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National Foreign Language Week

3/8/2015

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It's almost time to celebrate National Foreign Language Week (NFLW!  Typically, held in the first full week in Mach, NFLW, aims at making the United States aware of the need for and importance of foreign language study through celebration of languages. 

Although Alpha Mu Gamma from LA City College is the official sponsor of National Foreign Language Week, helping with the success of NFLW was Pulitzer Prize winner, Bruce Russell.  Through his efforts toward greater world understanding and his timely cartoons, posters have been designed each year for the support  of NFLW!  Below are some of the comics from Bruce Russell as well as the posters over the past several years that have been designed for National Foreign Language Week.

Alpha Mu Gama Sponsor

Posters

Ideas for the classroom

Looking for ideas of how you can celebrate and honor National Foreign Language Week?  This is a great week to advertise and advocate for your language. Create a week of events or just one. Hopefully, the ideas below will spark some interest amongst your classes and for your school teams.  Don't just limit your self to your school.  While language clubs and teachers are a great resource, remember to invite community members and school district figures to be part of your celebrations.

1. Design hallway and classroom doors with flags from around the world.

2.  Decorate your school lobby or entrance.

3.  Hold an international themed breakfast for staff members.

4.  Invite guests from the community to teach a cultural aspect like calligraphy or food dish.

5.  Make class t-shirts in the target language.

6.  Hang up theme year posters around school and send in school newsletters.

7.  Hire an international dance group or get teachers and students from school to teach others.

8.  Hold a film festival after school.

9.  Go on a field trip.

10.  Hold a bake sale of international treats.

11. Dress up in folkloric traditional dress and hold a fashion show.

12.  Hold a tongue twister or poetry competition in the target language and invite judges.

13.  Share an interesting fact about different languages on the morning or afternoon announcements.

14.  Hold an afternoon of crafts from around the world.

15.  Create a scavenger hunt around the school. Give students passports and at each station, they get a  
       stamp.

16.  Discuss career opportunities for languages.

17.  Collaborate with other language teachers and hold a "language swap" for the day where students from 
       other language classes teacher students in a different language of study.

18.  Ask the cafeteria staff if they could hold an international themed lunch.

19.  Do a service or global project like Pulsera Project or Unicef in a Box.

20. 
Get creative when thinking of collaboration. Don't forget to ask other teachers in your building like
       ESOL, Art, History, English, Science and Math to do lessons that involve cultural games, lessons or  
       art from around the world.

What does this make you think of?
How do you celebrate NFLW in your building?
  Feel free to send us your pics for us to post!

1 Comment
Belynda Nelson
2/3/2019 10:33:53 pm

Outstanding!!!

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