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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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Advanced Academic Grammar for ESL Students
This textbook was created for an advanced academic grammar course for ESL students. By the end of the course, students...
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A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic
Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic topic....
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Acceso - Spanish 490
The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational...
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Français interactif
The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational...
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Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English
This digital book is meant to serve an instructional tool for both learners and teachers in the field of pronunciation....
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English as a Foreign Language
ESL educators are dedicated to the facilitation of the acquisition of English as a second or other language, which...
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Haitian Creole-English English-Haitian Creole Medical Dictionary
The present bilingual medical dictionary is intended for the many English- speaking physicians, dentists, nurses, and...
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Chita pa bay: elementary readings in Haitian Creole with illustrated dictionary
Once the beginning student of a foreign language has acquired its rudiments, the need is felt for elementary reading...
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Uzbek Concise Thematic Dictionary (Uzbek)
Concise Thematic Dictionary is a unique resource that compares the lexical features of the contemporary Uzbek literary...
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Chinese (Mandarin) Wikibook
Welcome to the Chinese wikibook, a free Chinese textbook on the Standard Mandarin dialect. This page links to lessons...
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Beginning Korean. Activity Book 1
The Korean Activity Book 1 is designed to provide various useful materials for practicing Korean. This book is ideal for...
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Korean Through Folktales
Korean Through Folktales consists of four chapters and each centers on a famous Korean folktale. The lessons and values...
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Learn to Speak Korean 1
This course is for beginner students who are familiar with the Korean alphabet, Hangeul. Through this course students...
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Japanese Irodori
Nowadays, people travel and even migrate across borders all the time. In Japan, too, foreign workers work in a variety of...
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First Year Japanese II - JPN102
This is a continuation of JPN101. There is also a worksheet packet to go with this text. It is meant to be used in the...
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First Year Japanese I - JPN101
This is meant to be used in a classroom situation with a teacher. It was created for showing on big screen as well as...
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Japanese - Wikibook
Development of this Wikibook began on August 11, 2003. It is an ongoing project that will evolve as users contribute to...
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TextFugu: Japanese Textbook
When you compare someone learning Japanese in a class and someone who’s self-learning, the problems that they run into...
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Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 3
This is the third book in a three book series and includes Lessons 9 - 10. Book 1 and Book 2 are also available for...
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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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Musubi: A New Approach to Japanese Language and Culture
Designed as a modular language learning course, this project will build on the existing first volume of Musubi: A New...
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CHN101: Elementary Mandarin I
This course is designed for learners with no background in Chinese. It introduces basic structures of the Mandarin...
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¿Cómo suena? :Fonética y fonología del español
The purpose of this supplemental site is to reinforce the concepts that students have learned in class in a simple way....
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Hybrid Course Design and Implementation: Lessons Learned from an Introductory Spanish Course
This is an audio presentation by Fernando Rubio, Associate Professor of Spanish and Co-Director of the Second Language...
New Members
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Carol SmolenBucks County Community/Technical College -
Tom ClarkeNLSC
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Kristen MichelsonTexas Tech University
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Kayley BartlettWCPSS
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Amy StrobelFresno City College
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Guadalupe LorenzoISPA
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Kevin ParisBrookhaven College
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Myriam StantonSUNY Broome
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Julianne BazydloNone
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Elaine BerardCoastal Carolina University
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Elana MasseyRavenswood
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Alex IdavoyBrookdale Community/Technical College
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Susan StoberPortland Community/Technical College
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Weasley WelchCreation
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Anke GoebelNone
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Ivette GalarzaAmerican River College
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Christopher PintoCitrus College
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Roxana BarleaAix-Marseille Université
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Eleisha MorenoReading Area Community/Technical College
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Andres AmadorCity University of New York System - Borough of Manhattan Community/Technical College
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Antonio GarciaUNED
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Gregory ClemonsMars Hill University
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GILLIAN MAE SAPINOSaint Louis University
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Durezza De Jesus-BasilUniversity of the Cordilleras
Materials by Discipline
- Arabic (104)
- Chinese (219)
- ESL or EFL (652)
- French (512)
- German (186)
- Greek (34)
- Hebrew (63)
- Italian (51)
- Japanese (117)
- Korean (25)
- Latin (62)
- Less Commonly Taught Languages (217)
- Multilingual Resources (203)
- Portuguese (183)
- Russian (66)
- Spanish (502)
Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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Open Your Ears To New Languages With This Bundle - Black Enterprise
Sep 16, 2021 02:05 AM PDT
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Tbilisi 'strongly condemns' replacing Georgian with Russian in occupied Gali schools - Agenda.ge
Sep 16, 2021 01:37 AM PDT
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Jing Wang, 1950-2021 | Times Higher Education (THE)
Sep 15, 2021 06:01 PM PDT
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Mexican Consulate donates Spanish language schoolbooks to San Mateo County jail ...
