By Irina Kogel, Five College Lecturer in Russian at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Smith College. Extempore is a web-based platform designed to let language teachers assign and grade oral assessments. The app allows
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Margherita Berti, PhD Candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. Molly Godwin-Jones: Please tell us a little about yourself. Margherita Berti: I am a PhD Candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
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Kévin Le Blévec, Modern Languages Technology Specialist, Rochester Institute of Technology (NY) Preliminary Observations While I started in my current position as the Technology Specialist in charge of the Modern Languages Technology Center at the Rochester Institute of Technology, it
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Mark A. Kaiser, Associate Director, Berkeley Language Center (CA) As the Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center, most of my time has been devoted to running the day-to-day operations of the BLC, working with faculty, designing new spaces,
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By Irina Kogel, Five College Lecturer in Russian at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Smith College. With the advent of video and messaging platforms such as Skype, intercultural collaborations between partner institutions in different
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Lillian Jones, Ph.D. student. University of California, Davis. Technologies will never cease to influence communication. If we look around our campuses, classrooms, and coffee shops we are sure to observe a generation deeply absorbed in their pocket
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Anastasiya Smith-Lakhno, Instructor of Russian, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at UGA Tatiana Maslova, Lecturer of Russian, University of North Georgia. The transformative power of a study abroad experience for students is a well-established fact. Research demonstrates that
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Michele Anciaux Aoki, Ph.D., P.M.P., International Education and World Languages Advocate Molly Godwin-Jones: You have quite an extensive history with language learning: International Education Administrator for Seattle Public Schools, Co-Director of the Confucius Institute of the State of
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For this issue of the FLTMAG, Shannon Spasova interviewed the language program coordinator of the LCTL Center at the University of Pittsburgh, Gretchen Aiyangar, and the team that helped her to stage an escape room promoting less commonly-taught languages. Shannon:
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Elizabeth Caspari, French Teacher, Clayton High School, MO Recently launched, FluentKey is designed to gamify the use of videos for comprehension. FluentKey is currently in beta testing, but open to all. Edpuzzle already allows teachers to design online quizzes
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By Marina Buratti, French and Italian Teacher, Sewickley Academy (PA) Wakelet is a free web-based tool that allows you to curate and share multimedia resources from around the web: webpages, videos, tweets, images, PDFs and a whole lot more. It seems similar to
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By Lisa Katzenstein, Tutor Coordinator-Language Corner, Richland College, Dallas, TX. This is the story of a collection of 500+ books scattered around the language lab at Richland College in Dallas, Texas and how I organized the collection using
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By Kristin M Marena, Spanish Teacher at Ringgold High School, PA. “Music is life, that’s why our hearts have beats.” Cecily Morgan. This quote expresses how much music is part of the human race and beats within
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University The International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) conference (IALLT 2019) took place June 19-22, 2019 at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. The theme was “crafting communities of learners”
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