Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Don Doehla, French
teacher and instructional coach at Vintage High School in Napa,
California. Don recently stepped up to become the new
facilitator of our World Languages group. He's got some great
ideas for teaching world languages, including the use of
project-based learning. He shares a few of these tips today. We
hope you'll join him in the World Languages group as well. The
world may be small and flat, but it is also multilingual,
multicultural, and more and more, it is an interconnected world.
Consequently, cross cultural communicative competencies are
increasingly important for mutual understanding and cooperation
- how is that for some alliteration?! Our students' need to be
able to communicate with their neighbors, here and abroad, is
increasing with every moment which passes! The borders
separating our countries are diminishing in importance as the
global culture emerges. The definition of who my neighbor is has
changed as well. No longer are we isolated from