By Senta Goertler, PhD, Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and German, Michigan State University. INTRODUCTION “When I lived abroad, I couldn’t even call my parents let alone Skype or FaceTime with them. I had to send them
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Interview with Toni Theisen, former French teacher at Loveland High school (Colorado), past ACTFL President, 2009 ACTFL TOY and current Director of the Thompson School District Dual Language Immersion program in Loveland, CO. EDWIGE: You were the 2009 National Foreign
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Chesla Ann Bohinski, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Binghamton University, NY, USA. Salvador Venegas Escobar, M.A, Associate Profesor, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico. Thanks to the advances of technology, teachers of all disciplines have the ability to utilize a vast array
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By Sabine Levet, Senior Lecturer in French, Global Studies and Languages, MIT One of the increasingly central tasks of language instructors is to prepare their students to work and interact with people from different cultures. Teaching culture is
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By Dr. Carolin Fuchs, Teachers College, Columbia University. This contribution describes the potential of two tools, namely needs analysis questionnaires and telecollaboration log entries, for helping participants reflect actively on past and current telecollaborative practices. WHAT IS
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By Stefano Maranzana, Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Graduate Associate in Teaching Italian at the University of Arizona. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, an earworm is “a song or melody that keeps repeating
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By Edwige Simon, Foreign Language Technology Coordinator at the Anderson Language & Technology Center, the University of Colorado Boulder. The 2015 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) conference was hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder May 26-30. This
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By Patricia Mosele, PhD, Lecturer of French at the University of Colorado Boulder. INTRODUCTION Many language teachers recognize that beginning classroom learners struggle significantly when asked to apply strategies for interacting successfully with peers to actual authentic speaking
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By Jean M. Janecki, PhD; Language Resource Center Director, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. VIDEO CONFERENCING IN THE WORLD LANGUAGE CLASSROOM In the foreign language field, instructors and technologists have new tools and programs with wonderful potential to teach, advance,
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Marie Schein, PhD, SOCALLT President and French Instructor at Texas Christian University. Nancy Guilloteau, PhD, SOCALLT President Elect and Language Program Director of Lower Division French at the University of Texas. Georges Detiveaux, Immediate Past President of SOCALLT and Assistant Director, Center
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Thomas Hammond, Director of the Language Center at Harvard University. Thom, can you introduce yourself? I direct the Language Center at Harvard University. I came to Harvard from Japan in 1996 to start doctoral work in language acquisition.
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Betsy Lavolette, PhD, Director, Language Resource Center, Gettysburg College. Angelika Kraemer, PhD, Executive Associate Director, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, MSU. Daniel Trego, MA, Foreign Language Technology Specialist, Dept of Romance and Classical Studies, MSU. Welcome to our third Tech
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By Adrienne Gonzales, PhD, Foreign Language Pedagogy & Technology Specialist at University of Denver, CO. Language Learning with Technology: Ideas for integrating technology in the classroom by Graham Stanley is a handbook for new and experienced teachers who
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By Dr. Thomas Plagwitz, Charlotte, NC. LOOK AGAIN Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), “to convert speech into a sequence of words by a computer program” (Huang 2010, 339), is back in the limelight [1], thanks to Siri &
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