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This resource is from CU Boulder, has information on utilizing the internet to teach students about different cultures around the world. This is very useful for EDI as its focus is broadening the awareness of students and encouraging appreciation of other cultures.

This resource is a presentation on how we can learn from foreign language teachers in other countries. It can be useful for EDI because the better the methods used by world language teachers, the more engaged in multicultural learning all students will be. This presentation was made by a partner of the Center for Applied Linguistics which has been a leading research institution on language learning for decades.

This is a resource intended to further the professional development of world language teachers. The resource allows teachers to watch how skilled world language professors apply techniques in the classroom to further their students' learning. This is useful for EDI because in enhancing language teaching methods, outcomes will improve as well, which will broaden students' perspectives.

This resource is an extremely thorough textbook on methods for world language teaching, specifically when it comes to Open Education. Open Education is a type of education which is specifically designed without barriers of access which prevent people of different class position from accessing information to better themselves and improve their lives. This is a movement that foreign language learning has fallen behind on when compared to STEM fields and the like. This is useful for EDI, because the cause promoted by the textbook is one that hypothetically could lead to equity in education for people of all backgrounds.

This resource is one that discusses the many reasons to learn foreign languages. This is a presentation that can be used either to inform teachers of world languages on the benefits their students may receive from being attentive in class, or to give to students as homework to have them write about what they are looking forward to the most at the beginning of the semester.

This is a publicly-available book written by Stephen Krashen on the power of reading to change lives and enhance second language learning. This is useful for world language teachers as it encourages them to dedicate time during class to what he calls "Free Voluntary Reading," in which students are told to read any book of their choice in the target language.