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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Improving Gboard language models via private federated analytics - Google Research
Apr 19, 2024 11:38 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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Chinese language classes return to campus thanks to student demand and petitions - The Exponent
Apr 19, 2024 08:52 AM PDT
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Obituary: Jonathan Porter March 25, 1938 – March 26, 2024 - Los Alamos Reporter
Apr 19, 2024 08:36 AM PDT
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Tutoring Toward Testing Success - Christopher Newport University
Apr 19, 2024 08:20 AM PDT
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Hong Kong exams body pledges to file police report after more test content leaked on ...
Apr 19, 2024 07:59 AM PDT
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Celebrating multilingualism and Chinese cultural diversity - World - Chinadaily.com.cn
Apr 19, 2024 07:29 AM PDT
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English Is Strengthening As Second Most Known Language By Czechs - Brno Daily
Apr 19, 2024 07:28 AM PDT
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CANR honors recipient of 2024 H. Paul Roberts Award for Distinguished Service in Study ...
Apr 19, 2024 07:14 AM PDT
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Mieder, Rubenstein to Receive Honorary Degrees at UVM's 2024 Commencement
Apr 19, 2024 06:18 AM PDT
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German Language and Intercultural Studies EU Campus Program 2023 has successfully completed!
Apr 19, 2024 06:11 AM PDT
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Magic bond of UN Chinese Language Day and Grain Rain - Ecns.cn
Apr 19, 2024 05:44 AM PDT
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A look at Chinese Language Learning Center in Juba, South Sudan - Xinhua
Apr 19, 2024 05:20 AM PDT
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Which scientists get mentioned in the news? Mostly ones with Anglo names, says study - NPR
Apr 19, 2024 05:20 AM PDT
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International Alumni Award - Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singapore
Apr 19, 2024 05:00 AM PDT
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Andover High School teacher leads effort for more understandable driver's tests
Apr 19, 2024 04:27 AM PDT
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Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, 1400-1800 - Durham University
Apr 19, 2024 01:05 AM PDT