November 2019 Archives - The FLTMAG

Reflections on the Hegelian Dialectic in Software Design

Sat, 02 Nov 2019 01:05:17 +0000

Mark A. Kaiser, Associate Director, Berkeley Language Center (CA) DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/POKZ2458 As the Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center, most of my time has been devoted to running the day-to-day operations of the BLC, working with faculty, designing new

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The Russian Voices Project: Native-Speaker Interviews in the Foreign Language Classroom

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:55:12 +0000

By Irina Kogel, Five College Lecturer in Russian at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Smith College. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/QZPM2342 With the advent of video and messaging platforms such as Skype, intercultural collaborations between partner institutions in

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Three Innovative Approaches to Integrating Emoji Into Your Language Lessons

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:53:34 +0000

Lillian Jones, Ph.D. student. University of California, Davis. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/AFPR4213 Technologies will never cease to influence communication. If we look around our campuses, classrooms, and coffee shops we are sure to observe a generation deeply absorbed in their

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Study Abroad Online Journaling: Assessing Beyond Proficiency

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:52:41 +0000

Anastasiya Smith-Lakhno, Instructor of Russian, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at UGA Tatiana Maslova, Lecturer of Russian, University of North Georgia. DOI:https://www.doi.org/10.69732/SPAF8608 The transformative power of a study abroad experience for students is a well-established fact. Research

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Interview with Dr. Aoki, Language Advocate

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:51:58 +0000

Michele Anciaux Aoki, Ph.D., P.M.P., International Education and World Languages Advocate DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/JVLD1490 Molly Godwin-Jones: You have quite an extensive history with language learning: International Education Administrator for Seattle Public Schools, Co-Director of the Confucius Institute of the State

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Interview with Gretchen Aiyangar on Staging a LCTL Escape Room

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:51:24 +0000

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/OHAJ9901 For this issue of the FLTMAG, Shannon Spasova interviewed the language program coordinator of the LCTL Center at the University of Pittsburgh, Gretchen Aiyangar, and the team that helped her to stage an escape room promoting less commonly-taught

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FluentKey: Making Listening Fun

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:50:54 +0000

Elizabeth Caspari, French Teacher, Clayton High School, MO DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/TSKP6405 Recently launched, FluentKey is designed to gamify the use of videos for comprehension. FluentKey is currently in beta testing, but open to all. Edpuzzle already allows teachers to design online

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Wakelet: Create and Share Multimedia Resources

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:50:31 +0000

By Marina Buratti, French and Italian Teacher, Sewickley Academy (PA) DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/GIRP2017 Wakelet is a free web-based tool that allows you to curate and share multimedia resources from around the web: webpages, videos, tweets, images, PDFs and a whole lot more. It seems

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Mission Possible: Organizing Your Book Collection With LibraryThing

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:49:59 +0000

By Lisa Katzenstein, Tutor Coordinator-Language Corner, Richland College, Dallas, TX. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CDOE7210 This is the story of a collection of 500+ books scattered around the language lab at Richland College in Dallas, Texas and how I organized the collection

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Teaching World Languages with Music

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:39:54 +0000

By Kristin M Marena, Spanish Teacher at Ringgold High School, PA. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/VXMY8446 “Music is life, that’s why our hearts have beats.” Cecily Morgan. This quote expresses how much music is part of the human race and beats

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