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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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...
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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...
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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House Passes Bill to Expand Bilingual Early Childhood Programs
Apr 19, 2024 05:26 PM PDT
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Lack of research on Australia's native bees could be detrimental to their survival, experts say
Apr 19, 2024 04:49 PM PDT
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Smart teaching system launched for international Chinese learning - Chinadaily.com.cn
Apr 19, 2024 04:45 PM PDT
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Enhancing the equity of education through preventing and combating school segregation
Apr 19, 2024 04:42 PM PDT
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Celebrating Student Research - School of Linguistics and Language Studies
Apr 19, 2024 03:37 PM PDT
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One week left to vote in ST Star Awards 2024 - StudyTravel Network
Apr 19, 2024 03:34 PM PDT
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Dr. Mali Recognized for Distinguished Leadership in African Language Pedagogy
Apr 19, 2024 02:08 PM PDT
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The UK is poorer without Erasmus – it's time to rejoin the European exchange programme
Apr 19, 2024 01:41 PM PDT
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Côté: OCDSB shouldn't ax Early French Immersion | Ottawa Citizen
Apr 19, 2024 01:40 PM PDT
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African Languages Festival demonstrates language teaching excellence: Hamilton Lugar School
Apr 19, 2024 01:39 PM PDT
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Leeman receives Fulbright to study sociolinguistics in Spain | George Mason University
Apr 19, 2024 01:34 PM PDT
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Assistant professor awarded German Academic Exchange Service Faculty Fellowship
Apr 19, 2024 12:56 PM PDT
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UN Chinese Language Day celebrated in Zambia - Xinhua
Apr 19, 2024 12:41 PM PDT
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Improving Gboard language models via private federated analytics - Google Research
Apr 19, 2024 11:38 AM PDT
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New technology featured in better learning
Apr 19, 2024 10:07 AM PDT
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How many foreign exchange students are studying in the Fox Cities? - The Post-Crescent
Apr 19, 2024 09:34 AM PDT
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MCPS Policy Change Aims to Increase Multilingualism - Montgomery Community Media
Apr 19, 2024 09:21 AM PDT
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African Languages Festival demonstrates teaching excellence: Hamilton Lugar School - News at IU
Apr 19, 2024 09:09 AM PDT
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Saskatchewan Invests $13.2 Million for Veterinary Medicine Training | News and Media
Apr 19, 2024 09:04 AM PDT
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Feature: Chinese Language Day observed in Nepal - Xinhua
Apr 19, 2024 09:01 AM PDT