Get Yourself Published! Contributing to the FLTMAG
This 3-minute video introduces you to the FLTMAG and how easy it is to publish with us!
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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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Professional Development in the COVID Era
By Amelia Ijiri, Adjunct Lecturer, Kyoto Sangyo University, and Betsy Lavolette, Associate Professor, Kyoto Sangyo University Introduction As teachers worldwide retooled to move classes online, formal and informal teacher resources for professional development (PD) experienced unprecedented growth. This
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Customized “Apples to Apples” and “Cards Against Humanity” Games for Online Classes
By Asya Vaisman Schulman, Yiddish Book Center Playing modified versions of card-based party games like “Cards Against Humanity” or “Apples to Apples” can allow students to practice the target language in a structured but fun way. By creating custom card
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Gather Town Brings Mingle Activities to Online Language Teaching
By Sara Saez-Fajardo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gather Town is a video-conferencing platform that allows teachers and students to explore a 2D map with an avatar and recover some of the most missed elements of face-to-face classroom interactions, thanks
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IALLT 2021 Conference Preview Webinar
In this webinar, Julie Evershed and Jeff Magoto discuss the upcoming IALLT conference. Also check out the participant responses to the poll about what they hope to get out of the conference!
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How to Heighten Engagement with Nearpod in both Face-to-Face and Virtual Language Classes
By Lauren Taylor, Spanish Teacher, Frisco Independent School District, Frisco, TX Introduction This year, I find myself in the unique position of teaching both virtual and face-to-face classes and it has forced me to analyze the way that I design
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IALLT Interview Project Episode 3: Interview with Dan Nickolai
In this video, Jeff interviews Dan Nickolai, Assistant Professor of French and Director of the Language Resource Center at Saint Louis University. They discuss iSpraak – an online activity generator developed by Dan that automates speech evaluation for second language
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Flippity for Online Games and Tools
By Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University For those of us who normally teach face-to-face or hybrid, finding ways to replicate games that we normally play in class in the online environment has been one of our challenges. There are
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Interaction and Collaboration in Microsoft Teams
By Sherry A. Maggin, United States Military Academy Introduction Microsoft Teams is a cloud-based meeting and collaboration space, originally intended as a workplace tool. With the onset of the pandemic, it quickly became adopted as an additional remote classroom platform
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Interview with Jonathan deHaan and James York about “Ludic Language Pedagogy”
Shannon and Jeff interviewed Jonathan and James about their journal/community called “Ludic Language Pedagogy”. Question: What is Ludic Language Pedagogy? Is it an organization, a community, a journal? TL;DR: LLP is both a journal and a community. The journal came
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Advancing World Languages Instruction with Genial.ly
By Lauren Taylor, Spanish Teacher, Frisco Independent School District, Frisco, TX Introduction Given the increased pressure that teachers are under to develop interactive virtual tools for language instruction, it is no surprise that digital creation platforms like Genial.ly have become
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These are a Few of my Favorite Tools: Choosing the Right Tech for the Right Task
By Florencia Henshaw, Ph.D., Director of Advanced Spanish, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign As someone who gives workshops on technology integration and has a site with over 130 tech tools listed in it, one of the questions I am most frequently
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The Podcast Project: Building Listening Skills and Vocabulary through Authentic Media
By Andres Antonio Daniel Labra, Saint Louis University The Podcast Project is a collaborative online resource designed by a team of graduate students and faculty from the Language Resource Center at Saint Louis University. The platform, which uses WordPress and
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“Code of the World”: A Digital Storytelling Project in the Russian Heritage Classroom
By Svetlana Korshunova, Princeton University Many heritage students cite “identity” as the principal reason for studying the language; they come to class to explore and assess the deep-rooted cultural, emotional, and aesthetic values of their language against the broader social
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One Cheap (And One Even Cheaper!) Way to Annotate Homework
By Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University Many language teachers, especially those of us who teach languages with a different alphabet, have remained dependent on paper and pencil assignments for student homework. And, while there are a lot of good
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