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  • Home
  • Instruction
    • Lessons based on authentic resources
    • Proficiency
    • Communicative Modes
    • Target Language
    • Scaffolds and Supports
    • Tiering Tasks and Text
    • Interpretive Mode
    • Authentic Resources
    • Intercultural Communication
    • Continuous Assessment
    • Assessment in World Languages
    • Responding to Student Data
    • Feedback
    • Grammar in Context
    • Questioning and Discussion
    • Meeting the needs of diverse language learners
    • Learning Centers
    • Supportive Learning Environment
    • Knowing the Learner
    • Student Engagement
    • Student Choice and Voice
    • Flexible grouping
    • Student Reflection and Self-Assessment
    • Varied Approaches
    • Lesson and Unit Planning
    • Guided Instruction
    • Intentional Skill Building
    • Thinking Strategies
    • Immersion Resources
    • Designing Performance Tasks
    • AI Resources for World Languages
    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in World Languages
    • Resources for the Shift to Online/Blended Learning
    • Designing Tasks Around Authentic Resources: One Stop Shop
  • Leadership
    • Leadership Resources
    • Teacher Leadership
    • Coaching and Mentoring Skills
    • Professional Learning
    • Effective Meeting Management
    • Team Building
    • Leading Through Change
    • Teacher Recruitment and Retention
    • Growth Mindset
    • Feedback for Teachers
    • Supporting Teachers' Wellbeing
  • Workshops, sessions, and keynotes
  • WLPD4U
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  • Reflection Spinner

Target Language
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Error correction in the TL
Reluctant learners in the TL
Increasing student participation
Comprehensible input
Encouraging student TL use
Tips for maintaining a TL classroom

ACTFL Position Statement on Target Language Use

Strategies for Supporting the Use of Target Language (ACTFL)

How to Keep High Levels of TL in Your Classroom

90%+ Target Language, Authentic Texts, No Isolated Grammar? How? (Language Educator, April 2013)

Teaching in the Target Language

Going for 90%+: How to Stay in the Target Language

Using the Target Language and Providing Comprehensible Input Infographic (StarTalk/TELL Project)

How and Why We Aim for 90%

TL Use and Student Accountability

Zipf's Law and What it Means for Vocabulary Teaching


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Target Language Tools, Scaffolds, and Supports Pinterest Board

​Stay on Target (Language) for Classroom Management

The Disaster of Intermediate Proficiency

Keeping It in the Target Language

Maximizing Use of Target Language in Language Classrooms (mini course)

Teaching in the Target Language (slideshow)

90% in the Target Language in Elementary School

Staying in the Target Language in World Language Classrooms: Why? How?- Prezi

Staying in the Target Language: Let's Make A Plan- Prezi

​Empowering Students to Use the Target Language Infographic 

Why I urge you to teach 100% in the TL
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TELL Student Target Language Use Self Assessment
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TELL Teacher Target Language Use Self Assessment
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Maximizing TL Use Self-Assessment
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Error Correction in the TL
Error Correction in the Second Language Classroom

Research on Error Correction and Implications for Classroom Teaching

Error Correction in Foreign Language Teaching
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http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/11/23/why-understanding-these-four-types-of-mistakes-can-help-us-learn/
 

Reluctant Learners in the Target Language Classroom


​5 Ways to support struggling students in world language classes

20 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Students

Encouraging Reluctant Language Learners to Speak in the Classroom

Motivating Reluctant Learners article NAESP

The Shy (Reticent) Learner in the FL Class (FL Teach)

Foreign Language Anxiety Scale

How to Reach Reluctant Learners

Motivation and Motivating in the Foreign Language Classroom

Promoting Motivation in the Foreign Language Classroom

Your secret weapon- Wait Time

Using "think time" and "wait time" skillfully in the classroom

Wait Time Tips

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Increasing Student Participation


Increasing Student Participation

Oral Participation in the Foreign Language Classroom (FL Teach)

Get Shy Students Talking During a Seminar
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Top Twelve Ways to Increase Student Participation

Encouraging Class Participation (Education World)

Structures for Active Participation

FREE French target language punch cards



​Participation Self-Assessment
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Participation Self-Assessment (Google Forms- English)

Participation Self-Assessment (Google Forms- Spanish)


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Comprehensible Input
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Comprehensible Input Pinterest Board

Strategies to Make the Target Language More Comprehensible

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Illustrating your directions
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​Comprehensible Input Teacher Self-Assessment
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Comprehensible Input Quick Reference Card
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​Procedures and Routines for Encouraging
Student Target Language Use
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Talk rubric

https://mmeblouwolff.weebly.com/revolutionized-teaching/interpersonal-boot-camp-using-the-talk-rubric
The English box
http://senornoble.blogspot.com/2011/09/english-box.html
Mystery student

https://wlteacher.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/class-management-system-to-keep-students-in-the-target-language/
Classroom signs
ewww.miscositas.com/Passwords%20Perfectos.pdf
Target Language Syllabus Statements
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Language Promise (French)
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Tips for Maintaining a Target Language Classroom

My top ten list for maintaining a target language classroom (bookmark)
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  • Home
  • Instruction
    • Lessons based on authentic resources
    • Proficiency
    • Communicative Modes
    • Target Language
    • Scaffolds and Supports
    • Tiering Tasks and Text
    • Interpretive Mode
    • Authentic Resources
    • Intercultural Communication
    • Continuous Assessment
    • Assessment in World Languages
    • Responding to Student Data
    • Feedback
    • Grammar in Context
    • Questioning and Discussion
    • Meeting the needs of diverse language learners
    • Learning Centers
    • Supportive Learning Environment
    • Knowing the Learner
    • Student Engagement
    • Student Choice and Voice
    • Flexible grouping
    • Student Reflection and Self-Assessment
    • Varied Approaches
    • Lesson and Unit Planning
    • Guided Instruction
    • Intentional Skill Building
    • Thinking Strategies
    • Immersion Resources
    • Designing Performance Tasks
    • AI Resources for World Languages
    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in World Languages
    • Resources for the Shift to Online/Blended Learning
    • Designing Tasks Around Authentic Resources: One Stop Shop
  • Leadership
    • Leadership Resources
    • Teacher Leadership
    • Coaching and Mentoring Skills
    • Professional Learning
    • Effective Meeting Management
    • Team Building
    • Leading Through Change
    • Teacher Recruitment and Retention
    • Growth Mindset
    • Feedback for Teachers
    • Supporting Teachers' Wellbeing
  • Workshops, sessions, and keynotes
  • WLPD4U
  • Blog
  • Reflection Spinner