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EUROPEAN UNION :
Education and training http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/index_en.html |
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The British
Council ELTeCS web-site is a very valuable source of
information for teachers of English: http://www.britishcouncil.org/english/eltecs/ |
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The Bell School
is one of the most prestigious English-language schools in Britain.
It has well-established language schools in several attractive locations in England as well as in a number of other countries. http://www.bell-centres.com/ |
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CILTA,
the Interfaculty Centre for Theoretical and Applied Linguistic "L.
Heilmann" (University of Bologna), presents to European teachers
selected for a Socrates scholarship in the Academic Year 2004/2005 an
advanced in-training course focusing on the international context of
didactical Web technologies and aimed at providing teachers instruments
and tools for the acquisition of an autonomous role within the
teaching-learning process, and in particular within the process of
courseware production. http://www.istruzione.it/innovazione/news/2004/cilta_gb.shtml |
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The Promotics
web-site provides training courses and training software
for teachers and students preparing for national examinations in
Business and in Travel and Tourism, for 5 target languages: English,
French, German, Spanish and Italian. Available in 7 access languages:
the same five plus Slovenian and Hungarian: http://www.promotics.net |
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UNDEROAK - The UK Training
Index is a comprehensive index of all
management development and personal skills courses. The index holds
details on over 25,000 courses offered by approximately 950 different
organisations; it is updated by
Underoak every month. http://www.underoak.co.uk/ |
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interested in
Latin and Ancient Greek should visit
the web site of Centaur Systems, which also supports the American
Classical League's Software Directory for the Classics. http://www.centaursystems.com/ |
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Does the technology currently
available for language learning warrant the time and effort that must be
invested by teachers and students to adapt to it? What exactly is
available and how can those resources be best utilized?
In U.S.A. More than 30 Federal agencies formed
a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching
and learning resources easier to find. Here you can find resources to
teach languages:
The Language
Centre of the University of Oregon in the USA provides
excellent information on many languages and offers a wide range of fonts: The Center for Advanced
Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
is one of the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI National
Language Resource Centers, whose role is to improve the nation's
capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively Enhancing Authentic Language
Learning Experiences Through Internet Technology at
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/0002enhancing.html |
For
those who are already involved in using WEB in their teaching/learning
contexts the following sites are very useful
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Language families and languages |
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Interesting Things for ESL
Students http://www.manythings.org This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities. Even though the primary focus is for ESL, native English speakers may also find some interesting things on this site. This site is non-commercial and has no advertising. |
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