Lesson for Oral Presentations of Culture in Foreign Language Class
This article is the last of four in a series about preparing oral presentations about countries by doing research with material written in the target …
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Teaching Spanish Grammar Using Parsing
The lights may go out. You need alternatives to constantly emerging technology. This is tried and true: Keep students on their toes with this low-tech …
Continue ReadingSearching for Spanish Verbs for "Grab" or "Take"
Get a grip on verbs having to do with actions performed by our hands! Both English and Spanish have a multitude of verbs with as many nuances about …
Continue ReadingHow to Say "to have fun" in Spanish
Are you uncertain how to say ‘having fun’ in Spanish? Please, please read this and learn it… Avoid a very common mistake!
Continue ReadingTranslation is Like Alchemy: An Explanation for Monolinguals
Of the many models of what it’s like to translate, alchemy has always appealed to me. This model is proposed by a famous literary translator …
Continue ReadingWhat Makes One Text Harder or Easier to Translate than Another? A Consideration of 'The Wheel of Difficulty'
This article is inspired by another translation analogy, proposed originally by Dr. Margaret S. Peden, which explains why some texts are more …
Continue ReadingMyths about Second Language Acquisition: Grammar-Translation Is Not Dead
Foreign-language teachers have probably heard that the “grammar-translation” method is dead, out of style; yet the last two generations of …
Continue ReadingHow to Teach Spanish Reflexive Object Pronouns
Do your beginning Spanish students get confused about reflexive object pronouns and try to use them as subjects? That is, do you hear them say …
Continue ReadingTeaching Spanish Double Object Pronouns
Does it seem that as soon as most students begin to understand how to use direct object pronouns and understand indirect and reflexive object …
Continue ReadingHow to Teach the Spanish Superlative
After students have learned to describe and compare equal or unequal things, they are ready to learn how to say something is the best or worst, the …
Continue ReadingSpanish Lesson Plan: How to Introduce Indirect Object Pronouns
After learning or being exposed to direct object pronouns, most students are soon exposed to indirect object pronouns. Their first difficulty is …
Continue ReadingSpanish Color Song and Game to Teach Students Color Words in Spanish
American Kindergarteners can learn to read color words in Spanish as well as in English. Here you will find the colors (los colores) song, and a …
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