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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Maria Alley, Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Molly Peeney, Lecturer in Foreign Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Authenticity of language, language tasks, and assessment have been key principles of language teaching and learning in
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by Beth O’Connor, Spanish Teacher, Essex High School and Vermont Virtual Learning Cooperative ABOUT SCAVENGER HUNTS When I was young, the party games that were the most fun were the scavenger hunts. We were given a list of things
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By Peggy Veal, French Teacher & World Language Department Chair, STEM School and Academy, Highlands Ranch, CO. In 2017, STEM School Highlands Ranch introduced The SYNK into its building. Lead by Dr. Cannady, the SYNK offers an interactive whiteboard, connected to
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Andie Faber, lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University, NJ Anais Holgado-Lage, lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University, NJ Adriana Merino, lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University, NJ Jovana Zujevic, lecturer, Department of Spanish and
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By Edwige Simon, Faculty Director of the Graduate Certificate in Language Teaching with Technology, the University of Colorado Boulder. WHAT IS BLENDED LEARNING? The term blended learning can be used to define a wide range of instructional models. In this
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