 Speaks for Itself
Speaks for Itself Talking Sites to use for Listening Practice - your PC must have TTS or Text to Speech software installed on it. If not, install this one: Lingt Language Looks Useful To ELLs
Lingt Language lets teachers create virtual classrooms with assignments - specifically for students learning a second language. The element that really makes it stand-out is the ease of use for creating and doing verbal assignments. Sample English Lessons for our classes may be viewed at Lingtlanguage.com/jloucky
Bible Stories Listening Practice:
25 Old and New Testament Stories (Macmillan L.H.) Top 100 language Blogs
LexioPhiles recently published "The Top 100 language Blogs" here. LexioPhiles Top 100 language Blogs
Lang-8.com
Lang-8.com is a great place for free Language Exchange! Allows you to start your own Japanese Language Blog, which natives speakers will help correct for free! Corrections will be highlighted so you can easily learn from your own mistakes.
LANGUAGE INFORMATION CENTERS OR PORTALS
National Foreign Language Resource Center
This Hawaii-based portal draws from foreign language teaching, applied Linguistics and L2 acquisition to support projects that focus primarily on the less commonly taught languages of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Free, but the site also gives access to materials that can be bought online. Covers both face-to-face and CMCL. Annotated Bibliography of some CALL work up to 1999 at: Coski and Kinginger’s annotated bibliography.
Valuable for the annotations, but the material listed is largely from early publications (up to 1999), so perhaps more of interest in a historical perspective. Online Collaborative Learning
Website run by Central Queensland University, with a range of resources n CSCL. Online QDA (Qualitative Data Analysis). Resource compiled by Gibbs, Fielding, Lewins and Taylor. Useful annotations and glossary. Many links to proprietary tools. Object Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
The UK Subject Centre’s website lists events, links, papers, materials and their resources under the keyword ‘Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)’ and ‘Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)’. Lingonet.com
Lingonets are popular lexical gap-fill puzzles organized around different topics. Students can get help from synonyms, definitions and typical sentence contexts. Go try out these 50 FREE Lingonets here: Shining Star
(Pearson Longman Publisher’s ESL books and dictionaries) The Best Life Expectancy Calculators
ESL Listening
Folktales and Legends
Folktales and legends embedded in a specific culture provide an opportunity to explore and teach rich and fascinating social lessons. EducNet
Dossier (in French) on online collaborative learning. Edulinks: telelernen und internet in der lehre
A non-commercial portal with articles, links, books, conferences as software related to online learning in tertiary contexts. ELC Study Zone
Free Samples for Grammar, Vocab and Writing practice at many levels. ELT.ac.uk: Embedding Learning Materials
A website devoted to embedding learning materials into ELT. This is a well laid out website for learning and teaching professionals, and for developers working to promote innovation and best practice in education, where you will find a wealth of practical materials to download, designed to help you. The site is designed for ELT, but has wide applicability to other languages. Some links may no longer be live. The Ethnograph
Software for Social Scientists who work with Text Based Data. Tool for ethnographic research. The website has a page of very clear screen-shots, letting you see how easy the procedures are. The webpage on the demo version does not reveal the extent of the work that can be done, but asks you to fill in a form saying whether you wish to receive marketing information. Two chapters from its manual are available to download: ‘Chapter 2: Overview’ and ‘Chapter 4:Quick Tour’. Shmoop is sort of a Cliff’s Notes — but a whole lot better.
Literature Classics Section International Children’s Digital Library
Children’s Digital Library offers 10,000+ Free Kid’s Books Online!). Children’s Stories in many languages. (Search by Country, Language, Age, Award-winning, Book Cover, etc.) Cyber Listening Lab
Randall's ESL Vocabulary Quizzes for Listening Activities Lessons and Lesson Plans for English Classes
(EFL/ESL from The Internet TESL Journal) Language Learning Links for both Students and Teachers
Selected Links for ESL & EFL Students
(maintained by The Internet TESL Journal) The purpose of this page is to introduce students to a select list of links that they will find immediately interesting and useful. These may not be all of the very best sites, but these are definitely some of the best. We have not included sites that are difficult to navigate or are cluttered with advertising. More Complete List of Links for Language Learners
Selected Links for ESL Teachers
(maintained by The Internet TESL Journal) Maybe not all of the very best, but definitely some of the best places to start. Link Submissions most recent to ITESLJ
ELLLO
A free online listening resource of over 1,000 listening activities designed especially for ESL and EFL students and teachers. Most listening activities include images, an interactive quiz, transcript of the audio and downloadable MP3. The LINGUIST List: Language Resources Area
This area of the LINGUIST list contains information on languages and language families, plus links to websites devoted to natural and constructed languages, to writing systems, and to language resources, e.g., dictionaries. Thanks to the generous cooperation of the Ethnologue, you can search a database of information on over 7000 unique languages, using over 47,000 language names and alternate names. This database keeps track of those languages which have become extinct (575 entries) , or are in imminent danger of becoming extinct ( 440 entries) . In addition, you can access the LINGUIST List database of information on the languages in ISO 639-3 which LINGUIST has added, languages with temporary codes, constructed languages, and language families. LinguistList: Lists 20,000 Linguists worldwide
LibraryThing.com
LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. Guide to Librarything
(Right click to download pdf.) Guide to Librarything Students
