- Home
- In This Issue…
- Executive Board News
- OWLA 2026 is Almost Here!
- Parlez-vous français? AI as a Conversation Partner—and a Tool for Interaction and Feedback
- Your New Teaching Assistant Doesn’t Need a Desk (or a Paycheck)
- Reclaiming Joy in the World Language Classroom
- Let Your Students Become the Teachers with the One World, Many Languages Program
- “Does This Baby Speak Spanish?”
- Valentine’s Day Activities Across All Levels
- Proficiency and AI: Learning to Grow
- Promoting Our Programs: Some Helpful Ideas
- Why In-Person? The Benefits of Attending a Professional Development Conference
- The Many Ways to Ask Students to Speak in the Target Language in an Immersion Classroom
- Are Children Language Sponges?
- Game-Based Language Practice
- Advocacy & Affiliate News
- OWLA News
- UN Diplomats’ Trainings: Online, Self-Paced, Authentic, and Free
- Language Learning Activity Ideas from Improv 101
- Legado Tour: Justo Lamas’ Son Performs for Spanish Students
- Engagement Through Repetition
- Decolonizing the French Curriculum: Developing Francophone African Materials for French-Language Educators
- Opportunities
- About
- Contact
Archives
Search all issues:
-
-
Follow OWLA!
Yearly Archives: 2015
ODE Around the State
OTES – Will It Stay or Will It Go?!? Ryan Wertz, Kathy Shelton and Paula Sondej, World Language Consultants, Ohio Department of Education Since the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System, better known as OTES, first came onto the Ohio educational scene, … Continue reading
TESOL
TESOL Liaison Report Lillian Acker, TESOL Liaison, Ashland University The TESOL Conference will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center again this year on October 30 and 31, 2015. We will have invited guests who will discuss the … Continue reading
A Day in the Life of an Elementary Spanish Teacher
Samantha Chaney, Elementary Spanish Teacher, Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, Ohio, OFLA ELL Committee Member The day has just begun when a Spanish teacher enters her classroom. In her room, you don’t find textbooks, workbooks, and mountains of worksheets. … Continue reading
CSCTFL/OFLA 2016
Mark Your Calendar NOW for CSCTFL/OFLA 2016! Sarah Shackelford, CSCTFL/OFLA 2016 Program Chair 2016 conference Ad Mark your calendar NOW for CSCTFL/OFLA 2016! OFLA’s joint conference with the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages will be held … Continue reading
OTES Success, OFLA Teacher Evaluation Tool
María Postigo María Postigo is a native speaker from Spain. She teaches Spanish II, III/Hnrs & IV and is the Spanish Club Advisor at Canal Winchester HS. She is on the OFLA Secondary Language Learning Committee. She is also a … Continue reading
Paris and Beyond: Chance Encounters, Lifelong Learning
Pascale Abadie and Kirsten Halling, Wright State University The Wright State University French Ambassador Program is the longest running professor-designed and professor-led study abroad program at our university, counting a total of 185 student participants since its inception in 2003. … Continue reading
Taming the Technology Beast
Effective Use of Technology in the World Language Classroom Angela Gardner, Spanish Teacher, Ross Local Schools, Hamilton, Ohio With the constant barrage of new gadgets, gizmos, websites, tools, and other technologies buzzing all around us, it is easy to become … Continue reading
Tech in the News
Motivating students and integrating culture through Barcelona’s Congreso de Móviles (Mobile World Conference, MWC) María Postigo, CWHS Spanish III/IV Teacher, OFLA Secondary Language Learning Committee For the past 10 years, Barcelona (Spain) hosted the Mobile World Conference in March 2015. … Continue reading
The Language Advantage
Advice for Incoming Freshman Abhijeet Singh, Saint Edward High School Class of 2015 As a high school senior, I look back at my four years of Spanish, two of which were spent as part of the International Baccalaureate program, with … Continue reading
Using TPRS in Bilingual Books
Jonathan Harris, Spanish Teacher, St. Gabriel Consolidated School One way to help maintain an open attitude for your students is to utilize their prior knowledge. I have found using a bilingual book to be a good way to help, and … Continue reading
The Cardinal 