November 2006

Education World
http://www.educationworld.com
This site offers a Foreign Language Center for accessingforeign language lessons, foreign language site reviews, bilingualresources, interesting articles and more!
Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections
http://www.iecc.org
IECC is a free service to help teachers link with partners inother cultures and countries for e-mail classroom pen pal and other project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships.
Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes
http://www.clta.net/lessons
This site includes Internet-based lesson plans that were created for foreign language classes by participants in the Technology Workshops of the California Foreign Language project and the California Language Teachers Association. Teachers may print out the sheets, copy them, and distribute them to students.
Center for Applied Linguistics
http://www.cal.org
The smaller the world gets, the more our communication needs to grow. CAL is dedicated to providing a comprehensive range of research-based language tools and resources related to language and culture.
National Foreign Language Resource Center-University of Hawaii
http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/
The University of Hawaii is one of fourteen educational institutions that received a grant from the Department of Education for the establishment and operation of a center to serve as a national resource through teacher training, research, materials development, and dissemination projects. Drawing on institutional strengths at the University of Hawaii in foreign language teaching, applied linguistics, and second language acquisition, the NFLRC undertakes projects that focus primarily on the less commonly taught languages of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. However, many of its projects have implications for the teaching and learning of all languages, and the overriding goal of all projects is to develop prototypes that can be applied broadly as resources to improve foreign language education nationally.
Global Issues Gateway
http://www.gig.org
Global Issues Gateway is an educational Web site created by Fairleigh Dickinson University for those investigating issues arising from the rapid exchange of goods and ideas across increasingly porous geographic and cultural borders. The site is a good source for learning more about other countries’ cultures through news and articles.
MERLOT World Languages Portal (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
http://portals.merlot.org/world_languages/
Welcome to the MERLOT World Languages Portal, an educational resource for teaching and learning languages. You are invited to join and contribute to this growing learning community by using the online materials and submitting your own modules for inclusion in the collection. You will find a wide variety of materials for use online and in the classroom.
Weboscope
http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/weboscope/
This site is definitely worth checking out for instructional resources in French language teaching. There are links to many sites offering online instructional materials as well as authentic materials to incorporate into your teaching curriculum.
Teaching Indigenous Languages
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html
This Web site is an outgrowth of a series of annual conferences started in 1994 at Northern Arizona University to help achieve the goals of the Native American Languages Act of 1990, which makes it government policy to promote, protect, and preserve the Indigenous languages of the United States.
Language Games
http://www.languagegames.org/la
Students have fun playing while learning languages with http://www.languagegames.org online games! The games are an effective tool for improving foreign language skills. This site provides word search, crosswords, and hangman games in five languages: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/English/Languages/Languages.html
In 1995, Dr. R. Jerry Adams began developing an Internet library database, and by 1997, the Evaluation and Development Institute (EDI) began offering the database through the Web portal “Awesome Library.” This award-winning site has an extensive foreign language page with languages from African to Yiddish. Awesome Library organizes the Web with 31,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5% in education.
Polyglot: Multimedia Medical Spanish & English Translator
http://polyglot.topsailmultimedia.com/polyglot.html
Polyglot was conceived and originally programmed by William T. Lawson and produced by the Duke AHEC Program, Duke University Medical Center. It is a straightforward and useful Spanish/English translator for medical terms.
LangMedia “Language by Country” Web sites
http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/lm_collection.html
LangMedia provides examples of authentic language spoken in its natural cultural environment so that students of all ages can better understand the interplay between a language and its culture. International students shot most of the video in their home countries using handheld camcorders and microphones provided by the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages. The video and audio quality varies and students should be made aware that grammatical errors have not been corrected. The videos at times show highly colloquial language, local slang, and regional specific speech patterns. At times, the preferred or more proper forms are noted in parentheses. Most of the transcripts and translations were prepared by the same students who filmed the video, although in some cases the transcripts have also been edited by a language expert.