(Right click to download pdf.) Language and Linguistics Journal Links
(15 from Tom Cobb) The Language Menu
Free site with 18 tools for language teachers. Make worksheets in over 35 languages (or over 2,200 language combinations for bilingual material. Use the clip-art gallery to make worksheets with pictures, download ready material from the material bank, interactive vocabulary games, teacher training courses in Europe and much more. Compleat (sic) Lexical Tutor Explanation
(How to Use LexTutor) Language-related Homepages
Library of Congress Online Catalog
LingQ
A language learning system where members use authentic language content to learn and improve in a variety of languages. LingQ provides not only a growing range of audio and text resources for English and other languages, but also an efficient vocabulary accumulating methodology, and other language learning services. EFL/ESL Free
Downloadable Lesson Plans LearningActivities4kids.com
Activities that cooperate with your kids to develop their learning skills. Talk to Canada
Learn English online with TalktoCanada.com. All lessons are live and done using a webcam and audio in real-time with a tutor based in Canada. TalktoCanada.com tutors are all native Canadian English speakers who have helped hundreds of clients learn English online.
LANGUAGE LEARNING SOFTWARE
CALL4ALL recommended language learning programs
All programs are hybrid CDs, for use on either Mac or Windows computers. All of these Language Learning Software Programs have been tested and approved by CALL4ALL.US for their effectiveness in helping with language learning. Corpus-based Linguistic Analysis software programs
from Ritsumeikan's CALL EJ Online Journal. LibraryThing.com
LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. Guide to Librarything
(Right click to download pdf.) Guide to Librarything Students
(Right click to download pdf.) Let’s Go Eiken Comparison Chart
LANGUAGES
Languages of the World
at the National Virtual Translation Center
Languages of the World is a web-based free-access multimedia reference on 120 world languages and 30 language families. This website was developed by the National Virtual Translation Center technology team as a contribution to the Interagency Language Roundtable support to celebrate the Year of Languages in the United States. It has been accessed by thousands of visitors with positive feedback. World Languages
Links to all languages known online. Love to Learn Language
This site provides free lessons for those who speak English, Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese and who wish to learn either Basque, English, or Spanish. Languages of the World by Computers & the Internet
The Languages of the World by Computers and the Internet (Commonly called Kotoba Home Page or Logos Home Page) Click to Go Down to the Japanese Part. For each of the Languages of the World, this home page describes its brief history, features, writing system, and character set and keyboard for computers and the Internet processing. LanguageDaily.com Wiki
Currently in its infancy, this website aims at developing a wiki community for teaching yourself a foreign language and helping others along the way. It hopes to bring together language students, instructors and native speakers from all over the world.
LANGUAGE EXCHANGE PARTNERS
Livemocha.com
Mylanguageexchange.com
Languageexchange.org
Try these free programs, but don't share your personal details. (livemocha.com, mylanguageexchange.com, languageexchange.org)
LISTENING
Listen to learn phonics with Fonty: Fonty Reading Lab
Teaching students to read English in a short time.
Try some of the VOA (Voice of America Radio & Web-Broadcast) or BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) sites. Students can listen and read at the same time and all the articles are contemporary. Not all are business-related, but most are. You need a Real Player plug-in to listen to the news articles, but they can be downloaded directly from the site. Downloading the actual audio is very quick, but will depend on your connection speed. Online Listening Sites
collected by Rob Waring Extensive Listening Links
I-Pod Listening Practice Podomatic.com
ESLpod.com
A very interesting source of listening materials. Jeff McQuillan's website with transcripts available. Learning Times
The LearningTimes.org community features free group collaboration tools, such as virtual meeting rooms, a site-wide instant messenger, and virtual office suites, making it a vital place on the web for thousands of education professionals to meet and interact at any time. Online Listening Opportunities
Short Stories for English Listening and Reading Practice
One hundred free short English stories for ESL learners with listening support, grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises. English Language Dictations
English dictations of all levels - beginner, intermediate, advanced. ESL audio dictations and listening. ELLLO – English Listening Language Lab Online
maintained by Todd Beuckens, is a flash-based site providing students with a new audio dialogue of native speakers each week. Each dialogue centers around a specific topic and often contains a check for listening comprehension. The site has excellent, simple navigation features and a modern, simple look to it. It’s a great place to help autonomous students focus in on improving listening to authentic English in an ungraded environment. BBC World Service News
This offers some of the latest articles from the World Service, all with written text and the facility to hear them read aloud. There is help with vocabulary, quizzes, a special section for Business English and also a large archive of previous material. BBC Skillswise
This is another part of the BBC site (not part of the World Service) which provides a lot of their English listening material. Again, topics are contemporary and often have a business flavour. There are quizzes accompanying every article and a large resource bank of previous articles and quizzes. BBC Learning English
BBC’s Easy English
Reading Writing and Learner’s Site CNN News Transcripts
Audio Picture Dictionary
Access in 15 languages! VOA News
Voice of American Learner Pages
News in Easier English FEBA Radio
Broadcasts in many Indian, Asian, and East/Central African languages and Middle Eastern languages and English/French. L.E.A.R.N.
