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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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Chinese Contract Law
This textbook is for a compulsory five-credit course in the Master of Laws in Chinese Business Law (LLM (Chinese...
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Intermediarios: Introduction to Spanish-English Community and Legal Translation and Interpreting
Intermediarios: Introduction to Spanish-English Community and Legal Translation and Interpreting is intended for students...
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Beginning Chinese
This is a textbook that prepares students to learn the basics of the Chinese language. The electronic textbook has both...
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Musubi: A New Approach to Japanese Language and Culture, Vol. 1
This is volume 1 in a set designed to teach about Japanese language and culture.
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Musubi: A New Approach to Japanese Language and Culture, Vol. 2
This is volume 2 that was created to help teach about the Japanese language and culture.
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Irish Immigration to the US
This text was designed for intermediate-level English language learners (multilinguals) as a background information...
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COERLL's Online OER Hangout
Planning an OER project for language learning? Looking for new materials or culturally relevant media for your class?...
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English for Spanish Speakers - Beginner: Level 1
This book is designed to help learners improve their English by using it in a structured and focused way during natural...
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Sharing Our Knowledge: Best Practices for Supporting English Language Learners in Schools
To complete the course ECUR 415.3: Current Issues in EAL, students are required to submit a final paper that reflects...
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START: Introduction to the Sound and Writing Systems of Russian
This web-based resource teaches learners how to recognize and pronounce the letters of the Russian alphabet and how to...
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Welcome to Italian 101!
This is a 122-page first semester Italian online textbook that provides grammar explanations and activities, cultural...
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Project Gutenberg Support Spanish Literature
Project Gutenberg supports Spanish literature by offering online Spanish books for anyone at no cost. Readers can access...
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English Language Centre Study Zone
The Study Zone is for students of the English Language Centre (ELC) at the University of Victoria. ELC teachers create...
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American English Speech
This course will be beneficial if you wish to learn how to communicate with the sounds and music of American English. The...
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In the Workplace: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook
This is an English language skills textbook to help ELL students acquire communication skills in the workplace...
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In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook
This is an English language skills textbook to help ELL students acquire communication skills in the community...
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ANA, een website over Academisch Nederlands voor Anderstaligen
ANA, een website over Academisch Nederlands voor Anderstaligen
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Reality Czech
Reality Czech is a next generation openly licensed Czech textbook and curriculum currently under development by Dr....
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Antología Abierta de Literatura Hispana
Una antología crítica de textos literarios del mundo hispanohablante. Se enfoca en autores canónicos y también se intenta...
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Speaking and Writing Punjabi
Speaking and Writing Punjabi, by Ranbir Johal, is an introductory Punjabi textbook/workbook. This textbook is organized...
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Multimodaling and multilanguaging: charting student (open) access and (communal) success through multiliteracies
Olivier, J.A.K. 2018. Multimodaling and multilanguaging: charting student (open) access and (communal) success through...
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Preadvanced Japanese
This textbook is designed for students who have intermediate competency in Japanese, roughly at Level 2 on the ILR (The...
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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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Spanish
This Wikibook aims to teach the Spanish language from scratch. It will cover all of the major grammar rules, moving...
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Gretchen AiyangarUniversity of Pittsburgh -
Helen GómezUNAH
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Adam ClarkUniversity of Edinburgh
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Luigia MaiellaroNortheastern University
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Bajar la PanzaBajar la Panza
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Amina YassineSaddleback College
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Danielle HuttonThe Open University
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Erik PackerCalifornia State University, Sacramento
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Flora Madeira RodriguesUniversidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre ( UFCSPA )
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Maggie Gemmell HudsonSouthern Oregon University
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Miguel BotaCalifornia State University, Sacramento
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Elena GrajinskayaUniversity of Utah
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Lizbeth SanchezMount San Antonio College
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Annette GillumAngelina College
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Svetlana NussUniversity of Alaska
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Yuliya WalshResearcher
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Stephanie AgbottahKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
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Maria Clara Paixão de SousaUniversity of São Paulo
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ProBa Language CentreProBa Russian Language Centre
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LUIZ FELIPE DIAS RIEIROLUIZ FELIPE DIAS RIBEIRO
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Britney ChaunceySouthwest Tennessee Community College
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Benjamin RifkinHofstra University
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Scott NelsonPalomar College
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Maria Nelly GoswitzCalifornia State University, Long Beach
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World Languages on the Web
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Francophone group considers how to impact French immersion education
Jun 15, 2019 02:00 PM PDT
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School Education
Jun 15, 2019 01:15 PM PDT
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English Language Training (ELT) Market 2019-2025 New Research by Product Types ...
Jun 15, 2019 01:03 PM PDT
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Is the Market for Adult English Learners in China Getting Stagnant?
Jun 15, 2019 12:52 PM PDT
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Students must lead their own learning
Jun 15, 2019 11:56 AM PDT
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A Jew in SS uniform
Jun 15, 2019 10:15 AM PDT
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Helo to non-English content
Jun 15, 2019 07:56 AM PDT
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Philippine Embassy, Oxford English Dictionary celebrate PH contributions to English
Jun 15, 2019 04:15 AM PDT
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I don't hate 'die taal', but we need changes – Lesufi
Jun 14, 2019 09:07 PM PDT
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Mandarin made mandatory in many schools
Jun 14, 2019 07:03 PM PDT
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China's leading online education platform eyes underserved markets
Jun 14, 2019 04:48 PM PDT
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BiH, China sign agreement to strengthen cooperation in education
Jun 14, 2019 02:33 PM PDT
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Ngugi, leading authors and publishers take stock of hits and misses in key city forum
Jun 14, 2019 02:02 PM PDT
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- Jefferson Public Radio spoke to four language students from Southern Oregon University about their learning journey… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | actfl
- Homophobic and transphobic hate crimes surge in England and Wales theguardian.com/world/2019/jun…1 day ago | lfranklin
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- ACTFL sponsors a Student Stipend Award program to help postsecondary, full-time students in a college or university… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2 days ago | actfl
- The @BiliteracySeal offers recognition and other benefits for multilingual students. "By providing them a credentia… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2 days ago | actfl