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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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Spanish Preterite Tense | SpanishDict
Let's review the preterite in Spanish and look at preterite tense forms, preterite conjugations, and preterite endings.
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Comparisons of Inequality in Spanish: Examples and Practice - SpanishLearningLab
In this lesson, we will explain the rules to make comparisons of inequality in Spanish using MAS QUE + adjectives and...
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Describing the Weather in Spanish & Forecasting - SpanishLearningLab
This lesson will explain how to use verbs like SER and ESTAR plus weather expressions for describing the weather in...
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Prepositions of Place in Spanish: List, Examples and Practice - SpanishLearningLab
This lesson will introduce a list of prepositions of place in Spanish through pictures and several examples. It will also...
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Ser and Estar: Part I - StudySpanish.com
Learn Spanish grammar with our free helpful lessons and fun exercises at StudySpanish.com. Get started on your way to...
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Los medios de transporte
In this lesson, you will learn means of transportation in Spanish.
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Ir a + infinitive - StudySpanish.com
Learn Spanish grammar with our free helpful lessons and fun exercises at StudySpanish.com. Get started on your way to...
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Making Future Plans in Spanish: IR + A + Infinitive - SpanishLearningLab
Learn to use IR + A + Infinitive for making plans in Spanish. Listen to some examples of future plans in Spanish with...
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Vocabulario de la comida y las bebidas | ProfeDeELE
Aprende el vocabulario de la comida (alimentos y bebidas) con este material visual y actividades online divertidas. Nivel...
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Vocabulario en español: tiempo libre, aficiones y espectáculos
Revisión del vocabulario en español sobre aficiones, actividades de tiempo libre y espectáculos.
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Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 2
This is the second book in a three book series. This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic...
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Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 1
This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working...
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Transition with Purpose: Pathways from English Language to Academic Study
This Open Access Textbook will guide students through their English language to academic degree studies. Part one of this...
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PDX Journeys: Studying and Living in the US, Low-Intermediate Novel and Textbook for University ESL Students
Each unit begins with a chapter of fiction about a teacher and students in one ESL class. Reading comprehension and...
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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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Convivencia: Activities for Beginning Spanish Learners
Convivencia can be found in two versions. A PDF is available free to download. A printed version is available for...
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Histoires d'Avenirs: Science-fiction pour le cours de français niveaux intermédiaire et avancé
Histoires d’Avenirs est un manuel basé sur neuf nouvelles de science fiction française qui s’adresse à un public...
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OER Course Redesign-ESOL 44
This is a course outline for a redesign of an ESOL course. The author has developed OER links to be used in the course.
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Course Layout ESOL 44
Students will practice and improve skills in listening and speaking in a variety of contexts. The theme of our class will...
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Intro to Academic Writing for ESOL
W elcome to this OER course redesign project for ESOL 162, Level 6 Academic Writing at Portland Community College. This...
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Intro to Academic Writing for ESOL
This is a textbook that was developed to be used in a course on Academic Writing for ESL. It consists of the following...
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ESL for Advanced Students- Basic Advanced Grammar/Writing 5. Book Five.docx
These books were created by Don Bissonnette for students and teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL). I taught ESL...
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ESL for High-Intermediate Students- High Intermediate Grammar/Writing -4. Book Four.docx
These books were created by Don Bissonnette for students and teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL). I taught ESL...
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ESL for Low Intermediate Students- Intermediate Grammar/Writing - 3. Book Three.doc
These books were created by Don Bissonnette for students and teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL). I taught ESL...
New Members
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Janaina LopezBethune-Cookman University -
Jackeline BucioB@UNAM
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Chris Anama-GreenHarlan County Schools
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Tamara MarieSpanish Con Salsa
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Kazuko YasutakeFoothill-De Anza Community/Technical College District
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Christian RocheMetropolitan State College of Denver
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obiyaa frimpongnorth liverpool academy
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Amie WilsonHamilton County Schools
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Gwendolyn GroeneveldLive Lingua
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Liz WadeGuilford College
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Tim AndersonKishwaukee College
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Sandra AlfordSouthern University System - Baton Rouge
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Meg GrahamMukwonago High School
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Ebony MitchellMinneapolis Community and Technical College
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Candace Burrell-TomsMassey University
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Pingli ChangVVA
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Blerina KostaMonsignor Bonner & Archbishop Prendergast High School
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Rebecca Al HaiderReedley College
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Hennie GoedeNorth-West University
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Tomoko TakedaSanta Clara University
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OSCAR MARTINCity University of New York System - Lehman College
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Crystal HSIAUnknown
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Sabrina Spannagel BradleyUniversity of Washington - Seattle
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Petra PetryCSWC
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- The latest The Laura Franklin Daily! paper.li/lfranklin/1311… Thanks to @NBCSWizards @nathanlutz @MRodOfficial #studentsuccess #redskins7 hours ago | lfranklin
- Rwanda turned its back on the French-speaking world when it chose English as the language of education a decade ago… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…13 hours ago | actfl
- 5 Ways to Build Real Teacher-Student Connections for the Year Ahead @EdSurge buff.ly/2no0SR3 https://t.co/FxIe8BVeYB, photo: pic.twitter.com/FxIe8BVeYB15 hours ago | MERLOTorg
- How do you leverage community connections? Answer The Language Educator's "So You Say" question for its October/Nov… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…16 hours ago | actfl
- The latest The Laura Franklin Daily! paper.li/lfranklin/1311… Thanks to @LeadWLanguages @NBCSRedskins @lindseybp #edtech #ewopinion1 day ago | lfranklin
- RT @hereandnow: Not only is there a language learning gap in the U.S., it's actually getting worse, according to @actfl's executive directo…1 day ago | actfl
- On the one-year anniversary of Charlottesville, let's not forget that teaching students to value diversity in our c… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | actfl
- The latest The Laura Franklin Daily! paper.li/lfranklin/1311… #redskins #ewopinion2 days ago | lfranklin
- If this isn't a reason to learn another language, I don't know what is. 😋 #LanguageLearning twitter.com/LeadWLanguages…2 days ago | actfl
- The latest The Laura Franklin Daily! paper.li/lfranklin/1311… Thanks to @NBCSRedskins @franceintheus @LeadWLanguages #ewopinion #redskins3 days ago | lfranklin