Student Resources
Explore Our Language Learning Resources
🌍 ImmerseMe – Interactive Language Software
Experience immersive language practice with AR‑enhanced activities.
📺 Sling TV – International Package
Access live programming in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish (Telemundo).
🎲 Language Learning Board Games
Practice vocabulary and conversation skills through engaging games in French, Chinese, German, Spanish, and Italian.
🎥 Voice & Video Recording Equipment
Check out cameras, tripods, microphones, digital recorders, and headsets for language
projects or presentations.
📚 Foreign Language Films & Books
Browse our collection of international films and books—stop by the Center and the
Media Studio to explore our holdings!
✨ Events & Activities
Take part in a variety of programs—conversation hours, cultural events, workshops,
film screenings, and more.
Check out our frequently updated schedule and stay tuned for new opportunities to
learn, connect, and explore languages and cultures!
Language Peer Tutoring: General Guidelines and Policy
Students are expected to read the guidelines and policy before they schedule an appointment with a peer tutor.
- The Peer Tutoring Program is not a Conversation Partner Program. Students who want to practice their conversation skills with a native or advanced speaker must contact their instructor.
- Meeting with a peer tutor does not substitute for a one-on-one conversation with faculty.
- Peer Tutors are not teachers. They will not teach a lesson that a student may have elected to miss by not attending class. Students need to work with their instructors first.
- Students are expected to provide their tutor with a copy of/access to the instructor’s requirements for any given assignment.
Students who are currently enrolled in a 3-credit hour course in one or more of the languages offered in the Department of Modern Language Studies and the Department of Spanish and Hispanic Studies can work with a peer tutor.
The Peer Tutoring Program provides priority assistance to students who are encountering difficulty with class assignments and/or the general management of the language learning experience but also serves students who want extra practice beyond the classroom.
Tutors are advanced learners of one or more of the languages offered in the Department of Modern Language Studies or native speakers of one of those languages. Tutors are recommended by professors in the department based on their level of proficiency and competence in the target language as well as their commitment to the peer tutoring program.
All tutors attend a mandatory workshop at the beginning of each long semester and participate in follow-up sessions throughout the semester. The workshop focuses on one-on-one tutoring techniques and methodologies specifically suited for foreign language learning.
Tutors are not language teachers but language assistants and coaches. They can:
- Explain and model the language concepts that beginning and intermediate learners have to master;
- Provide various practice exercises in all four skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing);
- Promote cultural understanding;
- Engage students in communicative activities;
- Demonstrate strategies for learning languages.
- Tutors will NEVER complete any assignment for their tutees.
- Tutors will NEVER predict or guarantee grades.
- Tutors will NEVER edit or write the assignments.
- Tutors will NEVER second guess a faculty’s evaluation of a student’s work.
- Multi-region DVD player
- Regular VCR/DVD, Blu Ray players
- Digital recorders, video cameras (with tripods), and stand-alone microphones (to be checked out to the Media Studio)
- Computer Headsets and wireless heasets for the TV
- Foreign language films, magazines, newspapers, games
- Printer scanner
- VR Goggles to use with ImmerseMe
- Outside webcams
- Charging station for small devices