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Among Us
Articles March 2021 

Among Us: Bringing Fun Back to the Digital Language Classroom

January 25, 2021 341 Views 2 Comments game

By Erin Frazier, Kanda University of International Studies Introduction The digital shift to online teaching has sometimes meant leaving some of our more interactive and engaging activities to the wayside as we adjust to the new format. This is especially

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Picture 1 - Top Left: ONE WORLD. Global climate change protest demonstration strike. Image from Markus Spiske. Bottom Left: BLM protest in Chicago, IL. Image from Max Bender. Middle: The 2020 Presidential Debate. Image from Clay Banks. Right: Coronavirus. Image by Engin Akyurt.
Articles March 2021 

‘Democracy NOW!’: Spanish Language News Podcasts to Bring the Here and Now into the Classroom

January 13, 2021 87 Views 0 Comments news, podcasts

By Kaitlin E. Thomas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Spanish, Norwich University With national protests and unrest occurring simultaneous to the outbreak of the global pandemic COVID-19, 2020 was an exercise in maintaining pre-pandemic curricular momentum while adequately and appropriately addressing

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IALLT
Announcements Conferences 

IALLT 2021 Call for Proposals

December 18, 2020January 27, 2021 113 Views 0 Comments CFP, IALLT

Virtual Conference June 16-18, 2021 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 22, 2021. – EXTENDED to February 5, 2021. The International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for the 2021 Virtual IALLT Conference. IALLT

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US capitol building
Interviews March 2021 

Interview with Betty Rose Facer about Language Advocacy

November 23, 2020 336 Views 3 Comments advocacy

In this issue of the FLTMAG, Shannon interviewed Betty Rose Facer. She is Master Lecturer in French and Director of the Language Learning Center in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Old Dominion University. She has been participating

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Kevin cooking workshop announcement
Articles November 2020 

Reimagining Extracurricular Activities during a Pandemic

November 2, 2020 534 Views 2 Comments extracurricular

By Carmen Granda, Amherst College The pandemic has created many challenges in and outside of our classrooms. Although much professional development for instructors in the last months has been focused on how to design engaging virtual classes for our students

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Picture 3: Example of a synchronous activity using Zoom Annotate and a word grid app.
November 2020 Technology 

LearningApps.org – A Tool to Engage

November 2, 2020 237 Views 5 Comments

By Anna Dyer, Lecturer, University of Iowa Meet LearningApps.Org  LearningApps.org is a free online platform that allows educators to create a wide variety of online learning activities: matching, fill-in-the-blanks, word grids (word search) and crosswords, maps, voting, ordering, to name

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Counter-narratives as Resistance: Social Justice in the WL Classroom
IALLT webinars November 2020 

October 2020 IALLT Webinar: Counter-narratives as Resistance: Social Justice in the World Language Classroom

October 30, 2020 145 Views 0 Comments social justice

    Presenters: Stephanie Madison, Ph.D., Clemson University and L. J. Randolph Jr., Ed.D., University of North Carolina Wilmington Presentation slides Presentation handout Chat transcript This webinar also kicked off a reading group on a similar topic, which anyone is

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Students use the chat feature to practice their Russian during a virtual movie screening
Articles November 2020 

Embrace the Engagement Experiment: Keys to Co-curricular Success During the Pandemic

October 27, 2020 286 Views 0 Comments co-curricular, extra-curricular

By Laura Marshall, Assistant Director, Russian Flagship Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison Despite the many challenges that 2020 has presented, there are some silver linings for language learners and educators. This may seem counterintuitive to anyone who has pondered see-through masks

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Picture 2 - Zoom is a great communication tool to use for both teachers and students. It gives us a place in which we all are able to exchange our ideas, opinions, and thoughts. More importantly, it makes us smile!
Interviews November 2020 

Interview with Kinji Ito: Motivating Students During a Pandemic

October 27, 2020 307 Views 1 Comment

Interview with Kinji Ito, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Appalachian State University In this issue, we talk with Kinji Ito, Assistant Professor of Japanese, about how he motivates his students in the online environment using Zoom and VoiceThread, and what he

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Articles November 2020 

Physical Distance, Digital Connection: Building Bridges in Community-based Language Programs

October 27, 2020January 14, 2021 410 Views 0 Comments

By Sandhya Shanker, Director, Community Language School, Michigan State University, and Elizabeth Ablan, Graduate Assistant, Community Language School, Michigan State University   Whirlwind. Curveball. Whiplash. Unexpected. Unprecedented. These were just a few of the words swirling around as we transitioned

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IALLT webinars November 2020 

Asynchronous Webinar: Navigating the Labyrinth of Copyright in Language Teaching Materials

October 22, 2020 116 Views 0 Comments copyright

We invite you to try out a new format and engage with our “asynchronous webinar”. This webinar, created by Shannon Donnally Spasova and Julie Evershed, introduces you to some of the essential information that you need about copyright and language

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November 2020 Reviews 

Book Review: Mobile Lenses on Learning: Language and Literacies on the Move, by Mark Pegrum

October 19, 2020 282 Views 0 Comments MALL, mobile

By Andrew Walton, University of Texas at San Antonio In today’s world, educational practices look vastly different than they did years ago due to the exponential growth of technology. This rapid increase has made educational content more easily accessible and

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Catherine Ousselin and Jeffrey Samuels
Interviews November 2020 

IALLT Interview Project Episode 2: Interview with Catherine Ousselin

October 15, 2020 159 Views 0 Comments

In this video, Dr. Jeffrey Samuels interviews Catherine Ousselin, who specializes in teaching languages with technology. They discuss her origins as a geeky teacher, her website, the World Language Laboratory, her professional experience, and her advice for others about getting

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Picture 1 - Film festival flyer
Articles November 2020 

Hazlo-tú-mismx / Do-It Yourself: Collaborative Cellphone Filmmaking in Undergraduate Spanish Courses

October 7, 2020 130 Views 0 Comments cinema, film

By Jonathan Risner, Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington For some six years, I have regularly taught a 300-level film analysis course in Spanish at Indiana University Bloomington. I structure the course in a way that the first half of the

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