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While LEP (limited English proficiency) students who lack bilingual programs struggle, native English speakers also miss out. Our students can help repackage and win this decades-long debate, putting the pro-monolingual attitude behind us.  Katherine O’Keeffe-Swank, Spanish Teacher, Wickliffe High School … Continue reading →

María I. Ortiz, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Educator of Spanish, University of Cincinnati Abstract Inquiry-Based Learning was the pedagogical framework integrated to gear students into research, in order to effectively achieve a more sophisticated proficiency level, contextualized within the cultural background of … Continue reading →

Using Readers in the World Language Classroom Jessica Rhoades, South-Western City Schools One of the hardest things about teaching is there is always more. There are always more ideas you could implement, more activities you could add to a unit … Continue reading →

Mary Townsend, French Teacher, Kettering Fairmont High School French teacher Mary Townsend represented Kettering Fairmont High School at a dinner presentation sponsored by the French Embassy and the Consul Général of Chicago to discuss language immersion education. Madame Townsend joined … Continue reading →

Mary Townsend, French Teacher, Kettering Fairmont High School  Congratulations to Fairmont High School’s French Program, which has been awarded Exemplary with Honors status by the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) for the eighth consecutive year. In conferring the … Continue reading →

HAPPY SPRING TO ALL OF YOU! Cheryl Johnson, OFLA President 2020-2021Instructional Technologist for the Dept. of Modern Languages, Denison University I would like to thank everyone who helped to make the 2021 OFLA Mini-Conference on April 23 and 24 a … Continue reading →

Lesley Chapman, OFLA Immediate Past PresidentFrench Teacher, Sycamore Community Schools If you are anything like me, you were not aware that there is a museum dedicated to the appreciation of the world’s languages, their beauty, and what makes them unique. … Continue reading →

Lucas Hoffman, OFLA Executive TreasurerFrench/Spanish Teacher, Sylvania High School There are many reasons to join a non-profit organization, be they to connect with other like-minded professionals, to support other colleagues, or to advance the profession.   During this past year, your … Continue reading →

The Faces Behind OFLA’s Newsletter Beth Hanlon, Executive Recorder and Editor of The CardinalSpanish Teacher, Oberlin High School OFLA’s newsletter, The Cardinal, is published in the fall, winter, and spring of each school year.  The issues of the newsletter would … Continue reading →

Milton Alan Turner, OFLA Editor for Electronic Media French Teacher, Saint Ignatius High School As language teachers, we often emphasize the forms of a language (sounds and structures or vocabulary and grammar) or the meaning of words. However, the context … Continue reading →