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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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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Among Us: Bringing Fun Back to the Digital Language Classroom
By Erin Frazier, Kanda University of International Studies Introduction The digital shift to online teaching has sometimes meant leaving some of our more interactive and engaging activities to the wayside as we adjust to the new format. This is especially
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‘Democracy NOW!’: Spanish Language News Podcasts to Bring the Here and Now into the Classroom
By Kaitlin E. Thomas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Spanish, Norwich University With national protests and unrest occurring simultaneous to the outbreak of the global pandemic COVID-19, 2020 was an exercise in maintaining pre-pandemic curricular momentum while adequately and appropriately addressing
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IALLT 2021 Call for Proposals
Virtual Conference June 16-18, 2021 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 22, 2021. – EXTENDED to February 5, 2021. The International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for the 2021 Virtual IALLT Conference. IALLT
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Interview with Betty Rose Facer about Language Advocacy
In this issue of the FLTMAG, Shannon interviewed Betty Rose Facer. She is Master Lecturer in French and Director of the Language Learning Center in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Old Dominion University. She has been participating
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Reimagining Extracurricular Activities during a Pandemic
By Carmen Granda, Amherst College The pandemic has created many challenges in and outside of our classrooms. Although much professional development for instructors in the last months has been focused on how to design engaging virtual classes for our students
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LearningApps.org – A Tool to Engage
By Anna Dyer, Lecturer, University of Iowa Meet LearningApps.Org LearningApps.org is a free online platform that allows educators to create a wide variety of online learning activities: matching, fill-in-the-blanks, word grids (word search) and crosswords, maps, voting, ordering, to name
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October 2020 IALLT Webinar: Counter-narratives as Resistance: Social Justice in the World Language Classroom
Presenters: Stephanie Madison, Ph.D., Clemson University and L. J. Randolph Jr., Ed.D., University of North Carolina Wilmington Presentation slides Presentation handout Chat transcript This webinar also kicked off a reading group on a similar topic, which anyone is
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Embrace the Engagement Experiment: Keys to Co-curricular Success During the Pandemic
By Laura Marshall, Assistant Director, Russian Flagship Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison Despite the many challenges that 2020 has presented, there are some silver linings for language learners and educators. This may seem counterintuitive to anyone who has pondered see-through masks
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Interview with Kinji Ito: Motivating Students During a Pandemic
Interview with Kinji Ito, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Appalachian State University In this issue, we talk with Kinji Ito, Assistant Professor of Japanese, about how he motivates his students in the online environment using Zoom and VoiceThread, and what he
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Physical Distance, Digital Connection: Building Bridges in Community-based Language Programs
By Sandhya Shanker, Director, Community Language School, Michigan State University, and Elizabeth Ablan, Graduate Assistant, Community Language School, Michigan State University Whirlwind. Curveball. Whiplash. Unexpected. Unprecedented. These were just a few of the words swirling around as we transitioned
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