ArticlesJuly 2025

Planning for Success in the Collaborative Creation of Open Educational Resources (OER): The Case of Diverse Russian

By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University, and Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/WMVF7469 Recently, we completed an Open Educational Resource  project called Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration. Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials that are freely available

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InterviewsMarch 2025

IALLT Interview Project, Episode 13, with Mireia Toda Cosi, Md Mahbubul Amin, and Fred Poole: Testing the Limits of AI Solutions for LCTL Instruction

Mireia Toda Cosi, University of Maryland Md Mahbubul Amin, Michigan State University Fred Poole, Michigan State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/OKEB8961 In this interview, Jeff moderates a panel discussion among educators who are either instructors or native speakers of less commonly taught

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ArticlesMarch 2025

Exploring Materials Creation with ChatGPT for a Multilingual Professional Development Workshop

By Betsy Kells, Technology Director, Penn Language Center; Ed.D. student in Educational Linguistics, Graduate School of Education and Siyi Yan, Graduate Assistant, Penn Language Center; M.S.Ed. student in Learning Sciences & Technologies, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania .

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InterviewsNovember 2024

IALLT Interview Project Episode 12: Interview about OER “Diverse Russian”, with Shannon Donnally Quinn and Anna Tumarkin

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CAVM3142 In this episode, Jeff discusses a new online Russian textbook with its authors, Shannon Donnally Quinn and Anna Tumarkin. The Open Educational Resource (OER) is available at https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/diverserussian. The authors explain their decision to center the textbook’s content

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ArticlesNovember 2024

From Novelty to Necessity: A Survey on Second Language Learning in the Age of AI

By Hossam Elsherbiny, PhD., Associate Director of The Center for Languages & Intercultural Communication, Rice University, and Dean Toumajian, Rice University . DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/PWER3384 From the fictional artificial intelligence computer HAL 9000’s menacing evolution in “2001: A Space Odyssey” to

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