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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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Hola a Todos: Elementary Spanish I
This is a preliminary Open Textbook as created by the UNG Elementary Spanish I grant team using a Round Six Textbook...
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Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa
Within two years of the success of his first play Die Räuber on the German stage in 1781, Schiller wrote a drama based on...
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Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem
By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading...
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Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 3
This systematic approach to interpreting the poem provides a wholly new way not just to read the poem but to teach it...
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Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative...
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Open Science Children's Stories: "Fly-in-Space"
Fly in Space is excellent example of an Open Science Children's Story about two fruit flys born on earth and raised in...
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Learn Chinese Language in Urdu - Apps on Google Play
پندرہ دن میں چینی زبان سیکھیں اور سی پیک جیسے پراجیکٹس کا بھرپور فائدہ اٹھائیں۔ Learn Chinese Language in Urdu is an...
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English Grammar in Use Complete - Android Apps on Google Play
English Grammar in Use is an Ultimate Solution with detailed topics & examples: This English Grammar App is divided in...
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Learning Chinese in English - Android Apps on Google Play
Do you want to Learn and Speak Chinese Language fluently? This Learning Chinese Language App provides you the opportunity...
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Yorùbá Yé Mi
The Yorùbá Yé Mi textbook, combined with an open access, multi-media website at http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/yemi, is an...
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Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299. Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil’s most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the...
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Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’...
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Preadvanced Japanese
Preadvanced Japanese is designed for students who have intermediate competency in Japanese, roughly at Level 2 on the ILR...
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Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733. Latin Text with Commentary
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin,...
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Liberté
This French book is aimed at a first-year college student. Its features include: Each chapter is built around...
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Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español, Segunda edición
Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a...
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Le Littéraire dans le quotidien
Le Littéraire dans le quotidien is an open textbook for use in French courses. The Literary in the Everyday represents a...
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In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook
With funding from Alberta Open Educational Resources, Bow Valley College and NorQuest College collaborated to create Open...
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Greek and Latin Roots: Part II - Greek
Greek and Latin Roots: Part II - Greek is part two of a two part series. This series examines the systematic principles...
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Greek and Latin Roots: Part I - Latin
Greek and Latin Roots: Part I - Latin is part one of a two-part series. This series examines the systematic principles by...
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FROM MSA to CA: A Beginner's Guide to Transitioning to Colloquial Arabic
This book is for students who have studied Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) for one year or more and would like to learn...
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Deutsch im Blick
This textbook is newly revised (Mai 2013) and includes all 10 chapters of Deutsch im Blick. It accompanies...
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Cornelius Nepos, 'Life of Hannibal': Latin Text, Notes, Maps, Illustrations and Vocabulary
Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even...
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Conversa Brasileira
Conversa Brasileira is an online open-access site that contains a series of 35 video scenarios in which Brazilians talk...
New Members
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Paulina ValenzuelaUnion College -
Stephanie RoulonPortland State University
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Whatsconnectup AppsOther
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Kristen DarlingState University of New York System - Albany
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Kathleen HanleySUNY Albany
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Diane HartunianSan Pedro Senior High School
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Benjamin TaylorCandor CSD
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diana ruggieroU of Memphis
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Anne-Marie Andreasson-HoggNorth Park College and Theological Seminary
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Chantal MaherPalomar College
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Zoyla Cruz-BeckettFlorence High School
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John TrentonFlorence High School
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Jennifer KirschtenWheeling Jesuit University
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Ernesto EbrattUniversity of Vermont
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David Uzzell JrUniversity of Vermont
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Daniel HatcherValencia Community/Technical College
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greg warrenARNG
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Carly LesoskiMichigan Virtual
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Lucile FONTAINE-BERGERChrist's College
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Michael RoweState University of New York System - Binghamton
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Miguel OrjuelaGimnasio Campestre Reino Británico
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shizhong zhangUniversity of Central Florida
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Marlenis ColladoUAPA
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Ida Biddle-MayerNone
Materials by Discipline
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- ESL or EFL (650)
- French (526)
- German (176)
- Greek (35)
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- Latin (65)
- Less Commonly Taught Languages (171)
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Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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Memories of a politician
Apr 22, 2018 08:33 PM PDT
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Dedicated 10 years to his history of U-boat's patrol to New Zealand
Apr 22, 2018 08:00 PM PDT
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Chinese language celebrated by the UN
Apr 22, 2018 06:18 PM PDT
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The latest language immersion program for Anchorage students: Yup'ik
Apr 22, 2018 05:22 PM PDT
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Bridging the communication gap: WCC students training to become sign language interpreters
Apr 22, 2018 04:55 PM PDT
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Canada's first tenured Inuit professor at U of S says research, opportunities 'a dream world'
Apr 22, 2018 02:43 PM PDT
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I am retiring from politics - Makhosi Khoza
Apr 22, 2018 08:33 AM PDT
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Schooling the Elite: Education as an Unconventional Tool of Political Influence
Apr 22, 2018 07:26 AM PDT
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ATAR scaling wiping out HSC languages, study finds
Apr 22, 2018 06:52 AM PDT
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Latinos And Others Find Trump's Offensive Twitter Language Not Unusual
Apr 22, 2018 04:44 AM PDT
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Student Research | Hunting through the archives to trace representations of women in media
Apr 22, 2018 02:03 AM PDT
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Why I'm Incorporating Art Into All Of My Travel From Now On
Apr 22, 2018 02:00 AM PDT
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Iran Ready to Teach Russian as Foreign Language at Schools
Apr 22, 2018 01:26 AM PDT
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Special education instructors scarce
Apr 21, 2018 10:03 PM PDT
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Traditional Aboriginal sign language from Central Australia highlighted in Hobart Language Day
Apr 21, 2018 09:30 PM PDT
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Why mother tongue education is the best
Apr 21, 2018 08:56 PM PDT
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UN celebrates 9th Chinese Language Day
Apr 21, 2018 03:52 AM PDT
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UN celebrates 9th Chinese Language Day
Apr 20, 2018 11:45 PM PDT
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