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Andy Holt Virtual Library. "The
Andy Holt Virtual Library
is principally a concept library, with a focus on the Humanities and Fine
Arts. Though open to the public, it is designed to serve the learning
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BBC Languages Page. Here are some excellent links to French, Spanish, German, Italian, and "Other" Language sites and resources. |
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Blue Web'n. This site provides good links to ASL, Classical languages, ESL, French, Spanish, and German sites. |
| This is a catalogue of 12,000 selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas. The link to Language, Literature and Culture is a must for language teachers. This page is a link from the BUBL Information Service Home Page which is a free user-friendly access to selected Internet Resources covering all subject areas, with a special focus on Library and Information Science. |
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Carnegie Mellon University Language Learning Resource Center. This site provides links to Chinese, French, ESL, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish as well as other language sites. The links are organized by categories: Art and Literature, Communication, Education, Press, etc. |
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Casa de Joanna. Language learning resources in French and Spanish are presented in a very pleasing format. Links are organized by theme, news and publications, culture, link collections, portals and web guides, tools, and activities. |
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CB Putnam's Home Page. This site, from the Episcopal Academy, offers excellent links and resources with teaching activities for teachers of French, Spanish, German, and Italian. |
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Claire Bradkin Siskin's Homepage. In addition to useful links, this site includes presentation materials that the author has used to discuss how to use websites for teaching and learning. It is a very practical guide for teachers. |
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Edgate. EdGate, in partnership with Language Learning Solutions, has organized the World Language Center to provide an easy-to-use location to find resources, daily lessons and much more! Languages include French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Scroll down to World Language Center, which is the result of a cooperative effort of Edgate and Language Learning Solutions to find the resources most useful for the language classroom. |
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Edsitement. This site offers the "Best of the Humanities on the Web" from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities and the Marco Polo Education Foundation. It lists humanities resources from "some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities." |
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Education World. Education World's goal is "to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. It aims to be a complete online educational resource for educators. |
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Foreign Language Lesson Plans and Resources. A site by Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus, Department of Secondary Education, at California State University, Northridge. This is a very well designed site with extensive resources for teachers and students. |
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Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill. These links were compiled with the assistance of Carolyn Kotlas at the Center for Instructional Technology, UNC-CH. There are links to the study of Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. |
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Foreign Language Resources. This is the site of "awesome library," an excellent resource for teachers of all levels and all subjects. |
| Foreign Language Teaching Forum. This is an integrated service for FL teachers which includes a mega WWW page, a LISTSERVE Academic Discussion List, archives, and the FLNews server at SUNY, Cortland. It is moderated by Jean LeLoup and Bob Ponterio who teach at SUNY Cortland. The topic is foreign language teaching methods including school/college articulation, training of student teachers, classroom activities, curriculum, and syllabus design. |
| Foreign Language Teacher's Web Pages. This page, maintained by Janel Brennan, consists of webpages, created by teachers who contribute to FLTEACH at SUNY, Cortland. There are contributions from teachers of ESL/EFL, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Technology, and TPR. |
| GlobeGate.
