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Michigan State University
A-712 Wells Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-432-2286
Fax: 517-432-0473
clear@msu.edu
Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University - Materials and Products
All Products:
- NEW! QuizBreak!
- QuizBreak! is a highly flexible program that allows teachers to create fun, Jeopardy©-like games for the language classroom.
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- Price: Free!
- NEW! Rich Internet Applications: Revisions
- Revisions is a process-writing tool for the 21st century, customizable to fit your style. Revision makes it easy for students' assignments to be teacher or peer reviewed, and allows students to collaboratively work on assignments.
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- Price: Free!
- NEW! Rich Internet Applications: Broadcasts
- The Broadcasts program allows you to record audio files and distribute them to your students for playback on the computer or on their portable media devices.
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- Price: Free!
- Test Development Set (Video)
- This downloadable video file and companion workbook (available separately) are designed to assist language instructors who develop their own tests. Explanations of different possible test items are accompanied by a variety of examples...
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- Price: Free!
- Rich Internet Applications: Worksheets
- Worksheets is a program that allows teachers to create worksheets that go beyond the capabilities of paper-based worksheets, adding interactive and multimedia elements such as drag-drop matching, instant feedback, and audio recording and playback.
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- Price: Free!
- Instructional Guide for Use in Small Classes: African Languages (Video)
- This free downloadable video is intended for use as a training tool for new language teachers who may not be familiar with the language teaching activities...
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- Price: Free!
- Foreign Languages: Doors to Opportunity (Video)
- This free downloadable video is designed in two parts of approximately twelve minutes each. The first part is intended for use with middle and high school students of foreign languages...
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- Price: Free!
- Introductory Business German
- Introductory Business German provides a condensed, highly-focused set of activities intended for use by business professionals who conduct business with Germans and German companies and wish to learn more about the German business and economics environment.
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- Price: $50.00
- La phonétique française
- This cross-platform multimedia program consists of interactive lessons that can be used by French teachers to learn how to teach pronunciation, or by advanced students working independently.
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- Price: $25.00
- Celebrating the World's Languages: A Guide to Creating a World Languages Day Event
- This publication provides a step-by-step guide to planning "World Languages Day," a university event for high school students designed to stimulate interest in learning languages and to highlight the importance of cultural awareness.
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- Price: Free!
- Rich Internet Applications: Audio Dropboxes
- In cyberspace, an Audio Dropbox is a virtual dropbox for audio recordings. Using this new tool, you can put a dropbox for speaking assignments on any web page.
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- Price: Free!
- Rich Internet Applications: Viewpoint
- Viewpoint is a video repository that allows you to record your videos online using your webcam, or upload existing videos. These videos can then be linked from other sites or embedded inside your own web pages.
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- Price: Free!
- Rich Internet Applications: Mashups
- The term "mashup" refers to the combination of data from one or more web services with customized functionality or data. In the case of CLEAR's mashups, the term refers to the combination of an audio or video clip with a SMILE exercise and additional text. The idea is to combine media elements to create a new resource for language teaching.
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- Price: Free!
- Rich Internet Applications: Conversations
- Conversations is a program that allows teachers to record prompts or questions for their students to answer. The program can be used to simulate conversations, role plays, or for "virtual interviews".
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- Price: Free!
- MIMEA: Multimedia Interactive Modules for Education and Assessment
- MIMEA is a series of free interactive multimedia modules for language learning, practice, and assessment...
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- Price: Free!
- FL-Assessments Listserv
- This listserv provides a forum for language educators to discuss current issues in assessment, to share information and resources with fellow professionals, and to encourage collaboration in the area of language assessment.
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- Price: Free!
- Language Learning Materials for Russian: A Content-Based Course Pack
- These free content-based modules may be used as an entire course or as a supplement to upper-level and heritage-speaker Russian language classes...
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- Price: Free!
- Hausa Online
- This is a virtual language resource page of multimedia language learning material for intermediate to advanced-level Hausa language learners...
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- Price: Free!
- Instructional Guide for Use in Small Classes: Vietnamese
- This free downloadable Instructional Guide is written for native speakers of Vietnamese who are teaching Vietnamese in either a classroom or a tutorial setting...
