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Language Arts Foreign Language Sites All levels Type a block of text into this site and it will translate it. Select from the following languages: English to Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish; Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian to English; German to French; and French to German. Basic level This site offers brief, sound-enhanced guides to useful travel phrases in a variety of languages, including Albanian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech , Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Moldovan, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Bulgarian Language and Alphabet Beginner level This site offers sound-enhanced guides to the Bulgarian language. It includes history, the alphabet, pronunciation, greetings, basic conversation, personal pronouns, literature, links, and art. All levels, teacher resources This site offers ESL lesson plans and resources, bilingual education, foreign language study abroad for teachers, foreign language lesson plans and resources, and educational standards and frameworks. Beginners, teacher resources This site offers a variety of resources including: authentic Spanish and French links by theme, Foreign language news & publications , cultural sites, link collections & web guides , tools and activities, French and Spanish art resources, and teacher resources. Colossus: International Directory of Search Engines Teacher resources This site offers search search engines and directories from 195 countries and 44 territories around the world. Users can search the web in a variety of languages. Teacher resources This site offers educational ideas, games, and activities for teaching ESL. It includes: classroom management, food, teaching grammar, holiday ideas, ice breakers, using the internet, ESL for children, listening skills, math, music, pronunciation, reading, software, speaking, spelling, video, textbooks, and writing and vocabulary. E.L. Easton Teaching Materials All levels, teacher resources This site offers dictionaries, listening exercies, quizzes and tests, reading activities, multilingual sites, links, and cultural information for teaching the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Hawaiian, Indian, Indonesian, Jersey, Mayan, Norwegian, Swahili, Turkish, Welsh, and artificial languages. Beginners This site provides interactive picture dictionaries in the following languages: English; English to Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Phonetic; and German, French, and Spanish to English. Users can click on links to see related words. K-12, and teacher resources This site offers electronic pen pals in 191 countries. It includes 86,233 classroom profiles. Students, teachers, or entire classrooms can correspond. It also offers teacher tools and resources.Fairfax County Foreign Language Links Teacher resource This site provides links to resources for the following languages: American Sign Language, French, Latin, Arabic, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. Student and teacher resource, varied levels This site offers 695,549 flashcards in a number of subject areas. Language flashcard are available for: Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish/Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Navajo, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Teacher/Student Resource This resource provides pronunciation and language study guides as well as teacher resources for the following languages and dialects: Australlian English, Canadian English, Irish English, Scottish English, Welsh English, French, French Canadian, German, Swiss German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, and Thai. Foreign Language Teaching ForumTeacher Resources This site offers resources for foreign language education. It includes links for the following languages: Chinese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. All levels, teacher resources This site includes a variety of foreign language topics including: cultural awareness, grammar, history, reading, speaking, art, games, activities, lexicons, celebrations, research, and music. Teacher and student resource, varied levels This site offers tests and multilingual vocabulary exercises in 21 languages and 420 language combinations. Languages include: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. Intermediate This web quest invites users to assume an identity and practice their Spanish by writing letters to a listserv. They are required to do research on a Spanish-speaking country and include it in their correspondence. Resources are included. I Love Languages.comAll levels, teacher resource iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of 2000 language-related Internet resources. These include online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, and language schools. Over 200 different languages are listed. Intercultural E Mail Classroom Connections Teacher resource ECC is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges. Resources are available in 82 countries. Beginning level This site offers flashcards, fill-in-the-blank, word scramble and a number of other activities in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Categories include animals, appliances, body, clothing, colors, food, home, instruments, numbers, school, sports, transportation and others. Internet Resources for Foreign Language All levels This site provides links to web resources in the following languages: Chinese, Classical languages, Medieval Latin, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. Internet Activities for a Foreign Language Class Several levels This site offers activities for the following languages: Spanish, French Italian, German, Japanese, Tagalog, Chinese, Latin, ELS, and