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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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TEDxBrussels: Open Science can save the planet
Frontiers’ CEO, Kamila Markram, makes a case at TEDxBrussels for why open science is the key to innovation, economic...
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I Still Can't Speak English
Read how you can finally learn to speak English quickly by curating your own free and hugely effective social learning...
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Humanities Commons
Humanities Commons is a trusted, non-profit network where humanities scholars can create a professional profile, discuss...
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Liberte: French 1002
This open textbook for Elementary French II is a web-based remix of the open-source Liberte by Gretchen Angelo. The...
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Liberte: French 1001
This open textbook for Elementary French I is a web-based remix of the open-source Liberte by Gretchen Angelo. The...
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Don't worry, be happy!
A mini-lesson about modal verbs and personality and character adjectives that will help students understand and manage...
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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,...
New Members
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Liz WadeGuilford College -
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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Sabrina Spannagel BradleyUniversity of Washington - Seattle
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Petra PetryCSWC
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Jamilet OrtizState University of New York System - College at Purchase
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Valerie Mumm-JansenUniversity of Wisconsin Colleges (2 year campus)
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Alan MatanMaine West High School
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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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- ESL or EFL (651)
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- Less Commonly Taught Languages (168)
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Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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UN issues local edition of sex education guide
Jul 17, 2018 06:18 PM PDT
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UP plans foreign language course in tourist destinations
Jul 17, 2018 05:45 PM PDT
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JNU to be launchpad for Indo-Japan educational ties
Jul 17, 2018 05:33 PM PDT
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Religious instruction in schools
Jul 17, 2018 04:03 PM PDT
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SAISD triples number of dual language campuses
Jul 17, 2018 03:52 PM PDT
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Two schools vie for honours in Chinese language speech contest
Jul 17, 2018 01:15 PM PDT
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SAISD now offers dual language programs at 45 campuses
Jul 17, 2018 12:52 PM PDT
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City gets Japanese learning centre
Jul 17, 2018 12:30 PM PDT
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Bad Language in the Classroom
Jul 17, 2018 11:22 AM PDT
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Education Opportunity Center recognizes students at banquet
Jul 17, 2018 11:00 AM PDT
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Netherlands Dutch language tuition for expat children
Jul 17, 2018 10:37 AM PDT
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Teacher shortage gets noticed
Jul 17, 2018 08:56 AM PDT
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Int'l diplomats, academics visit Anadolu Agency HQ
Jul 17, 2018 08:00 AM PDT
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Lecturer in French (Education and Scholarship)
Jul 17, 2018 07:27 AM PDT
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Industry partnerships: Secondary schools prepare students for the working world
Jul 17, 2018 07:14 AM PDT
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UN to support China to develop, implement Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Jul 17, 2018 06:18 AM PDT
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Addressing the Achievement Gap in Nebraska
Jul 17, 2018 04:48 AM PDT
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Planning to study abroad? Make informed decisions to avoid regrets
Jul 17, 2018 04:26 AM PDT
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