Get Yourself Published! Contributing to The FLTMAG
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FLTMAG Resources for COVID-19
The FLTMAG editors have gone through much of the content of The FLTMAG and identified articles that might be particularly helpful during the emergency remote teaching going on in many places because of COVID-19. Recommendations Recommended Preparation for Emergency Online
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Using Scratch to Teach Computer Science in the Language Classroom
By Frederick Poole, Michigan State University In the last five years, Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiatives have been spreading through K-12 institutions in the United States. Many of these initiatives are the result of substantial government funding that aims
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Creating Community through Virtual FFuN (Foreign Language Film Nights)
By Stacy Nyikos, PhD, and Evan Rubin SDSU Language Acquisition Resource Center The Foreign Language Film Night (FFuN) series at San Diego State University’s Language Acquisition Resource Center (SDSU-LARC) began as an in-person movie night in Fall 2019 to
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Assessing Outside the Box: the Open Format Assignment
By Caitlin Cornell and Megan Dean, Michigan State University The COVID-19 pandemic has demanded unprecedented innovation and adaptation from instructors and students alike. Online learning has required many students to learn how to use new-to-them digital technologies like video
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Let’s Code for Languages: Integrating AI Chatbots into Language Learning
By Ann Cai, Dino Konstantopoulos, Robert Davis, Yufei Zheng, Dongying Liu, Northeastern University Introduction of the Research With the improvement of deep learning technologies, the Big 4 computer companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon) have been developing their robotics, machine
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Bringing VR Experiences into the Language Classroom with Mozilla Hubs
By Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Introduction Perhaps one particularly challenging aspect of teaching over the past year and a half has been how to break the monotony of online classes. Video Conferencing tools can at times
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The Power of Media-Based Syllabi: If Only Students Knew What the Syllabus Said
By Lauren Rosen, University of Wisconsin, and Kate Grovergrys, Madison Area Technical College Students are most successful when they know what to expect while learning a language. A packed, wordy syllabus doesn’t align with today’s learner preferences. For example,
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Language Learning and Identity: Helping Students Develop a Sense of Themselves as Second-Language Learner, Speaker, and Community Participant
By Deborah Cafiero, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Romance Languages and Cultures, University of Vermont During the pandemic, many educators, myself included, began to reexamine their priorities and pare their courses down to the most essential elements. In a course with
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Book Review: Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar, by Jeannette Okur
Reviewed by Betül Czerkawski, PhD., Professor, Dept of Applied Technology & SLAT, The University of Arizona Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL), 2021. 435 pp. https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/projects/merhaba Turkish is not a language that has a wide range of
Read more![The Communal: Module 2 Choice Board Directions: choose any TWO of the following to complete on your own & post to Module 2 Padlet by Sunday, March 14 by 8 pm. The choice of which TWO activities to complete is yours. However, by the end of the semester, you must have completed all of the following: At least one activity from each category At least two film assignments (“See”) At least two critical article assignments (“Think”) SEE: Watch “Bed and Sofa” [Третья Мещанская] by Abram Room: Bed and Sofa (1927). On Padlet, post a link to a 1-page film review, along with a screenshot of your favorite still image from the film. HEAR: Listen to the music of the decadent 20s (NEP-era playlist) and post a brief response to Padlet: How are these songs designed to make you feel, and do they accomplish that? Which is your favorite, and why? Find the song & post a link (with a screenshot)! Are there equivalent eras in American music? TASTE: Read chapter 2 of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking (Von Bremzen_1920s: Lenin's Cake.pdf). Find an image (or making-of video) of one of the dishes she mentions. Post a link to a brief “recipe review” on Padlet: why was this dish so popular, and what did it represent? (Students living at home should try to make and review a recipe from the era!) TOUCH: Browse scans from Litvina’s The Apartment for the year 1927 (Apartment - 1927.pdf) and read this article on 1920s Soviet fashion: Gorsuch_Moscow Chic. Draw upon both sources to post a detailed glossary of 10 new items (along with an image of your favorite), and briefly discuss how the material culture of the 1920s reflects the ambivalences of the NEP era. FEEL: Read one of the following articles on youth, sex, and the emphasis on “Physical Culture” [физкультура] in the 1920s: Fitzpatrick_Sex and Revolution; Grant_Creation of Ideal Young Citizens. On Padlet, briefly summarize two new facts you learned about the physical experience of life in the Soviet NEP era; are there equivalent eras in US history? THINK: Read about the Communal apartment, which became a fixture of Soviet life in the 1920s: Gerasimova_Public Privacy in the Communal Apartment. Summarize two interesting facts you learned about communal life at this time, and two connections you noticed between the article and the Bulgakov and Zoshchenko stories we have read. How does this cultural history help to illuminate these works of literature?](https://fltmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Mod-2-Choice-Board-SovExp-scaled-e1628361629777-390x205.jpg)
Open New Paths to Learning in the Literature Classroom with Choice Boards
By Kathleen M. Scollins, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Vermont Last spring’s so-called “pivot” to online learning felt like something closer to an abrupt lurch to many language instructors, faced with the task of translating the high-energy interactions of
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IALLT 2021 Conference Report
By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University and Betsy Lavolette, Kyoto Sangyo University When it became clear that the biennial IALLT conference that was supposed to take place in New Orleans in 2021 could not go on as planned,
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Still Teaching Online? Unleash Creativity to Heighten Student Engagement and Build Community in the Asynchronous Language Classroom
By Heather Rice, The University of Texas at Austin Ask a teacher what it is they love most about their job and they’ll often tell you it’s the students. This is definitely true for me, and more specifically, it’s the
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Why We at The FLTMAG Are Embracing Open Access and Open Review
By Shannon Donnally Quinn, The FLTMAG Editor-in-Chief, and Edwige Simon, The FLTMAG Founder Open Access for Readers When open access is mentioned, most people think of the problem of the cost of textbooks for students, but the cost of academic
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A Bitmoji Classroom Showcase
We asked teachers to share screenshots of their Bitmoji classrooms for a Bitmoji showcase! Check out the Bitmoji classrooms by Meredith White, Lorna Beduya, and Lauren Taylor! Meredith White, Gwinnett County Public Schools I have created several virtual Bimoji spaces
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Virtual Crafting: Boosting Creativity While Building an Online Community
By Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh, Molly Peeney, University of Pennsylvania, and Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University When COVID-19 hit, many of the hands-on workshops that we conduct as extracurricular activities with our students were put on hold.
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