Duke students will have a new, flexible option for fulfilling their language requirement this summer: an online course in Turkish. Elementary Turkish 101 and 102 will be offered as fully …
Professor Lisa Merschel received a CIT Jump-Start grant to purchase 15 Boomalang licenses for her intermediate Spanish class (Spanish 203) in Spring 2017. Merschel is a Senior Lecturer in the …
A new initiative, Culture and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC), aims to bridge language learning to the content of other courses students take at Duke.
Language Teaching and Technology is a new blog I’ve started to communicate with language instructors here at Duke (and beyond). Please bookmark it now and visit often.
The following is a guest post by Sandra Valnes Quammen, Lecturer in Duke’s Romance Studies Department and the Coordinator of French 1/2. CIT’s November 2012 blog post looking for faculty members willing …
Four lecturers in Romance Studies release their findings on the use of machine translation tools by Duke students and examine user trends.
Luis Von Ahn, one of the creators and founders of Duolingo, spoke at Duke University in November 2012 as part of the Provost’s Lecture Series. When I first saw Luis …
For the past year Duke Libraries has subscribed to Byki, an online language-learning program free to all Duke faculty, students, and staff. With content on more than 70 languages available …
During the Spring 2012 semester, Erdağ Göknar will be using iPads with students in his course, Turkish through Screenplays and Film. He describes how he plans to use second generation iPads …
Guest post by Deb Reisinger, Romance Studies
This semester, my Advanced Grammar and Writing students in FR 101 and I experimented with how the iPad can help us become better writers – in French!
Throughout the semester, I used an app called iAnnotate to correct preliminary versions of student compositions. Using a simple color-coded system of annotations that […]
