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By Cécile Rebolledo, PhD Candidate and GPTI in the French & Italian Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/OXIV1882 ThingLink is a web-based tool that allows users to make any image or video clip interactive. In other words, items within
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By 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/HMSP8207 Explain Everything is a whiteboard/screencasting app for iPad, iPhone, Windows tablets and desktop (not for Windows phone yet), Chrome
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Interview with Lisa Frumkes, Senior Director of Language Learning Products at Rosetta Stone. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/DIUP7426 Edwige: Lisa, you’re the Senior Director of Language Learning Products at Rosetta Stone. You started in academia, but several years ago, you made the switch to
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By Edwige Simon, Foreign Language Technology Coordinator at the Anderson Language & Technology Center, the University of Colorado Boulder. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/UPCW6371 The International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) and the Japan Association for Language Education & Technology
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By Senta Goertler, PhD, Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and German, Michigan State University. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/KXKD8149 INTRODUCTION “When I lived abroad, I couldn’t even call my parents let alone Skype or FaceTime with them. I had to send
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Interview with Toni Theisen, former French teacher at Loveland High school (Colorado), past ACTFL President, 2009 ACTFL TOY and current Director of the Thompson School District Dual Language Immersion program in Loveland, CO. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/QNKM1631 EDWIGE: You were the 2009
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Chesla Ann Bohinski, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Binghamton University, NY, USA. Salvador Venegas Escobar, M.A, Associate Profesor, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/PLSY2122 Thanks to the advances of technology, teachers of all disciplines have the ability to utilize a
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By Sabine Levet, Senior Lecturer in French, Global Studies and Languages, MIT DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/PJXV2993 One of the increasingly central tasks of language instructors is to prepare their students to work and interact with people from different cultures. Teaching culture
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By Dr. Carolin Fuchs, Teachers College, Columbia University. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/YZFB7414 This contribution describes the potential of two tools, namely needs analysis questionnaires and telecollaboration log entries, for helping participants reflect actively on past and current telecollaborative practices. WHAT
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By Stefano Maranzana, Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Graduate Associate in Teaching Italian at the University of Arizona. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/YINC9900 According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, an earworm is “a song or melody that keeps
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By Edwige Simon, Foreign Language Technology Coordinator at the Anderson Language & Technology Center, the University of Colorado Boulder. The 2015 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) conference was hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder May 26-30. This
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By Patricia Mosele, PhD, Lecturer of French at the University of Colorado Boulder. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/HTUM6151 INTRODUCTION Many language teachers recognize that beginning classroom learners struggle significantly when asked to apply strategies for interacting successfully with peers to actual
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By Jean M. Janecki, PhD; Language Resource Center Director, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.69732/FWHD6706 VIDEO CONFERENCING IN THE WORLD LANGUAGE CLASSROOM In the foreign language field, instructors and technologists have new tools and programs with wonderful potential to
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Marie Schein, PhD, SOCALLT President and French Instructor at Texas Christian University. Nancy Guilloteau, PhD, SOCALLT President Elect and Language Program Director of Lower Division French at the University of Texas. Georges Detiveaux, Immediate Past President of SOCALLT and Assistant Director, Center
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