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foreign languages
About.com: French Language
french.about.com/od/TeachingResources
French teaching tips and tools contains projects, classroom games, teaching combined classes, and more for French teachers. Segments include classroom games, French class projects, lesson plans, clip art, and software for teachers. Many other resources for teachers and students of French are on this web site.
About.com: Teaching German
german.about.com/od/teaching/Teaching_German.htm
Resources and information for teachers and students of German. Includes textbooks, teaching ideas, curriculum matters, and tutorials.
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
www.aatg.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
“With almost 5,500 members, the AATG is for teachers of German at all levels of instruction and all those interested in the teaching of German. The mission of the AATG is based on the belief that bringing the language, literatures and cultures of the German-speaking world to all Americans is a vital humanistic endeavor which serves essential national interests.”
AsiaSource
www.asiasource.org
An online resource containing information about the cultural, economic, social, historical, and political dimensions of Asia. It is a product of the Asia Society, a nonprofit, nonpartisan society that provides information about the more than thirty countries in the Asia Pacific region—the area from Japan to Iran, and from Central Asia to New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. The general topics of the site include information about arts and culture, business and economics, policy and government, and society and history.
Arabic K-12 Network
www.arabick12.org
The Arabic K-12 Network is for teachers, administrators, foreign language professionals, researchers, parents, and others interested in the teaching of Arabic in the United States. The teaching materials on this site include lesson plans, textbook reviews, web sites with teaching materials, links to authentic materials, and resources for purchasing language materials. The site also has information about professional development for teachers of Arabic.
Casa de Joanna
www.CasaDeJoanna.com
This site is designed for middle and high-school teachers and students in language-learning. It contains information about student activities, lesson plans, and teacher resources in the study of foreign languages.
Chinese Resources
schiller.dartmouth.edu/chinese
Provides resources for the teaching, learning, and study of the Chinese language and culture. The site contains resources for texts and voice; images from photographs, printed materials, and electronically produced items; and links to other Chinese web sites of both a general and specific nature.
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
lanic.utexas.edu
Contains resources about Latin America for parents, educators, and students (for language, history, and geography classes, among others), as well as resources for speakers of Spanish and Portuguese. Its education segment has a section on primary and secondary education. It has U.S. and international resources.
National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
www.nabe.org
NABE is devoted to representing both English language learners and bilingual education professionals. It supports professional development opportunities for its members. Its web site includes the posting of jobs for elementary school and secondary school teachers in bilingual education.
TeachSpanish.com
www.TeachSpanish.com
Contains sites on Spanish training, lesson ideas, learning tools, career center, community forums, and a resource center to assist teachers of Spanish.
English as a Second Language (ESL)
ToLearnEnglish.com
www.ToLearnEnglish.com
As its name indicates, the purpose of this web site is to learn English. The site includes placement tests; lessons and exercises (hundreds of exercises, extra large lessons, irregular verbs, grammar sheets, and vocabulary sheets); club (providing a forum, chat rooms, and penpals); leisure time features (games, jokes and cartoons, news, audio and video files, software, and a daily page); and useful tools (history and geography, seasonal themes, and resources for children, teachers, and webmasters).
UsingEnglish.com
www.UsingEnglish.com
Provides a collection of ESL tools and resources for students, teachers, learners, and academics. Contains English language reference sources (including a glossary of English grammar terms), ESL teacher resources (including teacher handouts and printables, and lesson plans and worksheets), ESL tests, ESL discussion forms, ESL articles, and tools and resources.
Podcasts
My German Class
www.MyGermanClass.com
This Podcast provides a way to learn German, or teach it to students if there are no German classes. Click on the podcast, listen and watch Clark Shah-Nelson make toast and conduct all lessons in German.

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