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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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...
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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...
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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Pioneer Valley French students earn scholarship homestay trip to Paris, Rennes - Santa Maria Times
Mar 28, 2024 04:10 PM PDT
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NDEA aims to innovate English language education and assessment - VietNam News
Mar 28, 2024 03:29 PM PDT
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25 Countries with High Demand for English Teachers - Yahoo Finance
Mar 28, 2024 03:16 PM PDT
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UN to Promote News in Local African Languages
Mar 28, 2024 03:02 PM PDT
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Credit bureaus can't bar NJ law requiring foreign language reports, US judge rules - XM
Mar 28, 2024 02:45 PM PDT
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Babies Predict Actions Based on Language Community - Neuroscience News
Mar 28, 2024 02:14 PM PDT
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Chinese universities to promote education in China at GETEX with emphasis on technology ... - WAM
Mar 28, 2024 01:56 PM PDT
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Transy Spanish Professor Retires: ¡Buena Suerte Veronica Dean-Thacker! - - The Rambler
Mar 28, 2024 12:04 PM PDT
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Media representations of China's inclusive education: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis
Mar 28, 2024 10:40 AM PDT
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Canada: Ontario's cap implementation plan allocates nearly all study permit applications to ...
Mar 28, 2024 10:20 AM PDT
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A paradigm shift in language education - The Concordian
Mar 28, 2024 08:51 AM PDT
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Taiwan offers thousands of scholarships for Southeast Asian students
Mar 28, 2024 08:02 AM PDT
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Daily Research News Online no. 36489 - SKIM Hires to Grow French Business - MrWeb
Mar 28, 2024 07:50 AM PDT
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Education manager to speak at NWC - Powell Tribune
Mar 28, 2024 07:44 AM PDT
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Chinese University Patent Bubbles Evident and Problematic, Including to National ...
Mar 28, 2024 07:05 AM PDT
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France to sue teen for falsely accusing school head in headscarf row - BBC
Mar 28, 2024 06:39 AM PDT
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Next U.S. census will have new boxes for 'Middle Eastern or North African,' 'Latino' - NPR
Mar 28, 2024 06:28 AM PDT
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Next U.S. census will have new boxes for 'Middle Eastern or North African,' 'Latino' | Utah ...
Mar 28, 2024 06:22 AM PDT
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Education Minister meets Italian Ambassador - 1TV
Mar 28, 2024 06:08 AM PDT
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House of Europe: Digital Labs for Ukrainian changemakers in education
Mar 28, 2024 05:39 AM PDT