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By Heidi Trude, M.Ed, French Teacher at Skyline High School, Front Royal, VA and Certificate Student at the University of Colorado Boulder. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/ECKS3466 Imagine putting on a headset and being transported into another world. That’s what virtual reality does for
Read MoreBy Joan Palmiter Bajorek, Doctoral Candidate, University of Arizona, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CENW4479 Lightening fast, accuracy improving, and with sophisticated interfaces, the ability for instructors to get free and fantastic speech technology into the hands of
Read MoreBy Anna V. Torres Mallma, Spanish PhD student at University of Illinois at Chicago DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/WBJH9950 Recap is a free web-based tool that allows users to record and post videos for private and public interactive discussions. It is a product
Read MoreBy Lincoln Bain, MAT graduate student, Northern Arizona University. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/OTRM6072 Perusall is a free web-based reading tool designed by a small team of professors from Harvard and the University of Texas at Austin. Perusall allows users to create collaborative
Read MoreBy 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
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