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By Carmen Granda, Amherst College. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/LYRW3751 Around the halfway point of the semester, the classroom dynamic often changes with the arrival of midterm season. Many students, and if we are being honest, teachers, fall victim to “the midterm slump.”
Read MoreBy Cheryl Gil, Spanish teacher at Lugoff-Elgin Middle School in South Carolina. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/LKDV9433 Padlet is a virtual wall that allows users to post words, pictures, attachments, and links onto a single post. If the link is shared, whether
Read MoreBy Theresa Schenker, PhD, Language Program Director & Senior Lector II at Yale University. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/NSEM6486 One of the primary goals of foreign language instruction apart from the acquisition of target language skills is the development of cultural awareness
Read MoreBy Amy Burden, MATL. Instructor in Modern Languages at Mississippi College DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YSPN4972 Part of preparing any student for the mainstream classroom or English-medium college classroom is helping them decipher meaning from long academic texts. While there are
Read MoreBy Margot Riemer, Teacher of Spanish at Berlin Bilingual School (Berlin, Germany). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/GMSD7016 Kaizena is add-on tool for Google Docs that allows teachers to give extensive and varied feedback to their students. For anyone who has previously commented on
Read Moreby Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YUIN1226 There are many reasons to use visuals in your classroom. They can help you stay in the target language. They can help you to create a context or a story
Read MoreEmily Beeman, Spanish teacher at Pioneer Valley Regional School in Northfield, MA. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/LQFV7837 [Note: This article was written in November 2017] I came to Gimnasio Los Caobos, a Project-Based Learning (PBL) school outside of Bogotá Colombia, at the end
Read MoreFabrizio Fornara, Ph.D. candidate in Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies; Italian and Spanish language instructor at the Florida State University; Center for the Advancement of Teaching. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/EWTH7908 Every day, hundreds of thousands of users worldwide publish snapshots of their
Read MoreBy Felix Kronenberg, Associate Professor at Rhodes College and President of IALLT (International Association for Language Learning Technology). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/JDAM8568 In a multi-year project at Rhodes College, beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of German have created the virtual city of “Pfefferhausen.”
Read MoreBy Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/LPBD2927 The impending demise of the Flash player has been wreaking havoc with many apps that teachers use to create speaking
Read MoreBy Todd Bryant, Language Technology Specialist, Dickinson College. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/OOZK9146 The Mixxer website (www.language-exchanges.org) is a social networking site designed to help language learners find a language partner. The idea is that each user can provide practice and feedback
Read MoreMeloddye Carpio Rios is a Spanish Phd student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/ALXV8813 VideoAnt is a free web-based tool created by the University of Minnesota that allows for the adding of annotations and observations to
Read MoreBy Lisa Frumkes, PhD, Senior Director for Content Development at Rosetta Stone. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/ENBW8374 You may think you know what Rosetta Stone is all about: what products we provide and how we teach. You may be so sure that you
Read MoreAngelika Kraemer, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, East Lansing, MI. Luca Giupponi, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, East Lansing, MI. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YBKW1108 One of the perennial problems plaguing language departments in higher education has to do with student recruitment, enrollment, and
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