This Course Map draws on the work of Eric Dodson, Luciana Diniz, and Nanci Leiton in "Green Tea Intermediate English Communication" and Colleen Shields, Jen Sacklin, Maggie Mitteis, Dave Schenderlein, and Annick Todd in "LCC ESL College Transition Listening / Speaking." It includes a narrative overview, weekly objectives, and course objectives for each week as well as activities, scaffolding, deliverables, and feedback.

This funny song by Lebanese singers describes their ride on camels through the center of Beirut. The video shows images of downtown Beirut and how unusual it is for camels to be in a big city in the Arab world.

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The book addresses some of the most frequently occurring verb errors made by English as a Second Language (ESL) students.

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This is a set of documents intended to teach 80% of the Qur'an to learners. The philosophy is that since many of the words in the Qur'an are repeated, 80% of it can be learned quickly and easily by knowing what to focus on. Included are lists of vocabulary separated into genre, such as pronouns and ways to say 'no', verbs and verb conjugation charts, grammar charts detailing active and passive participles, and more. Many of the documents are in PDF as well as in Excel so that changes can be made to the templates, i.e. translation into other languages if desired.

The ACTFL/ILR Oral Proficiency Interview by computer (OPIc) exam tests for speaking skills and is offered for various languages, Arabic being one of them. The exam can be administered to students of all proficiency levels who are in college and beyond. The length of the exam is 20-30 minutes and it is rated by ACTFL Certified ILR OPIc Raters. The results reported are individual scores of proficiency from 0 to 2.

This resource gives detailed proficiency guidelines for second language learners in the four major categories of speaking, writing, listening, and reading. It separates proficiency into five major levels: distinguished, superior, advanced, intermediate, and novice. Advanced, intermediate, and novice are further divided into high, mid, and low sublevels. The guidelines give detailed descriptions of language use regarding each level, applicable to all languages.

The ACTFLŠ Oral Proficiency Interview - computer exam tests for speaking skills and is offered for various languages, Arabic being one of them. The exam can be administered to students at an ACTFL Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, and Superior proficiency level who are in the 10-12th grade, college and to adults. The length of the exam is 14-40 minutes and it is rated by ACTFL Certified ILR OPIc Raters. The results reported are 1 of 10 possible proficiency levels from the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.

In this activity students will learn how to respond to greetings, how to greet and how to chat shortly with other persons.

In this activity students will learn how to respond to greetings, how to greet and how to chat shortly with other persons.

Students will talk about news and how they access it. In the main activity, students will make an ad supporting or opposing a certain product, they will have to make their case to the rest of the group.Students will learn how to discuss items and express opinions on items to a group.

ASLCORE is a Deaf-centric project which honors and celebrates Deaf culture and American Sign Language. The suggested signs you see in each ASLCORE branch are developed according to ASL linguistic principles by fluent Deaf ASL signers. Our goal is to provide descriptive signs which may serve to complement other initialized or English-influenced sign choices. These signs are presented for your consideration, modification, and adoption if they function well in your work as students, professionals, teachers, or interpreters! Copyrighted -link out or conduct a Fair Use Analysis.

We intend to be a central resource for learning ASL and about Deaf Culture online, with all content created by Deaf ASL-fluent scholars. YouTube channel.

ASL-LEX is a database of lexical and phonological properties of American Sign Language signs. It was first released in 2016 with nearly 1,000 signs. ASL-LEX was updated in Fall 2020 with greatly expanded information and an increased size of 2,723 signs.

ASL-LEX is available as a searchable web interface and as raw data in spreadsheet form. This website hosts the web visualization and provides instructions for how to use and download the database.

This is a mini lesson that is used in ASL 1 course.  Instructors can insert a video of signing the examples if this is for an online course or use the material on a presentation slide for an in person course while signing the examples live.  

Students will practice conversing with each other and answering basic questions about themselves. 

In this activity, students will talk about their summer. They will also introduce themselves and get to know the rest of their lab/group mates. Students will finish the lab by playing a speeddating game.

YouTube channel with ASL lessons, ASL vocabulary, Topics in ASL, and Deaf Culture. Copyrighted - link out to these materials or conduct Fair Use Analysis.

This workbook correlates with textbook Abanicos: Lengua y Cultura - Elementary Spanish Ihttps://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/91114/overview  The fillable pdf sheets allow students to download and type answers. It is divided in four chapters: Cap. 1: sections 1 – 10 in the textbookCap. 2: sections 11 – 16 in the textbookCap. 3: sections 17 – 23 in the textbookCap. 4: sections 24 – 33 in the textbook