Exploration & Evaluation of Instructional
Web Sites for Language Learning

 

Instructional sites for specific languages:

Chinese:

Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online: by Dr. Tianwei Xie:
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm

ESL:

English at the Beach, an English language learning project: http://beach.prace.vic.edu.au/

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:

First Year French Resources (University of Texas): http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/index.html

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

German:

Deutsche Internet Chronik German Web Exercises by Andreas Lixl-Purce:
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

Greek:

An Introduction to Modern Greek: http://catcode.com/greek/

Ancient Greece: http://www.ancientgreece.com/ Cultural information

Modern Greek as a foreign language: http://www.eng.auth.gr/learn/index.htm

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

Hindi/Urdu Conversational Lessons on the Web (Syracuse University): http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/hindi.asp

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

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

Spanish:

Ojalá que llueva café, Exercises for Spanish by Barbara Nelson:
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/ojala/index.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://www.indiana.edu/%7Ecall/lengua.html

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

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; search 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



Last revised:  
January 30, 2006