From Elevate:

Top 5 CI Techniques for Making Yourself Comprehensible

Diversity Positive Alternatives - Our popular guide to making small changes to experience a big impact on your teaching

Circle of Care - Transforming the “family unit” into something a lot more life affirming and representative of real life

—> Cercles d’affection - en français

Animated Shorts for Movie Talk - Curated list of great animated shorts to use in any language class

—> How to Use Animated Shorts with Movie Talk - Step-by-step directions and explanation of why animated shorts are so useful

Card Talk Options - Card Talk is a quick-win strategy that helps build immediate connection in the classroom — in the target language!

Adams, Rachelle, and Anna Gilcher. “Building a Cultural Treasure Trove with the Culture in the Room.” The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, Dec. 2017.

On the Web:

https://towardproficiency.com/products/

https://cpli.net/

www.fluencyfast.com

https://fluencymatters.com

http://projectgladstudy.educationnorthwest.org/

http://beniko-mason.net/great-stories/

http://storiesfirst.org/greatstoryreadingproject/

http://ijflt.com/

www.miracanion.com

Independent Language Novels - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RR8IBUTGg4NAQM6mH-zWInvv2w4ZVoEVx94emF34AJg/edit?usp=sharing

Leveled novels for language classes - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PqWy3TUr6CXfdpBthGahL8B7ACVfnes86SfN4xbd-UY/edit?usp=sharing

 

Recommended Reading:

VanPatten, Bill. While Were on the Topic: BVP on Language, Acquisition, and Classroom Practice. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2017.

Krashen, Stephen D. Free Voluntary Reading. Libraries Unlimited, 2011.

Krashen, Stephen D. The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research. Libraries Unlimited, 2004.Ijflt

Mason, Beniko, and Stephen Krashen. “American Students’ Vocabulary Acquisition Rate in Japanese as a Foreign Language from Listening to a Story.” Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching, 16 Aug. 2017, www.sdkrashen.com/content/articles/2018_mason_and_krashen_vocab_acq_in_japanese_as_fl.pdf.

Adams, Rachelle, and Anna Gilcher. “Building a Cultural Treasure Trove with the Culture in the Room.” The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, Dec. 2017, http://ijflt.com/images/ijflt/articles-december-2017/TtT%20Article%204%20Building%20a%20Cultural.pdf  

 

Professional Organizations:

ACTFL American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (and local affiliates) www.actfl.org

NABE National Association for Bilingual Education http://nabe.org/

DC Language Immersion Project http://dcimmersion.org/

ILI Indigenous Language Initiative http://ilinative.org   

AATSP American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese https://www.aatsp.org/  

AATF American Association of Teachers of French https://www.frenchteachers.org/

The Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA www.clta-us.org/  

AATJ American Association of Teachers of Japanese https://www.aatj.org/

AATA American Association of Teachers of Arabic www.aataweb.org/

AATG American Association of Teachers of German  https://www.aatg.org/