This
is the primary host site for the GlobeGate Project, a not-for-profit
organization created to provide a centralized internet resource for students
and teachers of foreign languages. We have indexed several thousand WWW
pages in various foreign languages, and are in the process of organizing
volunteers to help us index even more. For more information on the GlobeGate
project, send email to globegate@globegate.utm.edu. |
| Hot Internet Sites in Spanish. This site, maintained by Beth Bustamante, is an excellent resource for Spanish teachers. She asks: "Looking for ways to use the Internet with your Spanish-speakers but coming up short?" She then suggests: "Try the links below to get started. You will find resources for students who speak Spanish as their primary language and you will also find links for students learning Spanish as a foreign language. The resources are appropriate for Kindergarten through Community College levels." |
| The Human-Languages Page, iLove Languages! This page has an extensive collection of resources including many for less commonly taught languages. It links to resources as varied as dictionaries, spoken samples of world languages, and language tutorials. The more than 2000 links have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. |
| Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes. This site provides a collection of links to many sample Web lessons for FL classes. It includes the following topics: How to writ activities for the Web; Reading strategies for web activities; Internet options in the classroom; Web lesson evaluation form; Favorite teacher URLs of 480 links to authentic documents on the Web. |
| Internet4Classrooms. This is another useful site from Professor Levine at California State University, Northridge. |
| Jim Becker's Home Page. This is an amazing page, constantly updated with good new links. It is a good source of online activities and resources for French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese, among others. |
| Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. This guide is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. The site has good links for foreign language educators. |
| Labyrinth Library. This is the Georgetown University site of Library Bookcases and Scholarly Publications. The Library contains Latin, Old English, Middle English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Iberian Texts. |
| The Language Center of City College of San Francisco. Language links feature resources for many languages including Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish. Students can access the On-line Grammar Quizzes and other Web Exercises. |
| Language Games. This site provides word search, crosswords, and hangman games in five languages: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. |
| Language Learning Activities for the World Wide Web. This site provides lesson plans for specific activities using the Internet in the classroom. It was compiled by the discussion group "WWW: New Activities, New Pedagogy" at the NFLRC: Local and Global Electronic Networking in Foreign Language Learning & Research, University of Hawaii. |
| Language Links.. Lauren Rosen. This site provides links to the large variety of languages taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison: Multi-Language Sites, Classical, ESL, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Slavic, and Spanish. |
| Languages Made Clear. This website from the Netherlands offers information about Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, and Spanish. |
| Languages on Line. This site, from the Royal Grammar School, offers links to French, German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan resources as well as vocabulary games ideal for lower and middle school students. |
| Languages-on-the Web. This site, maintained by Crystal Jones and Robert Behar Casiraghi, claims to provide the best language related links and will offer in time innovative courses in languages. |
| Lehman College. For research in African studies, this is, perhaps the best site. It also contains many links for teachers and students of Spanish. |
| LinguaWeb. This site is a collection of resources for language learners of all ages and levels. It offers lessons in French, Spanish, Italian, and German, revision materials and tests, resources for teachers, and the opportunity for students to participate in scheduled chat sessions to practice the language they are learning. |
| Links and other Net Resources. This is a site sponsored by the College Writing Programs at Berkeley. |
| Oxford University Language Center. French sites and resources from the Taylor Institution Library and French Web links from the Language Center. |
| Spanish Class Online. This site, which can be used at all levels, incledes vocabulary, grammar, culture, quizzes, countries, dictionaries, fun, and games. Learn Spanish the fun way! |
| Teacher's Net. This is a good site for elementary teachers and students. |
| The University of Toledo Foreign Languages Bookmarks. This site has 86 excellent links for teachers of Classical, French/Francophone, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish/Latin American languages. |
| Volterre. This is an excellent site for teachers of French and English as a secondary language. |
| Yahooligans for Teachers. This is an excellent site for elementary school teachers and students of French and Spanish. |
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| ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle. Ce site vous donne "l'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993." On y trouve 288 textes de 101 auteurs. |
| A to Z Home's Cool. This site, maintained by Ann Zeise, guides students who are being home schooled to the best and most interesting and useful sites and articles about home schooling on the web. Her list of French resources is excellent and comprehensive for students K-12. |
