MHC Languages

Information for faculty about learning disabilities and instructional strategies to meet students needs.

A bibliography/resource list for books and websites on CALL research.

Marist College has been named one of 16 "Campus Technology Innovators" nationally by Campus Technology magazine. Approximately 500 colleges and universities were considered for inclusion in the magazine's August issue. Marist achieved this national distinction in the area of podcasting. Magazine editors noted that Marist stood out from other institutions because Marist is the only college or university to have student-driven course content.

A high school teacher writes about how his students get interested in using Twitter in the classroom.

This is a simple trainer for learners of Japanese to improve their recognition speed of hiragana and katakana. The program is still under development and we welcome any feedback from users. 1. Choose ひらがな or カタカナ. 2. Set a speed for your flash card from a pulldown menu. (Available speeds range from three seconds to 0.1 second with 0.1 second increment. ) 3. Read each letter aloud. You must keep up with the speed you set. There is no feedback.

Links to a video of a teacher training session on Web 2.0 Tools and a 53-page booklet with suggestions and step-by-step instructions for using them.

Forum discussion gathering ideas for magazine article on top-10 things that teachers should know that they didn't learn in their teacher education programs.

The American Councils Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) serves both graduate and undergraduate students. The academic program is designed to improve participants' oral, listening, reading, and writing proficiency in Russian language and to develop their knowledge of Russian history, politics, culture, and society. The academic year, semester, and summer programs provide approximately twenty hours per week of in-class instruction in Russian grammar, phonetics, conversation, and cultural studies at Moscow International University, the Russian State Pedagogical University (Gertsen Institute) in St. Petersburg, and the KORA Center for Russian Language in Vladimir. One day per week of the academic program is set aside for local cultural excursions.

A hand-written instruction guide developed by a Spanish teacher at the secondary level for her students.

A collection of lesson plans and materials for teaching speech acts/pragmatics. Focuses on English, but ideas could be applied to other languages.

Hello-Hello is a revolutionary interactive online language course with a community of like-minded individuals that help each other in the learning process. And all for free! Our lessons were developed in collaboration with ACTFL.

Links to a phonetic keyboard layout for Cyrillic, which matches the phonetic keyboard in Mac OS.

A remarkably interactive website for learning Arabic with rhymes for alphabet learning and other interactive methods for script memorization.

The Dartmouth Recorder emulates the language lab environment allowing students to listen and respond to language study 'tapes' anywhere anytime.

English-Arabic and Arabic-English transliteration - A great tool for someone who does is more used to typing in latin than in arabic

Website with a verb list and conjugation tables

Arabic Grammar in Arabic

Arabic Alphabets with audio and character placement images

Welcome to the Minnesota Adult Basic Education (ABE) Fully-Accessible Online Disability Resource Guide. This guide is designed to equip ABE managers, teachers, volunteers and tutors to empower, educate and improve the lives of their students with disabilities. The guide includes knowledgeable contributions by Adult Basic Education and Disability Specialists.

Benchmark your language evaluation skills with your colleagues across Europe! On this site, you as a language learner or language teacher will be able to create, upload and assess your own samples together with teachers and language learners across Europe. The assessments are based on the Common European Framework of Reference. Participating in the WebCEF community will enable you to use the CEF scales more in assessment situations and practice your skills in collaboration with others across Europe. You will have access to multiple assessments, which will also give you feedback on your own.