of the English language. PK6379.H34 1976 The white balloon. VC 3756 Leila, a film by Dariush Mehrjui. VC 4524 Oxford Russian dictionary / Russian-English, edited by Marcus Wheeler and Boris Unbegaun ; English-Russian, edited by Paul Falla ; revised and updated by Della Thompson. PG2640 .W5 2000 Comprehensive dictionary : English-Turkish, Turkish-English – on order
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