Last verified April 24, 1999

FOREIGN LANGUAGE INTERNET RESOURCES

Authentic Resources

Center for the Advancement of Language Learning
http://call.lingnet.org/

The Center for the Advancement of Language Learning offers links by language to sites containing authentic documents for integrating into your course.

Human Languages Page
http://www.june29.com/HLP/

This site is loaded with links to literature, language materials, publications, organizations and much more.

Language Links
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html

The Language Links web site is organized by over 14 different language groups including African Languages, French, German, Spanish, Asian Languages, Italian, Portuguese, and many more.

Web-Based Activities-Instructional Sites Created by Teachers

General Resources for Multiple Languages

Teaching with the Web
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/teach.html

This site developed by Lauren Rosen, features resources and exercises for using the Internet to teach commonly and less-commonly taught languages. Teaching with the Web is an extremely rich resource for foreign language educators of all levels.

NFLRC Web Activities
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/nflrc.html

This site offers innovative exercises for foreign language teaching and learning.

Mini Lesson Plans for Foreign Language Web Sites
http://138.87.135.33/class/projects.htm

Developed by Illinois State University, this site features lesson plans and links to foreign language web sites.

Internet Activities for French, German, & Spanish
http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html

This site offers Internet-based lesson plans that were created by teachers. These sites were designed as worksheets for the students to complete while accessing the corresponding reference web sites online.

Using the WWW in Language Teaching
http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/clear/internet/teachweb.html

This site features links and resources for using the WWW in the foreign language classroom.

Internet Conversations
http://LanguageCenter.cla.umn.edu/lc/surfing/conversation

This web site features information about chats, moos, and other methods of Internet conversation.

Chinese 1
http://cardinal.bishops.com/academics/chinese/

This site was developed for an online course in Mandarin Chinese. The course covers idiomatic conversational Chinese, reading, writing and cultural studies. The emphasis is on listening and speaking skills. Though Chinese is a very challenging course for Westerners, it has the distinct advantage of having no conjugations, verb tenses or declensions. Mandarin is the official language of the People's Republic of China and of Taiwan.

Mandarin Chinese with VOA
http://www.webcom.com/ocrat/voa/

Listen to sound clips from recent Voice of America (VOA) newscasts while viewing the corresponding Chinese characters and vocabulary lists with word definitions. This site is updated weekly.

ESL / EFL

Famous Japanese Personages Project
http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/famous/index.html

These web pages were developed by the students of Kyoto Sangyo University for non-Japanese who would like to learn about famous personages in modern-day Japan.

Learning English with the Web
http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/esl/

This home page is a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English using the World Wide Web. Many people have created ESL learning materials for the Web. This home page links you to those ESL sites and other interesting places. The variety of materials will allow you to choose something appropriate for your level.

Internet for ESL teachers
http://edvista.com/claire/internet-esl.html

This site offers an extensive amount of information for ESL teachers including links to: ESL organizations, student projects, an introduction to the Internet, search engines, online courses, and much more.

French

Voyageons en Côte d'Ivoire
http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~roschem/lessons_html/Cote_Ivoire.html

This site offers information and resources for learning about the history, culture, art, and geography of the Ivory Coast.

La Vie Culturelle
http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/civ/cultur/cultur.htm

This interactive site quizzes users on French culture, cinema, music, television, and press.

Listen and Respond
http://anarch.ie.toronto.edu/people/patrick/site/html/SimpliciteQCM.html

This web site offers an online exercise intended to test oral comprehension. Users listen to a passage and then respond to a series of questions.

Standards for Foreign Language Learning: activities for French
http://www.uga.edu/~romlan/standards/standard.htm

This site provides links to over 35 web sites that can be used in the French language classroom. You can visit the home page of Le Monde, follow the news in France and Quebec, or go to the Tintin home page.

German

German Web Exercises
http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~iad4c/webex.html

This site offers a series of web exercises for first and second year German students.

German for Beginners
http://castle.uvic.ca/german/149/

This site features links, web exercises, and real audio for students of all levels who would like to enhance their understanding of the German language. Offered in German and English.

Materiealien für den Deutschunterricht
http://www.al.lu/deutsch/index.html

Materiealien für den Deutschunterricht offers resources for German teachers and students.

Hans Huckebein, der Unglücksrabe
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/huckebein/h1aiff.html

This site offers online exercises for German.

