GENERAL LANGUAGE RESOURCES

ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)
http://www.actfl.org
6 Executive Plaza
Yonkers, NY 10701
Phone: (914) 963-6830
Fax: (914) 963-1275
navigator@actfl.org
The largest national organization of language teaching professionals. Check out the On-Line Calendar of professional development programs and other benefits of membership. Under Standards Implementation, you can search for your own state standards. You can also order documentation on the National Standards in Foreign Language Education.

AEMS (Asian Educational Media Service)
http://www.aems.uiuc.edu
AEMS/Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
228 English Building, MC-718, 608 South Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 265-0640
Fax: (217) 265-0641
aems@uiuc.edu
NEMS offers call-in and write-in services to assist teachers in the use of media. Their on-line database can be searched. If you do not have Internet access, they will search for you. The biannual newsletter and a catalog for K- 12 materials are available free of charge.

AFMLTA (Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations Inc.) http://www.epub-research.unisa.edu.au/afmlta
Mr. David Vale, Editor
2 Rubida Grove
ALDGATE 5154 Australia
Established to provide a national voice, compile and distribute information, and raise professional consciousness, the Federation publishes the journal Babel three times a year, and an Information Bulletin. Consult the guide to developing tasks with Internet material, and tasks from EdNA, the Education Network Australia Project. Asian languages are taught widely at all levels in Australia, and resources are correspondingly rich.

Asia Society and AskAsia
725 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10021-5088
Phone: (212) 288-6400
Fax: (212) 517-8315
http://www.askasia.org/
http://www.asiasociety.org
AskAsia is a service of the Asia Society for K-12 educators. The Resource Center Locator that operates by region and Audiovisual Resources/Center for Educational Media are essential starting points. Both lesson plans and materials are available for downloading.

CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics)
http://www.cal.org
1118 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington. DC 20037-1214
Phone: (202) 429-9292
Fax: (202) 659-5641
info@cal.org
CAL's website leads to a wealth of statistical and other information. Also operating in conjunction with CAL and accessible through this site are NCLRC, the National Capital Language Resource Center, which maintains the Foreign Language Test Database and the monthly electronic newsletter NCLRC Language Resource, and NNELL. the National Network for Early Language Learning, with its own newsletter and journal.

CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium)
http://calico.org
Southwest Texas State University
San Marcos, TX 78666
Phone: (512) 245-2360
Fax: (512) 245-8298
info@calico.org
Search Other Resources for links to computer assisted language instructional resources, including the 2,000-citation Database maintained by CLTR, The Centre for Language Teaching and Research at The University of Queensland, http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/. Sample the member publication, The CALICO Review.

CALL (Center for the Advancement of Language Learning)
http://www.call.gov/
Fax: (703) 528-4823
call.request.info@call.gov
Learning resources and links, especially for authentic materials and LCTs. Search their list of languages from A-Z. Software reviews and language testing resources also draw on the CIA's extensive experience in language teaching.

CLEAR (Center for Language Education and Research)
http://clear.msu.edu/
A712 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
Phone: (517) 432-2286
Fax: (517) 432-0473
clear@pilot.msu.edu
One of seven national centers devoted to the enhancement of language teaching, a newsletter and workshops are part of their service activity. The Writing Bibliography covers publications on the teaching and learning of foreign language writing other than English from 1980 to 1996. They sponsor, with The University of Hawaii at Manoa's NFLRC, Language Learning & Technology, a free WWW publication http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt/

DLEFLC (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)
http://lingnet.army.mil/
The Center maintains Lingnet and an Internet resource database including LCTs.

ERIC and AskERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
www.askeric.org
ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology
4-194 Center for Science and Technology
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100
Phone: (800) 464-9107
Fax: (315) 443-5448
askeric@askeric.org; eric@ericir.syr.edu
The ERIC database contains bibliographic records of research, conference papers, guides, books, and articles on education. AskERIC is a personalized Internet question and answer service based on these resources. A virtual library of lesson plans is also available, and users can contribute their plans to the library. ERIC Digests at http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/index/ offers condensed information on selected topics. Documents are also available at over 1,000 libraries or can be ordered. Related sites include the Virtual Reference Desk, which seeks to facilitate the flow of information to the K-12 community http://www.vrd.org/locator/subject.html, and the Consortium for School Networking http://www.cosn.org/.

