This document discusses approaches for teaching world languages through discovery and exploration. It emphasizes using language learning to develop students' global competence and 21st century skills. Some key strategies mentioned include using improvisation and inquiry-based learning to minimize memorization, incorporating themes like design and storytelling, and helping students develop empathy and understand different cultural perspectives. The goal is to make language classes about more than just proficiency and have students actively apply their language skills.

1. Learning World Languages Through Discovery and Exploration Chris Livaccari Associate Director, Education and Chinese Language Initiatives clivaccari@asiasociety.org

2. All learning is language learning Let’s Tell Our Language Stories

3. Wittgenstein’s Lion “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” “If a lion could speak, we could not understand what he/she was saying.”

4. National Standards, ACTFL Standards, State Standards, Local Standards, Global Competence, 21st Century Skills… Where Do We Begin????? Perhaps not here!

5. Noble Ancestors: Montessori and Rassias Maria Montessori: “The secret of good teaching is to regard the child’s intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.” John Rassias: “Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.” Rassias on languages

6. This is what happens if your language program is not situated in the proper context TheDaily Show

7. Schools with Global Visions CSI High School for International Studies Herricks Middle School Medgar Evers College Preparatory School

8. So how do we begin linking our world language programs with a larger vision for developing globally competent students? First Day of Chinese Class: Top Ten Images of China

9. THIS IS CHINA

10. THIS IS CHINA

11. THIS IS CHINA

12. THIS IS CHINA

13. THIS IS CHINA

14. THIS IS CHINESE I am your teaching robot. I only respond to the following commands in Chinese: UP – DOWN RIGHT – LEFT FORWARD – BACK Achieve every student’s dream: Get me out of the room using these commands!

15. Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind” Design Symphony Story Play Empathy Meaning

17. Using the target language with minimal English

18. Creating authentic environments for language learning

19. Deemphasizing straight memorization and recall

20. INQUIRY

21. “Student as Linguist”

22. Project Based Learning

23. INSIGHT

24. Culture, Society, and Perspectives

26. THE SIX SENSES In and Beyond the Classroom 2: SYMPHONY FOCUS! Put it all together

27. THE SIX SENSES In and Beyond the Classroom 3: PLAY Be Serious! Let Your Imagination Run Wild

28. THE SIX SENSES In and Beyond the Classroom 4: STORY Memorize the Grammar Student as Linguist

29. THE SIX SENSES In and Beyond the Classroom 5: EMPATHY Language Lessons

30. THE SIX SENSES In and Beyond the Classroom 6: MEANING Qipao The Gilliam Project

31. THE SIX SENSES In and Beyond the Classroom Disputers of the DAO

32. Wittgenstein’s Lion: Domesticated!

34. Help students develop cognitive, academic, and professional skills necessary for success

35. Motivate and challenge students to make meaning for themselves and with their classmates

36. Make language class about much more than linguistic proficiency