Sep 15, 2021 04:48 PM PDT
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Lapointe says Liberals will continue to invest in mining research | Sault Star
Sep 15, 2021 04:47 PM PDT
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How many international students is too many? | Times Higher Education (THE)
Sep 15, 2021 04:25 PM PDT
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Testing reveals four Covid-19 cases at summer language schools - The Middlebury Campus
Sep 15, 2021 04:03 PM PDT
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Helsinki's mayor thinks English should be the city's official language - The World
Sep 15, 2021 11:55 AM PDT
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Fixing post-secondary education key to fixing social inequities - The Hill Times
Sep 15, 2021 09:30 AM PDT
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The Federal Leaders' Debate: The French Language and Bills 21 and 96 in Quebec - Leger
Sep 15, 2021 08:50 AM PDT
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Ukraine's top soccer stars join the country's Ukrainian language renaissance - Atlantic Council
Sep 15, 2021 08:31 AM PDT
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California Association of REALTORS® Launches Spanish-Language Homebuying ... - PR Newswire
Sep 15, 2021 08:22 AM PDT
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Quechua endures in Peru despite centuries of discrimination - News4Jax
Sep 15, 2021 06:52 AM PDT
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How to learn to understand Russian speech - Russia Beyond
Sep 15, 2021 06:37 AM PDT
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DCRO INSTITUTE AND LATIN AMERICAN DIRECTORS' COMMUNITY, IDIRECTORES, TO ...
Sep 15, 2021 05:55 AM PDT
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Chinese higher education programs attract increasing numbers of students from Kazakhstan ...
Sep 15, 2021 04:26 AM PDT
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IIT Bombay launches Project Udaan, a language translator - NewsOnAIR
Sep 15, 2021 02:11 AM PDT
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Language and nonlanguage factors in foreign language learning: evidence for the ... - Nature
Sep 15, 2021 02:00 AM PDT
World Langs on Twitter
- The latest The Laura Franklin Daily! paper.li/lfranklin/1311… Thanks to @wagjuer #faktenfinder #lucaapp11 hours ago | lfranklin
- "Being #bilingual in this country is of the utmost importance, and every day, with so many people here from all cou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…12 hours ago | actfl
- The AAPPL Form for 2021-22 is here! 🎉
ACTFL and @LTILanguageTest, are proud to announce the launch of this year’s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…14 hours ago | actfl
- New research found #bilingual children were on average 6.5% more efficient in their thinking skills than monolingua… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…16 hours ago | actfl
- Early-bird registration for #ACTFL21 ends TODAY.
Register before September 15, at 11:59 pm ET for discounted rates… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…20 hours ago | actfl
- The latest The Laura Franklin Daily! paper.li/lfranklin/1311… Thanks to @wagjuer #investigativ #vwabgasskandal1 day ago | lfranklin
- Why attend #ACTFL21 Virtual?
Attendees will be able to chat and network with colleagues and peers on shared topics… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | actfl
- “I feel like that immersion program kick-started this whole journey for me."
#Spanish language courses opened doors… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | actfl
- How are #language educators addressing issues of identity, diversity, and justice? The next TLE focus topic article… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | actfl
- Here's a blog post from Dr. Gerry Hanley, executive director of MERLOT and SkillsCommons, on how we’re working toge… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | MERLOTorg