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Social network where students can ask questions about a variety of subject, including world languages. 

Peer Feedback/Evaluation System for Student Team Projects

Course by Lovisa Berg, Dalarna University visit www.du.se/arabic for more information. Watch more on youtube.com/dalarnauniversity or download for free on itunes.du.se On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:· recognize, write and correctly pronounce the Arabic alphabet as well as understand the diacritic marks (al-harakaat) that affect the pronunciation of certain vowels and consonants · acquire a basic vocabulary · understand and ask simple questions · communicate in Arabic about simple familiar subjects · use greetings· introduce themselves: family and background, interests · read short texts and write simple texts about familiar topics · recognize simple grammatical constructions and use them.

Using English for academic purposes: A guide for students in higher education

Use books and articles in English or import your own in any language. You can add annotations and questions to the articles, plus create quizzes. Students can also comment on the articles. Limitations: Free accounts can only import 3 articles per month. Presumably, you can use as many of the existing articles and books as you want, but they are only in English.

Video lessons intended for Japanese high schools students. Subjects include Japanese, Japanese history, math, geography, business, and many more.

Intermediate Urdu comprises sixteen interactive reading passages with corresponding audio and English summaries, dynamic online quizzes, and thirteen video interviews of Urdu scholars. All content is directed towards students at the intermediate level and preparing them for advanced level proficiency.

HTML5 collaborative word processor and whiteboard. Students do not need to make an account to collaborate.

Create lessons in which students proofread passages or rewrite sentences. English only.

Create lessons based on TED talks and YouTube videos. Add multiple-choice and fill-in questions, discussion. The instructor can review student responses and send feedback. See also http://dev.celta.msu.edu/technology-blog/?p=289 Make sure to disable your ad blocker to use this site!

Online Teaching Free account limited to 30 student profiles and 15 activities

Create a page with recordings of how to pronounce students' names.

List of free online courses, including a few that may be useful to learners of English, e.g., "Study Skills for International Students" and "Exploring English: Language and Culture."

Online Speech Recognition in many languages. Text can be exported. I tried this with English and Japanese, and it quite accurately transcribed my speech, except proper names. Teachers could use this to help students improve pronunciation.

Portuguese language lessons that highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. These lessons are designed for intermediate to advanced students, but are accessible to everyone. Each includes videos of Brazilians from all walks of life speaking naturally about their lives and their country, and numerous activities and exercises available in PDF files. 

Communication app that allows students and instructors to text chat and exchange files. Text transcript can be downloaded. Instructor can delete inappropriate messages. Limitations: All users must create an account.

Listening exercise where students with different levels of language study interview in Arabic. Videos require Quicktime to play.

Français interactif is a unique, award-winning 1st-year French curriculum used by learners all over the world. Students explore French language and culture by following the lives of real Students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. The online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, internet activities, and a textbook of classroom exercises. Français interactif was awarded the 2009 CALICO Esperanto Access to Language Education Award and the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment Best of Humanities on the Web award (2005)

Learner response system that includes polls, quizzes, and drawing. The drawing function might be used to check students' handwriting for nonalphabetic languages. This service will shut down on April 3, 2015.

This website contains a corpus of the modern Russian language incorporating over 300 million words. The corpus of Russian is a reference system based on a collection of Russian texts in electronic form. The Corpus is intended for all who are interested in the Russian language and various associated fields: professional linguists, language teachers, school and university students, foreigners learning the language.