Language Learning Links
Some paths to language materials on the Web
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Language Learning Links Some paths to language materials on the Web |
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Language technology professional associations and online publications |
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) |
| CALICO -- The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium | |
| IALL Home Page --International Association for Language Learning Technology | |
| LLTI --language learning technologies international list subscription info... | |
| NFLRC Home Page at University of Hawaii, Manoa. Resources for many languages, especially rich in East Asian languages. | |
| Language Learning & Technology --an online journal | |
| CALL- EJ online --an online journal from Australain and Japan | |
| Technology-Enhanced Language Learning --Introduction to the 1996 Volume in the Foreign Language Education Series of the ACTFL | |
| The Instant Access Treasure Chest --The Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Learning Disabilities from Virginia Commonwealth University. | |
| Klaus Schwienhorst's Publications --archived articles on using virtual-reality environments for language teaching. | |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education: | |
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Link pages for language learning |
iLove Languages Page --all kinds of links to foreign-language sites useful for teaching, as well as to software and teaching demo sites. |
| Language Links and Resources Database (searchable)from Georgetown University | |
| Language Box - Celebrate Diversity! Many links to radio, television, and other Web resources. | |
| Welcome to GlobeGate --a cultures and languages supersite maintained by Bob Peckham at the University of Tenessee at Martin. | |
| Lingu@NET: a virtual language centre --a UK based home page for technology in language learning | |
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Link pages for specific languages |
Latin American Studies (AKA LANIC, at University of Texas) |
| Hapax: French Resources on the Web | |
| Andreas Lixl's German Web Trails | |
| J-Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources | |
| Japanese language learning tools on Web | |
| Chinese Language Information Page | |
| The Internet for ESL Teachers by Claire Bradin | |
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Software evaluations |
IALL Foreign Language Database --big list of software programs of all kinds for languages, linked to sites |
| University of Hawaii's software database of commercial and freeware programs (note: only some are reviewed) | |
| Penn State software evaluations. | |
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Online guides & templates for language Web pages |
Language Interactive --Virginia Commonwealth University's trailguide to the use of technology in language learning. |
| Half-Baked Software From the University of Victoria Language Centre--six "Hot Potatoes" applications which allow an instructor to create self-check exercises of various types without having to write the Javascript code. | |
| Makers --another interface for producing self-checking exercises, using Dynamic HTML, from the Tricollege Mellon Language Project at Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore colleges. | |
| George Mitrevski "Knowledge Design" -- models and experiments in online language instruction--in Russian, but with useful instructions about making an interactive web page with audio for language-learning. | |
| Webauthoring for languages University of Pennsylvania site offers customizable forms to create exercises using various kinds of interactive forms for reading, multiple choice, cloze tests, and so on. | |
| CALL Development Options from Dennie Hoopingarner at MSU, including copiable javascript templates for online exercises | |
| Virtual Museum of the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, hosted at Middlebury. This site will host student pages including audio, images, text, and even video; the students use a template to create their pages, which may then be open to the public. | |
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Some Commercial Sites |
Agora Language Marketplace--lists as many sites and programs as they know about, though they feature sites that pay to advertise. |
| Alis Technologies Inc.--home of Tango webbrowser, supports "90" languages; also they have a mail program | |
| Accent Software Int'l - language solutions for the Internet --the big multilingual browser, also has wordprocessing solutions, mail program etc | |
| Humanities Research Center --Software from Brigham Young University | |
| Transparent Language --a terrific interface for learning grammar by reading literature, with new media features all the time | |
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Integrating Technology into Foreign Language Education, Furman University |
| Integrating Technology into Language Teaching, Washington University in St. Louis | |
| A Communications Technology Module for the Foreign Language Methods Course, SUNY Cortland | |
| Master's in CALL at Carnegie Mellon University: | |
| Master's in Technological System Management at SUNY Stony Brook | |
| Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at University of Arizona. | |
| Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition/ Instructional Technology at University of South Florida. | |
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Some university language courses & materials |
English via the Internet --English for Engineering and Economics from Joe Greenman at the Technische Universität, Berlin; see also a course on English for International Management in Science and Engineering |
| JP NET Home Page MIT's online Japanese materials and information on computing in Japanese | |
| Deutsch an der Universität Michigan by Hartmut Rastalsky--grammar, vocabulary, and other helpful materials freely accessible. | |
| Oral Language Archive --not a course but an archive of native-speaker soundfiles that can be tried out and then purchased, , from Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Golosa --exercises to accompany the Russian textbook from George Washington University | |
| University of Texas at Austin offers Utexas French, French for Business at UT Austin and Prof. Orlando Kelm's Business Spanish course. |
