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By Jody Converse, ASL Educator at Brainerd High School in Brainerd, Minnesota About SignAll Lab SignAll Lab is an interactive workstation for learning and practicing American Sign Language (ASL). It supplements our classes, giving students countless hours of independent study
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By Erin Frazier, Euan Bonner, Ryan Lege, Kanda University of International Studies Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous and intertwined with everyday life, especially with the proliferation of Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) such as Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google
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By Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Introduction With the abrupt shift to online learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, hyperdocs such as Google Docs have garnered a lot of attention due to their ubiquity, ease of
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By Budimka Uskokovic, PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures StoryJumper is a web-based tool that allows students to design their own stories, to collaborate with other students, and to become published
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November 2022 Special Issue We are excited to announce that the November 2022 issue of The FLTMAG will be a special issue dedicated to Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR and VR) for Language Learning. We are looking for Tech
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By José Vergara, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Swarthmore College Introduction When my students and I first began studying Chernobyl in late January, we had little idea that the entire globe would soon be swept up by a similar “invisible
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Presenters: Kevin Gaugler, Marist College Florencia Henshaw, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Noah McLaughlin, Kennesaw State University IALLT webinars are open to all, webinar recordings are a member benefit. The IALLT Board has made webinar recordings related to COVID-19 open
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By Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University, and Betsy Lavolette, Kyoto Sangyo University While Zoom and other video conferencing tools have worked well for pair and small group work, language teachers have struggled to find a tool that could simulate
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As a service to the language learning and teaching community during COVID-19, the IALLT Board has made this webinar open to all. IALLT webinars, which happen about once a month, are open to all, and webinar archives are a member
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By Magara Maeda, University of Wisconsin River Falls and Lauren Rosen, University of Wisconsin Collaborative Language Program One of the most common questions we hear from instructors who are first moving to an online teaching environment is, “How
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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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