Language Education And Research Network, Inc. in Japan. L.E.A.R.N. Mobile Devices
Good News English
Listening and pronunciation practice. Trans World Radio
IBRA
Broadcasts to Africa, Asia, Middle East and CIS. Radio Worldwide
Specialized (Easy) English Programs
Lingual Net
Lingual Net is another video-based English study site. There are currently over 60 short movies with accompanying activities to study from. They site utilizes the "tri-view method" where students watch the movies 3 times, first without subtitles, then with subtitles, and finally with quiz questions that pop up at various points in the movie. The Voice of America News Feeds
VOA’s really simple syndication (RSS) feeds allow you to receive news and information in the categories you choose. Rotten Tomatoes likewise Rotten Tomatoes
A variety of RSS feeds highlighting the most recent and most popular films and videos/dvds as well as Certified Fresh picks. Individual listings include the movie title, the Tomatometer, and the Critical Consensus. Short Stories (UK)
The short story section at east of the web. You can browse the library by genre or search it for a title, author or keyword. Clicking on an author's name lists all their stories along with further information and links. Stories can be read online, printed or downloaded for reading offline or on handheld devices. Fluency through fables
BBC Learning English
An RSS feed from the BBC Learning English website. RSS feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest features you want from BBC Learning English. BBC News and Audio in 33 Languages
Give it a listen in your native or Target Language! My Nihonbunka
Japanese culture blogger Petersen’s Practice Listening to and Answering Questions
English Listening for Japanese People
MP3 library of colloquial American English phrases, separated by topic. Translated for the benefit of Japanese learners of the English language. Includes podcasts and some English listening tests. English Listening World
This site offers free listening practice for learners of English. Vocabulary focused intensive listening to stories (in MP3 format) helps learners acquire new vocabulary.
PODCAST LISTENING PRACTICE
Catchawave.jp
Offers good I-Tunes Podcast Listening Practice News Stories. Podcasting by Jeff McQuillan
International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (Winter 2006 edition).
MOVIE SCRIPTS FOR EXTENSIVE LISTENING PRACTICE
Drews Scriptorama
It may still be the biggest repository of movie scripts. Click here for a list of Movie Scripts
American Beauty
American Beauty’s main character has clear rather expressionless diction. Sixth Sense
Good for low level learners, because a main character, the boy, speaks slowly using simple words and Bruce Willis speaks slowly back to him. Major Spoiler
The ending of Sixth Sense.
BBNBI NEWS INSPIRATIONAL RADIO
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Online
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio English
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Espanol
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Portuguese
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio German
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Russian
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Chinese Simplified
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Chinese Traditional
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Japanese
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Korean
ENGLISH LISTENING SITES
E-Views
Euronews
ESL Cyber Listening Lab
EL Easton: Listening
ELT Listening Materials
Radio links galore!