EFL. elementary Links to more web sites on a variety of school topics including foreign languages. Language Exchange Online Community Teacher & student resource This site hosts online practice with lesson plans, text chat rooms, word games, pen pals, and a library. Users can find a partner at the online community and practice their second language with a native speaker who is learning their language. This site has members from over 127 countries, practicing 100 languages. Teacher resource This site offers language related links, online question and answer service, translators and translating services in a variety of languages including: Afrikaans Albanian, Bosnian, Chuvash, Hindi, Icelandic, and more. Information, teacher resources This site offers information on the history and culture of Latin American countries including: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. How to Write a Paper:
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Possible resources to considerThese sites will explore different points of view on cloning from the purely scientific to the emotional to the religious. They were chosen for their diversity in opinion. No one belief or ethic is promoted on this site. Ethics of human cloning--CNN--Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center of Bioethics, discusses the ethical pros and cons of cloning? Menu: Human Cloning--ReligiousTolerance--explains different types of cloning. Ethics in Cloning--KidzWorld--brief/simple summary of cloning views. Cloning of Humans: Will it be Ethical? Should it be Done?--Scientist--Panel discussion by a group of physicians on the ethics of cloning. Jurassic Park: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering Cloning ThinkQuest--Conceiving a Clone--excellent site for research. Provides a cloning timeline, techniques, and different points of view. Is Biotechnology Creating a Monster: Do We Really Need Square Trees?"--Michael Crichton--an article by Crichton on the commercialize of genetic engineering.The World View of Jurassic Park--Dr. Ray Bohlin (Doctor of Theology not medicine. --an article on the ethics and possibility of Jurassic Park.Movies and Morals--Article on how Jurassic Park can be used to teach ethics.Science Innovation and Ethics: A Movies in the Classroom Lesson PlanMaking Ethical Decisions--Josephson Institute of Ethics. Background on ethics--Provides some definitions of morality and ethics.Possibility of Jurassic ParkJurassic Resurrection--CNN--BioInteractive--article and 2 1/2 minute movie on the possibility of Jurassic Park. The Extinction of Extinction--Wired--Article on the possibility of Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs from Amber?--Article on the possibility of Jurassic Park. The World View of Jurassic Park--Dr. Ray Bohlin (Doctor of Theology not medicine. --an article on the ethics and possibility of Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park Internet SitesJurassic Park Internet Research Sites: a list of good sites compiled by a Floridian teacher. Jurassic Park WebQuest: Good site for links about fossils, the Jurassic period, dinosaurs, etc. Also good to see how many of the questions you can answer in the process section. Jurassic Park interdisciplinary Activity Page--Activities students can do for various disciplines, e.g., math, Biology, English, Government. Early childhood This website offers online activities in early letter, number, color and shape concepts. Activities can be done in Spanish, French, and German. Basic level This site offers 6 lessons with sound files and animated gifs to teach this language of Kerela, India. Beginning level This site offers simple stories with pictures, educational links, and curriculum ideas for English, Spanish, and French. NCELA/ERIC Clearinghouse of ESL Resources Teacher resources This site offers a wide variety of resource types including: clearinghouses, conferences, funding, listserves, publications, associations, and websites. It offers curriculum and instruction materials, articles, research, assessment, lesson plans, online activities, methods and vocabulary. Teacher and student resource This website provides a guide to over 160 different alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. It also contains details of many of the languages written with those writing systems and links to a wide range of language-related resources, such as fonts, online dictionaries, online language courses, puzzles and more. Teacher/Student resource This site offers instructional information on Latin and Neo-Latin (Romance or Romanic) languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Asturian, Catalan, Dalmatian, Galician, Occitan, Venetan and Walloon. It includes phonology and writing, descriptive and historical grammar, contrastive linguistics, language history, society and culture, literature, and vocabulary. Salt Lake Community College Center for Languages Teacher resources This site offers general information and language links for the following languages: Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and American Sign Language. Teacher and student resources This site offers language dictionaries, a verb conjugator, language and vocabulary activities, games, practice tests, links to Spanish-speaking countries, the arts, sports, travel, history, news, technology, entertainment and more. Spanish Teacher.org Teacher resources This site offers resources for teaching Spanish, including: practice activities, Spanish resources, technology resources, and information on Spanish tourism and culture. Teacher & Student resources This site provides links to resources on the following languages: Arabic; Belgian; Bulgarian; Canadian; Chinese; Croatian; Danish; Dutch; East