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Bonjour! Buenos Dias! Guten Tag! Ni Hao! Marhaba! MERLOT welcomes all language educators and students of World Languages to access the many OER available in the ever-expanding World Languages Collection. This pioneer community contains thousands of OER, many of them peer-reviewed by distinguished scholars in the field. Please peruse our collection and correspond with us if you are interested in knowing more about the World Languages community peer review process. Contact Laura Franklin (lfranklin@nvcc.edu) for more information.
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World Language Assessment: Get in the Mode! supports and empowers world language educators to improve student proficiency through a variety of assessment strategies. Focusing on the three modes of communication (interpretive, presentational, and interpersonal), this resource provides a framework of formative, interim, and summative assessments for use at any grade level.
New Materials
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Qan - La ville virtuelle pour écrire et lire - The virtual city for reading and writing
Vous vous promenez dans la ville virtuelle de Qan. Vous y laissez vos textes, courts ou longs en choisissant une rue qui...
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Semillas: Elementary Spanish II
Semillas: Elementary Spanish II is an intermediate Spanish open-access textbook with reading, listening, speaking, and...
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Estamos aquí! Comunidades bilingües e identidades regionales de los Estados Unidos
Estamos aquí! is an Open Educational Resource (OER) developed collaboratively by five Spanish as a Heritage Language...
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Giornate italiane - An Italian Textbook for Beginning and Intermediate Learners
Giornate Italiane is an open educational resource designed to support beginning and intermediate learners of Italian...
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Open Language Resource Center
This site showcases a range of open, freely accessible language‑learning materials created at the University of Kansas,...
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Multi-Literacies Lesson Plan - Changing Traditions: The Modern Italian Family
This material includes a four day lesson plan and all learning activities to adopt a multi-literacies approach to Italian...
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Piacere! Elementary Italian at The University of Iowa
Piacere! Elementary Italian at The University of Iowa is an open-access textbook that introduces students to the Italian...
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Intermediate Italian: Discovering Italy through Authentic Texts
This is the first unit in an intermediate‑level Italian course designed as a bridge to advanced study by engaging...
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Exploring Italian Film: A Viewing Experience for Beginning Learners
This assignment invites beginning Italian learners to watch an Italian film and engage with it through structured...
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Language Program Direction Interactive Modules | CARLA
The CARLA Language Program Direction (LPD) Interactive Modules are a set of openly licensed training resources designed...
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French A1–A2 Role-Play Cards: Introducing yourself and asking personal questions
This learning resource is a task-based French language activity designed to develop communicative competence through...
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English Guided Conversations: Introducing yourself and talking about others ( High A2 - low B1)
This learning resource is a structured language lesson designed to develop communicative competence through guided...
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French A1 Guided conversations: Asking and describing locations using basic sentencestructures
This learning resource is a structured beginner-level (A1) language lesson designed to develop communicative competence...
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Deutsch-Lesen.com
Deutsch Lesen helps you learn German through reading. It publishes authentic articles across topics like science,...
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Vocabulary Cube Puzzle
A fun and challenging puzzle to match up English/Spanish vocabulary words and phrases.
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Cuentos paralelos español inglés : Proyecto Sherezade y autores : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Cuentos bilingües en texto paralelo en español y en inglés de Proyecto SherezadeBilingual short stories in parallel text...
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Décollage - méthode de français pour débutants (version originale 10.02.2025) - Google Drive
Décollage - méthode de français langue étrangère pour débutants The Décollage project was designed by a South African...
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Entre o De Nada e o que Isso: Respostas a Agradecimentos no Português Brasileiro e o Ensino de PLE em Contexto DigitalDIGITAL
This essay addresses a topic in teaching/learning of Portuguese as a second or foreign language.
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Japanese Introductory 1
Japanese Introductory 1 is a comprehensive and interactive textbook for beginners eager to learn Japanese. Tailored to...
