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LANGUAGE RESOURCES
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
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