European; English; Esperanto; Filipino; Finnish; French; Galician; German; Greek; Hebrew; Hungarian; Indonesian; Irish; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Latvian; Lithuanian; Lojban; Malaysian; Maltese; Moldavan; Nordic; Persian; Portugese; Polish; Romanian; Russian; Slavonic; Slovenian; Slovakian; Spanish; Swahili; Swedish; Thai; Tamil; Taiwanese; Turkish; Uganda; Ukranian; Valencian; Vietnamese; Welsh; Yiddish; Yugoslavian The Translators Home Companion Teacher resource This site offers information about resources available on the Internet and elsewhere for translators, interpreters, and language enthusiasts. It provides, glossaries, translation engines, tools, and translation product information. Basic level This site offers basic vocabulary and survival phrases for travellers in over 70 languages, including Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Creole, Croatian, Dansk, Danish, Dutch, English, Esparanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malaysia, Mandarin, Marshallese, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish and Zulu. Several levels This site offers text-based instruction in several languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Italian and Esperanto. It includes grammar references, vocabulary, pronunciation guides, useful phrases, and stories. University of Chicago, French - English Dictionary All levels This site offers a simple French English Dictionary containing about 75,000 terms. Users can type in words in English or French and receive a translation. All levels This site provides information and resources on the following languages and cultures: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, African Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, English, and Esperanto Teacher/student resource This site offers vocabulary tests in German, French and Spanish. Topics include animals, adjectives, business vocabulary, the human body, the human spirit, Europe, food, weather, the home, general vocabulary, clothing, Canada, useful words, basic words, the traveller, automotive, the hotel, professions, soccer, computers, and the sea. Teacher & Student resources This site offers links to resources and language courses in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, ESL, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indo-Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Sign Language, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog Filipino, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. WannaLearn.com- Frequently asked questions about linguistics Teacher/student resource This site offers information on the scientific and historical study of language. It answers questions like "How do you look up a word in a Chinese or Japanese dictionary?", "How did language originate?", "What is known about prehistoric language?” Webquest of Spanish Speaking Countries Beginner/Intermediate level This webquest involves researching several Spanish-speaking cities/countries and constructing a list of pros and cons, then engaging in a discussion. The site offers resources for the classroom and links to information about Chile, Mexico, and Spain. All levels, teacher resource Word2Word provides links to online dictionaries and translators in 150 languages. Teacher and student resource WorldLingo's free online translator provides text and web page language translations in Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese and Korean. Teacher and student resource This site offers links to grammar resources, games, research, and language courses in over 100 languages including: Ainu, Akkadian, Albanian, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian, Aymara, Azeri , Basque, Bemba, Belarusan, Bengal, Blin, Brahui , Breton, Burmese, Carrier, Catalan, Cebuano, Chechen, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chinese, Chukchi, Common Slavic, Coptic, Cree, Creole, Czech, Dakota, Danish, Dakelh, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Flemish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gaelic, Georgian, German, Greek, Gilbertese, Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hausa, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hupa, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Ingush, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jiwarli, Kannada, Khmer, Kiribati, Komi, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luganda, Lydian, Macedonian, Maltese, Mandinka, Manx, Marathi, Mayan, Mon, Nahuatl, Nenets, Norwegian, Occitan, Ojibwe, Omaha, Ossetian, Pali, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Prussian, Punjabi, Quechua, Romany, Russian, Samoan, Sanskrit, Seneca, Shona, Sinhalese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Tatar, Thai, Thracian, Tibetan , Tigre, Turkish, Tzotzil, Urdu, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, and Zarma. American Sign Language Sites About ASLThis site offers ASL resources and information. It provides dictionaries and references to educational books and software. This site offers an online collection of reference material and links about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United States; as well as deaf and hard of hearing related topics. National Information Center on DeafnessThis site offers information, on assistive devices, communication and sign language, literacy, cochlear implants, education, products, directories, and other resources related to deafness. ASL/Sign Language DictionariesASL BrowserThis site offers a directory of ASL signs. This site allows users to download a fingerspelling program. It offers a fingerspelling converter, a dictionary and an interactive quiz. Basic Dictionary of ASL TermsThis site offers over 1,270 words, an alphabet and numbers in sign languages. The dictionary offers animated and text definitions. Sign the AlphabetThis site offers several levels of play in a game format for learning the alphabet and the numbers. |