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 Kevin Anzzolin, Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Stout. Part tent revival, part self-help group, part professional networking event, on October 6 and 7, over 200 academics from a bevy of different higher education institutions descended onto the campus of Hope
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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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