World Languages Community Portal
Welcome – From the Editor
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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Conestoga English Language Reader 3 (2nd edition)
This reader includes articles written from the perspective of English Language teachers in Canada. Each chapter explores...
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Careers for Language Majors
This book highlights the many opportunities available to language majors, showcasing the versatility of language studies...
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Camerise: 100 Creative ideas to use H5P in language teaching
This is an inspired collection from an open crowdsourced collection by #creativeHE, presenting a diverse array of ideas...
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Hadithi Fupi Za KujiFunza Lugha ya Kiswahili: Short Stories for Swahili Reading Comprehension
This book applies a visual reading comprehension approach in Swahili teaching using pictures and text. It comprises of...
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LIBRO - The Library of Iberian Resources Online
The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of...
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The Palabra Archive
This site includes newly digitized recordings of poets and prose writers from the Library of Congress' Recording...
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SpinTX
The SpinTX video archive provides access to selected video clips and transcripts from the Spanish in Texas Corpus, a...
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Cervantes’ Don Quixote
The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque...
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Spanish - Open Learning
Open Learn provides seven Spanish courses ranging from beginners to advanced Spanish, such as "Beginners’ Spanish: food...
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FutureLearn
Learn how to ask for directions, shop for clothes, and order food and drinks in the sixth Spanish for Beginners course....
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Mia Cositas
This website includes a variety of materials for learning and teaching Spanish
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Learn Spanish Language with Memrise
Learn Spanish with Memrise: Discover vocabulary, pronunciation and listening practice and videos of native speakers using...
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Audiria
Audiria is an online tool that freely supports your learning of Spanish, offering podcasts to increase your knowledge of...
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Spanish 1
First of all, Spanish is: the world’s third most spoken language, after Mandarin Chinese and English, and ranks second in...
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Spanish 001
For both, the teacher and student alike, this Spanish I book is intended for a first-year, college Elementary Spanish I...
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Real Academia Española
The RAE (Real Academia Española) is an excellent resource to look up the current definition of a world in the Spanish...
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Learning Chinese - A Foundation Course in Mandarin
The general principles of this text is to provide a comprehensive resource for the foundation levels of Chinese language...
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Vous traduisez pour le Canada? (version 2)
Devez-vous traduire pour un public canadien? Nous avons ce qu'il vous faut! Ce livre numérique aborde brièvement les...
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Translating for Canada, eh? (version 2)
Do you need to translate for a Canadian audience? We’ve got you covered! This ebook briefly introduces the concepts of...
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Para vivir con salud
We have developed this open access book for universities and colleges responding to the needs and interests of students...
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Intermediate Greek- An AI Assignment
The prowess of Achilles, Diomedes, and Hektor are one of the central themes of The Iliad by Homer. There are other,...
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O que se Diz e o que se Quer Dizer: uma Análise de Diferentes Formas de Negação no Português Brasileiro, Através de Crônicas de Luis Fernando Veríssimo
Ensaios em Português como Segunda Língua ou Língua Estrangeira is a collection of essays that address topics in...
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Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than five hundred times into...
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Aquí y allí (Introductory Spanish II)
Welcome to Spanish 1002 with Aquí y allí at Clayton State University. Why is it important to learn Spanish? Why am I...
New Members
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Kate SierraSeton Hall University
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Jazmin BrisenoCalifornia State University, Long Beach
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Jeannine WhitleyJSU
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Paco LalovicUniversity of Ottawa
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Cuathemoc GonzalezCSULB
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Boyeong KimMyongji University
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Jorge KafieJorge E. Kafie
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Maryann WeberEastern Gateway Community College
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Alonzo RumfeltState of Alaska
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Bernadette DonohueOakland University
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Victor MirandaCSULB
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Laura BatyMOED
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Chiara MonteraUniversity of Pittsburgh
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Marjorie GomezUNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE NICARAGUA
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Sonja ThrushCollege of Lake County
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Eilene PowellCalifornia State University, Los Angeles
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Daniel MeoliUniversity of Maryland System - Baltimore County
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Ya’Nay BrooksAmplus Academy
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YAP TENGUniversiti Malaya
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KAMMOUN FatmaUniversity of Carthage
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PEDRO INFANTEiescla
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James VirgilioHouston Community/Technical College System
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Amy ZinkIndiana University Southeast
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Philippe PattoSan Diego City College
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Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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Sen. Joni Ernst slams Biden admin for funneling $2.8M for 'high-risk pathogens' research in Guinea
Mar 18, 2024 06:59 PM PDT
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A true language of love that was not lost in translation - World - Chinadaily.com.cn
Mar 18, 2024 06:57 PM PDT
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France grants Morocco 146 mln USD for education reforms - Xinhua
Mar 18, 2024 04:42 PM PDT
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Morocco, France Launch €134.7 Million Program to Cut School Dropouts by 30%
Mar 18, 2024 04:13 PM PDT
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Russian-Language Education in the Former Soviet National Republics in the Last 30 Years
Mar 18, 2024 02:28 PM PDT
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New book series provides window into often untold US Latino histories - SmartBrief
Mar 18, 2024 02:27 PM PDT
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Opinion: Students Should Start Learning Languages Earlier - M-A Chronicle
Mar 18, 2024 02:21 PM PDT
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Language barriers 'hold knowledge and researchers back' - Research Professional News
Mar 18, 2024 02:13 PM PDT
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Raising the Bar for Multilingualism and English-Learners Through a Re-Imagined National ...
Mar 18, 2024 12:29 PM PDT
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Conference "Mission Ocean restore our Ocean and Waters" - ULisboa
Mar 18, 2024 12:07 PM PDT
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Providing care in French makes a difference - la semaine de la Francophonie with Joel Lafond
Mar 18, 2024 09:08 AM PDT
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The melody of language learning at intermediate and upper levels: an emphasis on free ...
Mar 18, 2024 08:38 AM PDT
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President Amherd and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen open ...
Mar 18, 2024 07:52 AM PDT
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Maria Urquides starts first bilingual education program in Arizona - AZCentral
Mar 18, 2024 07:49 AM PDT
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Biden pushes for expansion in women's health research - The Indian Express
Mar 18, 2024 07:16 AM PDT
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Opening speech of the Research and Innovation Week (R&I Week) - European Commission
Mar 18, 2024 07:10 AM PDT
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Translation helps decolonise minds and nurture multiculturalism, while bringing inclusivity ...
Mar 18, 2024 06:41 AM PDT
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'No Sabo Kids'? From insult to badge of pride for young Latinos - AZCentral
Mar 18, 2024 06:25 AM PDT
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Union students learn Japanese customs, culture | Local News | ncnewsonline.com
Mar 18, 2024 04:52 AM PDT
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Chinese professor at Japan university missing after visiting homeland - Kyodo News
Mar 18, 2024 04:37 AM PDT