Other Languages and Multiple Languages



Canadian Site: ALLE. Alberta Language Learning Environment
ALLE is a technology enhanced learning project that concerns all second languages taught in Alberta at any level from beginner to advanced, K-12 to post-secondary. It is run by the Universities of Calgary and Alberta, and Mount Royal College. The site describes the ALLE project and its activities, and it also provides a well organized set of links related to the field of computer assisted language learning (articles,resources and references).

Canadian Site: Almost Everything about Spain
An interactive service developed at the Spanish Embassy in Ottawa which provides information on many aspects of Spanish current events, history, language, culture etc..

Canadian Site: Canadian Languages Network
The Canadian Languages Network (CLN/RCL) is a service to assist heritage language teachers to find curriculum and other professional information on the internet.

Canadian Site: Classical and International Languages. The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9-10
The classical and international language curriculum focuses on developing the language knowledge and communication skills to function effectively in the international community.

Canadian Site: Die Deutschlehrer-Seite (Web Page for Teachers of German)
Manfred Prokop developed this site at the University of Alberta to provide easy access to many everyday themes/topics as well as specialized information needed by teachers of German. The more than 2000 links range over topics such as: German teaching and learning materials, customs and traditions, magazines and newspapers, and information on cities and regions.

Directory of Resources for Foreign Language Programs
This searchable database of (mainly American) resources provides links to websites, online publications, publishers, instructional materials, programs, listservs, databases, and other resources to support foreign language programs. It is co-sponsored by the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE) and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.

Ethnologue
This outstanding site is the online version of Ethnologue, the standard directory of languages of the world. It describes in detail 6700 living languages is searchable by country, language family or language name.

Canadian Site: French as a Second Language, and International Languages at the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto
The University of Toronto offers second language instruction in many languages (including French as a second language) through the School of Continuing Studies: Arabic, Cantonese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish. Please visit the site for a current listing.

Foreign Language Resources on the Web
Describes itself as a "quality-only" index seeking to include only the best of the foreign language web sites out of the many that exist. It is organized alphabetically by language from Arabic to Yiddish.

A Guide to Internet Resources for Foreign Language Teachers
Each Resource Guide in this series developed by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics offers a wealth of topical ionformation , including links to publications, listservs, organizations, virtual libraries, and conferences. Resource Guides Online are compiled and reviewed by experts in each topic area. Other titles in this series are available at http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos.

The Human Languages Page
The H_LP is an index of resources organized by language and by type (education, grammar, literature, dictionary etc...).

Lingua@web - A teaching tool for Spanish, French, Italian, and German
This site offers learning/teaching materials in Spanish, French, Italian and German at several levels of proficiency. This free site is as good as most language programs sold on compact discs.

Canadian Site: Spanish 5 to 12. Integrated Resource Package.
The Spanish IRP was published by the Ministry of Education of British Columbia in 1996. It provides the basic information that B.C. teachers require in order to implement the Spanish curriculum. This guideline is structured in terms of 4 curriculum organizers: prescribed learning outcomes, suggested instructional strategies, suggested assessment strategies, and recommended learning resources.

Mandarin Language
Developed by Brian King, Director of WWLI, a virtual language institute offering online courses in Mandarin and other languages, this site has been conceived around two main themes: Chinese language and technology, and Working, studying and travelling in China.

Canadian Site: Ontario Ministry of Education Guidelines in Progress
This site contains draft versions of Ontario Ministry guidelines for a number of secondary school subjects at the grade 11-12 levels, including English as a Second Language, French as a Second Language, and Classical and International Languages.

Canadian Site: Useful Links to Languages
This site is maintained by Pete Jones, Head of Modern Languages in an Ontario secondary school. It has a wide range of links of interest to the language teaching profession including links to the following languages:French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian.

Canadian Site: Ukrainian Language Education Centre.
ULEC is an on-line resource for Ukrainian language educators of elementary school children.

A Web of On-Line Dictionaries
Excellent English dictionary as well as links to more than 350 on line dictionaries of over 100 different languages, including multilingual and specialized dictionaries and thesauri. A very useful site!

WWW Resources for Language Teachers
This site has links to other collections of sites, to general foreign language resources, and to sites for the teaching of specific languages.


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