German Internet Chronik
http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/GIP/german_units/UnitsCover.html

This site features web exercises for students of all levels of proficiency in German. Exercises are grouped into 10 different units.

Italian

Italian Language Course
http://www.cyberitalian.com/

CyberItalian is a web-site on Italian language and culture. It is a meeting place for people wishing to understand Italian culture and learn Italian language.

Learn to Speak Italian
http://www.eat.com/learn-italian/index.html

This site features exercises to help build your Italian vocabulary. By using RealAudio, users can learn specific phrases for a variety of different situations.

Japanese

Japanese WWW Activities
http://www.bgs.qld.edu.au/edlinks/languages/japanese/activities.htm

This site features web activities, exercises, and worksheets for teachers and students of Japanese. Also features a section with links to information about Japan and Japanese culture.

Beginner Level Japanese Course
http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/threeweb/jpncntrl/bgnr_s.html

This online Japanese course provides an extensive collection of web exercises for teachers and students. You may need to download certain software in order to view the Japanese scripts. This site provides links to sources for the necessary software.

MIT Japanese Language Materials
http://www-japan.mit.edu/mit/index.html

Features some general Japanese course materials developed by MIT.

JA Connections Language Study
http://www.hooked.net/~jaconn/edu/langhome.htm

This site will teach you how to speak and read Japanese. Also features links to other pages that complement the lessons and exercises included on this site. This site is a good primer for learning Japanese.

Russian

Learning the Russian Language
http://www.ddminc.com/russian/index.htm

The purpose of this site is to introduce the Russian language to those who are interested in expanding their horizons and communicating with others. If you do not have a cyrillic font program on your computer, the author of this page will send you the appropriate program with installation instructions.

Russian Grammar Tutorial and Exercises
http://www.auburn.edu/%7Emitrege/RWT/tutorials/index.html

This site provides general information about the Russian language including grammar, vocabulary, and online exercises.

Spanish

Ejercicios de lengua española
http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/

This site presents a series of language exercises for the purpose of facilitating the learning and teaching of Spanish in the Internet environment. This site is in English and Spanish.

Proyecto Sherezade
http://www.princeton.edu/~enriquef

This web site provides online exercises for Spanish teachers and students. Available only in Spanish.

TOOLS FOR DEVELOPING INTERNET MATERIALS

Guides to the Internet

Internet Options in the Classroom
http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/class.html

This site offers ideas and resources for using the Internet in the one computer classroom. This is a good place to start for basic information.

Reading Strategies for Web Activities
http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/strategies.html

This site will illustrate how teachers can use reading strategies to help students read authentic documents on the web. Reading strategies will help students be more successful in decoding a challenging passage at every level. The steps outlined on this site can be built into any reading assignment.

A Language Professional's Guide to the World Wide Web
http://agoralang.com/calico/webarticle.html

This site defines basic terms, identifies interesting places to go on the WWW, and offers insight into how to navigate the Internet. This is a great place to begin.

Advantages to Telecomputing: Reasons to Use the Internet in Your Classroom
http://www.gsn.org/teach/articles/advan.html

This article discusses some basic reasons why educators should use the Internet in their classrooms. This site outlines positive aspects for both teachers and students.

Language Learning Via the Web
http://moliere.byu.edu/calico/calico96.html

Language Learning via the Web offers general information about the current status of the Internet, and what the emergence of the Internet will mean for education in the future. This site also helps to define basic technical vocabulary.

Basic Internet Tools for Foreign Language Educators
http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/articles/vircontl.html

The information provided on this site defines briefly some of the various tools Internet users can employ to make their way around the Internet, extract useful information, and in general turn it into a useful and user-friendly commodity.

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
http://lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Without investing the time to learn to effectively and efficiently find information on the Internet using complex search strategies, one can find some documents on almost any topic using simple keyword searching techniques or browsing subject categories. But are they the best or all the Web has to offer on your topic? Are they even about your topic? Did your search retrieve more documents than you can reasonably read?

The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette
http://www.fau.edu/rinaldi/net/

This site provides information about how to use the Internet responsibly.

University of Minnesota Language Center Reading List for FL Technology Professionals
http://LanguageCenter.cla.umn.edu/CARLA/fltechclass/syllabus/readings.html

As the title suggests, this site features a list of books and journal articles related to using technology in foreign language teaching.

