This document provides guidance on standards braiding and program design for standards-based heritage language instruction at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This rubric is designed to evaluate heritage language lessons that may extend over a few periods or days, or units that include both integrated and focused lessons that extend over a longer period of time. The criteria and measures are designed to assist educators in determining the strengths of materials and instructional activities and their ability to be utilized in culturally and linguistically sustaining classrooms.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Starting a successful and sustainable heritage language program has three phases that support culturally and linguistically sustaining program development. This document gives an overview of each phase.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Use this checklist to make sure that all the requirements for open licensing are met. Please note that it is very helpful to review this checklist BEFORE you begin development work so that you are designing your resource with open licensing requirements in mind from the beginning.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Tips and lessons learned from creating accessible documents. This is not an exhaustive list so please add your own guidance.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Sample template for creating a guidance document for educators visiting a particular website. Remix and edit to suit.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
An explanation of what it means to say educational materials are "accessible" and why accessibility is important.
Material Type: Reading
A compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
The mission of the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) at the University of California, Los Angeles is to develop effective pedagogical approaches to teaching heritage language learners, first by creating a research base and then by pursuing curriculum design and teacher education. Some of the center's projects for Arabic include facilitating STARTALK workshops, publishing articles on Arabic linguistics, and more. The NHLRC is one of 15 Language Resource Centers established under Title VI of the U.S. Department of Education.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
There is great need to understand individuals' functional language abilities, not only in education but in commerce and public policy discussion. The aim is to quantify language use patterns, proficiency, and dominance in the two languages of bilinguals. The Bilingual Language Profile (BLP) is an instrument for assessing language dominance through self-reports that is concise, quick, and easy to use. The BLP is intended to produce a continuous dominance score and a general bilingual profile taking into account a variety of linguistic variables. The BLP is an open and free assessment tool for researchers, educators, and anyone with an interest in assessing language dominance.
Material Type: Assessment
These materials are created to work as a course, combining activities to increase vocabulary, read, learn about Hispanic cultures and differentiate standard Spanish uses from the U.S. variants.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Unit of Study
These videos from COERLL's annual Heritage Spanish workshop address different topics in heritage teaching such as: - Heritage language program development - Open educational resources for heritage Spanish - Basic sociolinguistic concepts for the Heritage Spanish classroom - Spanish HL Learning and Teaching
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This text explores verb time, tense, aspect, and mood through comparison of Arabic and English sentence patterns. It includes examples of the Arabic patterns from classical and popular sources so Arabic students can learn by explanation and example how to formulate cohesive and grammatically correct sentence structure. While this guide is intended mainly for English-speaking students studying Arabic, the charts also provide a quick reference of English sentence patterns for Arabic speakers. The book is designed as a supplement.
Material Type: Textbook
This page contains links to thirty-six stories children's stories written in Arabic. Many of the stories include morals or other teaching moments. Each page of every story has small illustrations for difficult words at the bottom to help make reading easier for both native and non-native speakers. The stories move from easy to more difficult. The stories are fully voweled.
Material Type: Reading
Aswaat Arabiyya is an archive of 245 videos in Arabic, listed by difficulty level and accompanied by glossaries and four worksheets each that focus on every aspect of listening comprehension. Selections come largely from Arabic media, with some cultural presentations by native speakers. Videos cover the entire Arabic-speaking world and include MSA and different dialects. Materials are designed to be used both as in-class activities and homework assignments. Videos can be slowed down.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lecture
The authors of Chinese Rhetoric and Writing offer a response to the argument that Chinese students' academic writing in English is influenced by "culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate." Noting that this argument draws from "an essentially monolingual and Anglo-centric view of writing," they point out that the rapid growth in the use of English worldwide calls for "a radical reassessment of what English is in today's world." The result is a book that provides teachers of writing, and in particular those involved in the teaching of English academic writing to Chinese students, an introduction to key stages in the development of Chinese rhetoric, a wide-ranging field with a history of several thousand years. Understanding this important rhetorical tradition provides a strong foundation for assessing and responding to the writing of this growing group of students.
Material Type: Textbook
