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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Adrienne: What is your role with LinguaFolio? Stephanie: I have a few roles! At the Center for Applied Second Language Studies, I serve as pedagogy team lead for LinguaFolio Online, the digital version of the language learning portfolio. I also
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By Angelika Kraemer Executive Associate Director and CLS Director, Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA), Michigan State University. The biennial International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) conference (IALLT 2017) took place June 20-23, 2017 at Concordia College in Moorhead,
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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 Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. H5P is a free application by Joubel that allows you to create a variety of interactive and mobile-friendly activities that
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By Heidi Trude, M.Ed, French Teacher at Skyline High School, Front Royal, VA and Certificate Student at the University of Colorado Boulder. Adobe Spark is a free web-based tool that allows for the creation of graphics, stories, and videos
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Interview by Naomi Wahls, eLearning Designer and Consultant at the Anderson Language & Technology Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. Robert O’Dowd is an Associate Professor at the Universidad de León, Spain. He is an expert in Virtual
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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 Margot Riemer, Former Upper School World Languages Department Chair, Harvard-Westlake School, California. Recently, while doing some research about new tools for a graduate course in technology integration in the language classroom, I came across an intriguing and useful tool
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