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By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University 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 by the
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By 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 Introduction Giving feedback on oral speaking tasks online
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By Matthew Ling and Eduardo Lage-Otero, Yale-NUS College 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 Singapore which
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By Amelia Ijiri, Kyoto Institute of Technology Introduction Virtual reality (VR) offers many attractive affordances for language learners. Virtual reality environments can simulate 360 degree views of target language environments, thus giving rise to a feeling of “being there”. Creating
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By Michael Dettinger, Nicolette Lopez, and José F. Rojas, Louisiana State University Introduction As universities returned to the 2020/2021 academic year, many were challenged with how to best prepare for course delivery. Some returned to
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By Melissa Fiori, Associate Professor, Daemen College Overview As language instructors we have many standards to juggle. How do we motivate students to learn a second language in a way that addresses the three modes of communication, simultaneously developing the
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By Müge Satar, Paul Seedhouse, Ahmed Kharrufa, Colin Bone Dodds, Sara Ganassin, Alison Whelan, Newcastle University, UK Introduction Many people are motivated to learn foreign languages by their interest in foreign cultures and ways of life, and Newcastle University has
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By Silvia Giorgini-Althoen, Wayne State University 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 classes. During
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By Molly Godwin-Jones, Dianna Murphy, and Karen Evans-Romaine Introduction The widespread shift to remote instruction and adoption of video conferencing tools such as Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in new opportunities for educators at various institutions to collaborate
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By Kaitlyn Teske, PhD, San Diego Padres Education in Baseball I have considered several new job titles during the pandemic: How To Download Zoom Coordinator, Instructor of It’s the Same Link Every Day, Guys, and Director of Unmute Yourself have been
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By María I. Ortiz, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati – Blue Ash College Introduction: Spanish Club Pre- and During COVID-19 As a language educator, have you ever heard this: “I want to learn a language, and I want to speak
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By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University While working on my PhD in Russian literature, my career took a turn toward instructional technology and curriculum development. After finishing graduate school I wanted a way to continue learning more in the
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By Frederick Poole, Michigan State University In the last five years, Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiatives have been spreading through K-12 institutions in the United States. Many of these initiatives are the result of substantial government funding that aims
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By Stacy Nyikos, PhD, and Evan Rubin SDSU Language Acquisition Resource Center The Foreign Language Film Night (FFuN) series at San Diego State University’s Language Acquisition Resource Center (SDSU-LARC) began as an in-person movie night in Fall 2019 to
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