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In addition to its membership, the Council
has working relationships with several institutions that are important
to bundling and strengthening the field of less commonly taught
languages. Because of the importance of these institutions to the
Council, its membership, and the field, the Council is pleased to
provide summary information about these organizations and convenient
hyperlink access to their websites, where they exist, to enable
you to learn more. These institutions are listed below and will
be periodically updated as new organizations are established and
institutional missions change.
ACTFL
Recently established a website at their own domain. The site promises
to offer a number of services, including: a downloadable library,
publications order forms, information on how to publish through
ACTFL, meetings information, and more.
Center
for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
Hosts a website that contains general information on the LCTL Project
at the University of Minnesota, an LCTL database, information on
LCTL Project sponsored listservs, and links and addresses to other
LCTL resources. Included in the database is the ability to find
out where a specific LCTL is taught.
Center for Applied Linguistics
A private, non-profit organization dedicated to applying research
and information about language and culture to foreign language education.
See their website for information about CAL and their services,
publications, products, and projects.
Computerized
Assisted Language Learning
At the University of California, Berkeley, offers reviews of software
and books for language students and language instructors. The site
also contains job announcements, product announcements, and demos.
FLTeaching
Forum
Includes a listserv for FL educators to discuss various aspects
of foreign language teaching. All postings are archived in a database
which allows the user to search for messages by entering the author,
date, subject thread, and/or key words.
Language
and Language Learning (in Queensland,
Australia)
Provides information on specific languages as well as information
on languages in general and related topics in language teaching
and learning.
The Language Materials Project
(LMP)
At the University of California, Los Angeles, offers a web accessible
database containing more than 11,000 citations covering over 900
languages. The database provides bibliographic references for language
teaching materials for the LCTLs. The database also contains linguistic
profiles, including geographical distributions of the language and
a three to four page description of key dialects, grammatical features,
and a historical background.
The Library of Congress
Allows the user to search and browse the Libraryís index
and non-catalog file (e.g. for records for federal legislation,
audio and foreign law), using a variety of tools. Some of the records
have direct links to digitized materials.
LingNet
Located at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
in Monterey, CA, offers its members a variety of tools and materials,
including: discussion forums, software libraries, reading material
and mailing lists. An on-line application for free membership to
is available at the LingNet site.
The National Clearinghouse
for English Language Acquisition (NCELA)
This website provides information to help state and local school
districts to improve academic standards, including those in foreign
language programs. The NCELA is funded by the Department of Education
and operated by George Washington University.
SCOLA
This website contains programming schedules, transcriptions of some
of the foreign language broadcasts and other information -- including
information on SCOLA which provides foreign television programming
for language learning.
Summer Institute of Linguistics
(SIL)
Located at the International Linguistics Center in Dallas, Texas.
The SIL website contains information on the study of minority languages
and cultures. The academic domains represented include: linguistics,
anthropology, translation literacy, language learning, and computing.
The
Yamada WWW Language Guides
Housed at the University of Oregon, contains an exhaustive list
of language resources on the Web.
The International Association of Language Learning Technology
(IALL) is devoted to language learning technology. The majority
of its members are language lab directories from various institutions
across the U.S.
Language
Line Services
Demonstrations of Language Line Services: interpreting
services (via telephone) for 140 different languages; the site also
contains application information on how to become a Language Line
interpreter.
Fulbright Teacher
and Administrator Exchange Program
This program is open to educators from the elementary, secondary
and two-year college levels. Sponsored by the United States Department
of State, it allows for U.S. teachers to exchange
teaching positions with educators in over 30 countries. Administrators
can participate in six-week shadowing experiences in about nine
countries.
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Other Useful Links
Audio Forum
Supplies a list of language publishers on the net. It also contains
listings for study abroad, schools, language professional information,
and a monthly newsletter.
iLoveLanguages
Provides comprehensive lists of language-related Internet resources.
The resources include, but are not limited to, the LCTLs.
The List of Language
Lists
A comprehensive collection of listservs that are devoted to the
discussion of language(s). It includes, but is not limited
to, listservs on LCTL.
Voice of America
Provides newscast sound files in various languages -- including
many LCTL.
World Newspapers on
the WWW
Editor & Publisher 's Interactive Online World Newspaper Database
has well over 2,000 online newspaper entries.
World
Television Stations and Listings on the WWW
World
Magazines on the WWW
International Channel
A provider of multi-language programming featuring over 25 different
languages from Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
World
TV Station Links
The MIT
List of World Radio Stations on the Internet
Foreign
Language and Culture Page
The Foreign Language and Culture Page offers easy access to hundreds
of language-related sites.
World Society
and Culture Directory
The World Society and Culture Directory is an alphabetical link
list of countries. Each country site contains numerous links to
sites about music, art, cuisine, politics, pop culture, and more.
Foreign Languages
for Travelers
The Foreign Language for Travelers Page offers basic "survival" exercises in about 50 different languages. This includes practice
learning basic words, numbers, shopping/dining, travel, directions,
places, and time and dates.
College
and University Home Pages
This site contains a catalog of home pages for over 3,000 higher
education institutions around the world.
American Translators Association
ATA's primary goals include fostering and supporting the professional
development of translators and interpreters and promoting the translation
and interpretation professions.
U.S. Department of Education
National Endowment for the Humanities
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom
Connections
The IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) mailing lists
are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachers
and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for
e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.
International
Language Testing Association (ILTA)
ILTA promotes the improvement of language testing throughout the
world.
National Council
for Languages and International Studies
NCLIS is working to ensure access to language instruction -- commonly
and less-commonly taught languages, ESL, and bilingual education
-- to the greatest number of citizens.
Modern Language Journal
The MLJ promotes scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers
of all modern foreign languages and English as a second language.
American Association of University
Supervisors and Coordinators of Foreign Language Programs
The Association
for Computational Linguistics
An international scientific and professional society for people
working on problems involving language and computation.
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National
Foreign Language Resource Centers
supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education
The Center for
Advanced language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER)
Penn State University
http://calper.la.psu.edu
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
(CARLA)
University of Minnesota
http://www.carla.umn.edu/
The Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS)
University of Oregon
http://casls.uoregon.edu
The Center for Language Edcuation and Research (CLEAR)
Michigan State University
http://clear.msu.edu
The Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
(CELCAR)
Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar
The Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC)
San Diego State University
http://larcnet.sdsu.edu
The National African Language Resource Center (NALRC)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/nalrc
The National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC)
Georgetown University and George Washington University
http://www.nclrc.org
The National East Asian Languages Resource Center
(NEALRC)
Ohio State University
http://nealrc.osu.edu
The National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
University of Hawaii-Manoa
http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu
The National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
(NFLRC)
Iowa State University
http://www.cal.org/k12nflrc
The National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC)
Brigham Young University
http://nmelrc.byu.edu
The Slavic and East European Language Resource Center
(SEELRC)
Duke University and Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://seelrc.org
The South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC)
University of Chicago
http://salrc.uchicago.edu
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