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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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By Polina Vinogradova, Ph.D, Director of the TESOL Program, Department of World Languages and Cultures, American University. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/GVBK4971 In spring 2005, I took a new media and culture class where one of the assignments was to complete
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Unsoon Won, Faculty Development Advisor, Associate Professor, Academic Support Center, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) Kara Mac Donald, Ph.D Faculty Development Specialist, Associate Professor, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/UWXQ8451 The diversity of learners in our
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By Alexander Waid, Ph.D., Deputy Department Chair, Humanities Associate Professor of Spanish Language & Literature and Director of the Media Resource Center, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, CT. This article presents a critical summary of my experience as a college-level language instructor. Flipgrid
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By Fernando Rubio, Co-Director, Second Language Teaching and Research Center, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of Utah. After teaching for more than 20 years, I have decided that I really do not care much about teaching. The only thing that I
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By Alison Hicks, Romance Language Librarian, Norlin Library, the University of Colorado Boulder. By Courtney Fell, Foreign Language Technology Specialist at the Anderson Language & Technology Center, the University of Colorado Boulder. INTRODUCTION As educators, we are often
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