Web Sites/Electronic Resources
Craig Packard and Lynn Fischer

Agora Language Marketplace

An online index of companies offering language-related publications, products, and services, Agora Language Marketplace serves as an information source for foreign language professionals. It features a newsletter; directories of publishers and distributors, language schools, jobs, conferences, and more; and links to other information resources.

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

This site provides information about ACTFL's professional development programs and contains a downloadable library of frequently requested ACTFL publications. It also offers an educational resource directory; information on national standards for foreign language education; a classified section; and a link navigator to affiliated organizations, resources, and standards implementations.

AskERIC Electronic Question-Answering Service

AskERIC provides education information via e-mail through a personalized question-answering service. Responses draw on electronic resources, such as searches of the ERIC database, ERIC Digests, and listservs, and include references to newspaper, magazine, and journal articles as well as referrals to relevant professional organizations.

AskERIC Web Site

The AskERIC Web site, managed by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology, provides free access to the ERIC database and to a virtual library of more than 900 lesson plans, 20 listserv archives, and more than 100 infoguides (see next entry).

AskERIC Infoguides

Infoguides are available in print and electronic formats on a wide variety of educational topics for students, teachers, and administrators.

Athelstan ONLINE

Athelstan publishes and distributes products related to technology and second language learning, including CD-ROMs; software; videos; and reference materials, such as the Technology and Language Learning Yearbook and the Athelstan Newsletter, which is sent free to teachers in the United States.

Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)

The CAL site provides access to two of the ERIC Clearinghouses (Adult ESL Literacy and Languages and Linguistics); three databases with information about immersion programs and foreign language tests; and a wide range of topic areas containing information about bilingual education, dialects, foreign language learning and teaching, language testing, refugee concerns, and literacy. The site also contains news of activities at the Center for Applied Linguistics.

Center for the Advancement of Language Learning

Foreign language learning resources and links--especially those related to authentic materials (such as foreign language newspapers) and to less commonly taught languages--are collected here for foreign language teachers and learners. The site includes references to multimedia language programs, instructional materials, multilingual browsing information, and goals in foreign language education.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics (ERIC/CLL)

The ERIC/CLL Web page provides information about the clearinghouse and its activities; access to full-text versions of ERIC Digests, minibibliographies, and newsletters; news of clearinghouse publications and products; information about submitting documents for inclusion in the ERIC database; and links to other components of the ERIC system.

FLTEACH Web Site

FLTEACH is an integrated service for foreign language teachers that consists of a Web site, a listserv (see next entry), and two listserv archives. It focuses on foreign language teaching methods, including school and college articulation, the training of student teachers, classroom activities, curricula, and syllabus design. The FLTEACH Web site contains an index to foreign language resources on the Internet and provides access to specific teaching materials, such as handouts, lesson plans, syllabi, and software.

FLTEACH Listserv

The FLTEACH listserv is a forum for discussion among foreign language teachers, students in teacher training, administrators, and other foreign language professionals. FLTEACH aims to foster a community in which colleagues at all levels can seek information, resolve problems, and share ideas.

Foreign Language Resources on the Web

This resource list offers starting points for searching the Web for foreign language and culture-specific resources. Currently available languages include Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Scandinavian languages, South Asian languages, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Turkish, and Yiddish. The site also offers downloadable fonts for the languages featured.

GlobeGate

This site is the primary host for the GlobeGate Project, a nonprofit organization created to provide a centralized Internet resource for students and teachers of foreign languages. GlobeGate has indexed several thousand Web pages in various foreign languages and is organizing volunteers to index additional Web pages.

Instant Access Treasure Chest

Subtitled "The Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Learning Disabilities," this site offers information about assistive technology, attention deficit disorder, auditory deficits, dyslexia, government resources, learning styles, teaching students with disabilities, and more.

International Association of Learning Laboratories (IALL) Foreign Language Software Database

This foreign language software database allows users to browse alphabetically by product name; search by product name, language, platform publication medium, contact name, company, or any combination of these rubrics; submit new entries and announcements of new products; and review products.

Language Learning & Technology

This is an electronic, refereed journal that was first published in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research results to foreign and second language educators in the United States and around the world on issues related to technology and language education.

Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Course Offerings

This index lists colleges and universities in North America that teach a variety of languages. Whenever possible, the entries include the name, phone number, and address of a contact person.

Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Organizations

This site lists organizations for specific languages and for LCTL teaching in general. Users can scroll through the entire list or use the index (see previous entry) to go directly to the language or language group of interest.

List of Language Lists

This site lists bulletin boards devoted primarily to the linguistic study of individual languages and groups of languages but also includes some other bulletin boards aimed specifically at language learners.

Multilingual Links

This site provides links to resource sites for many languages, including ESL. It also contains a search engine that connects users to Alta Vista, a digital Internet search service.

Nanduti

The foreign language initiative at the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University created this resource Web site to provide up-to-date information about early-start/long-sequence foreign language programs to parents, teachers, and administrators. Ñandutí's focus is on foreign language learning in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Schoenhof's Foreign Books

The publication titles of this large supplier of dictionaries, foreign language texts, readers, and textbooks can be searched at its "book search" page. The site includes a listing of children's books and literature in its original language.

Virtual CALL Library

The Virtual CALL Library seeks to be a central point of access to the diverse collection of computer-aided language learning software scattered across the Internet and available for downloading.

World of Reading

This organization's Web site offers a wide range of foreign language and ESL books, audiotapes, videotapes, and software for children and adults.

Craig Packard is User Services Coordinator for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, D.C. He speaks Russian, SerboCroatian, French, Spanish, and Romanian. He can also read Bulgarian. Lynn Fischer is an Administrative and Editorial Assistant at CAL in Washington, D.C., and has taught English as a second language.

Sources for Videos, CD-ROMs, and Multimedia

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Foreign Languages and Job Opportunities