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By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/XWCA9270 Many of us have played games of “Guess Who?” in our language classes to practice descriptions of people by having students guess which cartoon character their partner has chosen. With Desmos,
Read MoreBy Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/ZWIF7368 Introduction Blooket is a fairly new website in the world of online quiz options for educators. As an online gamification tool, it now has twelve different game styles to engage students,
Read MoreBy Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/WNUK5557 Introduction ChatterPix is a simple and fun app to use: simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth on the photo, then record your voice and share your
Read MoreBy Anna Carson, Director, Foreign Language Division, International Center for Language Studies, Washington, D.C. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/HPWN7677 Name of Tool Readlang.com Teacher Support https://readlang.com/teachers Access Web-based, or via iOS or Android Pricing Free version (unlimited single words translations)
Read MoreBy Edwige Simon, Online Learning and Instructional Technology Director at the International Center for Language Studies (Washington DC). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/KUXJ1810 The 2022 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) conference took place at the Renaissance Hotel in Seattle
Read MoreBy Sun Young Park and Kara Mac Donald, Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/UGFH9301 The pandemic has wrought unprecedented disruptions and challenges to education, affecting students and teachers across the globe. Teachers were forced to transition rapidly from
Read MoreBy Helen Stapleton, Sewanee: University of the South DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/RYTD7746 No matter which language we are learning, we are all on the same journey towards proficiency and familiarity with the culture. At Sewanee, a small liberal arts college of roughly
Read MoreBy Giovanni Zimotti and Alexis Jiménez, University of Iowa DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/RMVH1759 Real life experience is considered by many the best way to learn and put in practice theoretical knowledge. Sometimes, due to a lack of opportunities, students experience the transition
Read MoreBy Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/PJSZ1996 Introduction Canva is a graphic design platform for users to create presentations, posters, infographics, social media posts, logos, certificates, videos, and other visual content that includes thousands of templates to use.
Read MoreBy Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/DDGH4005 If there is one thing that educational technologists know, it is that no technology lasts forever. Some of the closets of our language centers are museums for technologies that have fallen
Read MoreBy Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CYYC5955 Introduction Gimkit is a website and a digital game-based platform for both students and teachers. Gimkit was created by a public high school student in his junior year as a school
Read MoreBy Kelsey White, UC Santa Barbara, Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University, Bhavya Singh, California Language Teachers’ Association, CA, Teacher Training Institute, New York University, Gisele El Khoury, St. Lawrence University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/FGZY8990 Introduction Giving feedback on oral speaking
Read MoreBy Matthew Ling and Eduardo Lage-Otero, Yale-NUS College DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/NJPQ7999 For the past two years and thanks to a Teaching Enhancement Grant from the National University of Singapore, language students at Yale-NUS College (a liberal arts college in
Read MoreBy Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/DCKB3603 Introduction Classkick is a tool that teachers can use to replace paper assignments. Students can work on these assignments with their laptops, Chromebooks, or iPads, while getting help from teachers and
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