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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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ELL novice practices
This book is a collection of handouts designed for adult beginning English language learners. These second language...
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Spunti: Italiano elementare 1
Welcome to Spunti: Italiano elementare 1 – a unique program authored by the Italian faculty of Muhlenberg College that...
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Spunti: Italiano elementare 2
Welcome to Spunti: Italiano elementare 2 – a unique program authored by the Italian faculty of Muhlenberg College that...
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Elementary Arabic I
This is an open textbook on Beginner Arabic for undergraduate students who are taking Arabic in their first semester. It...
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Building Academic Writing Skills
Shaped by learners’ needs and goals for accurate and fluent expressions in their academic study, this book provides...
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Effective English for Teachers
Teaching in schools requires a decent understanding and use of sentence structures and vocabulary, particularly in...
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Sign with Robert GIFs on GIPHY
This is a resource that provides GIFs on a variety of topics, for instance, Days of the week Common questions Sports The...
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Integrated and Open Interpreter Education
This Open Educational Resource (OER) on interpreting offers authors and readers free and open access to current,...
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Fingerspelling - A Mindful Approach
Fingerspelling: A Mindful Approach will show us how to build a foundation of mindfulness and then ways of consciously and...
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Book: Speaking, Listening and Pronunciation Projects for ELLs - Intermediate Level
This textbook was designed to support a pronunciation class; however, it could be used in any intermediate-level speaking...
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People and Places - An Intermediate Integrated-Skills Module for English Learners
This module has materials to learn and practice all of the necessary language skills at the intermediate level in college...
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Becoming an Expert: Learn how to Adopt & Adapt Interpersonal Speaking Activities
n this recording, we invite you participate in this hands-on workshop, where you’ll get to practice locating, editing,...
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Digital Humanities & Authentic Resources Webinar | The Pathways Project
Would you like to incorporate interactive sites, commercials, artwork, menus, social media posts, and more into your...
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Your Turn! Customize Pathways Interpersonal Speaking Activities with Authentic Materials
In this one hour webinar, you’ll watch two demonstrations (one for Higher Ed and one for K-12) where we locate Pathways...
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Overcoming Copyright Fears Webinar
In this one hour webinar, we’ll discuss best practices and practical strategies for deciding when and how much of a...
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Creating Pre, During and Post Interpretive Activities
The Pathways Project is largely centered on interpersonal speaking activities. One of the ways that we'd like to grow in...
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Click Here! Authentic Materials, Digital Humanities and Openly Licensed Design Resources for the World Language Classroom
This seven page guide contains a curated collection of digital humanities sites, authentic materials and openly licensed...
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The Pathways Project Hub | A Resource Guide for Customizing a Pathways Project Activity from Start to Finish
This resource guide brings together the tools from our fall workshop series in one, easy to use site! We will continue to...
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Almanacco di Cultura Italiana
This 67-page reader was created as a supplement in courses of beginning Italian. Its aim is to enhance and expand Italian...
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Home | Integrated Chinese
Integrated Chinese is an acclaimed Mandarin Chinese textbook series that teaches beginning language learners the skills...
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JUNTXS; Introductory Spanish
JUNTXS is an open access educational resource which can be used in conjunction with a variety of approaches to support...
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La France Sauvée ou le Tyran Détrôné: A Dramaturgical Casebook
This is a dramaturgical casebook on La France Sauvée, an unfinished play by Olympe de Gouges, translated by Clarissa...
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I'm All Ears
I’M ALL EARS is a Spanish pronunciation course for teachers and students of Spanish created to facilitate the important...
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Bate-Papo - An Introduction to Portuguese
This book was developed having in mind university students who speak English as their first language. We also took into...
New Members
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Karen HébertMorris College -
Mariola PerezWestern Michigan University
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Mélanie ParhamAsheville-Buncombe Technical Community/Technical College
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Amanda LanierMichigan State University
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Reed HEPLERCollege of Southern Idaho
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Douglas Alexander Luna MendozaAutonomo
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Erick Carrióncolegio bachillerato huaquillas
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Darcy MarshCell Mart USA
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Pauline Le BotYork University
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Livia Sales-GenovesEducation
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Crystal DuCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH
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Zoe ParisCalifornia State University, Long Beach
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Edita WilsonWeber State University
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Kenise LyonsCatholic University of America
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Lawrence RichRetired Professor of Spanish
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Silvia ByerPark University
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Alexis AdamCarnegie Mellon University
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Noriko WatanabeCity University of New York System - John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Gianna MaccarinoAlbany
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Mary Anne OrinGloversville High School
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Hisasi KitagawaJapan Esperanto Institute
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Sarah KriveUniversity of North Carolina System - Greensboro
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Christina ZilkowIrvine Valley College
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Desiree NemecEastside High
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Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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Macron heads to the White House for first state visit of the Biden administration - CNN
Dec 01, 2022 04:05 AM PST
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Historic meeting between Lt. Gov. Nungesser, French President Macron - KALB
Dec 01, 2022 03:34 AM PST
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Cumberland resident reflects on U.S. Dept. of State experience | News | valleybreeze.com
Dec 01, 2022 03:13 AM PST
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Exclusive: All Teacher Shortages Are Local, New Research Finds - The 74
Dec 01, 2022 03:05 AM PST
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N.B. has largest proportion of children eligible for, attending francophone schools: census
Dec 01, 2022 03:02 AM PST
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AI models from Tencent and Alibaba demonstrate a better understanding of the Chinese ...
Dec 01, 2022 02:59 AM PST
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Connecticut's tribal nations, Department of Education partnering to develop Native American ...
Dec 01, 2022 02:41 AM PST
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State Partnering with Local Tribal Nations to Create Native American Studies Model Curriculum
Dec 01, 2022 02:18 AM PST
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French connection: Macron's visit to highlight Louisiana's rich language history - NOLA.com
Dec 01, 2022 02:03 AM PST
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Principal Chief of Osage Nation speaks on tribe sovereignty - The Daily Princetonian
Dec 01, 2022 01:50 AM PST
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'Data is like learning a language – use it or lose it,' Afrobarometer Chief Executive Officer ...
Dec 01, 2022 12:27 AM PST
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UCLA International Institute hosts 2022 Global Conversation - Daily Bruin
Dec 01, 2022 12:27 AM PST
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A 2023 K-12 public education reckoning | NOONAN | Opinion - ColoradoPolitics.com
Dec 01, 2022 12:04 AM PST
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Europe struggles with teacher shortage - Chinadaily.com.cn
Nov 30, 2022 11:54 PM PST
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Census data shows 300000 Quebec kids eligible for English school, 76% attend - CBC
Nov 30, 2022 11:54 PM PST
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Positive Learning: How the education sector can meet the needs of learners living with HIV
Nov 30, 2022 11:36 PM PST
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Chief Hoskin speaks at White House Tribal Nations Summit | News | cherokeephoenix.org
Nov 30, 2022 10:39 PM PST
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Overview of the current state of education and science in Ukraine in terms of Russian ... - ReliefWeb
Nov 30, 2022 10:14 PM PST
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EU academia accepts Chinese money in return for know-how - EURACTIV.com
Nov 30, 2022 09:42 PM PST
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The Daily — 897,000 children are eligible for instruction in the minority official language in Canada
Nov 30, 2022 09:00 PM PST
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