Resources
Ambassadors Learn Languages Resource
Ambassadors Learn Languages is a multimedia learning resource with units for beginners in; Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Polish and Spanish. Each unit contains a rich mix of reading, writing, listening and speaking activities based on audio recordings, visual input and interactive games.
For further information, please visit the Routes into Languages East Midlands website.
IRIS Resource
IRIS is a free, digital repository of materials used to collect data for research into second language learning and teaching. It holds materials such as questionnaires about motivation, attitudes, learning strategies, intercultural understanding, teacher trainee knowledge, experimental teaching materials, language tests used in research, classroom observation schedules and interview protocols, amongst many others.
IRIS is searchable along a range of parameters, such as language being learnt, age of participant, author of research, research topic, and type of research method.
Folk DC - Digital Children's Folk Songs for Language and Cultural Learning
This project has prepared an autonomous teacher kit that can be used to motivate and engage early language learners. The kit is available on the project website.
The kit consists of:
- Full teacher guides explaining how to use the project
- European folk songs in 10 languages (20 songs in all)
- The transcribed lyrics and recordings of the songs
- Self–assessment form (please ensure this is completed)
- A set of activities around the songs that focus on:
o Languages
o Music
o Culture
The teacher kit has been piloted in schools across Europe with excellent results. The purpose of the project is to motivate young learners to appreciate European languages and culture, to enjoy singing and to see how interesting learning can be.
Live Concert
At the end of the project, simultaneous live concerts will be help in five European countries (UK, Turkey Finland, Romania and Spain) that will be linked on the internet on 23 April 2013. Your school can book a place to watch the concert online or even attend in person. Please write to Joel Josephson (Folk DC dissemination partner) for more details.
La France et la Crise
La France et la Crise website originates from the very successful annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) organised at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in September 2010. It aims to make some of what was discussed at that conference available to a wider audience and to provide an ongoing forum for the exchange of information about and discussion of the crisis and French responses to it. The site will have blogs, video material, discussion papers, and recommended links and suggested readings. It is aimed at academics and their students, school teachers keen to update their knowledge of contemporary France and a wider public interested in French responses to the crisis.
