Language Teaching Resources
- Vista Higher Learning webinars
- Learn to leverage blended learning- An Overview of Blended Language Learning and Blended Language Learning Course
Here's how some language teachers are using Zoom:
- Amber's Chinese Solutions: Learn how to Run an Effective Language Class in Zoom
- Lindsay Does Languages: Video on How to Teach Online with Zoom
- Columbia Language Resource Center: Video on Teaching Languages via Zoom
Regarding netiquette, faculty can structure their online classes in the way that makes most sense for them, their curriculum and the group of students they are teaching. There is no right or wrong way to address this and expectations may vary from day to day or even by activity. Here are some resources to help you in creating a guide and additional considerations.
- The Center for Teaching and Learning has a plethora of teaching resources on a variety of topics such as
- The Office of Information Technology also has compiled documentation on technology applications including
- Using Zoom for remote teaching and learning (see first two questions in that section)
- Indicating language in Canvas for accessibility
- ACTFL offers resources and community boards
- ACTFL webinars on remote, distance and online language learning
- International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) webinars
- IALLT’s free online magazine on technology integration in language teaching and learning (FLTMAG): tech highlights and articles particularly helpful for remote teaching
- NFLRC learning resources for online language teachers
This is a small collection of the many free resources available online to you and your students. If you find a resource you think other faculty would like, let us know!
- Humboldt State University, World Languages and Cultures, Open Education Resources (OER)
- COERLL Language Learning Materials
- Finding OER for Language Courses
- MERLOT Resources that can be filtered by discipline, material type, audience and mobile platform
- STARTALK Resources
- Language Panda- a crowd-sourced, searchable database for the teaching of foreign languages with digital resources
- Speechling language learning tools
- Open Culture lessons in 48 languages
- Text and online materials for different languages
- Transparent Language- Word of the Day plus language blogs in Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Urdu
- TED Talks in different languages
- Authentic commercials- check out this collection of commercials in Spanish
- Free children's stories on Audible- available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish
- Yabla 90-day free subscription for Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. This is Language is a similar video player for English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
- Woodpecker Learning is a video player app designed to help improve language skills in Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Vietnamese. Practice commonly used vocabulary, tones and accents while watching a library of popular shows from all over the world.
- Media streaming platforms
- Online magazines and newspapers
- WorldStories
- Children's Books Forever
- Storybooks Canada
- International Children's Digital Library
- Flipgrid, VoiceThread or the video tool to create an assignment in Canvas for students to upload a video with guidance/ prompts
- TalkAbroad or Boomalong for live conversations with trained native speaker language partners (these are not free, but you may apply for partial funding support from ALTEC)
- Discussion boards in Canvas can be useful along with individual assignments
- Digication e-portfolios
Don't forget to send your students to check out tech tools in our student resources page!