World Languages K-12
FEBRUARY 2022
World Languages Highest Goal
Here in Pasco County, we want to help every student develop his/her skills in every language domain (Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing), starting as soon as they join one of our foreign language courses. We will accomplish this by design engaging lessons that will purposely target every receptive and productive skill.
World Languages Philosophy
The World Language Acquisition Philosophy at our district follows four immersion-related goals:
- to achieve proficiency in the target language (listening, speaking, reading, and writing),
to acquire comparable English Language Arts skills in our foreign language courses,
to reach cultural competency in surface features and deep features of cultural perspectives, practices, and products,
to gain mastery in our content areas.
TedTalk: How Languages Shape the Way We Think by Lera Boroditsky
TEACHING TIP
TESTIVATE
What is TEXTIVATE?
Textivate is a simple web tool to automatically generate a range of online activities based on any text you enter (up to 500 words). Type or paste a chunk of text into the text box on the Textivate front page and click on the "Textivate Now" button to see the available exercises that can be generated from that text. Choose from various activities based on the amount of text used such as drag and drop, sorting, or fill in the gaps.
How to use it in the Classroom
Create Textivates to introduce or review any topic. Type in a summary of information and have students place chunks of sentences in order or choose the missing word option for students to insert missing words. Instantly create sequencing activities to build comprehension and vocabulary skills. Paste in a passage from a well-known text and experiment with word order. What would happen if you tried to rearrange the wording in a famous poem? Paste in text during a world language class so students can rearrange words to practice vocabulary, word order, and various skills.
Article retrieved from TeachersFirst Review. (2021). https://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=14057
If you are looking for professional development while you commute from your house to your school in the morning, this is a great resource for you.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/language-lounge/id1583241169
FREEBIES
IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES
Bethany Drew Chat Mats
Fall and Winter Edition
Reading Resources for FVR:
Noticias by Maris Hawkins
Non-Fiction Library by Profe Elliot (Spanish, French and German)
Tracy Blog (Spanish)
Great Story Reading Project (Spanish and French)
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATORS
Southern Conference on Language teaching (SCOLT)
Secondary Office Hours
Here you will find the office hours schedule for this fall semester. Office hours are an opportunity to connect with OLL Supervisors, Senior Specialists and Program Coordinators regarding your curriculum questions. We look forward to seeing you.
Contact us
Senior Instructional Specialist for World Languages K-12 &
Foreign Exchange Visitor Program
Email: ajmartin@pasco.k12.fl.us
Website: http://www.pasco.k12.fl.us/oll/page/world_languages_foreign_exchange
Location: 7227 Land O' Lakes Boulevard, Land O Lakes, FL, USA
Phone: 8137942319
Twitter: @PascoWlanguages