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The American Language and Culture Institute
http://www.csusm.edu/alci/
California State at San Marcos maintains this page to offer educators a variety of English as a Second Language experiences.

Bilingual Education
http://www.csulb.edu/~clmer/pswrtc/bi1ed.htm
An excellent resource page on bilingual education. All of the resources are hyperlinked for ease of review. In addition, brief annotations appear with each reference. Some of the references are as follows: Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, Linguistic Minorities Research Institute, and National Association for Bilingual Education.

Children and Bilingualism
http://kidsource.com/asha/bilingual.html
About 32 million people in the U.S. speak a language other than English in their homes. This page offers some resources and links to resources for helping these children in the schools.

Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction.
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/
This site offers a nice collection of royalty-free clip art for bilingual education.

Cross-Cultural and Cross-Lingual Links
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~abrice/Cross-cultural.html
This well maintained site by Alexjandro Brice is an excellent research site. The site contains the following resources: conferences, connections (email exchanges), resources, professional associations, professional journals, and hypertext of research.

Yamada Language Guides
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html
The Yamada WWW Language Guides are the definitive guide to language resources on the World Wide Web.

Dave's ESL Cafe
http://www.eslcafe.com
Dave Perling has an international reputation for working with TESOL and ESL. This page is well designed. The page is a long scrolling page with the 26 characters of the alphabet as a table of contents. The page provides a chat central, discussion center, graffiti wall, hints, help center, and many other educator resources.

Ebonics: Look Who's Talking
http://www.afronet.com/WB/040497-3.html
This page is an essay on the incorporation of ebonics into the curriculum.

For Teachers
http://www.unhcr.ch/teach/teach.htm
The United Nations sponsors this official site for teacher resources for teaching refugees. The page is linked to many other UN resources. A special bibliography is provided that list numerous annotated teaching resources.

Impact! Online
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/Impact/impact_homepage.html
The Department of Educational Psychology at University of Illinois assists in maintaining this site. The site is an interactive news magazine for intermediate and advanced ESL/EFL students. Highlighted words are hyperlinked to explanations and to audio files for pronunciation assistance.

The Language Project
http://www.langproj.demon.co.uk/
The purpose of the Language project is to provide teacher education courses in teaching English as a second language. The page provide a good deal of specific information about the process used. There is even a hyperlink to au pairs.

The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE)
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu
This clearinghouse is funded by OBEMLA to collect, analyze, and disseminate information relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S. help bilingual learners.

Native Languages Page
http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/natlang.html
This is a well maintained page on native languages. The page has been hyperlinked to many resources. Some of the languages which are referenced are Arapaho, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Dakota, and Navajo.

Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OBEMLA/
This is the official home page which explains the Bilingual Education Act in 1968 in recognition of the growing number of linguistically and culturally diverse children enrolled in schools.

Terralingua
http://www.terralingua.org/
Terralinguahas two main goals: preserving the world's linguistic diversity, and investigating connections between biological and cultural diversity. This university maintained page provides several resources for preserving linguistic diversity. The resource list at http://cougar.ucdavis.edulnasl terralin/endlangs.html provides an annotated listing of organizations working on linguistic diversity issues. An important feature is that many of these organizations are now hyperlinked.

Welcome to ESL Net!
http://esl.net/
This site lists a number of U.S. and International ESL schools. The site provides a resource section which is hyperlinked to several ESL references.

Foreign Language Learning Resources
http://www.call.gov/
Foreign language learning resources and links—especially related to authentic materials (such as foreign language newspapers) and less commonly taught languages—are collected here for foreign language teachers and learners. The site includes reference

Ideas for working with ESL students
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/v2i2/ideas.html
Teacher Talk is a resource for pre-service teachers, especially at the secondary level, and provides practical ideas for pre-service students and those who are students teaching.

Bilingual Families Web Page
http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/biling-fam.html
Bilingual parents can find information and resources here to help them raise their children bilingually. This site talks about the myths and politics of Bilingualism among other things.

Provision of English-as-a-Second-Language Instruction by Speech-Language Pathologists in School Settings
http://professional.asha.org/library/position%5Fstatement/esl%5Fslp.htm

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