ILR Interagency Language Roundtable
Webliography of Less Commonly Taught Languages: Resources
 
 
Last updated: 2 March 2004
Multi-Languge Resources

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  • I. Profession Associations/Organizations
  • II. Multi-Language Mega-Sites
  • III. Online Dictionaries
  • IV. Area Studies/World Organization Mega-Sites
  • V. Mega Region-Specific Sites:
  • VI. International Organizations
  • VII. Media Sites
  • VIII. eLearning Tutorials, Web Design and Development
    i. Online Learning and Teaching Strategies
  • Web Enhanced Language Learning (WELL)
    "The principal aim of the WELL Project was to promote wider awareness and more effective use of the World Wide Web for Modern Languages teaching... It aimed to provide a starting point for academics who wished to discover what the Web and associated new technologies could offer, and also to act as a forum for the exchange of good practice amongst more advanced practitioners." Site provides link to software version of WELL publication Web Skills for Language Learners.
  • Language Learning and Technology
    Professional online journal focused on integration of technology, including the WWW, into foreign language instruction. Although aimed at teachers, this site can also be very useful to adult learners.
  • Language Learning and Teaching and the World Wide Web
    A basic introduction to the "why" and "how" of using the Internet for language learning.
  • New Tools for Teaching
    By James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania. Something of a "how to primer for instructors," this website includes a "lessons learned" introduction followed by sections titled: Better Communication with Students; Even Better Communication; Information from/on the Net; The Library News groups: Sometimes a Swamp is a Wetland; Gopher: tools to navigate texts; The World-Wide Web: texts, images, hypertexts; MOO: the virtual classroom; Over the horizon; What it's like in practice; What does it all cost? Where will I find the time? What if I need more help with the basics? Excellent!!
  • Teaching with the Web
    "Teaching with the Web is a compilation of ideas for using WWW resources as a language teaching tool. It also offers links to sites that have pedagogical information."
    ii. Font Archives
  • Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font Archive
    Site advertises itself as: "The Foreign Language Font Archive for Windows. Your One-Stop Cyber-Resource for Foreign Language Typefaces and Keyboard Utilities. A cookie-free, banner-free, pop-up ads free website!" In fact, it's an excellent site!
  • Yamada Font Archive
    From the Yamada Language Center, University of Oregon, "non-English Font Archive is designed to assist users who
    wish to display or type non-English fonts on their computers. Language Guides: Each language has its own guide that contain links to useful
    information and resources. Font Help Pages - Having problems downloading or installing fonts? Please read
    our font help pages before emailing us with questions or requests. Other Font Collections - If we don't have what you need, please try this list of alternate Internet font collections".
    iii. Language Identification Tools and Sites
  • YourDictionary.com - Language Identifier Megasite
    Links Internet language identifier sites.
  • Unknown Language Identification
    From Steve Huffman, the author: "This page will attempt to identify the language of a sample of text by comparing the n-gram statistics in the sample to the n-gram statistics of a number of reference texts in different languages. It was developed from my dissertation at Georgetown University (The Genetic Classification of Languages by n-Gram Analysis: A Computational Technique, 1998), which was itself based on an algorithm known as Acquaintance, developed by Dr. Marc Damashek." Note: You can type in the unknown text, or copy and paste it from a document on the Internet Non-Latin alphabets lead to font problems when pasting.
  • Content Analysis Language
    From the Xerox Corporation. "Currently guessing among the following 47 languages: (Some characters may not appear clearly. It depends on the browser and the fonts you use for Unicode):" Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh.
  • World Languages.com
    Although not intended as a language identification source -- World Languages.com calls itself "the ultimate language store" -- this site is very useful because it offers not only a history of many languages, but also examples of the script and sample audio texts.
    I. Professional Associations/Organizations
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
    The Modern Language Association of America is the umbrella organization in the U.S. for teachers and students of modern languages.
    The MLA "Allied and Affiliate Organizations" link takes you to dozens of language/interest-specific professional organizations, from the American Association of Italian Studies to the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages.
  • National Language Resource Centers
    In order to improve the nation's capacity for teaching and learning foreign languages, the United States Department of Education provides Title VI grants under the Language Resource Centers Program for the establishment and operation of national language resource centers (NLRCs) for teacher training, research, materials development, and dissemination projects. There are currently 9 NLRCs:

    • National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC)
      The NCLRC, located in Washington, D.C., is a collaboration between Georgetown University, Center for Applied Linguistics and The George Washington University. Its mission is to serve as a resource to improve the teaching and learning foreign languages. It fulfills this function by providing material resources and professional services that derive from current activities and past projects.

