It’s Saturday, February 6, 2016, and time for Foreign Languages at ClickSchooling!
Recommended Website:
UCLA Language Materials Project
(www.lmp.ucla.edu/k-12/index.aspx?menu=007
Age Range: 5-18 (Grades K-12, with parental supervision)
The University of California Los Angeles offers this free archive of teaching resources including downloadable/printable lessons in pdf, audio files, video files, dictionaries, computer programs/software, games and more to help learn vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, and conversational language skills in over 100 less commonly taught languages such as:
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Cherokee
- Danish
- Estonian
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Inuit
- Japanese
- Latvian
- Maori
- Navajo
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Samoan
- Tagalog
- Urdu
- Zulu
When you get to the site you’ll see the K-12 Gateway that offers links to free resources online as well as to materials that are available from libraries and retailers. You’ll also find lesson plans and teaching tips designed for classroom teachers that are presented in English, that can be adapted to teach any other language as well.
Use the search engine at the top of the page to select:
- Language – Choose from over 100 possibilities.
- Material – Select the kind of learning tool you want to find, for example textbook, picture book, audio, video, etc.
- Level – Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
- Audience – Elementary, Secondary, Post-Secondary
This is a comprehensive resource tool that you may refer to over and over again.
