Standard Resources for the Foreign Language Teacher
This section contains links to a variety of resources for instructors of all languages:
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
http://www.actfl.org/
ACTFL is the only national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 7,000 foreign language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry. You will find information on workshops, programs, meetings, membership, jobs, and publications.
Discover Languages... Discover the World!
http://www.discoverlanguages.org
ACTFL's national campaign that builds on the success of 2005: The Year of Languages campaign. This is a long-term effort to rraise public awareness about the importance of learning languages and understanding cultures. Become an advocate and participate by sharing your ideas and activies!
National Foreign Language Resource Centers
http://www.sedl.org/loteced/lotelinks/lrcs.html
Links to all fourteen Title VI Language Resource Centers supported by the U.S. department of Education. Their mission is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by providing professional services and material resources. The Centers also provide annual Summer Institutes on a variety of professional development and research topics.
FLTeach
http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach.html
Moderated by Jean LeLoup and Bob Ponterio at Suny/Cortland, this site offers a wealth of resources for the foreign language teacher from WWW sites to a listserv, to an archive of listserv messages. This site is particularly useful for methods courses and teacher training programs — it includes several modules focusing on the use of technology and fl teaching as well as an online collection of fl teaching methods syllabi found at: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/syllabi/
Foreign Language & Culture
http://www.speakeasy.org/~dbrick/Hot/foreign.html
A index of sites ranging from Belgian, Bulgarian, Canadian, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, East European, to Yugoslavian.
iLoveLanguages
http://www.ilovelanguages.com
A comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources of more that 1800 links which have been hand-reviewed. Includes online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, and language schools.
Lauren Rosen's (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Language Links
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html
Lots and lots of resources for all languages. Nicely organized, good, brief descriptions, and well-maintained.
VCU Trail Guide
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/default.html
The Virginia Commonwealth University's Trail Guide is a selection of foreign language resources on the web using friendly hiking metaphors such as "scenic side trails" and "where to pitch your tent" and "campfire reading". This site is updated regularly and has a section where you can add a new site along with reviewer comments.
The Web Museum
http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/
Winner of the Best of Web '94 contest: Best Use of Multiple Media award this site offers visitors a virtual multimedia tour of many of the world's famous artwork which includes not only extensive background information of the work and its author but also definitions of terms, movements and links to the cultural and literary trends of the period. You can also find audio files of classical music here.
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