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Linguistic and Cultural
Resources on the Web
This page contains web links to general resources for students and teachers of other languages and cultures, and to other lands in general. More language-specific links can be found in separate pages at this site:
- Spanish language resources on the web
- French language resources on the web
- German language resources on the web
- Italian language resources on the web
- Arabic language resources on the web
Please report broken links or exceptionally good new links
Yahoo! by country, region, and language
Yahoo!
Regions: Latin
America, Caribbean,
Europe, North
America, Africa,
Mediterranean,
Middle East.
Top:Social Science:Linguistics and Human Languages:Languages
French,
Spanish, etc.
Top:Regional:Countries:France:News and Media
Other geographical links
Lonely Planet Online
Excellent source of geographical information.
CIA Publications
The World Factbook 1997, 1998 CIA Maps and Publications
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection A feature of University of Texas Library Online (scanned GIF maps), e.g. Maps of the Americas
National Geographic Society Maps
The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
Television
SCOLA
"SCOLA is a non-profit educational organization transmitting international television programs for educational use via satellite. SCOLA digitally transmits three channels from the Galaxy VI satellite (99° W): Channel One: News; Channel Two: Documentaries & Entertainment; and Channel Three: Chinese (PRC) Programming. Channels One & Two include programs from over 40 countries. All programs are shown unedited and in the original language.
Dictionaries
My Facts Page: Dictionaries And Language Resources
World music
Putumayo World Music
This company puts out records with world music collections. Listen to fragments of songs from around the world and read interesting liner notes.
Anderer Länder Folksongs of various Countries
Fun and games
International Collection of Tongue Twisters
(and the English Tongue Twister Database)
E-mail pen-pals
Here are some links to a few pen pal sites. None of them is endorsed here. Use your own judgment.
International E-Mail Tandem Network (Germany)
Language learning in tandem via the Internet: Find e-mail pals for other languages.
E-pals Classroom Exchange
"ePALS Classroom Exchange set out to provide students and teachers with an opportunity to freely meet and correspond with other classrooms from around the World."
E-Mail Keypals for Language Fluency
"This article appeared originally in Foreign Language Notes (Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey), Vol 38, No. 3, pp 8-10, Fall 1996. I have since updated some of the links and other information." Many of the links don't work,
IECC
"IECC is dedicated to helping teachers connect with other teachers to arrange intercultural email connections between their students. A new service, IECC-INTERGEN, helps teachers and their classrooms create intergenerational partnerships with volunteers who are over 50 years of age.
Created in 1992 by three professors from St. Olaf College in Minnesota, IECC was one of the first services on the Web to facilitate international pen-pal exchanges between teachers and classrooms around the globe"
The "Café électronique" of the Quartier français du village planétaire contains extensive resources for locating French "corres".
Professional organizations
The Modern Language Association of America
American Association for Applied
Linguistics (AAAL).
Center for Applied Linguistics
Topic areas: Bilingual Education, Dialects (Ebonics), ELT Overseas, Foreign Language, Immersion Education, Immigrant Education, Integrated Language/Content, K-12 ESL, Language Testing, Literacy and Adult ESL, Public Policy Issues, Refugee Concerns, Workplace Literacy.
CALICO
(Southwest Texas State University): "CALICO, the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, is a professional organization that serves a membership involved in both education and high technology. CALICO has an emphasis on modern language teaching and learning, but reaches out to all areas that employ the languages of the world to instruct and to learn. CALICO is a recognized international clearinghouse and leader in computer assisted learning and instruction. It is, by several years, the senior global association dedicated to CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)."
Language Learning Center - UWashington - World language links
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
"operated by the Center for Applied Linguistics and funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Library of Education." "ERIC/CLL provides a wide range of services and materials for language educators, most of them free of charge. These include two-page information digests [VERY INTERESTING] and short bibliographies [VERY INTERESTING], a semiannual newsletter, and a question-answering service eric@cal.org. All of these are available at no cost. Ready-made computer searches of the ERIC database are also available for a nominal fee." "One of 16 ERIC Clearinghouses, ERIC/CLL collects and disseminates information on current developments in education research, instructional methods and materials, program design and evaluation, teacher training, and assessment in the following areas: Foreign languages, English as a second or foreign language, Bilingualism and bilingual education, Psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, Theoretical and applied linguistics, Intercultural communication and cultural education, Study abroad and international exchange." See, e.g., the AskERIC InfoGuide for Spanish Language Instruction (K-12).
NERALLD
the New England Regional Association of Language Laboratory Directors.
IALL
International Association for Language Learning Technology.
National Council For Languages And International Studies
"The member organizations of NCLIS-JNCL are united in their belief that all Americans must have the opportunity to learn and use English and at least one other language."