    • National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
      The NFLC is hosted by the University of Hawaii at Manoa. It undertakes projects that focus primarily on
      the less commonly taught languages of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific, to include Korean,

    • National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
      Located at Iowa State University, the mission of the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center is the improvement of student learning of foreign languages at the elementary and secondary school levels.

    • Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
      The primary objective of CLEAR at Michigan State University is to promote collaboration in foreign language research and teacher education across college, departmental, and institutional boundaries.

    • Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
      CARLA at the University of Minnesota supports a number of interrelated programs of research, training, development, and dissemination of information related to second language teaching, learning, and assessment. Its mission is to study multilingualism and multiculturalism, to develop knowledge of second language acquisition, and to advance the quality of second language teaching, learning, and assessment.

    • National East Asian Language Resource Center (NEALRC)
      NEALRC, at Ohio State University, has contributed many initiatives designed to increase learners' abilities to master advanced levels of language and cultural competence. Among the many resources generated and made available through the NEALRC are learning materials (textbooks, workbooks, teachers' guides, audio and video recordings) for more than a dozen less commonly taught languages, pedagogy and program development resource and guide books, teacher training and intensive language summer institutes, and more.

    • National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC)
      NMELRC at Brigham Young University, " seeks to coordinate efforts aimed at increasing and improving opportunities for learning the languages of the Middle East. The center undertakes and supports projects in areas such as teacher training, materials development, testing and assessment, integration of pedagogy and technology, study abroad, and K-12 programs. It works across Middle East languages to foster cooperation and joint utilization of expertise and resources."

    • Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC)
      LARC at San Diego State University focuses on research, development, and training to improve language testing, to increase understanding of other cultures and to improve language performance, all through innovative uses of technology. LARC is currently developing a new web site on Human Rights in Latin America (http://larcdma.sdsu.edu/humanrights).

    • National African Languages Resource Center (NALRC)
      The NALRC at the University of Wisconsin at Madison is dedicated to the advancement of African language teaching and learning in the United States. The Center's mission is to serve the entire community of African language educators and learners in the United States by sponsoring a wide range of educational and professional activities designed to improve the accessibility and quality of African language instruction in the United States. The Center encourages a variety of pedagogical approaches to accommodate learner diversity, and advocates the integration of language and culture learning and the acquisition of fluency in these areas. It facilitates dialogue among teachers, learners, and administrators from a wide variety cultural and institutional perspectives, and promotes the profession of African language teaching.

