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By Alison Hicks, Romance Languages, Literatures and Cultures Librarian , University of Colorado, Boulder DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/RQTU8231 What do you think of when you hear the word librarian? I’m not much of a betting person but even I would feel pretty
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By Felix Kronenberg, Associate Professor at Rhodes College and President – Elect of IALLT (International Association for Language Learning Technology). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/ZGWT8979 “Creating spaces wherein diverse sorts of people can interact is a leitmotif of the modern world” (Gee, 2004,
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By Georges Detiveaux, Adjunct Instructor of French, Lone Star College-CyFair & Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Houston-Downtown. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/ICCD9650 INTRODUCTION I teach French at Lone Star College-CyFair, a community college with just over 20,000
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By Senta Goertler, PhD, Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and German, Michigan State University. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/KXKD8149 INTRODUCTION “When I lived abroad, I couldn’t even call my parents let alone Skype or FaceTime with them. I had to send
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Chesla Ann Bohinski, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Binghamton University, NY, USA. Salvador Venegas Escobar, M.A, Associate Profesor, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/PLSY2122 Thanks to the advances of technology, teachers of all disciplines have the ability to utilize a
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By Sabine Levet, Senior Lecturer in French, Global Studies and Languages, MIT DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/PJXV2993 One of the increasingly central tasks of language instructors is to prepare their students to work and interact with people from different cultures. Teaching culture
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By Dr. Carolin Fuchs, Teachers College, Columbia University. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/YZFB7414 This contribution describes the potential of two tools, namely needs analysis questionnaires and telecollaboration log entries, for helping participants reflect actively on past and current telecollaborative practices. WHAT
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By Patricia Mosele, PhD, Lecturer of French at the University of Colorado Boulder. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/HTUM6151 INTRODUCTION Many language teachers recognize that beginning classroom learners struggle significantly when asked to apply strategies for interacting successfully with peers to actual
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By Jean M. Janecki, PhD; Language Resource Center Director, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/FWHD6706 VIDEO CONFERENCING IN THE WORLD LANGUAGE CLASSROOM In the foreign language field, instructors and technologists have new tools and programs with wonderful potential to
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Marie Schein, PhD, SOCALLT President and French Instructor at Texas Christian University. Nancy Guilloteau, PhD, SOCALLT President Elect and Language Program Director of Lower Division French at the University of Texas. Georges Detiveaux, Immediate Past President of SOCALLT and Assistant Director, Center
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By Dr. Thomas Plagwitz, Charlotte, NC. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/TAYZ3005 LOOK AGAIN Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), “to convert speech into a sequence of words by a computer program” (Huang 2010, 339), is back in the limelight [1], thanks to Siri
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By Nicola Work, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of French, Department of Global Languages and Cultures, University of Dayton. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/SDUF3195 INTRODUCTION With the growing interest in using iPads for teaching, the inclusion of technology as part of the 21st century skills,
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Russell Moon, Career Track Instructor at University of Oregon. Nick Einterz, Lecturer at the International English Center, University of Colorado-Boulder. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/QGVF6335 At the University of Colorado Boulder’s International English Center (IEC), students from all over the world develop their
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By Lauren Rosen, Director, Collaborative Language Program, University of Wisconsin. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YLEA5398 “Over the past two decades, countries in the world have become more and more interdependent, and new technologies have erased many existing borders. As boundaries between
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