By Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Professor of German, University of North Texas Introduction The shift to emergency remote instruction halfway through the spring 2020 semester forced all of us to pivot our instructional approaches without a lot of training. In order
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In this video, Dr. Jeffrey Samuels interviews Dr. Kathryn Murphy-Judy from Virginia Commonwealth University with a focus on teaching languages online. Resources recommended by Dr. Murphy-Judy: Upcoming free resources from Russell, V. and Murphy-Judy, K. (2020). Teaching language online: A
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By Florencia Henshaw, Ph.D., Director of Advanced Spanish, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Nothing sparks more debate among language educators than the mere mention of Google Translate, other than perhaps the role of explicit grammar instruction. We might not be on
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By Ekaterina Shutenko, Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Russian, Lehigh University The Miro team claims their product to be a visual collaboration platform: not just another online whiteboard, but rather an interactive tool that allows you to create, collaborate, share, and
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By Christian T. Hilchey, University of Texas It already seems like an eternity ago that academic institutions were confronted with the reality of COVID-19 and the transition to remote instruction. Many of us rightly felt overwhelmed by the new teaching
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By Becky Cottrell, Ph.D Senior Lecturer of Spanish, Metropolitan State University of Denver Have you ever wanted to take your class on a field trip to the Prado museum in Spain, or the Louvre in Paris? How about going on
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By Caitlin Cornell, Assistant Director, the Center for Language Teaching Advancement & Ph.D. student in Second Language Studies at Michigan State University In response to the uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, many institutions of higher education are contemplating going
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By Sarab Al Ani, Yale University Academic institutions and educators all over the world found themselves faced with the very urgent, very real, and very imminent need to move all education online due to the global spread of COVID-19. They
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By Andrew Ross (IALLT President), Angelika Kraemer (IALLT President-Elect), Felix Kronenberg (IALLT Past President), Stacey Powell (IALLT Treasurer), Betsy Lavolette (IALLT Programs Director), Shannon Donnally Spasova (IALLT Secretary) The International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) is an organization that
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By Nathalie Ettzevoglou, Alpharetta High School Note: There is a list with links to all of Nathalie’s “superhero sidekicks” (tech tools) at the end of her article! May 15, 2020 Dear Diary, It has been a while since I have
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By Melanie Forehand, PhD, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Center for Second Language Studies Program Assistant Postdoctoral Mellon Fellow for the Digital Humanities,Vanderbilt University When universities and colleges across the country made the abrupt shift to remote teaching this year,
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By Jeffrey D. Samuels, PhD, World Languages 360 As the co-founder and leader of a nonprofit organization that consults with and supports educators, I have redirected our organization’s mission to support colleagues who are transitioning courses into an online modality.
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By José Manuel Suárez, Teacher of French at IES Mata Jove High School (Gijón, Spain) Storyboard That is a web-based tool that allows students (and teachers as well!) to create digital storyboards. Its users are able to develop their creativity
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By Akash Patel, Founder, Happy World Foundation, Inc. In Fall 2009, my twin brother and I came to the United States to pursue engineering degrees at Iowa State University. We quit our pursuit of a fully-funded STEM degree against our
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