10. Spanish Education
Education
INDEX for the FOLLOWING SECTIONS:
1. Methods for Teaching
2. Research
3. Activities to Use for Teaching
Governmental Agencies
Spanish Links from Universitites
Spanish Links from Organizations, Companies, etc.
Spanish Links from Individuals
4. Changes and Challenges to the Spanish Language in the U.S.
1. METHODS FOR TEACHING
http://eleaston.com E.L.Easton: Language Online--One of the best sites for educational helps for teaching and learning Countless quality links--from studying helps in general to teaching methods of any type of language and classroom management; it would take months to go through everything!)
http://globegate.utm.edu/spanish An EXCELLENT site with MANY GREAT links to all areas of teaching Spanish (general topic links, art and culture, exhibitions, history, music (Several sites have lyrics for a multitude of songs); also many sites as a search engine
www.caslt.org/research/sp.htm CASLT (from Canada) is a VERY GOOD SITE that has MANY links to exercises (especially verbs), Spanish listening and pronunciation activities, teaching Spanish through music and actual Spanish lyrics (has MANY), and reading actual stories and books (children through adult); also has games
www.clta.net/lessons Very good lesson plans that uses the web
www.teachspanish.com Has a very good e-mail book listed to read: How to Really Learn Spanish (on methods) Under "lessonideas" there are many lesson plans shared at elementary, middle and high school levels
2. RESEARCH
http://www.insidehighered.com/users/simon-schwartzman and http://www.schwartzman.org.br/simon/edsocial.htm and http://www.symposium-books.co.uk/books/bookdetails.asp?bid=15 The writings from this author help to explain some of the problems found in the educational systems of Latin America
http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/congresos/valladolid/ponencias/activo_del_espanol/1_la_industria_del_espanol/azevedo_m.htm This is only one of many articles that is found in this fantastic site pertaining to all areas of the Spanish language. This one deals with the taching of it in the U.S. and how it is changing. To find many more like it, go to http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/congresos/valladolid and then click on "El activo de español;" of course, there are many different ways to go. All in Spanish. This is a very useful site.
www.cvc.cervantes.es/portada.htm Centro Virtual Cervantes (in Spanish) Search engine?
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english/links/span_cerv_links.html This is a FANTASTIC site with many links (and explanations of the links) regarding not only the complete works of Cervantes, but Spanish in general.
3. ACTIVITIES TO USE FOR TEACHING
Spanish Links from Governmental Agencies
www.eric.ed.gov Educator's Reference Desk: over 2000 lesson plans; many topics. U.S. Dept. of Ed.'s Ask ERIC site
Spanish Links from Universities
http://retanet.unm.edu University of New Mexico--many excellent, detailed lesson plans; great ideas * Latin America Data Base
http://eleaston.com/spanish.html Games to make / play from the University of Michigan
http://www.hevanet.com/dshivers/juegos/splinks.html Links for Teaching Spanish; songs for children
http://www.shef.ac.uk University of Sheffield, England Type "Spanish Links" in Directory
http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/grammar Spanish Grammar activities from Trinity University, San Antonio
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/s/spanish.htm From Scotland (Several different resources—for instance The Wall Street Journal in Spanish)
http://www.uni.edu/becker Jim Becker form Iowa State University This site is in a class of its own--it has everything! However, it is not organized and it takes a lot of time to find specific things. (It also has many links for other languages.)
Spanish Links from Organizations, Companies, etc.
http://eleaston.com/spanish.html E.L. Easton
http://www.smartphrase.com/Spanish/spanish.shtml Has many phrases and vocabulary in several languages
www.hevanet.com/dshivers/juegos Twenty Spanish teachers from the Pacific Northwest share some of their favorite spanish games and songs for children. ¡Muy divertido!
http://www.quia.com/dir/spanish Quia activities
http://www.lonweb.org Very good comprehensive language resource site
Spanish Links from Individuals
http://manila.esu6.org/sjb ESU #6 Technology Resources...used to be Sandy Blankenship's web site--has countless great resources
http://manila.esu6.org/laanders Dorchester Media Center...used to be Lareen Anderson's web site--has excellent resources
4. Changes and Challenges to the Spanish Language in the U.S.
The http://cvc.cervantes.es/portada.htm site is an excellent site for research of all types. However, it is all in Spanish.
http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/espanol_eeuu "La lengua española en Estados Unidos"
http://cvc.cervantes.es/foros/leer_asunto1.asp?vCodigo=8003 About Spanglish http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/congresos/valladolid/ponencias/activo_del_espanol/1_la_industria_del_espanol/azevedo_m.htm This is only one of many articles that is found in this fantastic site pertaining to all areas of the Spanish language. This one deals with the taching of it in the U.S. and how it is changing. To find many more like it, go to http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/congresos/valladolid and then click on "El activo de español;" of course, there are many different ways to go. All in Spanish. This is a very useful site.