Check out CARLA. A great resource for teachers, administrators, parents and anyone with an interest in language acquisition. They have endless resources including teaching aids, assessment tools as well as conferences and seminars for teachers of ESL and foreign languages.
Language Resource Centers
CARLA is one of 15 Title VI Language Resource Centers funded through the U.S. Department of Education. The purpose of the Language Resource Centers is to:
•establish, strengthen and operate national language resource and training centers
•improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively
•disseminate information about foreign language teaching and learning
Other Language Resource Centers
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER)
- The Pennsylvania State University
The Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS)
- University of Oregon
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy (CERCLL)
- University of Arizona
Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
- Michigan State University
Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR)
- Indiana University
Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC)
- San Diego State University
National African Language Resource Center (NALRC)
- University of Wisconsin at Madison
National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC)
- Georgetown University
- Center for Applied Linguistics
- George Washington University
National East Asian Languages Resource Center (NEALRC)
- The Ohio State University
National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
- University of Hawai'i at Manoa
National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC)
- University of California, Los Angeles
National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NK-12FLRC)
- Iowa State University
National Middle East Language Resource Center NMELRC)
- Brigham Young University
South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC)
- University of Chicago
2 comments:
I see that President Barack Obama wants everyone to learn a foreign language, but which one should it be?
The British learn French, the Australians study Japanese, and the Americans prefer Spanish.Yet this leaves Mandarin Chinese and Arabic out of the equation.
Why not teach a common neutral non-national language, in all countries, in all schools, worldwide?
An interesting video can be seen at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670.
A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net
Funny, I did a paper on Esperanto in the ninth grade and really haven't heard much about it since. Thanks for reminding us it.
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