LISTENING COMPREHENSION RESOURCES
More of the world’s best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All September 2005 Issue - Vol. 1, no. 1
Here are ten of the very best online listening comprehension resources where you can find thousands of high-quality audio and text documents to help you sharpen your listening skills. These were selected by ESL ALL in 2005. The importance of listening in acquiring a new language can never be overstated. Whether you learn a first, second or third language, listening comes first. The more English you listen to, the better you prepare your brain for making fast progress. In language learning, quality and quantity both can make the difference. Randall’s ESL Cyber-Listening Lab
One of the best listening sites to improve your listening comprehension skills through practice with self-grading listening quiz pages. General listening quizzes, listening quizzes for academic purposes, 20-minute ESL vocabulary lessons, language learning and life tips, and long conversations with RealVideo. ESL About.com
English listening skills and activities for effective listening practice for ESL EFL learners and teachers. Comprehension quizzes for listening skill improvement for beginner, intermediate and advanced ESL EFL English levels. ELLLO.org (English Language Listening Lab Online)
Learn English by listening to English speakers from all over the world. Over 500 listening activities to choose from! Listening games, news center, song page, theme page. Choose speakers by nationality or choose subject by theme. 1-Language.com
Real-life situations for students and users of American English. This Audio Center features 40 Units of English focusing on practical conversations and academic language as commonly found in American universities. Conversation starters, getting around, telephone conversations, assignments, classes, and short talks. BBC World Service
One of the best sites in the world to improve your English. Excellent audio and video clips section. Mostly British English. Watch and Listen: Pronunciation Tips,Welcome to London, Top of the Pops, Singer and the Song, Beyond the Postcard, Music Directory, Video Nation, Retro English and more. 5 Minute English.com
ESL listening lessons. Free short self-study English lessons and quick tips for ESL students. Dogs, Dogs, Dogs, Get the phone!, The Birthday Party, The Fishing Spot, Asking about Restaurants, The Weather's Great!, What do you like to do?, Movies, Chores, The Job Interview, The New Apartment, Let's Take a Picture, In a Hotel, Shopping for Clothes, Telephone Call to a Business, A Thief in the Night. Focus English.com
Audio exercises that focus on learning idiomatic and everyday expressions to help you deal with daily conversational situations. Each dialogue is accompanied with carefully designed exercises. Follow the recommended steps and practice at your own pace. Topics include: Communication, Eating, Emotions, Fashion, Friendship, Health, Housing, Life, Memory, Money, Romance, Shopping, Time, Traffic, Traveling, Vacation, Weather, and Work. Voice of America Wordmaster
Wordmaster is a five-minute radio feature heard each Wednesday on VOA News Now. It is a weekly analysis of American English. Read and listen to hundreds of audio files. Grammar, Idioms, Slang, Regional English, Topical Issues, and Archives. ELL (English Listening Lounge)
Paying site that offers three free listener menus containing each 10 audio listening passages, questions and answers, and transcripts. A great variety of topics is covered. American English. World English Listening
Click on any of the flags on that page to hear accents from some of the main English-speaking countries in the world. Hear English accents from: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, United States, Vietnam, and Wales.
ESL-RELATED SITES WITH STREAMING MULTIMEDIA AND TEXT SCRIPTS
Rong-Chang Li
English as a Second Language Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
(University of Utah) Focus English
(UC Riverside) The ESL Wonderland
(University of Florida) LinguaCenter
(University of Illinois) The Comenius Group
English idioms EFL.net
uses Microsoft's audio streaming format The English Listening Lounge
free guest areas
TEXT-TO-SPEECH AND SPEECH-TO-TEXT SITES
NTNU Speech Web Site
Online English Pronunciation Practice Natural Readers
Best text-to-speech site to use for listening to any scanned reading text. Works well when combined with Epson's GT-7200U scanner OCR software. Dragon Naturally Speaking
Speech-to-text site
LANGUAGE STUDY LINKS
Alphabetically-Organized Study Links
listed by language (over 140!). Yamada Language Center, University of Oregon. 218 Language Links
alphabetically listed. Language Study Links for 75 Languages
all listed alphabetically. Lexi-Study’s Momentum
Online Vocabulary Expansion - (MOVE) Language Learning System - Online Program for Language Teaching
ENGLISH LESSON PLANS
ERIC
Educator's Reference Desk users may wish to search ERIC* at the U.S. Department of Education's ERIC website: http://www.eric.ed.gov. *The Educators Reference Desk is not affiliated with or funded by the ERIC program or the United States Department of Education. All questions concerning ERIC should be addressed directly to the ERIC program at 1-800-LET-ERIC. Education Resources Information Center
US Dept of Ed’s ERIC – the world’s largest digital library of educational literature. ERIC at the U.S. Department of Education's ERIC website. All questions concerning ERIC should be addressed directly to the ERIC program at 1-800-LET-ERIC. Educational teaching materials massive Digital Library
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) provides quick and easy access to over 40,000 educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites. Enter a word or words that describe the information you are looking for in the search box on the right side of the GEM page. Eduref.org Virtual Lessons
LINKS TO AID LANGUAGE LEARNING – FOR PUPILS
VTrain (Vocabulary Trainer)
An Excellent resource for creating your own Vocabulary Training Exercises. Take flashcard tests for 40 languages. Activities include: Click 'n pick, Clipboard logging, Bulk Word Extraction and Sentence Generator. Vocabulix
Free online vocabulary and conjugations - learn Spanish, German, English. Using a Conjugation Trainer and over 90 predefined lessons, Vocabulix helps you memorize words in foreign languages. Vocabel.com
Create your own vocabulary or grammar test using this blank test form Interlix - a great tool for learning vocabulary
Interlex supports the following languages (providing that the appropriate operating-system components are installed): Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian. Languages at University of Northern Iowa
Jim Becker’s Super Language Website Links. Language Express: Free Spanish Game
Resources for English as a Second Language to the Hospitality Industry Language Express specializes in customized ESL lessons, accent reduction programs, train-the-trainer and employee workshops tailored to your company's needs; providing effective bilingual hotel and foodservice English-Spanish wall charts and individual pocket guides. Target Language - GCSE language reference resource
This site is full of free resources to help you learn French up to GCSE or Common Entrance level. There is also a dictionary to help you.
