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In this interview, Jeff Samuels speaks with Helaine Marshall, a professor at Long Island University and Marie Mangold, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, about their experiences in IALLT’s mentoring program. “The Scenic Route” provides a pairing of
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By Edwige Simon, PhD, Online Learning and Instructional Technology Director at the International Center for Language Studies, Washington DC. In our increasingly globalized, yet deeply fractured world, the need to communicate effectively across cultures and specific contexts has
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By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University 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, an application
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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School 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, allowing for
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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School 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 video with
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By Anna Carson, Director, Foreign Language Division, International Center for Language Studies, Washington, D.C. 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) Premium
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By Edwige Simon, Online Learning and Instructional Technology Director at the International Center for Language Studies (Washington DC). The 2022 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) conference took place at the Renaissance Hotel in Seattle (WA). It
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By Sun Young Park and Kara Mac Donald, Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center The pandemic has wrought unprecedented disruptions and challenges to education, affecting students and teachers across the globe. Teachers were forced to transition rapidly from face-to-face (F2F)
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By Helen Stapleton, Sewanee: University of the South 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 1750 students
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By Giovanni Zimotti and Alexis Jiménez, University of Iowa 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 from theoretical
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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School 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. It is
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By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University 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 by the
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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School 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 project, and
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By 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 Introduction Giving feedback on oral speaking tasks online
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