I just read an interesting article about using theater or drama in the foreign language classroom. Here is an excerpt: Drama and languages have much in common. As curricular areas, both need their learners to be active, expressive and communicative participants. Using our strategies to teach the four skills of...
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Wall St. Journal Article
Cindy Tracy
I read an article in the Wall St. Journal yesterday about Rosetta Stone's new Totale online subscription. If it was not expensive enough to spend several hundreds dollars for their program, they are charging $999 to access this online program for just one year, then it is finished. I refuse...
Entre les Murs dvd
Cindy Tracy
Well, Entre les Murs (The Class is the English title) was finally released on dvd this week. https://www.wor.com/products/entre-les-murs-the-class I watched it the other night with our 15 year old and 20 year old son. At first, we all really enjoyed it. If you had muted the sound, you might have...
Pourquoi take French?
Cindy Tracy
After a shocking and scathing editorial in our local paper in Atlanta, I feel very defensive about the importance of taking French. This uninformed man was up in arms that his child only had the option of taking French or Spanish in high school, because he wanted him to be...