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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Spanish for Health Professions – SPAN 2050
The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational...
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Médiocre à l’entrée = Médiocre à la sortie! Optimisez vos traductions en optimisant vos textes de départ
Médiocre à l’entrée = médiocre à la sortie! explique comment la qualité des textes que vous écrivez se répercute sur la...
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Garbage in, garbage out! Get better translations by writing translation friendly texts
Garbage in, garbage out! explains how the quality of the texts you write affects the quality of the translations of those...
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Beginning Korean 2
The Beginning Korean 2 is designed for elementary Korean learners to practice and learn how to communicate in Korean.
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开源中文 EverFlow Mandarin
Overview: This is an OER Chinese language textbook developed for intermediate-to-advanced level Chinese L2 learners.
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Comunidades
This is a textbook for first-semester Spanish with a focus on the cultural products, practices and perspectives of...
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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...
New Members
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Runqing QiUniversity of Colorado System - Boulder
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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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Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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Academic Programs:Spanish Education - MSU RO
Apr 27, 2024 02:44 AM PDT
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Ireland emerges as top destination for Indian students seeking global education
Apr 26, 2024 10:15 PM PDT
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Champions crowned in SBCEO's Battle of the Books - The Santa Barbara Independent
Apr 26, 2024 09:52 PM PDT
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Horizontal mapping of time-related words in first and second language | Scientific Reports
Apr 26, 2024 09:23 PM PDT
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Ontario Increasing Funding to Boost Reading, Writing and Math
Apr 26, 2024 09:17 PM PDT
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Toula Drimonis: CAQ adds kids of asylum seekers to list of scapegoats - Montreal Gazette
Apr 26, 2024 07:26 PM PDT
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North Greene Students recognized at National French Contest - Yahoo
Apr 26, 2024 06:45 PM PDT
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Starting from a flood crisis, modern education in Shanghai was born - SHINE News
Apr 26, 2024 04:35 PM PDT
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For the Love of Learning: Meet 2024 PNW graduate Jonathan Del Real
Apr 26, 2024 03:55 PM PDT
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Champions crowned in Santa Barbara County Education Office's 'Battle of the Books' - KEYT
Apr 26, 2024 02:47 PM PDT
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Highlights of Ontario's $29-billion education budget for 2024-25 school year - Toronto.com
Apr 26, 2024 01:15 PM PDT
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John I. Leonard High Hosts Another Successful International Spanish Academy Symposium
Apr 26, 2024 12:47 PM PDT
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Come work with us: We're looking for a Fundraising Trainee - Right Livelihood
Apr 26, 2024 12:34 PM PDT
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Brown in Paris marks 30 years of innovative, immersive study abroad
Apr 26, 2024 10:57 AM PDT
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Afro-Am Department PhD Student Maya Cunningham Receives 2024-25 Diversity Scholars ...
Apr 26, 2024 10:00 AM PDT
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French language proficiency will lead category-based selection Express Entry draws in 2024
Apr 26, 2024 09:56 AM PDT
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7 oldest Indian languages that are still spoken today | Times of India
Apr 26, 2024 09:52 AM PDT
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Romania opens fifth Confucius Institute - Xinhua
Apr 26, 2024 06:35 AM PDT
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Eaquals conference explores AI and leadership - The PIE News
Apr 26, 2024 06:31 AM PDT
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A multimodal approach to cross-lingual sentiment analysis with ensemble of transformer and LLM
Apr 26, 2024 06:01 AM PDT