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Australian Government / Curriculum Resources | Organisations | General Language Resources
LOTE | ESL and TESOL | CALL | Electronic Journals | Conferences | Translation Services

Australian Government / Curriculum Resources

• English as a Second Language From the Education Queensland Equity Programs Unit
• Languages Other Than English Queensland Studies Authority site
• Languages Other Than English Education Queensland KLA site. Check links on left.
• Queensland LOTE Centre Education Queensland's resource centre for LOTE teachers

• Languages Unit, NSW Curriculum Support Directorate
  Provides support for languages taught in NSW schools
• LOTE, ESL, Multicultural Education SOFWeb resource
• LOTE Resources from the Victorian Education Channel.

Organisations

• Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA)
• Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations
• Language Australia: National Languages & Literacy Institute of Australia
• MLTAQ: Modern Language Teachers Association of Queensland
• Queensland Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (QATESOL)

• CILT: Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research U.K.national centre of expertise on language teaching
• Ontario Modern Language Teachers' Association Includes useful links to language resources
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Organisation for U.S. teachers
• TESL Canada

General Language Resources

• Education World: Foreign Languages Links to resources for many languages
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
• Internet Resources for Language Teachers & Learners
• NCBE: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
• Web Enhanced Language Learning These pages point to materials for language learning and make suggestions about how best to use them.

LOTE Resources

General Resources
• Awesome Library: Languages
• Free Online Language Courses
• Human Languages Page
• Internet Resources for Foreign Language Teachers
  From the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
• Language Dictionaries and Translators Webpage
• LinguaWeb
  Beginning to advanced language lessons in French, Spanish, German, and Italian
• Languages Online: Materials for Teaching & Learning Wide range of links to materials for teaching languages, highly recommended.

French

• Awesome Library: French
• French Newspapers
• Lonely Planet: France
• Ressources Internet Francophones
• Vive la France! Australian school webpage
• Volterre-Fr For teachers and students of English and French. Includes an extensive list of resources available on the Internet in both languages.
• Yahoo! France French version of this popular subject directory

Indonesian

• IndoLinx Global Classrooms Project from Victoria
• Indonesian homepage
• Indonesian Newspapers
• Lonely Planet: Indonesia
• World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Indonesia

Italian

• CyberItalian Site for learning and practising Italian.
• Italian Newspapers
• Lonely Planet: Italy

Japanese

• Japanese Newspapers
• Kids' Japan
• Library Resource Centre: Japanese Resources selected by Immanuel College, South Australia
• Lonely Planet: Japan
• Schauwecker's Guide to Japan

ESL and TESOL Resources

• Australian Council of TESOL Associations
• Boggle's World: ESL Teacher Resources and Worksheets Resource site for primary and middle school English, English as a Second Language (ESL), and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers.
• Dave's ESL Cafe on the Web for students and teachers around the world
• EFL Playhouse: A resource for teachers of young children
• English Online Links compiled by a language teacher
• ESL - English as a Second Language From WA Education Department
• ESL Hyperlinks Studying and Teaching English as a Second Language, webpage from University of Queensland
• EverythingESL.net
• Internet Resources for Teachers of English as a Second Language
  From the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
• NCLE: National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education
  • ERIC Digests
• OZ ESL Online
• Web Sites and Resources for Teachers: ESL and Bilingual Education

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Resources

• Virtual CALL Library
  Central point of access to the diverse collection of CALL software scattered across the Internet and available for downloading.

Electronic Databases and Journals

• Language Teaching
  International journal which keeps readers informed of the latest findings in research relevant to language studies in education. Jan.-April 2002 available on the web, held in print at TSV R 407 P1.
• Electronic Databases for Education
• DELTAA: Database on English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia
  A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on English second language learning and teaching in Australasia. Accessed via Informit.

• CALL-EJ Online
  CALL EJ merged with On-CALL(The Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education) and became CALL-EJ Online in May 1999.
• ERIC/CLL Language Link: An Online Newsletter From the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
• ELT Journal JCU staff and students only. Online from 2001. Also available in print at TSV 428.24 P1.
• English Teaching Forum Online version of a journal for teachers of English as a foreign or second language. Fulltext from 1993.
• ESL Magazine Online Selected articles are available free
• Internet TESL Journal for Teachers of English as a Second Language
• Modern Language Journal JCU staff and students only. Online from 2000. Also available in print at TSV 400 P5. | Journal home page.
• NABE's Bilingual Research Journal
• NCLEnotes Free subscription
• On-CALL: Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education. Ceased 1999, some archived articles available online.
• School Times International Monthly newspaper for school children and adults who are learning English as a second language.
• Studies in Second Language Acquisition JCU staff and students only. Online from 1997. Also available in print at TSV 407 P8.
• TESL-EJ: Teaching English as a second or foreign language
• TESOL in Context Journal of the Australian Council for TESOL Associations. Provides one article per issue plus the introductory sections of others.
• TESOL Journal Tables of contents, abstracts, and cumulative indexes for the journal at TSV 428.2407 P4
• TESOL Matters
• TESOL Quarterly Tables of contents, abstracts, and cumulative indexes for the journal at TSV 428.24 P3
• TLT: The Language Teacher Online Refereed journal of the Japan Association for Language Teaching

Conferences and Proceedings

• Language Learning is Everybody's Business: research trends in second language acquisition and institutional contexts. Flinders University, Adelaide, February 2002

Translation Services

• AltaVista Babel Fish
• Foreignword.com This translation site also includes on-line dictionaries and glossaries
• FreeTranslation.com
  Rapid translations to get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages.
• InterTran
  Internet Translator is a free web translation service that can translate from single words to entire web pages.
• SYSTRAN

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Links checked and Updated February 2004 by lbcy,
Information and Research Support, James Cook University.