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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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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...
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Read Faster, Understand More - 2019 OER Edition
This site contains a textbook for students, a textbook for faculty and also slides to use for each chapter. The...
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Medical Spanish - Phrases, Terms, Dialogues, Anatomy, all online
Learn medical Spanish, including anatomy and descriptions of pain.
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Chinese Contract Law
This textbook is for a compulsory five-credit course in the Master of Laws in Chinese Business Law (LLM (Chinese...
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Intermediarios: Introduction to Spanish-English Community and Legal Translation and Interpreting
Intermediarios: Introduction to Spanish-English Community and Legal Translation and Interpreting is intended for students...
New Members
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Deidre KellNorth Hall Middle School -
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
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Amina YassineSaddleback College
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Danielle HuttonThe Open University
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Erik PackerCalifornia State University, Sacramento
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- Less Commonly Taught Languages (177)
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Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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US Says Scientist Hid Job in China. Web Search Tells Otherwise
Aug 21, 2019 07:01 PM PDT
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A SmARTguide to BMA's Programs
Aug 21, 2019 06:52 PM PDT
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Alternative certification helps Love teacher fulfill calling
Aug 21, 2019 06:30 PM PDT
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In Malaysia, flipping over the script
Aug 21, 2019 05:56 PM PDT
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RYB Education, Inc. (RYB) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
Aug 21, 2019 04:26 PM PDT
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How Penn is advancing language learning inside—and out of—the classroom
Aug 21, 2019 02:56 PM PDT
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Westwood Middle theater program expands to new room, boasts new amenities
Aug 21, 2019 02:33 PM PDT
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Linguist Carol Rosen dies at 79
Aug 21, 2019 01:55 PM PDT
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Department of Education wants input on state scholarship changes
Aug 21, 2019 11:00 AM PDT
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Fall Classes at The Center for Continuing Education
Aug 21, 2019 10:47 AM PDT
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Routing the two-tier system: Part III – Education
Aug 21, 2019 08:22 AM PDT
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Opinion On sex ed, Doug Ford proves (once again) he loves to backtrack
Aug 21, 2019 08:04 AM PDT
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NYC program helps English learners prevent summer slide
Aug 21, 2019 07:15 AM PDT
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The Modern Racism of the Post-Soviet States
Aug 21, 2019 06:30 AM PDT
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GCSE results day 2019: What do the numerical grades mean?
Aug 21, 2019 05:45 AM PDT
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French Embassy Offers Makerere Fresher, Suubi Scholarship to Learn French Language
Aug 21, 2019 05:06 AM PDT
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Studying in China a wise decision: Chinese ambassador
Aug 21, 2019 04:15 AM PDT
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- OpenStax partner schools expected to save students $9.1M on textbooks over the upcoming year! @RiceUniversity… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…9 hours ago | MERLOTorg
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- We know back to school is busy so take a minute and sign up for a #ProfessionalDevelopment pre-conference workshop.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…17 hours ago | actfl
- UK officials to skip most EU meetings from next month theguardian.com/politics/2019/…1 day ago | lfranklin
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