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Language Teaching and Learning Materials
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Working with Spoken Chinese
A series of units developed to teach and learn distinctive conversation features of Mandarin Chinese. Designed for high-intermediate / advanced learners (ACTFL Speaking Proficiency). Can be used as supplemental materials or for self-study.
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Learning through Listening
Materials designed to help students understand the content, lexical, syntactic and conversation features of natural spoken discourse. Digitized video clips with teaching suggestions and activities. Designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese.
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Korean Grammar in Discourse and Interaction
Guided activities explaining aspects of Korean grammar from a discourse-pragmatic perspective. Designed for high-intermediate / advanced learners and heritage speakers. Each unit can be used as supplemental materials or for self-study.
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Korean Culture and Media Series
Exploring culture through inquiry, observation, analysis. Guided activities. Units for intermediate and advanced learners of Korean.
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Narrating in Korean
This instructional resource, designed for high school and college level teachers of Korean, provides an entire set of materials that can be used in the classroom.
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Narrative and Conceptual Proficiency in Russian
Materials for intermediate to advanced learners of Russian based on an analysis of natural spoken Russian. Teacher handbook outlines five features of Russian important for story-telling and narrating. Workbook offers a variety of activities and tasks that will develop these aspects of learner's proficiency.
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Language Learning Projects
Outlines and descriptions of projects conducted with intermediate to advanced learners of various languages.
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Computer-mediated Activity Library
Resource site with a database of CMC activities, a user's guide to implementing them, a glossary of CMC terminology, case studies, and a bibliography with further resources.
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Teacher Development
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Project Work
Resource site describing and exploring principles of conducting project work. Includes case studies, video clips of teacher narratives, downloadable PDFs, and annotated references with links to further resources.
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Advanced Language Proficiency Bibliography
Online searchable database with references to studies, descriptions, essays on advanced language proficiency.
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Technology Manuals
A series of concise manuals on various technologies.
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Corpus Tutorial
The tutorial consists of ten units of self-study devoted to corpus construction, basic corpus-analytical techniques and applications. Designed for language educators.
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Studies and Reports
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