Modern Language Association (MLA)
ACTFL: American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages
MaFLA: Massachusetts Foreign Language Association Web Site
American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
American Classical League (ACL)
Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- AAAL: The American Association for Applied Linguistics
- American Association of Teachers of French
- American Association of Teachers of German
- American Association of Teachers of Italian
- American Association of Teachers of Korean
- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
- American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
- American Council of Teachers of Russian
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- American Sign Language Teachers Association
- American Translators Association
- Association of Teachers of Japanese
- California Language Teachers Association
- Center for Applied Linguistics
- Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- Center for Intensive Language and Culture
- Chinese Language Teachers Association
- Coalititon of the Foreign Language Associations of North Dakota, Iowa and Arkansas
- Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers
- Connecticut Council of Language Teachers
- Council of National Resource Center Directors
- Defense Language Institute
- Florida Foreign Language Association
- Foreign Language Association of Missouri
- Foreign Language Association of North Carolina
- Foreign Language Association of Virginia
- Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics
- Greater Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers
- Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association
International Association for Management Education - International Association for Language Learning Technology
- Kansas Foreign Language Association
- Linguistic Society of America
- Massachusetts Foreign Language Association
- Michigan Foreign Language Association
- Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- Modern Language Association-Association of Departments of Foreign Languages
- Modern Language Journal-National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations
- National Association for Bilingual Education
- National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages
- National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs
- National Committee for Latin and Greek
- National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages
- National Council of State Supervisors of Foreign Languages
- National Network for Early Language Learning
- National Security Education Program (NSEP)
- Nebraska Foreign Language Association
- New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers
- Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- Northern New England State Foreign Language Associations
- Ohio Foreign Language Association
- Pacific Northwest Council for Languages
- Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association
- Satellite Education Resources Consortium
- South Atlantic Modern Language Association
- Southern Conference on Language Teaching
- Southwest Conference on Language Teaching
- Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association
- TESOL International Research Foundation
- Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers
- AATA- American Association of Teachers of Arabic
- AATF- American Association of Teachers of French
- AATSEEL- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages
- AATG- American Association of Teachers of German
- AATSP- American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
- ACL- American Classical League
- ACTFL- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- ASLTA- American Sign Language Teachers Association
- ATJ- Association of Teachers of Japanese
- CAL- Center for Applied Linguistics
- CALICO- Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium
- CAV- Classical Association of Virginia
- CLTA- Chinese Language Teachers Association
- FLAVA- Foreign Language Association of Virginia
- IALL- International Association of Learning Laboratories
- MLA- Modern Languages Association of America
- TESOL- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
- WCS- Washington Classical Society
Other resources for language teachers
WebTeacher
"Your Source for Web Knowledge." "The Web Teacher site offers a long-list of self-paced tutorials for teachers interested in integrating technology into their curriculum. Offerings range from Internet basics, a "baby home page", and more complicated topics."
Cambridge University Press
In the "series" field at this search page, search for "Cambridge Applied Linguistics" and/or "Cambridge Language Teaching Library" and/or "Cambridge Teacher Training and Development" and/or "Cambridge French Series" and/or "Cambridge Language Education" and/or "New Directions in Language Teaching" and/or "Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers"
Teach Spanish
"This is your one-stop resource guide for Spanish related material on the Internet. Shop for Spanish videos, books, teaching aids, music, and more in our catalogue; search for a teaching position anywhere in the world; bring your students to study Spanish-speaking countries and cultures ; Get new ideas on our Lesson Ideas Page; and find the best Spanish Web Sites on the Internet. This and more is waiting for you atTeachSpanish.com."
FLTEACH FAQ.
Synopses of answers to Frequently Asked Questions on the FLTEACH Discussion Forum. It includes: Advice to the New Teacher, Accent Marks, The Alphabet, Art Projects, Class-Size, Classroom Discipline, Classroom Management, Dictation, Foreign Language Week, First Days of the New School Year, Foreign Language and/or International Clubs, Individual Student Whiteboards, Oral Participation, Pronunciation, Accent, and Language Melody, Student Journals, Student Portfolios, Student Teaching, Total Physical Response (TPR) and TPR-Storytelling (TPRS). Synopses prepared by Lee Risley
Publishers of language learning materials
Less commonly taught languages
The Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Project
"one of a number of projects which operates under the auspices of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota.
Translation
University of Massachusetts at Amherst Translation Center
Over 50 languages translated.
Some station directories
(This list is a bit out of date)
European radio stations broadcasting in Real Audio
Live Radio on the Web at Mike's Radio World. Very thorough and easy to access.
Miscellaneous links
Language Links: A New World of Understanding
Traveling the world from your desktop. Materials for use by teachers and learners of languages. Teaching with the Web.
GlobeGate: A Culture and Language SuperSite
"This is the primary host site for the GlobeGate Project, a not-for-profit organization created to provide a centralized internet resource for students and teachers of foreign languages. We have indexed several thousand WWW pages in various foreign languages, and are in the process of organizing volunteers to help us index even more."
Jim Becker's Star Sites
French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese.
Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes (Spanish, French, etc.)
International Communications and Culture program (ICC) at SUNY College at Cortland. Excellent resources.
The Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Learning Disabilities
Some foreign language organizations:
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