By Heidi Trude, M.Ed, French Teacher at Skyline High School, Front Royal, VA and Certificate Student at the University of Colorado Boulder. Imagine putting on a headset and being transported into another world. That’s what virtual reality does for
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By Joan Palmiter Bajorek, Doctoral Candidate, University of Arizona, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program. Lightening fast, accuracy improving, and with sophisticated interfaces, the ability for instructors to get free and fantastic speech technology into the hands of language
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By Anna V. Torres Mallma, Spanish PhD student at University of Illinois at Chicago Recap is a free web-based tool that allows users to record and post videos for private and public interactive discussions. It is a product from
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By Lincoln Bain, MAT graduate student, Northern Arizona University. Perusall is a free web-based reading tool designed by a small team of professors from Harvard and the University of Texas at Austin. Perusall allows users to create collaborative reading
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By Carmen Granda, Amherst College. Around the halfway point of the semester, the classroom dynamic often changes with the arrival of midterm season. Many students, and if we are being honest, teachers, fall victim to “the midterm slump.” Students
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By Cheryl Gil, Spanish teacher at Lugoff-Elgin Middle School in South Carolina. Padlet is a virtual wall that allows users to post words, pictures, attachments, and links onto a single post. If the link is shared, whether through
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By Theresa Schenker, PhD, Language Program Director & Senior Lector II at Yale University. One of the primary goals of foreign language instruction apart from the acquisition of target language skills is the development of cultural awareness and
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By Amy Burden, MATL. Instructor in Modern Languages at Mississippi College Part of preparing any student for the mainstream classroom or English-medium college classroom is helping them decipher meaning from long academic texts. While there are various
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By Margot Riemer, Teacher of Spanish at Berlin Bilingual School (Berlin, Germany). Kaizena is add-on tool for Google Docs that allows teachers to give extensive and varied feedback to their students. For anyone who has previously commented on students’
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University. There are many reasons to use visuals in your classroom. They can help you stay in the target language. They can help you to create a context or a story for
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