By Theresa Schenker, PhD, Language Program Director & Senior Lector II at Yale University. One of the primary goals of foreign language instruction apart from the acquisition of target language skills is the development of cultural awareness and
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By Amy Burden, MATL. Instructor in Modern Languages at Mississippi College Part of preparing any student for the mainstream classroom or English-medium college classroom is helping them decipher meaning from long academic texts. While there are various
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By Margot Riemer, Teacher of Spanish at Berlin Bilingual School (Berlin, Germany). Kaizena is add-on tool for Google Docs that allows teachers to give extensive and varied feedback to their students. For anyone who has previously commented on students’
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University. There are many reasons to use visuals in your classroom. They can help you stay in the target language. They can help you to create a context or a story for
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Emily Beeman, Spanish teacher at Pioneer Valley Regional School in Northfield, MA. [Note: This article was written in November 2017] I came to Gimnasio Los Caobos, a Project-Based Learning (PBL) school outside of Bogotá Colombia, at the end of September.
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Fabrizio Fornara, Ph.D. candidate in Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies; Italian and Spanish language instructor at the Florida State University; Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Every day, hundreds of thousands of users worldwide publish snapshots of their daily
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By Felix Kronenberg, Associate Professor at Rhodes College and President of IALLT (International Association for Language Learning Technology). In a multi-year project at Rhodes College, beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of German have created the virtual city of “Pfefferhausen.” Utilizing
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By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. The impending demise of the Flash player has been wreaking havoc with many apps that teachers use to create speaking assignments
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By Todd Bryant, Language Technology Specialist, Dickinson College. The Mixxer website (www.language-exchanges.org) is a social networking site designed to help language learners find a language partner. The idea is that each user can provide practice and feedback in
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Meloddye Carpio Rios is a Spanish Phd student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. VideoAnt is a free web-based tool created by the University of Minnesota that allows for the adding of annotations and observations to online
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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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