| About. This is a good site for students of French at all levels. It offers original articles and features about French language and culture, links to relevant Internet resources, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. |
| AATF. Home Page. A starting point for teachers of French, this site has good teaching plans, excellent links, and invaluable pages on creating a web page. |
| ABC de la langue française. "L'objectif de ce site est d'offrir un inventaire aussi complet que possible des ressources disponibles sur Internet concernant la langue française envisagée dans toute la diversité du sujet: argot, dialectes, rhétorique, défense de la langue, francophonie, glossaires, revues, études, droit et politique linguistiques..." |
| The ARTFL Project. The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of Analyse et Traîtement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text services (ETS) of the University of Chicago. It holds some 20,000 French texts in a database which acts as a tool for researchers involved in French studies. |
| Bienvenue à l'envolerie. This is a site for French children which includes the following categories: "jeux de mots, musique et chansons, jeux et activités, histoires séquentielles, carterie, coloriage, surprises, et activités en anglais." |
| Birkbeck College Library: Resources for French Studies. This site provides access to Birkbeck University's online resources for French Studies. |
| California State University at San Marcos. This is a new site, rich in links to French culture, dictionaries, grammar, idiomatic expressions, and vocabulary sites, among others. |
| Centre de Ressources pour l'Enseignement du Français. Services Culturels de l'Ambassade de France. This is a new site from Rutgers University. |
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| Espace Écoles. Communauté d'écoles primaires francophones pour l'intégration d'Internet dans la pratique pédagogique. Activités de recherche d'informations, de production, d'échange, et de mise en relation. | |
| Espaces Lycées. Site de support pour les projets pédagogiques de lycée, pour les profs et les élèves des lycées francophones. | |
| Espaces Collèges. Site de support pour les travaux croisés et les projets pédogogiques de collèges. Pour les profs et les groupes des collèges francophones: dossiers collectifs sur les thématiques de travaux croisés, espaces personnalisés et outils pour présenter des projets transdisciplinaires. |
| Enchanted Learning. The French Language. This site provides a rich resource for vocabulary review. It is a French language theme page of appealing pictures which can be printed out and labeled from a pool of vocabulary provided. There are 59 themes to choose from. All levels of language learners can find something useful here. |
| FACSEA. Society for French American Cultural Services and Educational Aid. This site offers a unique collection of French audiovisual works on video and CD-ROM. |
| FLLC of the University of North Texas. This site offers links arranges in the following categories: French General Practice, Culture, Government, History, Media, and Reference. |
| Le Français au secondaire. Sonya Bouchard et Michel Clark, respectivement enseignante de français et enseignant-ressource, ont contribué à cette page en faisant la recherche et le classement des sites. Hélène Jacob et l'enseignant-ressource ont conçu la présentation Web. Notre désir est de créer un outil Web facile à utiliser pour le enseignantes et enseignants, ainsi que pour les élèves. Un gros merci à Jocelyne Gagné et Serge Dugas qui ont commencé le travail.Sonya Bouchard et Michel Clark, respectivement enseignante de français et enseignant-ressource, ont contribué à cette page en faisant la recherche et le classement des sites. Hélène Jacob et l'enseignant-ressource ont conçu la présentation Web. Notre désir est de créer un outil Web facile à utiliser pour le enseignantes et enseignants, ainsi que pour les élèves. Un gros merci à Jocelyne Gagné et Serge Dugas qui ont commencé le travail. |
| La France à travers les âges. This is a public, non-commercial, educational Web site for all interested in the study of France. It provides a complete chronology of the history, culture, arts, and literature of France. |
| French Embassy. NY This is a new site from the Resource Center for the Teaching of French which features new graphics, zoomable maps, online registration forms, and more. |
| French Culture from the Consulate in New York. This is the site of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. |
| French in Action. This site supplements the video/cassette program with excellent links, quizzes and worksheets for students. |
| French Links: M. Desrosiers. This site provides 21 categories of excellent links for research in general as well as specific links for the five levels of French in high school. |
| French Resources on the World Wide Web. University of Adelaide Library. This French resources site was created and is maintained by the Research Librarian for French Studies at the University of Adelaide, Alan Keig. He selects and annotates those sources on the web that are likely to be most useful to students of French at the University and all over the world. This is an excellent resource. |
| French Resources for ages 2-7+. This is an excellent site for elementary school students which includes the categories: l'année en fête, bricolages, jeux d'activités, activités à imprimer, jeux en ligne, histoires, chansons, comptines. |
| Globegate.
French lessons from all over the
world are compiled here by Dr. Robert Peckam. These "265 links
contain significant components of actual French courses, and in some cases a
whole course. They have been culled from all over the WWW, and there will
likely be additions and deletions. This is not by any means an exhausive
list, and I would caution that some of the best courses may well be hidden
on Blackboard and WebCT servers. Current update began in March 2002."
