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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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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...
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Lecciones de Espanol
This site presents materials designed for an entry level Spanish class at Clayton State but can be used by others. As the...
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Beginning Korean 1
The Beginning Korean 1 textbook is designed for elementary Korean learners to practice and learn how to communicate in...
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e·Chinese Tools: Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning Chinese
Nowadays, the use of technologies is deeply embedded in the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Therefore,...
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Let's Chat! Spanish
Let’s Chat! Spanish features a collection of over 100 classroom-ready interpersonal speaking activities for novice and...
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Let's Chat! German
Let’s Chat! German features a collection of over 100 classroom-ready interpersonal speaking activities for novice and...
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Let's Chat! French
Let’s Chat! French features a collection of nearly 100 classroom-ready interpersonal speaking activities for novice and...
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EXPRESSIONS IMAGÉES DU QUÉBEC
Exercice de vocabulaire avec auto-correction: EXPRESSIONS IMAGÉES DU QUÉBEC
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Antonymes et synonymes
La présente leçon illustre comment le rapprochement de mots synonymes ou antonymes crée des nuances qu’un lecteur met à...
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Banque de dépannage linguistique - Barbarismes lexicaux
- Qu'est-ce qu'un barbarisme? Un barbarisme est une faute qui affecte le lexique par l’emploi de mots dont la forme est...
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Yo puedo: para empezar
You have learned two words in a second language just by reading the title of the book. Think about that for a moment and...
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Yo puedo: segundos pasos
Perhaps you remembered what the title of your book means from your previous experiences with Spanish. That is a great...
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Genre-Based Language Teaching
Genre-Based Language Teaching is a sequence of 5 modules that introduce language instructors to the concept of...
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Exercice de grammaire: les pronoms relatifs
Exercice de grammaire avec corrigé Insérez la deuxième phrase dans la première en remplaçant les mots répétés par le...
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Exercice d'écoute - Le bénévolat à distance
Journal télévisé de TF1 - 14/11/2020 Exercice 1 Regardez le reportage une première fois et répondez aux questions. Vous...
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Les homonymes - On et ont - Visez juste
Exercice de vocabulaire avec auto-correction - les homonymes (on et ont) Avez-vous un truc pour savoir si vous devez...
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Elementary Swahili
This is an online Swahili course for beginners that is proficient-based built to improve listening, speaking, writing and...
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Colombia en Mapas
Colombia en Mapas is the most complete collection of maps in the country. It is a tool in constant evolution. Built so...
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Guía Básica de Recursos Educativos Abiertos
This is a guide (in Spanish) that provides links to OER sites that instructors can use when teaching Spanish. The first...
New Members
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Livia Sales-GenovesEducation -
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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Michelle Evangelista GarciaLiceu Franco-Brasileiro
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Courtney LanuteEdison Community/Technical College
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Yarmo LenkoBerlin KB University
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Karen GoeringUniversity of Iowa
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Sara Rovira-EstevaUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Chelsea Benton-MonahanPennsylvania State University - University Park
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SARAH GordonUtah State University
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Amal RidaCerro Coso Community/Technical College
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Sumor Ziva SheppardPrairie View A&M University
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Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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Mahatma Gandhi makes special appearance at UN, shares message on education
Oct 01, 2022 03:12 AM PDT
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Development of battery metal exploration strategies for European resources
Oct 01, 2022 01:18 AM PDT
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Remote Observation: changing the future of skill development - Education Technology
Oct 01, 2022 12:59 AM PDT
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Chinese lawmakers want schools to spend less time teaching English - Bangkok Post
Oct 01, 2022 12:48 AM PDT
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MFL: Does learning a language improve cognitive skills? | Tes
Oct 01, 2022 12:21 AM PDT
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Chinese lawmakers call for schools to spend less time teaching English to children
Sep 30, 2022 09:39 PM PDT
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TruFluency Kids, An Award-Winning Spanish Learning Platform Announces Release of Video Series
Sep 30, 2022 07:03 PM PDT
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Candidates face off for two-year Plymouth-Canton Board of Education seat
Sep 30, 2022 06:36 PM PDT
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What Italy's far-right election victory means for science - Nature
Sep 30, 2022 06:29 PM PDT
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University of Luxembourg to Launch European Master's Degree in High-Performance Computing
Sep 30, 2022 06:24 PM PDT
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Thai School: For These Chinese Moms, the Future Is Foreign - Sixth Tone
Sep 30, 2022 05:42 PM PDT
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How many Native American boarding schools were there in Minnesota? - Star Tribune
Sep 30, 2022 05:41 PM PDT
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Native American students hope a new education law helps reverse years of misinformation
Sep 30, 2022 05:39 PM PDT
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European Innovation and Research Commissioner Visits Plug and Play HQ - PR Newswire
Sep 30, 2022 05:27 PM PDT
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Approved Menu of Research-based Grades K-3 Universal Screening Reading Assessments - CT.gov
Sep 30, 2022 05:05 PM PDT
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Algeria Opts for English Elementary Classes - Language Magazine
Sep 30, 2022 04:02 PM PDT
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New Spanish-language tool for stroke awareness to save lives: 'It's an alarming rate'
Sep 30, 2022 03:05 PM PDT
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How a bilingual preschool is trying to close Memphis' literacy gap - Chalkbeat Tennessee
Sep 30, 2022 03:00 PM PDT
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Let's nurture multilingualism in our youngest learners - EdSource
Sep 30, 2022 02:48 PM PDT
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Russian-speakers able to study own language and culture in separate classes | News | ERR
Sep 30, 2022 01:19 PM PDT
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