So today a colleague asked me, “How could you use Kiva in the classroom?”
I have been involved with Kiva for a couple years now, volunteering to translate budding entrepreneur loans from Spanish to English so multitudes of Kiva users can make loans. Over the last 12 months I have volunteered as a Team Leader, serving [...]
Live Mocha has launched – this website combines social networking with language learning. Here you can indicate what language you speak as well as what language(s) you would like to learn. There are synchronous and asynchronous opportunities, the ability to track your progress through various courses, and native speakers who are willing to interact with [...]
the United Nations declared 2008 the International Year of Languages. The February 2008 UNESCO Courier focuses on world languages and culture with several interesting articles.
“The first instrument of a people’s genius is its language,” said the French writer Stendhal. Literacy, learning, social integration….Everything transits through language, which embodies national, cultural and sometimes religious identity [...]
The National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University received a StarTalk grant for a special professional development institute for Chinese teachers to take place during the summer of 2008, Mentoring and Leadership for K-12 Chinese Teachers.
In this 10-day summer institute, K-12 Chinese teachers will explore key concepts and principles related to [...]
