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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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By Matthew Ling and Eduardo Lage-Otero, Yale-NUS College 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 Singapore which
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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School 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 peers instantly.
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By Maureen Lamb, M.Ed., Kingswood Oxford School In spring 2020, on a tight budget, I had to figure out a way to replicate the many activities I did with students in my Latin classes using individual mini whiteboards in class,
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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School Introduction Lingt is a website and a tool for language teachers to create various assignments about any topic for all levels of learners. It was originally founded by two college students in Boston
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By Amelia Ijiri, Kyoto Institute of Technology Introduction Virtual reality (VR) offers many attractive affordances for language learners. Virtual reality environments can simulate 360 degree views of target language environments, thus giving rise to a feeling of “being there”. Creating
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In this interview, Jeff Samuels talks to Shirley Hall (Latin teacher at Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia), Susan Berry (ESOL teacher at Center for English Language Orientation Program at Boston University), and Luis Deocares (Spanish teacher at
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By Michael Dettinger, Nicolette Lopez, and José F. Rojas, Louisiana State University Introduction As universities returned to the 2020/2021 academic year, many were challenged with how to best prepare for course delivery. Some returned to
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By Melissa Fiori, Associate Professor, Daemen College Overview As language instructors we have many standards to juggle. How do we motivate students to learn a second language in a way that addresses the three modes of communication, simultaneously developing the
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By Megan Jeffrey, National Foreign Language Center With the market already heavily saturated with language learning apps, why create another? This was the first question that the National Foreign Language Center asked when developing Lectica, a new free language app
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By Müge Satar, Paul Seedhouse, Ahmed Kharrufa, Colin Bone Dodds, Sara Ganassin, Alison Whelan, Newcastle University, UK Introduction Many people are motivated to learn foreign languages by their interest in foreign cultures and ways of life, and Newcastle University has
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