A RECIPE FOR RIGOR IN WORLD LANGUAGES
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  • Home
  • Instruction
    • 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
    • Differentiated Instruction
    • Learning Centers
    • Supportive Learning Environment
    • Knowing the Learner
    • Student Engagement
    • Student Choice
    • Flexible grouping
    • Student Reflection and Self-Assessment
    • Varied Approaches
    • Lesson and Unit Planning
    • Thinking Strategies
    • Guided Instruction
  • 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
  • Workshops
    • Creating Learner-Centered Language Classrooms
    • Engaging Through Interactive Planning and CI
    • Planning for Interactive Communicative Lessons
    • Building Literacy Skills in Language Classrooms
    • Moving Students Along the World Language Proficiency Continuum
    • Using Authentic Text in the WL Classroom
  • Blog
  • Reflection Spinner

Target Language 


ACTFL Position Statement on Target Language Use

Strategies for Supporting the Use of Target Language (ACTFL)

Tips for Staying in the Target Language

How to Keep High Levels of TL in Your Classroom

Thinking in a Foreign Language: How to Do It and Why

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

Entering an English Free Zone (Learning Languages, Spring 2008)

Target Language infographic (TELL Project)

Teaching in the Target Language

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

Increasing the Use of the Target Language in Classroom Interaction

Target Language Use in the Second Language Classroom

Instructor Target Language Use in the World Language Classroom

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



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Target Language Tools, Scaffolds, and Supports Pinterest Board

​Stay on Target (Language) for Classroom Management

Research on Error Correction and Implications for Classroom Teaching

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)

Teaching in the Target Language Myths (Part 1)- teacher blog

Teaching in the Target Language Myths (Part 2)- teacher blog

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

Professional Learning Modules

Teacher Self-Evaluation Questionnaire on Target Language

​Empowering Students to Use the Target Language Infographic 
TELL Student Target Language Use Self Assessment
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TELL Teacher Target Language Use Self Assessment
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Error Correction in the Second Language Classroom

Error Correction: When, Where, How?

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 TargetLanguage Classroom


Helping Students to Feel Comfortable in the Target Language

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

9 Fail-Proof Tips to Get Shy ESL Students Out of Their Shells

​Your secret weapon- Wait Time

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

Module 3 Teacher Tips: Wait Time

Increasing Student Participation


Increasing Student Participation: The Teaching Center

Oral Participation in the Foreign Language Classroom (FL Teach)

Making Conversations Happen (check out the student participation survey)

Koosh! Enhancing Class Participation

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

Going Beyond Q & A: Formative Assessment and Other Ideas for 100% Student Participation

Comprehensible Input

Comprehensible Input Checklist

Making Language Comprehensible

Creating Comprehensible Input and Output

​Comprehensible Input Teacher Self-Assessment
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Procedures and Routines for Encouraging Student Target Language Use

Classroom Routines for Language Use (includes video examples)  ​
Talking flags


https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bz1OJFCmQ1orTGFod2hfMXQyT2s/edit
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
Red card

http://spanishplans.org/2012/02/07/sticking-to-spanish/
Target Language Syllabus Statements
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Language Promise (French)
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Promesa de hablar solo español

Tips for Maintaining a Target Language Classroom

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  • Instruction
    • 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
    • Differentiated Instruction
    • Learning Centers
    • Supportive Learning Environment
    • Knowing the Learner
    • Student Engagement
    • Student Choice
    • Flexible grouping
    • Student Reflection and Self-Assessment
    • Varied Approaches
    • Lesson and Unit Planning
    • Thinking Strategies
    • Guided Instruction
  • 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
  • Workshops
    • Creating Learner-Centered Language Classrooms
    • Engaging Through Interactive Planning and CI
    • Planning for Interactive Communicative Lessons
    • Building Literacy Skills in Language Classrooms
    • Moving Students Along the World Language Proficiency Continuum
    • Using Authentic Text in the WL Classroom
  • Blog
  • Reflection Spinner