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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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Deutsch als Zweitsprache | SpringerLink
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Lizenz. In Zusammenarbeit mit den Lehrkräften...
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Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions
Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa....
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Tales of Darkness and Light: Soso Tham’s The Old Days of the Khasis
Soso Tham (1873–1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers...
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College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success
College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success is designed as a comprehensive grammar and...
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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...
New Members
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Alan MatanMaine West High School -
Julie HallBountiful High School
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Yeshimebet MahtemeworkNorthern Virginia Community/Technical College
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Rebecca Gigliotti-BartonWayside Schools
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Ana-Maria M'EnestiOregon State University
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Taha AfyouniUniversity of Calgary
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Maria SpitzSouth Dakota State University
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Adelia Parrado-OrtizBethune-Cookman University
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Danielle CoulsonBatavia High School
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Paulina ValenzuelaUnion College
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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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Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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Antwerp school district earns high ranking again
May 20, 2018 02:56 PM PDT
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English isn't the official language of the United States
May 20, 2018 11:00 AM PDT
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Yale awards honorary degrees to 10 individuals for their achievements
May 20, 2018 10:03 AM PDT
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FYI: English isn't the official language of the United States
May 20, 2018 09:18 AM PDT
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Federal grant program for teachers likened to bait-and-switch scam
May 20, 2018 08:22 AM PDT
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President Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary career highlighted in Russia
May 20, 2018 07:48 AM PDT
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A fair and farsighted education system
May 20, 2018 05:45 AM PDT
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HBKU's Translation and Interpreting Institute signs MOU with Goethe Institute
May 20, 2018 05:00 AM PDT
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Towards a fair and farsighted education system
May 19, 2018 11:33 PM PDT
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Some more vision for language education please - Sarah Grech
May 19, 2018 11:22 PM PDT
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52 Faces: Road to Africa is paved with good intentions
May 19, 2018 10:48 PM PDT
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AUB forum calls for addressing issues Arabic language faces
May 19, 2018 10:37 PM PDT
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Turkey restricts French studies at University amid Qur'an controversy
May 19, 2018 09:41 PM PDT
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China's Guangxi exhibits educational facilities to attract Sri Lankan students
May 19, 2018 09:30 PM PDT
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Money matters: Many options to pay for college
May 19, 2018 08:56 PM PDT
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Ethnic minorities are Hongkongers too, and should be treated as such
May 19, 2018 08:00 PM PDT
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Federal grant program for teachers likened to bait-and-switch scam
May 19, 2018 07:26 PM PDT
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11th National Chinese Language Conference holds plenary meeting in US
May 19, 2018 07:03 PM PDT
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Michael Amano '17 Receives Fulbright to do Research in Japan
May 19, 2018 06:18 PM PDT
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Ministry to boost number of English language option teachers
May 19, 2018 05:11 PM PDT
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