Summaries for 2012 are located here.

 

Weekly summaries give you an overview of the #LangChat discussion in an orderly fashion. Easily read through the conversation and locate great new ideas and resources with the summaries below. If you'd like the detailed conversation including every tweet shared during the #LangChat hour, please visit the archives.

 

5 Ways to Incorporate Comprehensible Input into Project-Based Learning

December 5, 2013

 

7 Questions You Should Be Asking About Language Speaking Assessments

October 31, 2013

 

Making Language Fun: How to Have a More Engaging Language Classroom

October 24, 2013

 

The Best Ways to Build Student’s Interpretive Listening Skills

October 17, 2013

 

Moving On Up: 10 Ways to Help Novice Students Become Intermediate

October 10, 2013

 

Bright Ideas for Organizing World Language Units

October 3, 2013

 

Assessing Student Choice Assignments in the World Language Classroom

September 26, 2013

 

15 Fun Collaboration Activities for World Language Teachers

September 19, 2013

 

39 Digital Tools Your World Language Classroom Should Have

September 12, 2013

 

Implementing Valid Standards-Based Grading

September 5, 2013

 

Creating Effective Rubrics for Various World Language Tasks

August 29, 2013

 

Target Language From Day 1: How to Keep High Levels of TL in Your Classroom

August 16, 2013

 

25 Things I Will Do Next Year: Great Ideas for World Language Teachers

June 20, 2013

 

20+ Great Summer Reads for World Language Teachers

June 13, 2013

 

How Are You Developing World Language Curriculum Over Summer Break?

June 6, 2013

 

Keep Students Motivated with 9 Fun Summer Language-Learning Activities

May 30, 2013

 

10 Techniques for Teaching World Language with Videos

May 23, 2013

 

How to Create the Best Summative Assessments for World Language

May 16, 2013

 

29 Proven Ways to Motivate Your World Language Students

May 9, 2013  

 

Backward Design for World Language Teachers

May 2, 2013 

 

7 Best Ways to Use Music in World Language Classrooms

April 25, 2013 

 

Best Texts for Teaching Communicative Proficiency

April 18, 2013 

 

The Tyranny of Grades: A World Language Perspective

April 11, 2013 

 

Clipboards and Cell Phones: Valid Assessments that Save Time

April 4, 2013 

 

Balancing Modes of Learning and World Language Skills

March 28, 2013 

 

Creating Global Connections for World Language Teaching

March 21, 2013 

 

Recycling Content for Long-Term Language Learning

March 14, 2013 

 

Collaborative Learning: Bringing Language Learning Back to Life

March 7, 2013 

 

Grammar at the Lower Language Learning Levels

February 28, 2013 

 

Best Authentic Resources for World Language Teachers

February 21, 2013 

 

Advocating for Proficiency-Based Language Methods

February 14, 2013 

 

Changes to Testing Standards in the Language Community and Their Impact

February 7, 2013 

 

Online Translators and Dictionaries for World Language Teaching

January 28, 2013 

 

The Great Textbook Debate: The Role of Textbooks in World Language

January 24, 2013  

 

Promoting Writing Proficiency in the World Language Classroom

January 17, 2013  

 

Foreign Language Teaching Resolutions for 2013

January 10, 2013