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The Oral Presentation Is Broken — Here's How Fi...

Every language teacher knows the oral presentation problem. You assign it because ACTFL says presentational communication matters. You scaffold it because you've been burned before. You watch your students stand...

The Oral Presentation Is Broken — Here's How Fi...

Every language teacher knows the oral presentation problem. You assign it because ACTFL says presentational communication matters. You scaffold it because you've been burned before. You watch your students stand...

When the Film Is in the Target Language but the...

You chose a film you love. The scene is genuinely funny — a perfect bit of wordplay, a running gag that builds across three acts, a deadpan line delivery that...

When the Film Is in the Target Language but the...

You chose a film you love. The scene is genuinely funny — a perfect bit of wordplay, a running gag that builds across three acts, a deadpan line delivery that...

The Sub Plan That Actually Teaches: Running a F...

The Sub Plan Nobody Believes Will Work You're going to be absent. It happens — a professional development day, a sick kid, a conference, or just the universe deciding you've...

The Sub Plan That Actually Teaches: Running a F...

The Sub Plan Nobody Believes Will Work You're going to be absent. It happens — a professional development day, a sick kid, a conference, or just the universe deciding you've...

Your Students Are Watching. They're Not Listeni...

Your Students Are Watching. They're Not Listening. Walk into any language class showing a film and you'll see the same thing: students facing the screen, eyes tracking characters, expressions registering...

Your Students Are Watching. They're Not Listeni...

Your Students Are Watching. They're Not Listening. Walk into any language class showing a film and you'll see the same thing: students facing the screen, eyes tracking characters, expressions registering...

How to Teach a Film Half Your Class Has Already...

You've picked the film. You've done the prep. You're two days out from starting the unit and you run a quick show-of-hands in class — and half the room has...

How to Teach a Film Half Your Class Has Already...

You've picked the film. You've done the prep. You're two days out from starting the unit and you run a quick show-of-hands in class — and half the room has...

Teaching Figurative Language Through Film: Idio...

There's a moment that happens in every intermediate language class, usually somewhere around month three. A student is doing fine — they can conjugate, they can ask for directions, they...

Teaching Figurative Language Through Film: Idio...

There's a moment that happens in every intermediate language class, usually somewhere around month three. A student is doing fine — they can conjugate, they can ask for directions, they...

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