    • Slavic and East European Language Resource Center (SEELRC)
      SEELRC is hosted jointly by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although most of the Internet Resources recommended by SEELRC are included in the separate language entries below, its Homepage is well-worth exploring for activities, projects and publications. SEELRC also runs a Summer Institute for Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages which is highly recommended (see Homepage for details).
  • The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC)
    A research institute of the University of Maryland, the NFLC "is dedicated to promoting a language-competent America by developing and disseminating information that informs policy makers." Among its many undertakings, the NFLC is engaged in the following projects and initiatives: Advanced Learners of Japanese, The Chinese Language Field Initiative (CLFI), Heritage Language Initiative (HLI), and LangNet --
    a WWW-based system designed to enable language learners to receive programming customized to their language needs and goals.
  • The National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP)
    Based at the University of Arizona, NASILP "is North America's only professional organization specifically established for the fostering of self-managed academic programs in the less-commonly taught languages (LCTLs)." Languages taught include: Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin (Chinese), Swahili, Hungarian, Persian, Tagalog, Kazakh, Russian, Urdu, French, Korean, Serbo-Croatian, and Vietnamese, just to name a few.
  • American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
    From About: "The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is the only national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction."
  • National Council of Organizations of Less-Commonly Taught Languages
    "We are the teachers of Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Russian, Swahili, Tagalog, and many other languages which are important in this world but which are relatively unfamiliar to most Americans. We have designed the coincident website for anyone who is curious about the languages of this world, who is now studying or just might want to learn a fascinating language, and for those who teach languages."
    II. Multi-Language Mega-Sites
  • BUBL LINK/5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources: Language, Literature and Culture
    This British portal offers a comprehensive listing of website links for most of the world's languages from African Languages to Welsh. Highly recommended! (Preset language-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • WWW Virtual Library - General Foreign Languages
    Excellent resource portal for just about everything a linguist needs: search engines, dictionaries, language learning resources, etc.
  • World Language Links
    From the Language Learning Center, University of Washington, links to World news and media, Language-related sites, National foreign language resource centers, Other university language centers, Pedagogical sites     .
  • Yamada Language Guides
    "The definitive guide to language resources on the World Wide Web. In the Guides, you will find pointers to: The Yamada Font Archive. Links to our annotated list of language-related news groups. Links to language-related mailing lists. The guides contain information on over 140 languages. There are 112 fonts in our archives, for 40 languages." (Preset language-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Ethnologue -- Languages of the World
    "Ethnologue.com is a place where you can conveniently find many resources to help you with your research of the world's languages. Ethnologue.com is owned by SIL International, a service organization that works with people who speak the world's lesser-known languages."
  • Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
    From About: "The ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics is operated by the Center for Applied Linguistics, a private non profit organization. ERIC/CLL provides a wide range of services and materials for language educators, most of them free of charge. Products and services include the following: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions; Resource Guides Online with links to Web sites, publications, and other sources of information; An online newsletter, ERIC/CLL Language Link; Information digests." .
  • BBC Languages
    Basic online language courses, including Spanish, Italian, German, French, and others.
  • AISO Library and Learning Center
    This Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center site in Monterey, CA, offers excellent resources for both learners and teachers and links for many of the world's languages.
  • UCLA Language Materials Project
    Teaching resources for less commonly taught languages. (Preset language-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Foreign Language and Culture Resource Page
    Large portal offering links to resources in many languages.
  • Corpus Linguistics
    From the Linguistics Department at Rice University, links to corpora, newspapers, news sites, Chinese to Turkish.
  • EDSITEment
    From the National Endowment for the Humanities, online educational language resources and teaching materials for K-12 classes.
  • National Anthems of the World
    Most of the world's countries are represented. Audio and song words, some with English translations.
  • Your Dictionary.Com: Grammars and Language Courses
    Online, CD-ROM and textbook grammars and language courses for over 100 languages, from Ainu to Wolof. (Preset language-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
    III. Dictionary Portals
  • Your Dictionary.Com: Language Dictionaries
    The premiere site for online language dictionaries, from Abenaki to Zulu. Highly recommended! (Preset language-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Word2Word
    Excellent collection of online dictionaries of most of the world's languages. Very user-friendly.
  • Glossaries by Language
    By Language Automation, very solid collection of online dictionaries.
  • Martindale's Reference Desk - Language and Translation Center
    List of English to Other Languages & and Vice Versa. Includes some very rare languages like American native languages and Indigenous Languages of Australia.
  • ForeignWord.com
    "Use this global dictionary to search in 275 dictionaries on the Internet. Translate from 69 source languages into 73 target languages - 400 language combinations." Site sometimes has technical problems.
  • Dictionaries, Thesauri, & Glossaries
    Huge online dictionary portal from the Michigan Library System. Begins with digitized English dictionaries, both general and highly specialized and follows with a solid list of online foreign language dictionaries.
    IV. Area-Studies Mega-Sites
  • WWW Virtual Library
    A massive educational resource! Region Studies links include: African (see below), Asian (see below), Latin American (see below), etc. Education link which lists linguistics, languages, etc. (Preset language-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Library of Congress Country Studies
    Hit the "Search" button, type in the name of a country, and you get short, informative papers on history, politics, economic, culture, etc. Very handy. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • U.S. Department of State - Background Notes
