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Bonjour! Buenos Dias! Guten Tag! Ni Hao! Marhaba! MERLOT welcomes all language educators and students of World Languages to access the many OER available in the ever-expanding World Languages Collection. This pioneer community contains thousands of OER, many of them peer-reviewed by distinguished scholars in the field. Please peruse our collection and correspond with us if you are interested in knowing more about the World Languages community peer review process. Contact Laura Franklin (lfranklin@nvcc.edu) for more information.
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World Language Assessment: Get in the Mode! supports and empowers world language educators to improve student proficiency through a variety of assessment strategies. Focusing on the three modes of communication (interpretive, presentational, and interpersonal), this resource provides a framework of formative, interim, and summative assessments for use at any grade level.
New Materials
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CVC. Antologias de textos de didactica del espanol
Este proyecto ofrece una recopilación de textos (artículos y fragmentos de libros y manuales para la formación de...
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GermanZone.org: An Online Workbook for German Learners
For both teachers and independent learners, GermanZone.org is a collection of interactive web-based activities for...
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Language Mentor
Language Mentor is a) a mobile app, and b) a free and open platform for publishing language lessons. The Humanities app...
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Research Organization Registry
The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique...
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The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya
Although this book was written for a specialist audience of advanced scholars and doctoral students, the authors...
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Tajik Persian: Readings in History, Culture and Society
Tajik Persian: Readings in History, Culture and Society seeks to help students develop reading proficiency in Tajik at...
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Academic ESL Grammar Books - ESL Grammar The Way You Like It, Levels 1-5
At this site you can download five different books that help teach ESL classes. Each book is a different level and each...
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Lake Tahoe Community College - World Languages Department - Spanish 102
This webpage offers reference material such as vocabulary list, and examples of project in spanish to help students...
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Lake Tahoe Community College - World Languages Department - Spanish 101
Lake Tahoe Community College developed a collection of videos to aid students learning Spanish.
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CLICABRASIL!
The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They are designed for intermediate...
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Résumer, Synthétiser, Argumenter
Le manuel Résumer, synthétiser, argumenter s’adresse aux étudiants de français langue seconde de niveau avancé (3e ou 4e...
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O. Mango - ARAB 381: Cultures and Writings of Arab-American Women Faculty e-Portfolio for California State University, San Bernardino
Several open textbooks are being utilized in an Arabic course for undergraduate students majoring or minoring in Arabic...
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Spanish Heritage Language Professional Development Videos from COERLL
These videos from COERLL's annual Heritage Spanish workshop address different topics in heritage teaching such as:...
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A grammar of Komnzo
Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to...
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A grammar of Moloko
This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Moloko, a Chadic language spoken by about 10,000...
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A grammar of Pite Saami
Pite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few...
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A grammar of Yauyos Quechua
This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language...
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A grammar of Yakkha
This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti...
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A grammar of Papuan Malay
This book presents an in-depth linguistic description of Papuan Malay, a non-standard variety of Malay. The language is...
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A grammar of Palula
This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is...
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Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 3
This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working...
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A grammar of Mauwake
This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-New Guinea (TNG) language of about...
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A grammar of Rapa Nui -
This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island....
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In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook
This is an English language skills textbook to help ELL students acquire communication skills in the community...
New Members
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Mayra MorenoERUSD -
Christine GouldingCalifornia State University, Chico
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Peter RudilossoState University of New York System - Stony Brook
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Deidre KellNorth Hall Middle School
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Ana PeñaUniversity of Texas System - Brownsville
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Elena GiletIIS PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA SAN DONATO MILANESE
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Yolanda Burgos-OlingerSinclair Community/Technical College
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Lisken DusBerkshire Community/Technical College
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Talia LoaizaAustin Community/Technical College
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Vanessa ArnaudCalifornia State University, Sacramento
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Komi AmaviFair-Deutsch
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Manon Allard-KroppUniversity of Missouri System - St. Louis
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Sylvia NeveuIMEP
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Mairin MoriartyMarymount University
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Jessica ToddEast Georgia College
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Tiffany RosalesOld Dominion University
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Yelani FeldmanDillard University
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cynthia melendrezCalifornia State University, San Marcos
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Gretchen AiyangarUniversity of Pittsburgh
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Helen GómezUNAH
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Adam ClarkUniversity of Edinburgh
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Luigia MaiellaroNortheastern University
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Bajar la PanzaBajar la Panza
Materials by Discipline
- Arabic (102)
- Chinese (213)
- ESL or EFL (670)
- French (518)
- German (178)
- Greek (34)
- Hebrew (62)
- Italian (50)
- Japanese (108)
- Korean (21)
- Latin (65)
- Less Commonly Taught Languages (177)
- Multilingual Resources (203)
- Portuguese (146)
- Russian (63)
- Spanish (488)
Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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Rhode Island May Forgive EL Teacher Loans
Sep 21, 2019 08:11 AM PDT
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French immersion programs are victims of their own success, schools say
Sep 21, 2019 08:00 AM PDT
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Why language preservation matters? Both Hindi and Tamil are important
Sep 21, 2019 05:33 AM PDT
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Education department investigates Chinese school over financial mismanagement concerns
Sep 21, 2019 02:56 AM PDT
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Teachers of Japanese to face national test of language skills
Sep 21, 2019 01:03 AM PDT
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Language learners at the INL in 2019
Sep 21, 2019 12:52 AM PDT
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What is your Plan B?
Sep 20, 2019 11:33 PM PDT
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Apple iOS 13: How to add any new Indian language keyboards on your iPhone or iPod
Sep 20, 2019 11:11 PM PDT
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Schools in big cities now offer French language lessons
Sep 20, 2019 10:03 PM PDT
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CPS investing in Spanish and the benefits of dual-language programs
Sep 20, 2019 08:11 PM PDT
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The Foreign Teachers Caught Up in China's Education Clampdown
Sep 20, 2019 07:15 PM PDT
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Orangeville school receives provincial funding for renovation, 49 childcare spaces, 3 new rooms
Sep 20, 2019 06:55 PM PDT
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Cy-Fair ISD State of the District highlights CTE education, preschool
Sep 20, 2019 06:52 PM PDT
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Insurgent tongues: how loose Cantonese romanisation became Hong Kong's patois of protest
Sep 20, 2019 06:30 PM PDT
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Wes Brosman
Sep 20, 2019 05:22 PM PDT
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Event Ticketing Platform Yapsody is Now Available in 15 Languages
Sep 20, 2019 05:11 PM PDT
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Does Hungary education reform mean more patriotism, but less democracy?
Sep 20, 2019 02:33 PM PDT
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Ciee Takes Students Overseas
Sep 20, 2019 02:22 PM PDT
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