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| HAPAX: French Resources on the Web. (Sweet Briar College) This site features links to French-related resources of interest to teachers and upper level students of French. |
| J'écris, je dessine. This site is named "la cybergalerie des contes, textes, et dessins d'enfants." It is an excellent site for elementary school students who want to see their stories and drawings published online. |
| Kids-R-Crafty. This site offers activity sheets, coloring pages, dot-to-dots, mazes, vocabulary, and worksheets in both English and French. It is an excellent site for lower school students. |
| Languages-on-the-Web: French Link. This site offers the best links guarantee and states that "only serious and useful sites are listed here." |
| Lapinville. This is a children's site in French which offers a menu of instructional materials, children's activities and games, and which features childrens' original stories and poems. Its categories include: "les histoires, la nature et les animaux, la bibliothèque, découvrir l'Histoire, les reportages, les poèmes, la galérie d'art, et le coloriage. |
| Learn French. This site, maintained by Anne Fox, provides talking pages, vocabulary practice, oral practice, and a variety of online links. The author, who teaches ESL, states that she is trying to replicate a little of the richness of the fantastic resources on the web for learners of English for learners of French. |
| Learn French as a second language. Links to all kinds of activities from a complete language course to phonetics, vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises, games, and a link for teachers who want to create their own interactive activities. |
| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Exploring the French Revolution. This page contains 12 topical essays, 250 images, 350 text documents, 13 songs, 13 maps, a time line, and a glossary. It offers another excellent resource for those studying the French Revolution. |
| Liens sur internet pour apprendre le français. This is a very rich site of French links from Lingua. It is well worth a visit. |
| Liens utiles. "Ces sites principalement pratiques et utiles n'ont qu'un seul but: essayer de vous aider dans la connaissance du français." |
| Links to free French language learning tools. This is a link from the French Studio Home Page which is still under construction. Each of the resources listed here is excellent. |
| Links to Learn French. This site is a collection of excellent bookmarks collected by Jean-Pierre Palasse to list the best of sites from the web. |
| La Page de Deb Blaz. This is a page with links to Quia exercises for all levels of French in Upper school as well as some very useful links to the Francophone world, Le Petit Prince, French holidays, Grammar review exercises, and many more. |
| La Page de Didier MADELEINE: French Resources. This site contains excellent links for the following categories: Arts, Bandes Dessinées, Cinéma, Civilization, Compréhension écrite et orale, Concours, Cours en ligne, Dictionnaires, Droit, and much more. It is a very useful site. |
| Planète-éducation- Applications pédagogiques d'Internet. This site lists links to extremely good activities for lower, middle, and upper school students. There are more than 2,600 sites on this webpage which lists pedagogical applications on the Internet. |
| Le point du FLE. Helene Weinachter, who maintains this site calls it "un portail dont l'objectif est de faciliter l'accès aux meilleures activités de français langue étrangère (FLE) proposées sur Internet... pour travailler en classe ou en auto-apprentissage." |
| Le Quartier français du village planétaire. Janice Paulsen describes her site in the following way:"The Global Village French Quarter (Le Quartier français) format has been deliberately chosen and planned as an adventure in discovering and communicating with our neighbors in this rapidly developing village planétaire. With the miracle of modern technology, the Internet and the World Wide Web, you can now have instantaneous, direct contact with authentic French documents and French-speaking peoples! Here in the Global Village virtual French Quarter, grouped in the various locations one might visit in a French village, are Web sites and interactive communication activities of interest to all those who love the French, France and the Francophone world. Again, welcome and have a great visit!" |
| Le Quartier français du village planétaire. L'école primaire. This is an equally excellent list of links from the page of Janice Paulsen at the University of Richmond. It is a good site for lower and middle school students. |
| Really Useful French Teaching Site. This site contains interactive exercises for students of all ages. |
| Ressources en français langue seconde. This site, from the University of Ottawa, contains many exercises and resources for teachers and students, French in Quebec and Canada, and Francophonie in the world. |
| Ressources françaises. This site provides a very good list of sites from Canada. |
| Sadarini Gerona i Roig: Page de l'Association de Professeurs de français de Catalognie. Une excellente page de: Ressources FLE et Langue Française et Exercices et activités Internet pour la classe de FLE. |
| Les Saucissons Chauds. These are a list of "hot links" from the site of Michael Lastinger. There are excellent resources, particularly in civilization, but also in literature and art. Of particular interest is a link, Sons et Lumières, which "is designed primarily for my American students looking for sites where they can hear authentic French over the Web." |