    Background Notes are updated/revised as they are received from regional bureaus and are added to the database of the Department of State
    web site. Categories include: Geography, People, History, Government, Political Conditions, Economy, Defense, Foreign Relations, U.S. Relations, and Travel/Business. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • CIA: The World Factbook
    Good resource site for information on Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications, Transportation, Military, and Transnational Issues. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • BBC News - Country Profiles
    Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries; also biographic sketches of leaders, essay on media, and historic timelines. They also include audio and video clips from the BBC archives. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Political Resources on the Net
    Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Library of Congress - Portals to the World
    Links to electronic resources selected by Library of Congress subject experts. Site is very conservative and somewhat disappointing in its offerings. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Yahoo -- Regional, Countries Links
    Excellent Yahoo search engine links for countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • CountryWatch.com
    "CountryWatch is a world leader in providing country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world." Basic information is free; deeper resources require subscription. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Lonely Planet - Destinations
     The people at the offbeat Lonely Planet website are not your typical travel guides -- they're very bright and know what they're talking about. Their goal is not to "sell the country" to travelers. Instead, they tell it how it is. Typical headings include: "Warnings" (in case travel is not recommended - the "why's"); Facts for the Traveler, When to Go, Events, Money and Costs, Attractions, Off the Beaten Track, Activities, History, Culture, Environment, Getting There and Away, Getting Around, and Further Reading and Related Weblinks. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
    V. Mega Region-Specific Sites
    A. African Studies
  • African Language Teachers Association
    Mission of ALTA: "To develop a field of African Language Teachers where members can share common interests and concerns having to do with the study of African languages; to identify for each African language, with priority given to those most commonly studied, sets of learning materials for beginning, intermediate and advanced study; to establish needs and priorities for new learning materials and resources, both generic and for specific languages, and then to develop new learning materials for these languages; to provide training on pedagogy, computer use, and language program design to its members; to link efforts of teachers and researchers in Africa with those outside of Africa."
  • WWW Virtual Library -- African Studies
    From About: "Columbia University's collection of African Studies Internet Resources is an ongoing compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the African Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries. Electronic resources from Africa are organized by region and country. All materials are arranged to encourage an awareness of authorship, type of information, and subject. The scope of the collection is research-oriented, but it also provides access to other web sites with different or broader missions." (Preset language-specific hyperlinks to this site are included elsewhere in the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • African Union/Organization of African Unity
    The AU "has played a determining and invaluable role in the liberation of the continent, the affirmation of a common identity and the process of attainment of the unity of our continent and has provided a unique framework for our collective action in Africa and
    in our relations with the rest of the world.Wide variety of resources for countries and languages." With links to all Union nations.
  • African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
    Wide variety of resources for countries and languages.
  • African Language Sites
    The African languages listed are those which are taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and include links to resources in Arabic, Hausa, Kongo, Shona, Swahili, Yoruba and Zulu.
  • African Studies
    From Columbia University with links to cultural and language resources
    B. Asian Studies
  • WWW Virtual Library -- Asian Studies
    Produced by the Australian National University, "A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies."
    Includes following area links: Central Asia (to include Kazakhstan, Iran, etc.), South Asia (India, Pakistan, Tibet, etc.) Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, etc.), South China Sea, East Asia (Russian Far East, Siberia, Turkistan, China, North and South Korea, Japan, etc.), and Asian Continent as a Whole.
  • Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC)
    Indiana University's IAUNRC website offers information and resource links for Asian countries, including Turkey, Tibet, Mongolia, Iran and Afghanistan, and the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Uighurs.
    C. Eastern and Central Europe and FSU
  • American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
    From About: "AATSEEL, founded in 1941, exists to advance the study and promote the teaching of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, and cultures on all educational levels, elementary through graduate school. While the largest proportion of its activities and members concentrate in the area of Russian, AATSEEL has from the beginning stressed that it embraces all Slavic and East European languages, literatures, linguistics and cultures."
  • REENIC: Eastern and Central Europe and FSU
    Massive information portal at University of Texas, Austin, with links for Balkan, Baltic, Caucasus, Central Asian, Central European and East European countries.
  • Russian and East European Studies Web
    REESWEB comes from the University of Pittsburgh
  • Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC)
    Indiana University's IAUNRC website offers information and resource links for Central and East European countries.
  • Directory of Internet Resources on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia
    List of resources organized by countries from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
  • WWW Virtual Library
    Produced by the Australian National University, "A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies."
    Includes following area links: Caucasus, Central Asia (to include Kazakhstan), East Asia (Russian Far East, Siberia, Turkistan),
  • Council of Europe Homepage
    About: "The Council of Europe is an intergovernmental organisation which aims: - to protect human rights, pluralist democracy and the rule of law; - to promote awareness and encourage the development of Europe's cultural identity and diversity; - to seek solutions to problems facing European society (discrimination against minorities, xenophobia, intolerance, environmental protection, human cloning, Aids, drugs, organised crime, etc.); - to help consolidate democratic stability in Europe by backing political, legislative and constitutional reform. The Council of Europe should not be confused with the European Union. The two organisations are quite distinct. The 15 European Union states, however, are all members of the Council of Europe."
