Get Yourself Published! Contributing to the FLTMAG
This 4-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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Quickly Create Content for your Language Classroom with TeacherTools
By Robert Remmerswaal, Sojo University, Japan Introduction With TeacherTools.Digital you can quickly make robust learning activities for your students to practice and improve their language skills in English, French, German, and Spanish. Other languages may work with only limited functionality
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Lion Taming in a Pandemic
By Kevin Anzzolin, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stout For most if not all educators in the United States, spring semester 2020 can be largely defined by a single but weighty word: “pivot.” By mid-March, the COVID-19 pandemic had forced us
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Engaging Students Online through an OER Poetry Project
By Svitlana Malykhina and Nadiya Prokopyeva, Boston University Introduction BU Russian Poetry is a comprehensive multimedia Open Educational Resource (OER) where students read poetry and experiment in a laboratory for new forms of analysis while developing their
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SignAll Lab: Boosting Students’ Interest in Learning ASL
By Jody Converse, ASL Educator at Brainerd High School in Brainerd, Minnesota About SignAll Lab SignAll Lab is an interactive workstation for learning and practicing American Sign Language (ASL). It supplements our classes, giving students countless hours of independent study
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Creating Custom AI Applications for Student-Oriented Conversations
By Erin Frazier, Euan Bonner, Ryan Lege, Kanda University of International Studies Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous and intertwined with everyday life, especially with the proliferation of Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) such as Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google
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Getting out of a Jam with Google Jamboards
By Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Introduction With the abrupt shift to online learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, hyperdocs such as Google Docs have garnered a lot of attention due to their ubiquity, ease of
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StoryJumper: Students Publish Their Own Books
By Budimka Uskokovic, PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures StoryJumper is a web-based tool that allows students to design their own stories, to collaborate with other students, and to become published
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Introducing The Reactor Room: An Immersive Chernobyl Exhibition
By José Vergara, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Swarthmore College Introduction When my students and I first began studying Chernobyl in late January, we had little idea that the entire globe would soon be swept up by a similar “invisible
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July 2020 IALLT Webinar: Online, Hybrid, Hyflex, and High Stress: Preparing for Fall 2020
Presenters: Kevin Gaugler, Marist College Florencia Henshaw, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Noah McLaughlin, Kennesaw State University IALLT webinars are open to all, webinar recordings are a member benefit. The IALLT Board has made webinar recordings related to COVID-19 open
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SpatialChat – Mingle Activities and Virtual Parties
By Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University, and Betsy Lavolette, Kyoto Sangyo University While Zoom and other video conferencing tools have worked well for pair and small group work, language teachers have struggled to find a tool that could simulate
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IALLT Webinar: Are discussion forums really interactive? Ideas for purposeful asynchronous communication
As a service to the language learning and teaching community during COVID-19, the IALLT Board has made this webinar open to all. IALLT webinars, which happen about once a month, are open to all, and webinar archives are a member
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How to Establish a Strong Community in an Online Course
By Magara Maeda, University of Wisconsin River Falls and Lauren Rosen, University of Wisconsin Collaborative Language Program One of the most common questions we hear from instructors who are first moving to an online teaching environment is, “How
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Checking Reading Comprehension Remotely Using Student-Designed Comics
By Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Professor of German, University of North Texas Introduction The shift to emergency remote instruction halfway through the spring 2020 semester forced all of us to pivot our instructional approaches without a lot of training. In order
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