| Les Signets de Diane. This is a very impressive list of bookmarks. There is something for students of all ages here. It is an excellent site for celebrating holidays every day of the year as well as studying French in all disciplines. |
| Sites de ressources en français. Sites qui hébergent des répertoires d'adresses utiles pour le cours de français, pour l'étude et l'enseignement du français, sites qui comportent des listes de sites ou des répertoires plus ou moins ordonnés d'adresses utiles pour l'étude et l'enseignement du français. |
| Sites de ressources en français. Sites qui hébergent des répertoires d'adresses utiles pour le cours de français, pour l'étude et l'enseignement du français, sites qui comportent des listes de sites ou des répertoires plus ou moins ordonnés d'adresses utiles pour l'étude et l'enseignement du français. |
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Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links. 2nd Edition - Now a 10,000-Link Globe-Gate Supersite. |
| University of Texas. French Grammar. This site offers information on French grammar, arranged in sections covering the various parts of speech with explanatory notes in English. Additional feautres include an interactive verb tutorial, a French dictionary (Hachette), and Web exercises. |
| UptoTen enfants. This is the site of Boowa and Kwala in French (also available in Spanish, Italian, and German from this page). It contains "histoires, chansons, cartes, coloriages, et jeux" which are instructional as well as entertaining. |
| Weavers French Site. This site, designed by Monsieur Harvey, contains more than 100 interactive exercises created by the software "Hot Potatoes." |
| The World Language Center. This site provides a list of French sites in categories including Art, Culture and History, Food, Geography and Travel, Holidays, French Lesson Plans and Web Quests, Music and Song, Literature, Media, and Resources for French Teachers. It is compiled by Edgate and The World Language Center. |
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| Center for Instructional Technology. This site offers ideas in matching teaching strategies with technology, finding tools for a course,and helping design a distance learning course. |
| Center for Instructional Technology. Quiz Builder. Create different types of quizzes; easy instructions. |
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Create Interactive Activities for your Classes! Create a web page and various types of quizzes with Usina Quiz.
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Create More Games, exercises, quizzes. Create interactive vocabulary drills, multiple choice questions, matching games, and more.
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Create quizzes at Quia. Teachers can create their own exercises and quizzes and students can practice vocabulary and grammar from teacher-made quizzes that supplement all the texts used at most levels of language instruction. |
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Fun for all at ALL levels. This is a very useful site, designed by B. Dyer, contains many interactive activities using Hot Potatoes. It is ready for use at all levels! |
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Foreign-Language Software & Web Central. This site was created by Dr. Robert Peckam from Globe-Gate Research to help teachers locate reviews and summaries of software to help them make better choices. |
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Hot Potatoes. The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, and gap-filled exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web. |
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One Computer. This site, maintained by Patricia Pecoy, offers categories that include an overview, teacher planning ideas, class management, tips and ideas, links and books. |
| Online Technology Tutorials. This site provides a complete guide to technology tutorials found on the Web. |
| Puzzlemaker. Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. |
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IT Information Sheets. Becta
(British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) has produced a number of information sheets which
translate common IT terms and computer-related phrases from English into
other languages |
| Technology and the Web. This is an invaluable link from the AATF Home Page. It provides a glossary of technological terms in French and step by step instructions for creating a web page as well as excellent pedagogical applications of existing French sites. |
| Web Developer and Language Learning Site. Good links for French, German, Italian, and Spanish language. |
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Textbooks and Textbook Companies:
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Entre Amis. This site offers a table of useful Lab Exercises for upper level students. |
| French in Action. Yale University. Online activities for lessons through lesson 26. This site has very helpful lesson plans for teachers and exercises for students. |
| Glencoe. French, Latin, Spanish web activities for each text in the particular language. |
| Heinle & Heinle. French, German, Italian, and Spanish. |
| Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. French, German, and Spanish. |
| Houghton Mifflin. French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. |
| McDougal Littell. For Discovering French Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge. |
| Prentice Hall. French and Spanish. |
| Voilà. French. |
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