    D. Latin American Studies
    WWW Virtual Library -- Latin America
    Basic information links for Balkan, Baltic, Caucasus, Central Asian, Central European and East European countries.
  • Political Data Base of the Americas
    From Georgetown University: "The Political Database of the Americas is a non-governmental Internet-based project that provides reference materials, primary documents, comparative studies and statistical data for countries in the Western Hemisphere.... The information is provided free of charge and has been organized under the following themes: Constitutions and Constitutional Studies Electoral Systems and Election Data Decentralization Political Parties Executive Institutions Legislative Institutions Judicial Institutions Civil Society."
  • Latin America: Subject Resources
    By Rita Wilson, an extensive subject guide to Latin American information: book stores, libraries and research centers, government resources, languages and literature, embassies, online news sources, etc.
  • Border and Latin American Information
    From New Mexico State University Library, provides links to Major Databases for Latin American & Border Research; General Databases with Latin American Content; U.S.-Mexico Border Resources; Latin American Countries; Latin American Libraries & Archives; Mexico Gateways.
    E. Middle Eastern Studies
  • WWW Virtual Library -- Middle East and Jewish Studies
    Produced by the Australian National University, "A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies."
    Includes area links to individual Arab countries, and to Israel).
    Encyclopedia of the Orient
    Excellent resource for Islamic countries of North Africa and Middle East.
    F. Pacific Studies
  • WWW Virtual Library -- Pacific Ocean
    Produced by the Australian National University, "A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies."
    Includes following area links to (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia.
    G. Western European Studies
  • WWW Virtual Library -- Western European Studies
    Basic information links for Balkan, Baltic, Caucasus, Central Asian, Central European and East European countries.
  • EUROPA - Official Website of European Union
    EUROPA "provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Users can also consult all legislation currently in force or under discussion, access the websites of each of the EU institutions and find out about the policies administered by the European Union under the powers devolved to it by the Treaties."
  • Council of Europe Homepage
    About: "The Council of Europe is an intergovernmental organisation which aims: - to protect human rights, pluralist democracy and the rule of law; - to promote awareness and encourage the development of Europe's cultural identity and diversity; - to seek solutions to problems facing European society (discrimination against minorities, xenophobia, intolerance, environmental protection, human cloning, Aids, drugs, organised crime, etc.); - to help consolidate democratic stability in Europe by backing political, legislative and constitutional reform. The Council of Europe should not be confused with the European Union. The two organisations are quite distinct. The 15 European Union states, however, are all members of the Council of Europe." .
    VI. International Organizations
  • United Nations Homepage
    Includes links to UN NewsCenter, which includes headlines in latest developments in Peace and Security, Economic Development, Humanitarian Aid/Refugees, Environment/Shelter, Human Rights, Women/Children/Population, Health/Poverty/Food Security, Culture/Education.
  • International Monetary Fund
    About: "The IMF is an international organization of 184 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment." Includes links to individual Country Information, which includes headlines in latest developments in Peace and Security, Economic Development, Humanitarian Aid/Refugees, Environment/Shelter, Human Rights, Women/Children/Population, Health/Poverty/Food Security, Culture/Education.
  • The World Bank Group
    This site is undergoing construction problems (2Jan03.) Check later. Includes links to Countries. .
  • The World Trade Organization
    "The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business." Includes detailed information on Members and Observers.
  • World Health Organization
    About WHO" "The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
    The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organisation, with 178 member National Societies. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Amnesty International
    Amnesty International is a champion defender of human rights worldwide. Familiarity with a given country's human rights issues can provide a unique insight into many other aspects of its culture and politics. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Human Rights Watch
    Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. The "Info by Countries" link on the homepage provides index to individual countries where the organization finds abuses. (Preset country-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
    "The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a self-governing group of non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations that act to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America, and the Central Asian republics formed from the territories of the former Soviet Union. A primary specific goal is to monitor compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and its Follow-up Documents.    "
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Homepage
    The NATO homepage is an excellent resource for information on member and affiliate nations and their policies and activities in the world at large. Of particular interest to linguists is the "Other Languages" section which provides links to NATO documents and reports translated into some 25 languages.
  • Official OPEC Website
    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) "is an international Organization of eleven developing countries which are heavily reliant on oil revenues as their main source of income. Membership is open to any country which is a substantial net exporter of oil and which shares the ideals of the Organization. The current Members are Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela." Site includes links to information on individual Member Countries    .
    VII. Media
  • Yahoo News
    A daily digest of latest late-breaking news in Englsih taken from various news agencies.
  • CountryWatch.com
    In English. From About: "CountryWatch.com is an information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests. The management of CountryWatch.com has extensive international business and academic experience and, using this experience, has created, in a concise and useful form, a key set of political, economic, and business information, daily news and data for its clients in the form of Country ReviewsTM, the Country WireTM and CountryWatch Data." Requires email registration.