LINKS TO AID LANGUAGE LEARNING – FOR TEACHERS
LanguagesResources’ Links
On this page you will find links to various MFL sites that over the past two years we have found useful. There are grammar sites, games sites and even podcast sites. Excellent games for four languages: French, Spanish, Italian & German. Videos come complete with transcripts and quizzes. Great interactive whiteboard stuff for French, Spanish & German. Some lovely songs complete with sound. (What good’s a song without SOUND?) Beginner's Guide to Hot Potatoes
by Andrew Balaam (Word Doc, 4MB). Integrating ICT (Information & Communications Technology) into Language Teaching.
Categories: Blogging; Conferences; Courses; Digital Storytelling; ETwinning; Freeware; ICT Advice; Interactive Whiteboards; Interviews; IOWconference; iPods; Joe Blog(g)s; Lead Practitioner; Mobile Phones; Nodehill; Podcasting; Primary Languages; Radio; Research; Skype; Social Networking; Television; Times Educational Supplement; Videoconferencing Modern Language Journal's
Guide to professional professional language journals
E-LEARNING / LEARNING OBJECTS
Alive Tek
Affordable custom solutions for eLearning, specializing in building and supporting eLearning environments. Learning Objects Assessment Sheet
pdf from AliveTek.com
LANGUAGE STUDY AND CATALOGING
Language Archives
Language Archives house materials intended to document and describe human languages, such as wordlists, lexicons, annotated signals, interlinear texts, paradigms, field notes, and linguistic descriptions.
LIBRARY AND LITERACY SKILLS PRACTICE
LILO – Learning Information Literacy Online
It puts you in touch with the great Librarians of U. of Hawaii, whose online course can help you learn how to do good research and learn to write without copying!
MULTI-LANGUAGE SEARCH ENGINES AND FREE E-MAIL ACCOUNTS
My Language
My Language provides access to News Sources, Search Engines and Web Directories in over 60 languages! MyLanguage is a portal providing access to Search Engines Web Directories and other online information resources in 60 community languages in Australia. MyLanguage is a partnership between the State Libraries of NSW, QLD, SA, VIC, and WA and the NT and ACT Library and Information Services. They are very useful Printer-friendly Websites, Community-based language resources, Online Email Services. Information includes Local History and Entertainment, Government Departments in Australia, Current Affairs and News, Online Directories and other Library Catalogues. World News – free full-text news and weather around the world. Top Online Email Services using GMail (free web-based Email from Google). MSN Hotmail – free web-based Email from Microsoft Network. Yahoo! Mail – free web-based Email from Yahoo!
LANGUAGES AND ICT
Languages ICT Website & Forum
A website and a forum for people interested in ICT and languages, maintained by CILT and ALL. Digital Language Laboratories
Davies G., Bangs P., Frisby R. & Walton E. (2005) Setting up effective digital language laboratories and multimedia ICT suites for MFL, London: CILT (pdf document).
LANGUAGE IDENTIFIERS
University of Montreal
RALI
Language Identifier (SILC). French-based. Free online language identifier from the Applied Research in Computational Linguistics (Recherche Appliquée en Linguistique Informatique) department at the University of Montreal, Canada. Enter some text in a language you are trying to identify, and it will attempt to guess the language (from the around 30 it knows). Includes links to other computational linguistics research projects at RALI. Text Cat
Language Guesser
Free online language identifier. Enter some writing in a language you are trying to identify and it will attempt to guess the language (out of 77 languages it knows). Includes links to other language identification/guessing sites, and free Perl source code. Xerox
Language Identifier
Free online language identifier from the Xerox Research Center Europe (XRCE). Enter some text in a language you are trying to identify, and it will attempt to guess the language (from the 47 it knows). Includes links to other natural language-related projects at XRCE. I Love Languages
18 Language Learning Links from ILoveLanguages.com. Lingua Guide
Language Learning Links for 20 Major Languages. Very practical.
LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES AND BORROWED EXPRESSIONS
Compare foreign expressions
used in everyday English and their countries of origin. US and UK English
Compare US and UK English variants. US and UK English
Compare US and UK English variants - more resources.
LANGUAGE PRODUCTS AND TOP LANGUAGES SPOKEN WORLD-WIDE
World’s Most Spoken Top 18 Languages with Statistics.
Over 1000 quality Products for learning 100 Languages.
LANGUAGE LEARNING IN JAPAN
at JEMA-supported schools Japan Evangelical Missionary Association
JEMA website links include Japanese Language Schools.