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Spanish 4210/Spanish 6210 - Sociolinguistics
The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational...
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Mastering Mandarin Sounds: An interactive H5P Pressbook
Mastering Mandarin Sounds: An Interactive H5P Pressbook is an open educational resource (OER) designed to help learners...
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Integrating Immersive Technologies into Foreign Language Instruction: Case of Ukrainian Language and Culture
This e-book offers a discussion of immersive technologies in the context of intercultural competence and language...
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Multiliteracies at the Museum: A Resource Book for Language Teachers
The educational potential of museum galleries as spaces that are both carefully curated (read: designed) and also afford...
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Incorporating Translation in the World Language Classroom
This handbook is designed to help you incorporate translation into your world language classroom as a mediational tool...
New Members
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Nikita ArcherGeorgetown International Academy -
Keith CampbellPalomar College
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Matthew QuinnCalifornia State University, Sacramento
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Katrina NaiotiDept of Ed
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Instituto CervantesInstituto Cervantes / Spanish Ministry of Culture
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Jakir HussainFilmmaking
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Kimber HawkeyTalk of the Town Languages & Culture
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punithavalli kumaranUNITAR
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Adrien Meierovitchindependent learner
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Frank FinchCalifornia State University, Long Beach
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Ariana AnleuLong Beach Unified School District
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Heather NolenLynchburg City
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Penny WheelerUniversity of Technology, Sydney
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David CoyleSt. Francis Xavier University
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ELIANA BISTREANULiceul Tehnologic General Ioan Culcer
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Nicoleta GrigoreColegiul National Ecaterina Teodoroiu
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Katherine KerschenWashington University,Saint Louis
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Suleiman HalimatAdekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo state
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Monica Del ValleUnitedHealth Group
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Emily SposetoUniversity of Denver
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Gabriel PallaCervantes
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Arcedes José ManuelUniversidade Estadual de Campinas
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Elizabeth Naranjo HayesTruman State University
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- ESL or EFL (682)
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- Korean (28)
- Latin (64)
- Less Commonly Taught Languages (250)
- Multilingual Resources (221)
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Journals & Publications
World Languages on the Web
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New network for regional cooperation in educational sciences - University World News
Feb 19, 2026 04:26 PM PST
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Language and power: Linguistic imperialism and its lasting impact on higher education
Feb 19, 2026 01:57 PM PST
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US Funded $1 Billion in Research With Chinese Labs, Report Says - Bloomberg.com
Feb 19, 2026 01:53 PM PST
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When education stopped making sense - News Decoder
Feb 19, 2026 09:26 AM PST
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School Barometer 2026: first evaluation tool of general education system presented in Moldova
Feb 19, 2026 04:55 AM PST
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TU/e and Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research strengthen their long-standing collaboration
Feb 19, 2026 04:44 AM PST
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Bilingual courses in Europe: Proper use of language is professors' main concern
Feb 19, 2026 02:24 AM PST
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【Report】SPF Invitation Program for Young Brazilian Nikkei Politicians
Feb 19, 2026 02:08 AM PST
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EPICUR Seed Funding 2026: Five Research Projects Selected - Universität Freiburg
Feb 19, 2026 01:04 AM PST
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NSU invites proposals for 53rd Annual Symposium on the American Indian
Feb 18, 2026 11:31 PM PST
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OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills | TechCrunch
Feb 18, 2026 11:03 PM PST
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School language aides to get boost amid foreign student surge | The Asahi Shimbun
Feb 18, 2026 09:46 PM PST
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China's Military AI Wish List | Center for Security and Emerging Technology - CSET
Feb 18, 2026 09:09 PM PST
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Indian university kicked out of summit for falsely claiming credit for Chinese robot - ABC
Feb 18, 2026 08:30 PM PST
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Invisible Networks? What the SAFE Research Act Reveals About US–China Academic Competition
Feb 18, 2026 05:24 PM PST