November 2017 Archives - The FLTMAG

You Think You Know Rosetta Stone? You Don’t.

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:03:58 +0000

By Lisa Frumkes, PhD, Senior Director for Content Development at Rosetta Stone. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/ENBW8374 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

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Impacting the Language Learning Narrative

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:50:42 +0000

Angelika Kraemer, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, East Lansing, MI. Luca Giupponi, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, East Lansing, MI. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YBKW1108 One of the perennial problems plaguing language departments in higher education has to do with student recruitment, enrollment, and

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Pronunciation Technology: Global Community and Innovative Tools in Forvo and NetProF Pronunciation Feedback

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:50:10 +0000

Joan Palmiter Bajorek, Doctoral Student at the University of Arizona, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/LLVU8732 “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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Hope for Language Learning in Times of Technological Innovation and Budgetary Crises

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:49:13 +0000

By Kevin Anzzolin, Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Stout. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/TDTF7847 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

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Bringing in Real Life from the Start: Scenarios in Beginning Russian

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:48:10 +0000

By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YDWC2358 One of the complaints that people tend to have about elementary language textbooks is their separation from real life.

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VoiceThread Sequencing: an SLA-informed Approach

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:47:00 +0000

By Dr. Dan Nickolai, Director of the Language Resource Center, Assistant Professor of French, Saint Louis University. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/NJEA1426 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

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