LEARNING ENGLISH
CyberESL
If you need help in learning English, visit this site. Learn English
Features theme-based materials to learn English having fun using games, songs, cartoons, stories, etc. Learn English Kids
Many things to make learning English more fun for young learners! Learn English Military
Peacekeeping English. Actually designed to help those involved in international peacekeeping operations. Don’t we wish that good communication skills were all that it takes to make a peaceful world? Developing good language skills sure can help, at any rate! Learn English Professionals
Relevant for workers needing higher levels of English proficiency. Interesting activities on a wide variety of topics using multimedia language learning materials. These range from giving presentations, doing effective online study and other career-related themes. Global Village English
Online chatting in a safe environment to improve one’s English while chatting about each other’s culture. UK Language Programmes
Language learning centres around the UK. British Council English Courses
About 100 teaching centres in over 50 countries.
LEARNING OTHER LANGUAGES
Study Languages
German, English, Spanish, French or Italian language courses abroad. Foreign Language Resource Center
World’s largest source for computerized translation products from many companies. Computerized dictionaries, with ability to point at a word on the screen and obtain possible translations in a balloon next to it. Lingro Language Learner
Lingro is an extraordinarily handy tool for anyone learning a foreign language. Open any webpage on the web and click on any word. With the magic or AJAX, a bubble pops up with the meaning of the word in the language you’re studying (current options are Spanish, Italian, French, German and Polish). But that’s not all. Create an account and you can save the words to a study list and practice with flashcard “games”. Lingro’s functionality can even be used on .txt, .doc and .pdf files. If a word isn’t in the dictionary, add it, please, for the rest of us! Add Audio/Video to your Language Learning
For anyone looking to learn a new language or refresh their language skills, LearnOutLoud.com's 'Languages' category offers dozens of language learning titles. LearnOutLoud.com aims to be the most complete and accurate resource for audio and video learning titles. Language Learning Publishers Online
Want to learn another language? LearnOutLoud.com features language learning publishers that provide learning courses and audio programs in dozens of languages from around the globe. NetLanguages.com
Online English and Spanish courses Level Test: Take a level test free of charge and with no obligation to do a course. Online Practice: Sign up for monthly interactive exercises and Net Languages news. Phrasebook: Download free digital phrasebook for iPod users.
LANGUAGE AND VOCABULARY GAMES
Languages Online.Org.
Hot Potatoes-based Games in Français , Deutsch , Espanol and Italiano. Vocabulary Games in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Spellmaster.com
Create your own Macromedia Flash Vocabulary Training Aids with these easy to use FREE tools. Spellmaster.Com games are used in scores of countries by tens of thousands of students across the world. Providing stimulating activities in a wide range of languages, not only do they play an essential role in many award winning web sites, but they also perform a vital part in motivating, entertaining and educating students in thousands of classrooms and homes across the world. You can even add your own voice!
LINGUISTICS
I Love Languages - Linguistics
75 professional Linguistics Organizations or Websites. Computational and Corpus Linguistics, Natural Language Processing information repository, Writing Systems, and many other fields Corpus-based Linguistic Analysis
software programs
LITERATURE READINGS
LiTgloss
LiTgloss enables language learners to read authentic texts in about 25 languages in their original form, by providing them with vocabulary assistance and supplementary material to enhance and empower their comprehension. Short Stories
Authors’ Bibliography included. Classic Short Stories
Collection for pleasure reading. Read Print
A free online library offering thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. Start by looking through the author index to find an interesting author or book.
LITERATURE LINKS
Worldwide Folktales
Best known 15 year software collection from The World & I.  | Da Vinci Code
Fact or Fiction? DaVinci Code
Find the Real Truth page with many resources. The Truth about Da Vinci
Was he really hiding anything? Breaking the Da Vinci Code
Answers to the Questions Everybody's Asking by Darrell L. Bock, Ph.D. In "Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everyone’s Asking," New Testament expert Darrell Bock examines and disproves the false claims of historical truth presented in the bestseller "The Da Vinci Code," which has been read by millions of people around the world. Da Vinci Code: Fiction or Fact?
Da Vinci Code errors explained in Japanese |
Three Trees Story
Christianity and Literature
Revisiting the Influence of Christianity on English, by Michael Lessard-Clouston Common expressions come from the Bible.
50 Common Expressions from the Bible.
The influence of Christianity on Western civilization
Cheryl L. Stansberry’s (2007) paper Old English Literature and Culture Resources
University of Adelaide library’s “Old English Literature and Culture Resources” pages Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative (LTDI)
Herriot-Watt University’s resources site for teachers in higher education. This LTDI link, based on a cookbook metaphor that may appeal or irritate, leads to a simple and practical evaluation guide for higher education practitioners carrying out small-scale projects.
LITERACY
Remedial Reading Clinics
How to set up a Remedial Reading Clinic or Reading Lab; Odessa, Texas volunteer clinic by Don Potter. Phonics-First Reading Program.
