Foreign Language Education : Lesson Plans
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Lesson Plan Websites for Foreign Language Education
Here are some useful websites for planning foreign language education lessons.
- Awsome Library - K-12 Language Lesson PlansLesson Plans for a commonly taught world languages.
- Max Kade Institute - German Lesson PlansThe Max Kade Institute is providing a number of lesson plans to K-12 educators. These lesson plans, developed by the Institute or teachers, have the following goals in mind:
Making authentic, historic materials available to educators in an accessible and usable form.
Linking school instruction with the community, as well as to local and family history.
Providing suggestions to teach a topic across subject lines and furthering interaction at the school level.
Content-related Websites
Web resources for your classroom or for your own information.
- DuolingoDuolingo is the free science-based language education platform selected by Apple as iPhone App of the Year 2013, by Google as Best of the Best for Android 2013, and by TechCrunch as Best Education Startup. With over 38 million users, Duolingo has organically become the most popular way to learn languages online in only 2 years.
- Debbie Rusch: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures ·Boston CollegeContains helpful instruction resources for the foreign language classroom such as, web-based and film-based activities. The content is related to Romance Languages.
- Deutsche Welle, Learn GermanOffers program that promises "in 100 lessons you can effectively learn basic vocabulary and improve your pronunciation."
- Exploratorium Online MagazineExplores language and its evolution as well as other related topics.
- iloveLanguagesiLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2400 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs.
- Language LinksLanguage Links was created in 1996 to serve students and teachers of world languages who primarily are studying and/or working outside of the country where these languages are spoken. While I do not list all of the languages of the world, the languages chosen are those which are taught at the University of Wisconsin.
- MLA Language MapThe MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.
- Russia Today, Learn RussianElementary through pre-intermediate lessons in Russian.