  • Kidon Media-Link
    Media-Link Megasite connect you with radio and television stations, newspapers and magazines throughout the world. (Preset language-specific hyperlinks to this site are included throughout the AREA1300 webliographies.)
  • Radio Locator.com
    Formerly "The MIT List of Radios on the Internet," this site describes itself as "the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the Internet We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world."
  • Online Newspapers.com
    Thousands of online newspapers in most of the world's languages.
  • SCOLA
    SCOLA is a non-profit educational organization transmitting international television programs for educational use via satellite. SCOLA digitally transmits three channels: Channel One: News; Channel Two: Documentaries & Entertainment; and Channel Three: Chinese (PRC) Programming. Channels One & Two include programs from over 60 countries. All programs are shown unedited and in the original language.
  • Voice of America
    Daily broadcasts in languages from Afan Oromo to Vietnamese.
  • Radio Canada International
    Broadcasts in French, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, and Arabic. The corresponding text for news broadcasts is also available.
  • BBC
    The British Broadcasting Corporation provides news services in numerous target languages as well as in English.
  • Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
    Broadcasts and other news services in most languages of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as well as in Persian, Arabic, and other Middle Eastern languages.
  • TVRadioWorld
    About: "TvRadioWorld is an informational directory dealing with radio and television broadcasters worldwide." Site allows you to bookmark favorite radio stations for listening.
  • World Radio Network.
    About: "World Radio Network is a leading broadcast and transmission company providing its world-wide clients with high quality, innovative and cutting edge solutions for their broadcasting and telecommunications needs."

    VIII. eLearning Tutorials, Web Design and Development
  • ILR eLearning Tutorials for Teachers and Developers
    Online "freeware" tutorials for MS Office, Excel, PPT, FrontPage, Hot Potatoes and other interactive exercise makers, PDF, IC Technology for Language Teachers, HTML, Javascript, WWW, Concordances and Corpora.
  • George Mitrevski's Knowledge Design.
    Want to learn how to produce web-based materials? George Mitrevski, a Slavic Languages professor at Auburn University, teaches you all you need to know to get started! Outstanding!
  • Web Design Resources: The Writing Center at Rensselaer
    Excellent links to resources for Tags, Graphics and Colors, Forms, Scripts, Web Documentation, Design and Style.
  • Web Office of Bob Godwin-Jones.
    Professor Godwin-Jones teaches German at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He is also a web design specialist and the Director of the Instructional Development Center at VCU. Included are links to his many papers and presentations which are filled with helpful information.
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