Instructional Audio for Rudolf Flesch's 'Why Johnny Can't Read and what you can do about it'. Advocate for Literacy: The Teacher Who Couldn't Read
Here is John Corcoran's web site. He was a teacher but could not read. His story is fascinating. He eventually learned to read and is now an advocate for teaching reading with phonics - the only method that really works. Learning Information Literacy Online (LILO)
LILO puts you in touch with the great Librarians of U. of Hawaii, whose online course can help you learn how to do good research and learn to write without copying.
LOVE SONGS
Available Texts Order any for $20 including free shipping via our Order Form: - Listening to Love Songs with Cloze Exercises (J.P. Loucky, 2001).
- Listening to Lovely Childrens' Songs and Lullabies (J.P. Loucky, 2000).
- Listening for the Reasons for the Seasons (J.P. Loucky, 2002).
LANGUAGE RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
Linguistic Data Consortium University of Pennsylvania
ELDA
Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency – is ELRA’s operational body, set up to identify, classify, collect, validate and produce the language resources which may be needed by the HLT – Human Language Technology – community. Besides, ELDA is involved in HLT evaluation campaigns. ELRA
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) was established as a non-profit organisation in Luxembourg in February, 1995. ELRA is the driving force to make available language resources for language engineering and to evaluate language engineering technologies. In order to achieve this goal, ELRA is active in identification, distribution, collection, validation, standardisation, improvement, in promoting the production of language resources, in supporting the infrastructure to perform evaluation campaigns and in developing a scientific field of language resources and evaluation.
LINK SITES
English Links
Links to useful sites with exercises, worksheets and resources for international students and teachers of English as a second or foreign language. Link Sites for English Study
Dave's ESL Cafe - Web Guide
Over 3,000 links suggested by learners and teachers around the world. Best feature: so many sites, you can try lots of different things. Worst feature: too many sites, so it can be difficult to choose really useful ones. E.L. Easton-English Online
Great collection of links to good sites for English learners and teachers. Includes many topics and types of activities. EnglishClub.com
Sample EnglishClub's large variety of internal links and explore the ESL Webguide. ESLDesk.com
Lots of links to good sites. Tower of English
Excellent selection of about 300 links for English learners. Browse around. ITESLJ links
See Links for Students on the left, with many categories of English study links. Selected Links for ESL & EFL Students includes just a few highly recommended sites, and Interesting Things for ESL students is another related page with a variety of interesting activities.
LANGUAGE INFORMATION CENTERS OR PORTALS
World Association for Online Education
National Foreign Language Resource Center
This Hawaii-based portal draws from foreign language teaching, applied Linguistics and L2 acquisition to support projects that focus primarily on the less commonly taught languages of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Free, but the site also gives access to materials that can be bought online. Covers both face-to-face and CMCL. Online Collaborative Learning
Website run by Central Queensland University, with a range of resources n CSCL. Online QDA (Qualitative Data Analysis). Resource compiled by Gibbs, Fielding, Lewins and Taylor. Useful annotations and glossary. Many links to proprietary tools. Object Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
The UK Subject Centre’s website lists events, links, papers, materials and their resources under the keyword ‘Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)’ and ‘Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)’.
CMS / LMS
LMS
Compares and reviews 35 Learning Management Systems. The Sloan-C listserv discussed options from several perspectives. Administratively, institutions find commercial LMSs attractive because vendors promise longevity, stability, reliability, technical support, comprehensive packages for communications, student-and-faculty-friendly design, and compatibility with central data systems for automated integration with records, accounts, and registration. However, administrative drawbacks include costs and a complex selection process for choosing an affordable LMS. For example, eArmyU cited 15 categories with nearly 50 desirable functions as the minimum LMS features. A useful service at http://www.edutools.info/course/ productinfo/index.jsp compares 35 LMSs in 10 categories and 33 features. Organizations like ADL, IMS, CARAT and OKI are developing standards and providing resources to help guarantee the best, evolving and changing systems, to keep costs reasonable, and to enable faculty to access, refine and control content and design. Meanwhile, as more institutions share resources, enabling faculty to create material on the web for all courses, online, face-to-face, and blended, is a wise investment. We also need to ask: How do LMSs affect students? ... Does stepping through different content provide the critical thinking, personalization and competencies that help learning thrive?
