Creating Multilingual Podcasts with Generative AI
Imagine this: your Spanish II students are listening to a podcast explaining La Tomatina, filled with humor, authentic vocabulary, and a clear summary at the end—all created in minutes with free AI tools. Or your newcomer multilingual learners are tuning into audio...
And the Stars Align…. Combining AI + CI
If you are a language teacher, then you are probably using comprehensible input teaching methods (repeat, recycle, repeat) or have heard about them – it is not a surprise that by adjusting language strategically and providing input (either spoken or written)...
NADFSL & ACTFL 2019 Reflections
It has been a whole week since I attended both NADSFL & ACTFL conferences in Washington, DC and what a great experience it was! I spent time with supervisory colleagues, met some Twitter pals in person and attended fantastic workshops! This year, I opted to follow...
Culture is my Daily Catalyst!
A few months ago I had the opportunity to teach Spanish III and we began with the unit, “Stories of the Past, Dreams of the Future”. It was wonderful to return to the classroom and below I share my journey with this common Level III unit. The unit’s...Literacy Strategies for the WL Classroom
“Picking up word meanings through reading is ten times faster than intensive vocabulary instruction.” – Stephen Krashen We all know and understand that READING is a fundamental practice to acquire vocabulary in context and understand how target structures function....
