This project is focused on developing innovative multimedia learning materials for Chinese. The first website, Pitch Perfect Pinyin, will be a two-part interactive website for learning Pinyin...
Aswaat cArabiyya "Arabic Voices," is a website designed for learners and teachers of Arabic seeking materials for listening comprehension. Aswaat cArabiyya...
Brazilpod is a collection of online, open access, and free-to-use materials for the learning of Portuguese as a foreign language. Almost all of these materials serve as stand alone, ancillary to...
Hindi in America builds on Hindi-Urdu Flagship initiatives by establishing an ambitious collection of interviews with Hindi-speakers that will provide learners with unscripted...
This open access, print-on-demand textbook will help beginning learners of Yorùbá develop communicative skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, the program will provide...
The goal of this project is to develop a pedagogically useful corpus of Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English speech samples culled from interviews and conversations among speakers of diverse...
The purpose of these materials is to help future public school teachers of Spanish in their assessment of learners’ levels of proficiency. These materials not only present videos of learners...
In many areas of education, commerce, and public policy, there is a need to understand the functional language abilities of individuals in bilingual populations. The current project aims to...
eComma (aka “The eCommentary Machine”) is a web application that enables groups of students, scholars, or general readers to build collaborative commentaries on a text and to search, display, and...
This project develops a prototype of a multilingual corpus-based lexicon of Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. The multilingual dictionary will...
The idea behind the LESCANT Photo Database is to give students experience in identifying and analyzing cultural differences that come up whenever they deal with people from other cultures. Student...
COERLL sponsors teacher workshops every summer of the grant cycle. Workshops typically focus on teaching methods specific to a language or teaching with open materials and methods.
Skip the convention centers and stuffy conference halls. COERLL will be bringing an exciting professional development opportunity directly to your home or office or fave coffee house, where ever you're plugging in at the time.
In June, COERLL will roll out a webinar series for professional development and collaboration amongst foreign language educators. The series is free and offers CPE credits. To receive credits, you'll need to pre-register and make sure to participate in the webinar at ...
Corpora developed by linguists to study languages are a promising source of authentic materials to employ in the development of OER for language learning. Recently, COERLL's SpinTX Corpus-to-Classroom project launched a new open resource that seeks to make it easy to search and adapt materials from a video corpus.
The SpinTX video archive provides a pedagogically-friendly web interface to search hundreds of videos from the Spanish in Texas Corpus. Each of the videos is accompanied by synch...
Fernando Rubio checks back in with us after finishing his first year teaching a Spanish MOOC.
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I ended my previous post inviting you to think about the role of MOOCs and the intersection between teaching and certification.
The conversation that has been going on since my last post has been just as polarized as it was before. MOOCs have recently been called a new form of colonialism because they are an attempt to address the demand for higher education by some of the top universities ...
Discussions about the future of OER often seem to center on issues of promotion and tenure and on finding viable business models for for large-scale projects. While these are certainly issues for which solutions need to be found, our desire to institutionalize and commodify OER must not crowd out consideration of the pedagogical opportunities that OER can provide to graduate programs.
Digital Humanities and CALL
We are in an age in which graduate programs are thinking about alternatives t...
We had a notable presence at this year's SOCALLT conference (South Central Association for Language Learning Technology). Language educators from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico gathered to talk all things edu-tech. So we took this opportunity to unveil some of COERLL's new or updated open online language learning resources and get some f2f feedback.
COERLL Presentations on New or Improved OER
Web developer Rachael Gilg and corpus developer Arthur Wendorf gave a han...
