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By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/DDGH4005 If there is one thing that educational technologists know, it is that no technology lasts forever. Some of the closets of our language centers are museums for technologies that have fallen
Read MoreBy Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CYYC5955 Introduction Gimkit is a website and a digital game-based platform for both students and teachers. Gimkit was created by a public high school student in his junior year as a school
Read MoreBy Kelsey White, UC Santa Barbara, Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University, Bhavya Singh, California Language Teachers’ Association, CA, Teacher Training Institute, New York University, Gisele El Khoury, St. Lawrence University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/FGZY8990 Introduction Giving feedback on oral speaking
Read MoreBy Matthew Ling and Eduardo Lage-Otero, Yale-NUS College DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/NJPQ7999 For the past two years and thanks to a Teaching Enhancement Grant from the National University of Singapore, language students at Yale-NUS College (a liberal arts college in
Read MoreBy Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/DCKB3603 Introduction Classkick is a tool that teachers can use to replace paper assignments. Students can work on these assignments with their laptops, Chromebooks, or iPads, while getting help from teachers and
Read MoreDOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/FGBN7260 In this interview, Jeff Samuels talks to Shirley Hall (Latin teacher at Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia), Susan Berry (ESOL teacher at Center for English Language Orientation Program at Boston University), and Luis Deocares (Spanish
Read MoreBy Megan Jeffrey, National Foreign Language Center DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/OYEG3711 With the market already heavily saturated with language learning apps, why create another? This was the first question that the National Foreign Language Center asked when developing Lectica, a new free
Read MoreBy Amanda Romjue, Emory & Henry College, and Bhavya Singh, Teacher Training Institute, New York University. Hindi Facilitator, California Language Teachers’ Association (CLTA) DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/HCIV7603 Introduction Mote is a Chrome browser extension that promises “fast, friendly voice messaging” and
Read MoreBy Melissa Fiori, Associate Professor of Spanish, Daemen College, Amherst, NY DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/EVCI6316 Introduction Gradekeeper is a grade tracking program that facilitates the administrative and educational duties of instructors, for on-campus, hybrid, or online courses. It is quick and easy
Read MoreBy Ilaria Compagnoni – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/RNPK8419 izi.TRAVEL (“easy travel”) is an open-course digital travel guide with audio tours, multi-media content available in 13 languages with storytelling capabilities. Devised by a team of Dutch innovators,
Read MoreBy Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/IDSE2473 Students benefit from receiving feedback on their pronunciation and writing, but instructors only have a limited amount of time to devote to it. Yask is a mobile app that allows students
Read MoreBy Silvia Giorgini-Althoen, Wayne State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/VQDR2545 Various telecollaboration initiatives have blossomed in recent years, but the pandemic intensified the need to find learning tools to face new challenges and to maintain higher standards of interaction in our language
Read MorePresenter: Sarab Al Ani, Yale University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CCSK4370 In this webinar, attendees learn about “escape the room” games – they go through a brief introduction to the history of the game, its types, goals, and benefits for language learning. The
Read MoreBy Haruka Sasai and Xiao Sun, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/NLTC9752 Introduction On Saturday, October 23, 2021, the annual conference of The Japan Association for Self-Access Learning (JASAL) was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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