Creating Your Own Web Pages

Making Web Pages
http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/clear/internet/makewebpage.html

Making Web Pages offers a great collection of resources for individuals interested in building their own web sites.

HTML Crash Course for Educators
http://edweb.gsn.org/htmlintro.html

This site provides a clear and easy to follow tutorial that is specifically geared to educators. A great source for basic information about web site authoring.

Language Interactive: A Trail Guide to Creating Dynamic Web Pages
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/cgi/interact.html

This guide is intended for language teachers with an interest in the application of technology to language learning. The information and methods described are applicable in K-12 or higher education. The specific focus is on the World Wide Web, but there will be some incidental discussion of other computer-based applications.

HTML Help Page
http://LanguageCenter.cla.umn.edu/lc/surfing/htmlhelp

This site offers tutorials, button and graphic archives, help programs, and other useful tools for working in HTML.

Knowledge Design Instructional Resources
http://www.auburn.edu/%7Emitrege/knowledge/index.html

This web site features tutorials on how to create interactive exercises. Offers many example exercises as well.

Evaluating Multimedia, Web Pages, and Activities

Evaluation of Web Lessons
http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/evalform.html

This site offers a template that can be used to evaluate web lessons and exercises.

Finding Software a list of links for language software reviews, companies, and catalogs.
http://LanguageCenter.cla.umn.edu/lc/surfing/software.html

This site offers a lot of information about how to evaluate and review foreign language software programs. This site includes helpful questions to consider before buying software and links to software reviews and databases.

Taxonomy of Multimedia Features
http://nts.lll.hawaii.edu/flmedia/evaluation/general/gencriteria.htm

Developed by the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii, this site offers guidelines for evaluating foreign language multimedia programs.

Software Evaluation Guide
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling417/guide.html

Provides information and general guidelines for evaluating software programs.

RESOURCES FOR LANGUAGE PROFESSIONALS

Publications

Language Learning and Technology
http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt/

Language Learning and Technology is a journal for second and foreign language educators.

The Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education
http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/oncall

This journal publishes articles covering a wide range of topics that involve technology, especially computers, and language education with relevance to teachers and researchers in all educational sectors.

Networking with Foreign Language Colleagues: Professional Development on the Internet
http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/articles/networking.html

This site features the text of an article discussing the use of the Internet to interact with foreign language professionals.

Choosing and Using Materials for a 'Net' Gain in FL Learning and Instruction
http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/articles/nysaflt96.html

This article explores the rationale for choosing materials from the WWW, gives a brief introductory explanation of the technology involved in accessing the resources of the Internet, and discusses how teachers might integrate these resources into the FL curriculum.

Surf's Up! Web Site Workbook Series
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4726/wkbk.html

You can look at the answers to the Surf's Up! workbook activities to get ideas for activities. This site offers resources for French, Spanish, and German.

The World Wide Web: Taking on the Pedagogical Challenge
http://horizon.unc.edu/projects/monograph/CD

Technology Tools for Today's Campuses: Focus on Instructional Technology offers resources for using technology in instruction.

Language Learning and the Internet
http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/web/faculty/markw/links.html

This site offers an extensive collection of links related to foreign language and technology resources.

Planning a Language Resource Center
http://edvista.com/claire/labplan.html

A great step by step approach to planning and developing a resource center.

Computer Classroom and Laboratory Design: Bibliography
http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-03.html

A nice list of resources for those who are planning to put in a computer lab.

Organizations

Agora Language Marketplace
http://www.agoralang.com:2410/

This site features an online index of companies offering language-related publications, products and services

International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALL)
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/IALL

Established in 1965, IALL is a professional organization dedicated to promoting effective uses of media centers for language teaching, learning, and research.

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
http://www.actfl.org/

ACTFL is the only national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 7,000 foreign language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry.

Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
http://calico.org/index.html

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.

Foreign Language Teaching Forum (FLTEACH)
http://www.cortland.edu/www_root/flteach/flteach.html

The Foreign Language Teaching Forum focuses on foreign language teaching methods including school/college articulation, training of student teachers, classroom activities, curriculum, and syllabus design. Students in teacher training programs, teachers both new and experienced, administrators, and other professionals interested in any aspect of foreign language teaching are invited to participate in our discussions.