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MSU's Center for Language Teaching Advancement's learner training modules for students learning a second language.  Module 1: Understanding proficiency What proficiency is, how it is measured. Module 2: Language learning basics How second languages are learned and taught. Module 3: Language learning strategies Strategies to make you a better language learner.

This module is intended to help you maximize your learning in your language course. It will address some common misconceptions about how languages are learned and will present a variety of tried and true language learning strategies that will help you succeed. You will also gain awareness of the strategies that you use, in order to get you thinking about your approach to language study, and to help you improve your study skills.

Create learning maps, which lead students through steps. Each step contains content, such as text, video, flipped-classroom style lectures, quizzes, images, PDFs, etc. Within Edynco, you can create the lectures and quizzes. The learning maps can be exported. Limitations: 5 learning maps in the free account.

Collection of online resources for learning Japanese from the Japan Foundation. Includes online courses in basic Japanese, learning hiragana and katakana scripts, discussion forums, and games.

There are many reasons that indicate the need to upgrade your online learning management system. An unsatisfactory user-interface, not aligning with the organization's needs and proving to be too costly are some of the reasons that demand an upgradation of your LMS.

5 free tools that anyone can use to learn English.

Social network for language learning based on the premise of living in a town with other learners of that language. Includes various means of communicating, including forums and voice chat. Also includes language learning resources.

Speech Acts in Films is a site where students of Mandarin Chinese learn to examine, understand, and practice social language through the medium of film. The primary audience of the materials are low-advanced and advanced learners who completed approximately two years of language instruction. The materials have been developed for blended-learning environments, but can also be used for self-study, or as supplemental materials in traditional instructional settings.

Create a "learning playlist" of steps for learning something.

30hands Cloud is a platform for online and blended learning that merges personalized, structured content with social media and student publishing for better, student-centric learning.

Group Collaboration for Learning Teams. Learning management system that includes video broadcasts, video meetings, text chat, screencasting, polling, and text messaging.

Gus on the Go is the language learning app that you should look for. It is a wonderful learning tool that helps you teach your child the vocabulary of a spoken language.

Acceso is intended as a complete, interactive curriculum for intermediate-level learners of Spanish. The materials on this site are provided freely to the public and are intended as a replacement for commercial textbooks, which are generally ill-suited to the learning outcomes now considered crucial to successful language study. These materials are supplemented by an online workbook built on the MySpanishLab platform of Pearson Education, Inc., as well as detailed lesson plans, rubrics for the evaluation of student work, and reliable instruments for measuring student progress and learning outcomes.

This site provides language learning programs for students of all levels of German. One extra nice feature is the placement test, allowing individuals to discover which level is best for them if they have studied German previously. Slightly corny at times, the audio streams and pdfs can be found in German-only and bilingual editions. The incorporation of everyday words plus current topics and events makes this program extremely practical. ***Allows for non-English speakers to learn German as well. All instructions have been translated into over 20 other languages such as Spanish, French, Turkish, Hausa, Bulgarian, and more!***

Quick article on longterm memorization techniques for learning French.. applicable for other languages!

Learn the Arabic alphabet, including sounds, and play a matching game using it. Integrates culture as well.

Bonjour de France is an « educational website » containing free exercises tests and games to learn French. Teaching aides and materials are also available for those teaching French as a Foreign Language (FLE). Through its various pages, this website serves as a tool for promoting the Francophonie. New interactive sections will appear regularly to ensure this site becomes a place full of resources and a place to share.

Learn Arabic has short, free lessons on basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary. While the transliteration system from Arabic words to English pronunciation is not the best, each vocab list features recorded audio of the word.

An extension of AlJazeera news, AlJazeera Learning features news articles and reports geared at the student level. Texts include a vocabulary list of words relevant to understanding each article. There are also news videos and other stories. 

RESEARCH AND PROGRAMS Articulation of Language Instruction Assessment of Second Language Content-Based Language Instruction Culture and Language Learning Immersion Education Learner Language Less Commonly Taught Languages Maximizing Study Abroad Pragmatics/Speech Acts Strategies for Language Learning Technology and Language Learning