OTHER
Literactive
The number-two-rated site on The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers, is designed to help early readers, and include bilingual Spanish E-Stories. Lexile reading
Lexile Scores are an innovative way of measuring reading levels. Lexile vocabulary
Free online vocabulary activities, lists and materials for various texts. Life-Long Learning
Nellie’s English Projects: Educational Portal for life long learning. Legal Dictionary
Leadership University
Discusses language, philosophy, literature, religion and life issues. BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Online
In all of these languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, Russian Machine Translation for 42 Languages
LingvoSoft Online contains an extensive selection of ECTACO/LingvoSoft utilities and databases. LingvoSoft Online is the new web portal of Ectaco Company, a leader in the field of language-learning, translation and localization software for over 42 languages. Featuring lighter, web-friendly versions of award-winning translation and language learning utilities, this gateway to barrier-free communication lets you experience first hand the joys of learning to understand foreign languages. Word by word searches of a foreign language text using slow, boring books are now a thing of the past thanks to the rapid and effective tools provided here. R Reader
Tom Cobb’s Reading Tutor for Jack London’s Call of the Wild. Read, listen to the recording, pause to click any word once for individual pronunciation twice for examples + definition. Quick look-ups in Word-Net. Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
Lexico is a leading provider of language reference products and services on the Internet, including Dictionary.com, called "the best general English-language dictionary online" by Web Guide magazine; Thesaurus.com, our award-winning online version of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases; Reference.com an online encyclopedia, almanac and Web guide; and CleverKeys, software that gives instant access to our services from almost any program on Windows or Macintosh platforms. Linguanet-Europa.org is a multilingual centre for language learning
It contains links to 3,742 resources catalogued by the Lingu@net Europa team. Boa Lingua - Sprachreisen / Sprachaufenthalte weltweit
Boa Lingua is a successful and independent language school provider, assisting clients and helping them to choose between more than 130 language schools. Learning to Teach Online
An accredited online distance education course aimed at teachers, lecturers, trainers, content developers who wish to transfer their existing skills to an online environment. LeTTOL stands for Learning To Teach Online and it has been delivered since 1997 to in excess of 2000 learners. It helps participants gain the skills needed to develop and deliver online courses of all kinds. It can help you make the Internet a powerful, flexible and accessible way to learn. Learning Disabilities and Language Education
Teaching Made Easier
English and Language Arts program to buy for making lesson plans. Engadget.com
A blog in several languages on the latest tech gadgets. Lit2Go
from Florida State’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse. Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in mp3 (audiobook) format. It's a growing collection of public domain content graded for K-12, including MP3 audio files, text files, permission to make "books", and at least one post-reading activity sheet for each. Free Reading and Language Arts Materials
ESL, Language Learning Free Activities
Free French, German and Spanish Language Learning Free Activities
Learning Space
Learning Space Map of Five Learner-Centered Principles and Practices LibriVox
Audiobooks Free! LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain with several options for listening. Lifestreaming
How to do it and how it gives meaning to our lives and communications. Linked In
LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a business-oriented networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 to help businesses discover inside connections. Laugh Lab
LaughLab.co.uk looked for the funniest joke in the world. 40,000 got sent in. Longman online English Courses
LinkedIn: Relationships Matter
LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover and make inside connections. Live Skydrive | Store & Share Your Files | 5GB Free - Windows Live
Discover Live Skydrive. Get 5GB Free space to store, share and access your files from anywhere. LiveJournal.com - Start a Free Blog / Journal Today
LiveJournal.com is a free service for all your journaling and blogging needs, offering privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates, ... LinguaMatch Panoramic Phrasebook
Just point and click. It's an easy and satisfying way to learn Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, or Polish and save 25%. 42 languages, for just $29.95each or all 42 for only $112! LinguaMatch Panoramic Phrasebook for Windows works like no other language program. It brings you to 30 different situations where you'll learn conversational phrases, object names, and pronunciation by exploring a 360-degree environment. Click an object and hear its name in another language. Click a person and learn a conversational phrase. Simply associate words with objects... it's that easy! Learning Journey Blog
Video sharing online resources
from Nik Peachey’s Learning Technology Teacher Development Blog. LoudBlog.com
LoudBlog is a sleek and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing media content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting. Just upload your audio/video files, add some notes and links, and you’re done! Listen-and-Write.com
Audio practice to help you improve your listening skills as you hear about the news. Listen-and-write.com is free listening practice. Snopes.com/language
Strange and interesting word origins Learner.org
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Internet-based, interactive audio-visual English learning center with instructions in 21 languages.
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online electronic translation tools
ESL Lounge
Free ESL Lesson Materials for teachers. Grammar, worksheets, song lyrics, board games, pronunciation and more. All free and printable.
Online Conference/Classroom
Nellies English Projects is an educational website for students and teachers whose aim is to motivate students for lifelong learning. It provides resources for teachers on how to integrate technology into the classroom by means of project based and experiential learning using WebQuests. The site provides many educational resources, articles, lesson plans, evaluation rubrics, reading practice and collaborative writing ideas.
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(works only with Firefox)
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Main Features
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Uses 35 free online web page translator services
Worldlingo.com,
Tranexp.com,
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Abacho.co.uk,
Altavista.com,
Apertium.org,
Eigo-navi.com,
Elmundo.es,
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Imtranslator.com,
Internostrum.com,
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Linguamatix.com,
Lingro.com/,
Lingvo.org,
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Ocn.ne.jp,
Oesi.cervantes.es,
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