Authentic and Instructional Web Sites for Language Learning

Authentic Web Sites
 

Instructional Web Sites

Ideas for Activities for Authentic Web Sites:

Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes: http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html

Cooperative Learning Activities for the Foreign Language Classroom, by Jean LeLoup and Robert Ponterio: http://llt.msu.edu/vol3num2/onthenet/index.html

Language Learning Activities for the World Wide Web: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/nflrc.html

How to Write Activities for the Web, by Lewis Johnson: http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/writing.html

WWW Activities that Work (and Why!), by Volker Hegelheimer, Douglas Mills, Ann Salzmann, Heidi Shetzer: http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/resources/TESOL/WWW_activities.html

How to create a web activity for foreign languages, by Maritza M. Osuna and Carla Meskill: http://llt.msu.edu/vol1num2/article4/default.html#appendix3

480 Favorite Teacher Web Pages (For French, Spanish, and German, categorized as Geography, Newspapers, Foods, Sports, Music, Literature, Museums, Artists, Leisure, History, Holidays/ Celebrations, Weather, Search Engines, and Comics): http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/toplinks.html

Teaching with the Web -- by Lauren Rosen http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/teach.html

Working the Web for Education - by Tom March- http://www.ozline.com/learning/theory.html

Teaching with the Web: Trails and Tools for German Studies. by Andreas Lixl-Purcell: http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/publications/UTSAtech.html


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Specific Examples:

 

Yahoo Greeting Cards (click on appropriate country under "International Greetings"): http://greetings.yahoo.com/

Internet Treasure Hunts for ESL Students: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/th/

La Familia Real Española http://www.casareal.es/casareal/arbfr.html

Hausa Live Broadcast: http://www.dwelle.de/hausa/Welcome.html

Les Fromages de France: http://myweb.worldnet.net/~landais/cheeses.html

Un Jour à Paris, by Dawn Smith: http://members.tripod.com/MsDSmith/teacher.html

Interviews of German students about their projects: http://www.museumonline.at/1998/abschluss/filme.htm

Takako's Great Adventure: http://www.studint.net/takako/

 


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Instructional sites for specific languages:

 

Chinese:

Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online: by Dr. Tianwei Xie- http://philo.ucdavis.edu/CHINESE/ccol.htm

Practical Chinese Reader Videos at Brown University - http://www.brown.edu/Departments/East_Asian_Studies/hess/pcr.htm

ESL:

Imagination Voyages: Travel simulation activity for ESL by Douglas Mills - http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/travelsim/

English at the Beach, an English language learning project: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~prace/beach/

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab, by Randall S. Davis: http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm

Treasure Hunt (WELL workshop): http://www.well.ac.uk/wellproj/workshp1/treasure.htm

Selected Links for ESL & EFL Students, by Charles Kelly: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL.html

 

French:

Civilization française, by Marie Ponterio - http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/civ/Index.html

First Year French Resources (University of Texas): http://www.lamc.utexas.edu/fr/resources.html

Really Useful French Teaching Site, by Steve Glover: http://www.btinternet.com/~s.glover/S.Glover/languagesite/Default.htm

French Grammar Central, by Bob Peckham: http://fmc.utm.edu/~rpeckham/gramm.html

Lire Français (readings in French accompanied by exercises): http://www.lire-francais.com/

German:

Deutsche Internet Chronik German Web Exercises by Andreas Lixl-Purcel - http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/GIP/german_units/exercover.html

German exericises (University of Muskingum): http://www.muskingum.edu/~modern/mm1.html

German for Travelers (University of Victoria): http://web.uvic.ca/pgolz-gft/learn/index.html

German 101: Das Kino, by David Kenosian - http://www.haverford.edu/germ/kenosian/SYL101.HTM#kino


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Hindi:

Devanagari Script Practice (Australian National University): http://asianstudies.anu.edu.au/hindi/hindisigns

Hindi Exercises (University of Minnesota): http://carla.acad.umn.edu/VPA/India/exercises.html

Hindi Video Lessons on the Web (University of Pennsylvaania):: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/hindi/video.html

Devanagari Script (Latrobe University): http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/indian_gallery/devanagari.htm

Japanese:

Basic Japanese Lessons: http://japanese.about.com/homework/japanese/blbasic.htm

Momotaro (Peach Boy): http://www.jwindow.net/KIDS/LIBRARY/MOMO/

Easy Web Japanese: http://www.enteract.com/~sonobe/japan/

Korean:

Resources for Teaching and Learning Korean at Monash Univesity: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/korean/centre/resources/index.html

Russian:

Russnet (online learning modules): http://www.russnet.org/online.html

A Collocational Russian-English Dictionary of the Human Body (Cornell University): http://russian.dmll.cornell.edu/russian.web/material/index.htm

Russian Web Tutor (Auburn University): http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/RWT/welcome.html

Russian Dictionary with Sounds and Images: http://www.visi.com/~swithee/dictionary/welcome.html

Spanish:

Ojalá que llueva café, Exercises for Spanish by Barbara Nelson: http://www.colby.edu/personal/b/bknelson/ojala/letra.html

Tecla, Texts for Learners and Teachers of Spanish: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/tecla/

Translation Drill for Prepositional Phrases in Spanish- http://www.emporia.edu/biosci/span/spanish4.htm

Gramática y ortografía (University of Indiana): http://php.indiana.edu/~jsoto/lengua.html

Spanish Language Exercises, by Juan Ramón de Arana: http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/

 


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General Guides:

Web-Based Activities for Foreign Languages by Patricia L. Pecoy - http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/lessons.htm

Web-Enhanced Language Learning (WELL) Language Resources; serach by language and category: http://www.well.ac.uk/langres/index.html

LinguaWeb language centre: Language learning activities in French, Spanish, German, and Italian.- http://www.linguaweb.ndirect.co.uk/pages/whichlan.htm


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