Monday, May 21, 2012

Foreign Language/ESL Resources

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language

American Federation of Teachers of German

American Federation of Teachers of French

AmeriSpan Unlimited

BET on Technology: Bilingual Education - Spanish Resources Center for Applied Linguistics

Conjugation.com - a website that will conjugate verbs in English for ELL learners; a great resource for ELL or ESL teachers

Just type the verb that you want to conjugate in any form, any verb, regular or irregular. Click on “Conjugate.” A new page is instantaneously displayed, with the verb shown in all of its forms, voices and tenses. Type in your verb, and press "Conjugate". Notice the tabs along the top of the screen. You can see the affirmative, negative, interrogative, definition, and examples of the verb.
Dave's ESL Cafe (good links...check out the Idea Cookbook for teaching ideas)
EnglishClub.com/Teacher's Room (lesson plans, resources, and discussion for ESL/EFL teachers)

EL Civics for ESL Teachers
 
ESLTower.com (worksheets, online interactive activities, exercises, more) Fonetics (online language laboratory provides phonologically complete pronunciation guides to many languages, including seven varieties of English) FLTeach (Foreign Language Teaching Forum - many web resources) FreeEnglish.com (9 languages; free ESL games, ELS center) FreeTranslation.com (easy-to-use site for quick translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text; English to Spanish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese and vice-versa)

French for Beginners

Interesting Things for ESL Students Learn Spanish: A Free Online Tutorial

Learning Chocolate is a perfect resource for teachers of English as a Second Language Learners OR of primary grades and who want to reinforce basic vocabulary. These activities work beautifully with an interactive board or an ActivSlate with no additional flipchart creation. First, choose a category of basic vocabulary words. You may then review the vocabulary words: view a photos of the words, see them written out, and hear them pronounced.

Modern Language Association Language Map (based on information from the United States Census 2000 long form; interactive map allows users to see where the speakers of thirty-seven languages reside throughout the country; option to toggle certain themes, such as rivers, lakes, and highways, and look through the numbers of speakers by zip code, town, city, or county; also look at data at the state level and print out customized maps; generate interactive maps for two languages in the same state, or compare the concentration of the same language in two states; take an online tour of the site's features) PowerPoint Presentations for Spanish Class (Spanish I, Spanish II, AP, and Miscellaneous) National Network for Early Language Learning WWW Links
NFLRC 

Mrs. Hurley's ESL (English Practice, Homework Help, Field Trips, Class Activities, Teacher Resources, Smartboards, Summer)

Online Latin Dictionary

Spanish Grammar Exercises: This is an awesome collection of interactive Spanish language pages. TeachSpanish.com (lots of free resources) The English Professor (an English as a Second Language site, contains basic activities and tools for teachers)

To Learn English (completely FREE; hosted by an ESL teacher; placement tests, lessons and exercises, forum, penpals, games, jokes, cartoons, news, audio and video files, useful tools, other resources for students and teachers) TravLang (choose the flag of your chosen country; choose the word or phrase and hear it pronounced) UCLA Language Materials Project