I wanted to share another website with you today: Spanish Language and Culture with Barbara Kuczun Nelson. This is a great site which can be used in many different ways. The site can be used for studying Hispanic cultures or for its grammatical practice exercises. The site provides ample opportunity for students to sharpen their higher order thinking skills and a
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If there is anything our students (and perhaps all of us) want, it’s immediate gratification. When they receive immediate and clear feedback, it keeps them hooked and interested in the task at hand. A couple of online tools that provide this kind of feedback are Spaleon and Digital Dialects. Spaleon is essentially a conjugation trainer for Spanish verbs. Learners can
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Just in case you haven’t noticed, there is a tiny “more” button at the bottom of your voicemails in Google Voice. Click on this drop down menu to choose how you’d like to share your voicemail. They can be emailed back to students or embedded into Edmodo (or other similar sites) as html. I’ve been using Google Voice for a
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I’ve been reading a bit about Project Based Learning and decided to give it a try with my Spanish IV class in a few weeks. I plan on letting my students know up front that this is a first for me and I will be learning along the way just as they are. Anyway, I’m going to ask them what
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If you’re learning a new language, it can be pretty difficult to know if you’re pronouncing words correctly if you don’t have a teacher or native speaker around. The Android app, Pronunciation Checker Free, can give you some feedback to help you know whether you’re saying things correctly or not. It’s pretty easy to use. You select the language by
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While helping my students with a project today, I stumbled upon this website. I was trying to help students practice their pronunciation when they’re at home and don’t have a Spanish teacher around. Basically, you look up a word and it provides a definition and a pronunciation. However, this is better than other sites I’ve been using such as wordreference.com.
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As a foreign language teacher, I’ve always struggled with evaluating my students’ pronunciation. Not so much the evaluating part, but more with the logistics of it all. That is, until I learned about the tools I’ll talk about in this post. Before that, one option was to have each student talk in front of the class and I
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