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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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¡Qué viva la música! Repaso de conversación en español
¡Qué viva la música! Repaso de conversación en español, or Long Live Music! Spanish Conversational Review is an open...
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The Iliad - Simple Book Publishing
A new, 21st century verse translation of Homer's epic work, translated by Michael Heumann.
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Lecture Rapide: test en ligne
Bilingual Reading Test Are you an efficient reader? What kind of reader are you? You will know in a few minutes after you...
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Légendes canadiennes | Enseigner le français avec TV5MONDE
"Canadian Legends" produced by TV5, the French-language international television network that reaches the largest number...
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Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching
Compared with STEM fields, foreign language (FL) education and second language acquisition have only slowly embraced open...
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New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew
Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New...
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IntensIve englIsh as a second language: student handbook
To provide rigorous English language instruction that prepares conditionally and provisionally admitted international...
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Intensive English Language Program Guide
The Intensive English Language Program (IELP) Guide has been developed by the International Education Division (IED), to...
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¡Bienvenidos!
A team of University of West Georgia professors has teamed up to create a Spanish-language resource that replaces a...
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Her Şey bir Merhaba ile Başlar! (Everything Begins with a Hello!)
Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar is a multimedia textbook with supplementary materials for intermediate Turkish language...
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American English Sounds
American English Sounds is a web resource that allows English as a Second Language (ESL) students to practice perceiving...
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It’s All Greek to Me! Using Authentic Readings to Improve Knowledge of the English Language and Western Culture
“It’s All Greek to Me!” has everything—entertaining stories, academic articles in a variety of disciplines, vocabulary...
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Italian 0102 Elementary Language & Culture 2
This second-semester Elementary Italian OER is designed for 14- or 15-week college classes, but can be used at any...
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Kratylos
Kratylos is a facility to let researchers upload lexical and corpus datasets from fieldwork in endangered languages from...
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Hack Chinese - Professional software to grow your Chinese language ability
Hack Chinese is a web-based platform that helps users learn and retain Chinese characters. The platform is based on a...
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Campanhas Contra o Assédio no Carnaval Brasileiro: Uma Reflexão Sobre Aspectos Culturais e as Aulas de PL2E
This essay addresses a topic in teaching/learning of Portuguese as a second or foreign language.
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“É Isso aí, Você Não Pode Parar. Esperar o Tempo Ruim Vir te Abraçar”: A Cultura Brasileira nas Letras de Rap Nacional
This essay addresses a topic in teaching/learning of Portuguese as a second or foreign language.
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Cultura e Ensino de Línguas: (Re)visitando Conceitos e Concepções dos Métodos e Abordagens à Condição Pós-método
This essay addresses a topic in teaching/learning of Portuguese as a second or foreign language
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Inovações Descritivas para o Predicador: Novas Possibilidades de Análise do Português como Segunda Língua a partir da Exploração de Grandes Corpora
This essay addresses a topic in teaching/learning of Portuguese as a second or foreign language.
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Identidades Brasileiras no Samba-Exaltação – Uma Contribuição Cultural para o Ensino de Português como Segunda Língua para Estrangeiros
This essay addresses a topic in teaching/learning of Portuguese as a second or foreign language.
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M. Amaya - JAPN 3100: Analysis of Japanese Culture through the Study of Film - Faculty e-Portfolio of CSU San Bernardino
This open textbook is being utilized in an asynchronous online Japanese course for undergraduate students by Makiko Amaya...
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Ai que Nojo! - O Léxico Repulsivo na Sala de Aula de PL2E: Por Que Não ?
This essay addresses a topic in teaching/learning of Portuguese as a second or foreign language.
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O Grau Diminutivo Sob Perspectiva das Abordagens Lexicalista e Cognitivista
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
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Estratégias de Protesto em Português Brasileiro e sua Relevância no Aprendizado de PL2E
This essay addresses a topic in teaching/learning of Portuguese as a second or foreign language.
New Members
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Esteban CordobaCalifornia State University, San Bernardino -
Suzie RoanePortland State University
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Monica LamelasBooneville High School
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Tilsik HaganUniversity of Central Florida
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Steven KromanTexas International Education Consortium
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rosemarie kuhnCalifornia State University, Fresno
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Dan LuoUniversity of South Carolina System - Columbia
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Megan FerryUnion College
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Carlos Andrés AndradeCarlos Larry Andrés
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Laura MendozaLaura
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Roxanna AbrinesUniversity of California System - Los Angeles
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Fabrizio RuggeriUniversidad Complutense de Madrid
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Dali TanNorthern Virginia Community/Technical College
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Celeste JohnsonThe Learning Connection
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Marina BurattiSewickley Academy
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Bharat DaxiniUniversity of Leicester
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Taeko IGriffith University
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Jhonatan AboiteCSULB
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Tai LamCollege of the Canyons
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Sean O'NeillHanover College
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Randall WertPandemic Professors
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Heather ColburnNorthwestern University
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Yuliya G.Hack Chinese
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Tony CellaBenedictine University - Mesa
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- Latin (62)
- Less Commonly Taught Languages (211)
- Multilingual Resources (202)
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Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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Meet the mystery woman who mastered IBM's 5400-character Chinese typewriter
May 16, 2021 08:56 PM PDT
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Same Language Subtitling For A Billion Readers
May 16, 2021 08:36 PM PDT
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Quebec Temporary Workers With PR Application Delays To Get Open Work Permits
May 16, 2021 06:52 PM PDT
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Majority of snow leopard habitat under-researched – report
May 16, 2021 04:03 PM PDT
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University tuition fees could fall from £9250 to £7500 a year but arts and humanities courses may ...
May 16, 2021 12:55 PM PDT
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Education reforms and the country's politicians
May 16, 2021 11:45 AM PDT
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Quebec Indigenous communities wonder how French Charter amendments will affect their ...
May 16, 2021 11:33 AM PDT
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France bans gender-neutral words in schools, says they're 'harmful' to French language
May 16, 2021 06:07 AM PDT
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Prepone That! Your Accent Is Funny! Readers Share Their ESL Stories
May 16, 2021 05:00 AM PDT
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Chinese language competition held in Bulgaria for university students
May 16, 2021 04:26 AM PDT
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20 Penn students and recent graduates awarded Fulbright grants
May 16, 2021 04:03 AM PDT
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Language Translation Machine Market 2021 Size, Status and Global Outlook – IFLY TEK, Newsmy ...
May 16, 2021 02:28 AM PDT
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The unspoken privilege of the English speaker
May 16, 2021 02:11 AM PDT
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Best Colleges To Study Museology In Russia
May 16, 2021 01:37 AM PDT
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New Zealand's Fijian-Indian community wants government recognition as Pasifika people
May 16, 2021 01:03 AM PDT
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5 platforms that can help shape your career abroad
May 16, 2021 12:07 AM PDT
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CPEC Boosts Prospects Of Higher Education For Pakistani Students
May 15, 2021 10:30 PM PDT
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Why do we follow a wrong model of language-studies?
May 15, 2021 09:52 PM PDT
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Foreign Languages Training Market to Witness Rapid Growth by 2027 | Treffpunkt sprachen ...
May 15, 2021 09:41 PM PDT
World Langs on Twitter
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- What are some common features of high-quality professional development for educators? @K12DiveNews offers insight.
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- How can you bring the world to the classroom? #International peer-to-peer exchanges allow students from around the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | actfl
- “For the first time in my Spanish education, I’m with people who are in the exact same position as me."
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- Considering joining ACTFL?
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