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/
http://projectgladstudy.educationnorthwest.org/
http://beniko-mason.net/great-stories/
http://storiesfirst.org/greatstoryreadingproject/
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/