Meet the Germans from the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
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The Primary Languages website is a national gateway to advice, information, support and training for primary languages teaching and learning. The site is owned and operated by CILT, the National Centre for Languages, the government’s recognised centre of expertise on languages.
This spring, the Alliance has launched a podcast in French for learners of French. The podcast comes with accompanying documents to help you make the best of it. You can also interact with teachers and co learners/listeners.
Listen to the podcast: http://www.afglasgow.org.uk/spip.php?article306
See Podcast Alliance Française de Glasgow on Facebook for accompanying scripts and learner materials.
Voxbone has been chosen by language Learning specialist Learnosity to connect language students around the world with their teachers and each other. Through its global IP network, Voxbone enables Learnosity’s students to share their native fluencies and accents for the cost of local calls.
All Scottish primary schools are invited to join the Junior Language Challenge, the only national language-learning competition of its kind in the UK.
The JLC was started six years ago with the aim of encouraging children under the age of 11 to develop a lifelong passion for language learning, by using cutting-edge multimedia software to learn up to three foreign languages as they compete against schools from all over the country.
The competition is organised and run by modern languages publisher EuroTalk Ltd and this is what it offers:
- a fun, interesting way to give children a headstart in language learning
- the chance to offer a new language (one you wouldn’t already be teaching) (and EuroTalk say it won’t be a drain on time as they take responsibilty for organising everything)
- because of the way the software is designed, teachers need no previous knowledge of the languages used
- great prizes for everyone
There is a nominal competition fee of £2.50 per child. These monies go entirely to an educational charity supported by EuroTalk. Each year the winner of the competition visits Africa to inaugurate a classroom purchased with the competition fees.
If you’re interested, there are full details and an online application form on the EuroTalk website.
The Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (Scottish CILT) has recently created a wiki especially for Modern languages in Scotland.
The aim is to create a unique knowledge base for teachers in Scotland. You can easily add your own ideas to topics that already exist or share your own ideas on a brand new topic. Please visit the Scottish Cilt wiki for more information.
After a festive break - the latest video podcast episode from MFLE will be published every Monday until Easter.
This week’s episode: Lifestyle - Elvira Vivanco chats about the disappearance of her Pico neighbourhood in Santa Monica.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/mflblogsandpodcast/podcast/index.asp?
The details of the UK virtual competition can be found by visiting the Innovative Teachers Network (ITN) and the top ten entries will be invited to the UK Innovative Teacher Forum to be held in Microsoft Reading on 20th February 2009 to share ideas and for selection to go forward to the European round (travel and expenses will be paid by Microsoft).
The ITN contains further details of the competition, examples of best practice and a forum to discuss the competition and pose questions. Entries will be sought that demonstrate technology making a difference in the classroom, are innovative and are transferrable in enhancing the learning & teaching practice of other teachers. The closing date is 1 February 2009.
A complete step-by-step guide to making your own podcast. Specially created for introducing MFL teachers to the delights of podcasting and highlighting its potential uses in the classroom.
Available from Sharing practice on MFLE
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/sharingpractice/ict/index.asp?
LTS Spanish Language podcasts: Immigration - Language barriers in the playground
Salvadorean Nancy Arévalo remembers what it was like to be in a new country where she didn’t speak either English or the Mexican Spanish spoken by everyone else in the playground.
You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes
0r watch and download on MFLE website
or even watch and subscribe through YouTube if you like.
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