Foreign
Languages
- About.com. Well-organized
links to pages about ESL, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
- The American Council on the Teaching of
Foreign Languages. Contains a download library (navigate by clicking "Resources
> Download Library") which includes the ACTFL revised proficiency guidelines
for writing
and speaking.
Contains directions to join an emailSIG
(Special Interest Group) or discussion, for distance teaching of foreign languages.
- Bilingual Parenting in
a Foreign Language. Provides support for families where one or both parents
are speaking a foreign language (not their native language) to their children
in an effort to raise them bilingually.
- Center for Advanced Research on Language
Acquisition (CARLA). Includes documents useful to teachers and coaches,
including a virtual picture album.
It contains culturally appropriate pictures, complete with suggested vocabulary
items, topics, and grammar points for each image.
- Foreign Language
and Culture. A link list grouped into general language learning
- International Collection of
Tongue Twisters. 2080 tongue twisters in 90 languages.
- Language
and culture pages. Well-organized links to pages about ESL, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
- Language Impact. Aimed at independent
language learners. Electronic language learning newsletter, email discussion,
a few equipment and software recommendations, a short links list. Last newsletter
copyright 2000.
- Learning and Teaching
Support Network (LTSN). Extensive searchable CALL software database.
Smart searches including by language, level, category, operating system.
- Online Language Courses.
Up-to-date mother lode of 86 web language courses. Also links to 167 dictionaries
and automated translators, an interlanguage chat site with translation, translation
services, language stations, and a total of twenty language-related link lists.
- UCLA Language Materials Project.
Bibliography of print resources available for about 300 languages.
- Yamada Language Center.
Language guides contain links to information about 115 languages. Font archive,
news groups, mailing lists.
Language Schools
- Language Schools. Search through the language schools guide for study programs abroad. Also contains travel-related information. Heavy use of graphics and ads.
- Language Travel Magazine. Information about language schools, high schools, and universities for students who want to travel and study a language in the country where it is spoken. Links to small language schools may not work.
Foreign Language Booksellers
- Dmoz.List of bookseller specialists in a wide range of languages.
- Trussel. List of major bookseller websites in foreign languages.
Linguistic Indexes on the Internet
Courtesy http://www.sil.org
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