Technology and Language Learning

General
Does technology enhance learning?
Making Your Own Exercises
On-line magazines
Cyberspace
Gender, Race, and Cyberculture
Classics
ESL
French
German
Spanish
Russian
Non-Western Languages
Klingon

General

ACTFL Standards for Foreign Language Learning

Pools (a Leonardo II supported two years (2005-2007) project developing materials for language teaching and learning as well as teacher training courses based on pools of materials for nine languages; Basque, Danish, Dutch, English, Gaelic (Scottish), German, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Spanish.)

Language Menu (created by language teachers for language teachers)

Internet Ctiation Styles

EDUCAUSE Online Guide to Evaluating Information Technology on Campus

Online educational delivery applications: A web tool for comparative analysis

New Tools for Teaching (James J. O'Donnell)

Language Interactive (Bob Godwin-Jones)

Web Based Instruction Resources

Yamada Language Center (University of Oregon)

Oral Language Archive Web Samples (QuickTime Audio of French, Japanese, Spanish)

MUDs, MOOs, MUSHs

Teaching on the Internet

Teaching with the Web

Technology for language teaching (resource page at Ohio University)

Virtual Voyages

Learning over the Internet: Courses, Curricula, Programs, Syllabi, etc.

Teaching with Technology Special Initiative (NEH project)

Technology Transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing

Educational Technologies Bootcamp

Multimedia and Digital Commentary Online (Michael Bush at BYU)

WebMuseum

Wired for Books

Media and Communication Studies Site

World Lecture Hall

Gateways to Infinity

educause publications

International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALL)

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A few on-line magazines

Cyberspace

"From Papyrus to Cyberspace", records a Cambridge Forum presentation beginning with a 15-minute talk by James J. O'Donnell and then 45 minutes of response and discussion in RealAudio format (March 1999).

Technology and Culture Panel Discussion 11/8/99 (RealPlayer audio) (Written summary )

Logging in with . . . Thomas S. Valovic: Author Warns That the Digital Age Will Be No Utopia (Valovic interview by Scott Carlson)

The Electronic Library

Who was Marshall McLuhan?

Essays on the Philosophy of Technology

A Cyberspace Independence Declaration (John Perry Barlow)

CyberReader 2/e (UTA's own Victor Vitanza)

The Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory Web: An Introduction (George P. Landow)

Postmodernism, Interactivity, Cyberculture, and Art

Gender, Race, and Cyberculture

Gender

Rosi Braidotti "Cyberfeminism with a difference"

Maureen Ebben and Cheris Kramarae, Women and Information Technologies: Creating a Cyberspace of Our Own

Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

Herring, Susan. (UTA's own) Gender differences in computer-mediated communication: Bringing familiar baggage to the new frontier

Information Technology and Women's Lives Bibliography

Race

eBlackStudies: Resources

The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

Both

Culture, Class and Cyberspace (link list includes Ethnicity and Culture Section, Class and Poverty Section, and Gender and Sexuality Section)

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Does technology enhance learning? 

Point: Significant Difference

Counter-point: "No Significant Difference Phenomenon"

An interview with Clifford Stoll, HIGH TECH HERETIC: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian

Debate about on-line courses:

Etc.:

Developing a Distance Education Policy for 21st Century Learning, American Council on Education report, March 2000

Carnevale, Dan, How to Proctor From a Distance: Experts say professors need savvy to prevent cheating in on-line courses

Ehrmann, Stephen C. "Asking the Right Question: What Does Research Tell Us About Technology and Higher Learning?"

Farrington, Gregory C. 1999. The New Technologies and the Future of Residential Undergraduate Education.

Frayer, Dorothy A. 1999. Creating a Campus Culture to Support a Teaching and Learning Revolution.

Hamza, M.K. 1999. Technology and education: Between chaos and order

Imel, Susan. 1999. Using Technologies Effectively in Adult and Vocational Education.

Kerr, Stephen T. 1997. Nine Paradoxes of Educational Technology.

Noam, Eli M. 1995. Electronics and the Dim Future of the University.

Noble, David F. 1998. Digital diploma mills: The automation of Higher Education.

Oppenheimer, Todd. 1997. The computer delusion.

Owston, Ronald D. The World Wide Web: A Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning?

Sloan, Bernie. 1997. Cyberhope, or Cyberhype? CMC and the Future of Higher Education.

Trotter, Andrew Preparing Teachers For the Digital Age

White, Frank. 1999. Digital diploma mills: A dissenting voice.

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Classics

Perseus Project (for myth, art, and history)

Mythweb Animated stories, fun for kids. Teaching resources for elementary grades.

Mythmedia (a collection of art images relating to Classical mythology)

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

The Search for Alexander (NEH, Texas Humanities Council, Austin)

Classics Technology Center (a free repository of practical tools, for educators and other classicists, to enhance the use of computer technology in Classics education)

 

ESL

English on-line (Resource page for ESL teachers)

Dave's ESL Cafe

EFL Links

EFLweb

English as a Second Language (Rong-Chang Li at Univ. of Illinois C-U)

ESL PartyLand

eVIEWS (online interviews, written and RealAudio)

Linguistic Funland TESOL Resources

French

Glossaire des Termes - Internet

On-line lower division French at UT Austin

française interactif (UT Austin videos)

Tex's French Grammar: la grammaire de l'absurde

Le Quartier français (Janice B. Paulsen, Univ. of Richmond)

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German

On-line lower division at Univ. of Kentucky

UT Austin Business German (uses RealAudio)

Scott's Web Exercises

Tongue Twisters

Web-Based Teaching Units, Tests, and Pedagogy (AATG link list)

Treffpunkt Deutsch (Exercises for text book)

The German Electronic Textbook (grammar and pronunciation)

German for Beginners (on-line help)

Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) (Link list from Shea, aimed at the German teacher but also of general use)

Deutsche Internet Chronik: Gegenwartskultur: Andreas Lixl-Purcell

Spanish

Gramática

Dr. Orlando Kelm's wonderful multi-media web material for Business Spanish and other Spanish and Portuguese instruction.

Mundo 21 BYU's link to the Spanish-speaking world

Centro Virtual Cervantes

Russian

Multimedia Russian (University of Pennsylvania)

Non-Western Languages

Klingon

Making Your Own Exercises

Interactive Exercise Maker

Hot Potatoes (freeware)

Quia

Web Author (Univ. of Pennsylvania Language Center: tool for making interactive web exercises)

Exercises, Quizzes, Tests (Easton Language Education)

JavaScript Template Samples

Webgen 2000 (exercise maker for Windows)

 

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