Education - Websites

This site is no longer updated, but has useful resources, including courses & phrases, audio & video, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, activities and tests for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Chinese, and 33 more languages.

Language resources from around the world: teaching & learning materials -- authentic materials -- reference & research resources -- assessment, evaluation & testing -- interaction & events -- methodology -- organisations & service providers -- policy & planning -- professional development -- vocational resources

Resources for teaching & learning: English, Spanish, French, and Chinese, including thematic curriculum units, teaching materials, virtual picturebooks, videos, and realia.

"This site was developed as part of a federally funded grant to identify open educational resources for World Language teachers in Maine."

"Audiria is an online tool which freely supports your learning of Spanish, offering podcasts to increase your knowledge of the language."

Open content electronic textbooks that are freely available

"The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction."

"Annenberg Learner uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers."
Teacher Resources: Arts, Foreign Language, Literature & Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies & History

"AELRC supports foreign language (FL) education in the US by (a) providing assessment and evaluation training and materials, (b) developing and validating high-quality assessment and evaluation instruments and procedures, and (c) fostering and sustaining a scholarship of FL assessment and evaluation among K-16 language educators."

The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education & Research (CALPER) is one of the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI National Language Resource Centers, whose focus is to improve the environment of advanced-level foreign language teaching and learning and assessment.

"The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) is one of the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI National Language Resource Centers, whose role is to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively."

"CAL has earned an international reputation for its contributions to the fields of bilingual and dual language education, English as a second language, world languages education, language policy, assessment, immigrant and refugee integration, literacy, dialect studies, and the education of linguistically and culturally diverse adults and children."

"The Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) at the University of Oregon fosters innovation in world language teaching and learning by providing research-based solutions to materials creation, program implementation, and evaluation and assessment."

"The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) is a Title VI Language Resource Center. We research culture, language and literacy within less commonly taught languages (LCTLs)."

"The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC) focuses on language education in the community college context, on heritage language learners, and on the use of educational technology to foster intercultural connections."

"As a U.S. Department of Education Title VI Language Resource Center (LRC), CLEAR strives to promote and support the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the United States through its various projects and outreach activities."

"CeLCAR is dedicated to promoting the teaching and learning of the languages and cultures of Central Asia through the development of language learning materials (textbooks, workbooks, phrasebooks, multimedia resources, web and mobile applications, online courses), teacher training, and intensive language summer courses. The less commonly taught languages currently being focused on at CeLCAR are Azerbaijani, Dari, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Pashto, Tajiki, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, and Uzbek."

"COERLL's mission is to produce and disseminate Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Internet public (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.)."

"The Duke Center works closely with its counterpart center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The joint Duke/UNC Centers for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies has been recognized as one of only 16 centers at U.S. universities to be designated as a National Resource Center in Russian and East European Studies by the U.S. Department of Education."

"CULTR’s mission is to highlight career pathways for underrepresented students that open with language study and lead to more diverse employment opportunities in diplomacy, international business, education, public health, and more."

GobiernoUSA.gov es parte de USA.gov, el portal oficial del Gobierno de Estados Unidos con información confiable, actual e importante para usted cuándo y dónde la necesite.

"The Center's mission is to serve the entire community of African language educators and learners in the United States by sponsoring a wide range of educational and professional activities designed to improve the accessibility and quality of African language instruction."

"NCOLCTL's mission is to increase the number of Americans who choose to learn one or more of the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) as a means of enhancing cross-cultural communication among citizens of the United States."

"As of 1999, the NEALRC adopted its specific East Asian Languages focus in order to serve the needs of learners and teachers of East Asian languages as directly and immediately as possible."

"The goal of the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) is to expand the nation’s capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively through research and materials development projects."

"NHLRC's mission is to develop effective pedagogical approaches to teaching heritage language learners, both by creating a research base and by pursuing curriculum design, materials development, and teacher education."

"The National Resource Center for Asian Languages (NRCAL) was designed to improve the nation’s capacity for the teaching and learning of Asian languages including Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese."

"The mission of the SEELRC is to improve the national capacity to teach and learn Slavic and East European languages."

The Iberian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Iberian Studies (for Spain, Portugal and Andorra). We do not strive for exhaustiveness but rather for quality. The resources organized here have undergone a selection and evaluation process. Annotations have been added where needed, augmenting the research value of these resources to scholars.