By Todd Bryant, Language Technology Specialist, Dickinson College. The Mixxer website (www.language-exchanges.org) is a social networking site designed to help language learners find a language partner. The idea is that each user can provide practice and feedback in
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By Lisa Frumkes, PhD, Senior Director for Content Development at Rosetta Stone. You may think you know what Rosetta Stone is all about: what products we provide and how we teach. You may be so sure that you know
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Angelika Kraemer, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, East Lansing, MI. Luca Giupponi, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, East Lansing, MI. One of the perennial problems plaguing language departments in higher education has to do with student recruitment, enrollment, and retention. Nationally,
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Joan Palmiter Bajorek, Doctoral Student at the University of Arizona, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program. “I want to be fluent.” “I want to practice speaking.” “How do you say that?” “My pronunciation is terrible.” My students
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By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. One of the complaints that people tend to have about elementary language textbooks is their separation from real life. Dialogues
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By Dr. Dan Nickolai, Director of the Language Resource Center, Assistant Professor of French, Saint Louis University. Introduction & Background VoiceThread is well-known to tech-savvy educators as being a reliable and intuitive platform for creating multimedia-rich learning activities. Its core functionality enables
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By Leigh Sapp, Spanish teacher at Prospect High School, IL. In the Fall of 2015, Christie Sylvester, Head Librarian at Prospect High School (IL), approached me about my level of interest in inviting our upper level Spanish language students
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By Katie Mitchell, Instructor at University of Colorado Boulder’s International English Center. Although not all of our students have the digital literacy to be part of what Angwin (2009) called the “remix generation,” I have certainly witnessed students’ creativity and
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By Cathrine-Mette (Trine) Mork, Assistant Professor, Miyazaki International College, Japan. Like extensive reading, extensive writing in foreign language learning steers student focus toward fluency and a higher quantity of text. This is opposed to intensive reading or writing, in
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By Trent Hoy, Adjunct Professor of French at Broward College, FL. “What’s that?” I asked, gesturing at the half-packed box sitting on my parents’ kitchen table. I was visiting for Christmas and any present-shaped object immediately piqued my curiosity and warranted
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