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- Price: Free!
- Instructional Guide for Use in Small Classes: Hindi
- This free downloadable Instructional Guide is written for native speakers of Hindi who are teaching Hindi in either a classroom or a tutorial setting...
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- Price: Free!
- Instructional Guide for Use in Small Classes: Thai
- This free downloadable Instructional Guide is written for native speakers of Thai who are teaching Thai in either a classroom or a tutorial setting...
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- Price: Free!
- Instructional Guide for Use in Small Classes: African Languages
- The free downloadable Instructional Guide for African Languages is written for teachers of any African language...
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- Price: Free!
- SMILE: Create interactive online exercises
- SMILE (Server-Managed Interactive Learning Exercises) is a free online environment for creating interactive language-learning exercises...
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- Price: Free!
- Facilitating Connections to International Business: A Guide for Foreign Language Educators
- This free downloadable guide includes five short articles written by experts in the fields of business and language...
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- Price: Free!
- Elementary Business Chinese
- This is a free CD-ROM of interactive courseware for elementary Chinese for business and basic language skills.It is designed to be an integral part of an elementary business language course, or as a stand-alone product...
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- Price: Free!
- Computer Modules for Assessing Socio-Cultural Competence: German
- This free CD-ROM targets specific pragmatic aspects of German based on conversational exchanges between native speakers. The modules include photographs that help to establish a context for the exchanges...
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- Price: Free!
- Computer Modules for Assessing Socio-Cultural Competence: Russian
- This free CD-ROM targets specific pragmatic aspects of Russian based on conversational exchanges between native speakers. The modules include photographs that help to establish a context for the exchanges...
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- Price: Free!
- Internet Sourcebook for Business French
- All the information you need to know about the business world in France and other French-speaking countries - in a free collection of links...
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- Price: Free!
- Internet Sourcebook for Business Spanish
- This free Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location where students of Spanish, specifically of "business Spanish", can find links to selected Internet resources...
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- Price: Free!
- Internet Sourcebook for Business German
- This free Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location where students of German and Germany, specifically of "business German", can find links to Internet resources...
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- Price: Free!
- Internet Sourcebook for Business Japanese
- This free Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location for links to many Internet resources relevant to the study of Japanese business and economics...
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- Price: Free!
- Internet Sourcebook for Business Korean
- This free Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location for links to many Internet resources relevant to the study of Korean business and economics...
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- Price: Free!
- Language Learning & Technology
- Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal that began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators...
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- Price: Free!
- Pronunciación y fonética
- This popular, cross-platform multimedia program consists of interactive lessons that can be used by Spanish teachers to learn how to teach pronunciation. It can also be used by advanced students...
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- Price: $25.00
- Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms: French
- The Business French Packet, a free downloadable PDF, includes guidelines for creating a French website about the development of a successful business, as well as activities...
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- Price: Free!
- Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms: German Packet I
- The Business German Packet, "Bewerbung und Jobsuche: Wie man sich auf dem Arbeitsmarkt präsentiert", a free downloadable PDF, was developed for advanced high school language learners. It covers information on employers in Germany and German companies in the United States, and has activities...
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- Price: Free!
- Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms: German Packet II
- CLEAR's second Business German Packet, "Wirtschaftsdeutsch für die High School: Die Wirtschaftswelt im Bundesstaat Michigan", a free downloadable PDF, was also developed for advanced high school language learners. It covers information on the industrial sector, starting a business, and the role of individuals as consumers...
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- Price: Free!
- Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms: Spanish
- The Business Spanish Packet, a free downloadable PDF, includes guidelines for creating a Spanish website about the development of a successful business, as well as activities...
- > more info
- Price: Free!
- Test Development Set (Workbook)
- This workbook and companion video (available separately) are designed to assist language instructors who develop their own tests. Explanations of different possible test items are accompanied by a variety of examples...
- > more info
- Price: Free!
- Foreign Languages: Doors to Opportunity (Discussion Guide)
- This guide accompanies the video (available separately), which is designed in two parts of approximately twelve minutes each.
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- Price: Free!