FLTEACH (The Foreign Language Teaching Forum)
SUNY-Cortland
P.O. Box 2000
Cortland, NY 13045-0900
Phone: (607) 753-2011
http://www.cortland.edu
FLTEACH@Iistserv.acsu.buffalo.edu
All messages ever submitted to the FLTEACH listserve are archived, making this a good place to get up to speed. An online collection of syllabi for FLTeaching methods courses is also handy.

LCTL project CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition)
http://carla.acad.umn.edu/CARLA.html

CARLA, University of Minnesota
617 Heller Hall, 217 19th Ave So
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: (612) 624-9016
Fax: (612) 624-7514
carla@tc.umn.edu

CARLA maintains the LCTL Experts List, through which one may query an expert, and holds summer institutes. The Less Commonly Taught Languages Project http://carla.acad.umn.edu/LCTL/access.html (e-mail: lctl@tc.umn.edu) lists programs and people, not materials, but gives advice on finding materials. 8 listserves at the site include hindi-t. and Korean-T.

Our lists of colleges, universities, K-12, distance ed, and summer courses for all LCTLs can be searched at: http://carla.acad.umn.edu/LCTL/access.html.

Lingu@NET
http://www.linguanet.org.uk
Phone: (0171) 379-5110
Fax: (0171) 379-5082
Clare Power or Philippa Wright at CILT
linguanet@cilt.org.uk
A virtual language center dedicated to supplying quality-controlled information and resources on-line. Organized by language, learning materials, training, and research areas. In the words of the suppliers, "impartial, authoritative, and it's free." An enquiry service is provided.

NCOLCTL (National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages)
http://www.councilnet.org
NCOLCTL Secretariat
The National Foreign Language Center
Johns Hopkins University
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 667-8100, ext. 15
Fax: (202) 667-6907
latella@nflc.org
CouncilNet is developing its Virtual Library and Electronic Bulletin. It is a good place for information on the member organizations. NCOLCTL operates a pilot Mentor Teacher Program to pair novice teachers with the experienced. Contact Dr. Barbara Mozdierz, mozdzier@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu, to apply, or write Department of German and Slavic, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20052; Phone: (202) 994-0930; Fax: (202) 994-0171.

NFLRC (National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center)
http://www.educ.iastate.edu/nflrc/
Dr. Marcia Rosenbusch, Director
N157 Lagomarcino Hall
Iowa State University, Ames
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-6699
Fax: (515) 294-2776
nflrc@iastate.edu
The site is organized into institutes, projects, and evaluation reports, all products of the Center's ongoing research and programs that train teacher educators and district supervisors. 1997 Institutes focused on effective teaching strategies, performance assessment, and new technologies. Useful publications include Bringing the Standards into the Classroom—A Teacher's Guide.

NFLRC (National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa)
http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/nflrc/
Deborah Masterson
NFLRC Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa
1859 East-West Road, # 106
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808) 956-9851
Fax: (808) 956-5983
mastersn@hawaii.edu
nflrc@hawaii.edu to get on the mailing list for summer institutes
The Center sponsors research on effective teaching strategies, foreign language performance assessment, and materials, methods, and teacher training. Results are shared through summer institutes for language professionals and technical reports. The publications division offers research notes, videos, and language teaching materials, all at cost. From NetWorks, you can download technical reports, including #2, New Technologies and the LCTs.

The National Foreign Language Resource Center at The Ohio State University
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/flc/
276 Cunz Hall
1841 Millikin Road
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292-4361
Fax: (614) 292-2682
Many projects at this Center, such as Chinese Heritage Self-Instructional Materials for Middle School Students, involve East Asian languages. The summer Training Program for Teachers of Japanese and the Intensive Japanese Language Program is a well-known example.

SCOLA (Satellite Communications for Learning)
http://www.scola.org/
PO Box 619
McClelland, IA 51548
Phone: (712) 566-2202
Fax: (712) 566-2502
scola@scola.org
For a fee, SCOLA can provide news and entertainment programming in foreign languages. SCOLA Insta-Class service, ready-made lessons based on broadcast materials, are available in Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese.

UCLA LMP (University of California, Los Angeles Language Materials Project)
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/
Dr. Vijitha Eyango, Project Manager
Language Materials Project
1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 1841
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: (310) 206-6011
Fax: (310) 825-3796
lmp@isop.ucia.edu
The Language Materials database will grow to include 100 LCTs by the year 2000. This comprehensive database of bibliographic references for language teaching materials can be searched by language and by level of i instruction. Detailed linguistic profiles for forty of the LCTs and additional resources complete the site.