Chinese Take-In provides an interactive environment where first-year Chinese learners can practice listening outside the classroom according to individual needs and paces while receiving immediate feedback.
The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They are designed for intermediate to advanced students, but are accessible to everyone. Each lesson includes videos of Brazilians from all walks of life speaking naturally about their lives and their country. All lessons integrate reading, writing, listening and comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication and cultural activities with the videos.
A compilation of video scenarios of people interacting with each other in Portuguese. Conversations include dialogs, questions, turn taking exchanges, clarifications, false starts, hugs, laughter, asides. The scenarios are enhanced by transcriptions, translations, content analysis, and notes and discussion blogs.
A multimedia 1st-year German language program based on videos of native speakers and the UT Summer Program in Wrzburg, Germany. The online textbook includes recorded vocabulary, phonetics lessons, an online grammar component, online comparative polls and internet writing activities.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for assessment.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for classroom management.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for teaching culture.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for teaching grammar.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for teaching listening skills.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for teaching pragmatics.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for teaching reading skills.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for teaching speaking skills.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for using technology in the classroom.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for understanding the language learner.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for teaching vocabulary.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices in foreign language education for teaching writing skills.
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices for foreign language instruction at the high-school and college levels. It features 12 interactive media-rich modules taught by different professors from the University of Texas at Austin. Modules include Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pragmatics, Culture, The Language Learner, Technology, Classroom Management, and Assessment.
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. Franais 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)
An online German grammar reference, featuring zany post-modern Grimm's fairy tale characters, authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises, online audio and cartoon images.
Selection of aural Italian grammar lessons (podcasts). Grammar examples and dialogs are built upon the escapades of Arlecchino, Pulcinella, and other masks of the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Lessons feature topical grammar discussions, dramatic readings, pdf grammar notes ... and general audio zaniness.
