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Lesson Plan de Las tres hermanas.
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@group Here is the website Carl mentioned at the workshop, that helps you practice evaluating students’ proficiency levels: http://oralproficiency.coerll.utexas.edu/.
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I would love to see materials for evaluating: 1) immersion Spanish learners in elementary and middle school grades; 2) native-Spanish speakers in elementary grades and middle school grades.
If anyone has materials to share, I would be interested.
Thanks,
Donna
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From Maria Carreira:
Buenos días a todos!
During the workshop, we will be working with the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (all four modalities) and the STARTALK principles. If you have a moment, I recommend taking a look at them ahead of time.Links to both of these resources are as follows:
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Hola, this is the link to the handout we will be using for our presentation at the Summer Workshop: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wE70Z95hryjTS8qV2tAdsmKEzh1l6dQZ2Gg8qpXTn_k/edit?usp=sharing. Nos vemos en Austin el jueves 27 y viernes 28
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@group Buenos días. In case you’re not subscribed to our newsletter, I wanted to share some announcements here. First of all, a reminder that there is still time to register for our workshop that will be held at UT Austin on July 27-28 ( https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/heritage-spanish-workshop-3-0/).
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@group COERLL is offering financial assistance for travel to come to our summer workshop. Please see the event page for more details: https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/heritage-spanish-workshop-3-0/.
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¡Hola! Si es profesor/a de cursos universitarios y tiene 15 minutos, le invito a colaborar en mi trabajo final de máster en Formación de profesores de español como lengua extranjera, en el cual se pretende investigar sobre la lectura crítica en los cursos universitarios de español como lengua de herencia (ELH) desde la perspectiva de los profe…[Read more]
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@group Buenas noticias – if you were interested in attending Kim Potowski’s guest lecture at UT Austin last week called “Language and Identity in a Dual Immersion School” but were not able to be there, you can now watch her excellent presentation online. To find it please visit the Research and Pedagogy section of our website:…[Read more]
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@group Hola a todos. We periodically send emails out with updates about what’s going on with our heritage Spanish website and community. Are you on our mailing list? If not, please feel free to email us at info@coerll.utexas.edu and we will add you to the list. On our last email update, we mentioned that we are working on building a database of h…[Read more]
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@group Hola a todos. The NHLRC is putting together an online heritage teaching certificate (!), and would like your feedback in this brief survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NY5ZK8J
… and please see below in the chat for more updates from your colleagues 🙂
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Greetings, colegas! Just an FYI, This year’s M/MLA Convention (Cincinnati, Nov. 9-11) will be holding a Special Session on Heritage Spanish pedagogy and language maintenance as acts of resistance. Come send an abstract and join us! CFP –> 4/15. http://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/specialsessionscallforpapers/ or email nathaniel.maddux@uwc.edu
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Hi Nate. This is great! Suena muy interesante. I will post it on our events page. Gracias por compartir.
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@group We’ll soon start planning this summer’s SHL workshop. What are all of you interested in learning & doing this year?
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Develop units performance based for heritage speaker classes.
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Create middle school units with middle school topics and level of difficulty that include Common Core literacy standards in Spanish https://commoncore-espanol.sdcoe.net/CCSS-en-Espa%C3%B1ol/SLA-Literacy
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Placement, evaluation and community based projects/service learning
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Thanks for the ideas, this is helpful!
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Do you have dates yet for the workshop? I would love to attend, and I need to know soon so I know whether to teach Summer I or Summer II.
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@meomurian Yes the dates are July 27-28th! We hope you can attend. There is more information about registering here http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/event/heritage-spanish-workshop-30.
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@¿Sabían que la UNESCO declaró que hoy 21 de febrero es el International Mother Language Day? You can read more about it here http://www.unesco.org/new/en/international-mother-language-day/. ¿Tienen algunas ideas de cómo podemos celebrar este día con nuestros estudiantes?
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Hola a todos. I would like to create a Placement Exam for my class for second language and heritage speakers. Is there any free platform to do it? I would like to do a multiple choice test and one in which they have to write some answers that are graded automatically, any ideas? Thanks.
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@group Hola a todos. I’m really looking forward to the Heritage Spanish Symposium this coming weekend in Irvine. If you’re going too and want to chat about our Heritage Spanish website and COERLL, I’d love to meet up. Avísenme si van a estar por ahí. ¡Nos vemos!
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Hola! Here’s an opportunity to participate in heritage research… as part of a research study by CAL and the AELRC at Georgetown University, investigators are currently seeking those with experience working with heritage language learners to fill out a short survey. Participants have a chance to win a $25 gift card. See here for more details:…[Read more]
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Hola a todos! I teach a heritage Spanish at a school where 35% of our students speak some sort of Spanish at home. My department and I want to develop a way to place students in the correct level of Spanish classes. We have used STAMP as a guide but it does not give us much information on the students writing abilities (which seem to be the…[Read more]
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@group Rachel, this is a great question. On the resources page of our website you can find a link to the Avant Spanish Heritage Language Test https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/resources/assessments/ which was developed by the University of Houston. However, I believe that many institutions have their own in-house assessments that they use…[Read more]
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Hello! At our school, we designed our own placement test and it has been very helpful. If you want I can share it with you !
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Hi Rachel! I am trying to create a platform to create the Placement exam. I saw that Nancy possibly has an idea of a platform. I would be thankful with Nancy if she share it with us. Thank you.
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Hola a todos. Quiero compartir este artículo que encontré esta mañana. It’s an excerpt about “San Giving day” from Richard Blanco’s book “The Prince of Los Cocuyos”. This is a great (and humorous) depiction of Cuban immigrants embracing the Thanksgiving holiday. I shared it with my heritage Spanish students and they really enjoyed it. Aq…[Read more] -
Hello Everyone! I would like to develop some materials online for students to practice. Does anybody know of a friendly user program to develop self-graded exercises (fill in the blank, multiple choice, etc) other than Quizlet or Blackboard? Thank you!
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Hola Olivia. Here at UT we use Canvas, and for our second semester heritage class, Delia Montesinos has developed some great online quizzes using Canvas. We have found that it is a great way to quickly evaluate the students’ knowledge and helps them identify their weaknesses so that they can then better prepare for exams, etc. I have also used…[Read more]
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Mil gracias Jocelly. I will try Blackboard, the platform at my College.
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@group Hi everyone! I’d like to share this great opportunity to participate in a telecollaborative project for Heritage Spanish college classes. See the information below:
The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC) is developing an online community for college level Spanish instructors who are interested in connecting their heritage…[Read more] - Load More
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