SPOTLIGHT ON: Foreign Language teaching resources

Websites:
There are some very useful free websites available with excellent resources on foreign language teaching. Here are my top 3 picks:

Foreign Language Resources http://library.rwu.edu/subjectguides/foreignlang.html
This web guide from Roger Williams University Library links you to freely available sites in six european languages, plus additional links to comprehensive websites with activities and language guides.

iLove Languages http://www.ilovelanguages.com
A comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2400 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs. (website description). iLove Languages is the latest revision of the former Human-Languages Page and the Languages catalog of the WWW Virtual Library.

Ethnologue www.ethnologue.com
Ethnologue is owned by SIL International, a service organization that works with people who speak the world’s lesser-known languages. Its extensive searchable bibliography is a great place to find books on language for over 100 countries around the world. There is also an excellent country index.

New Print Books in the WSU Libriaries:
Dialogue with Bakhtin on second and foreign language learning : new perspectives / edited by Joan Kelly Hall, Gergana Vitanova, Ludmila Marchenkova. Purdy-Kresge Library P5 1 .H288 2005 http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b2936410

Connecting reading and writing in second language writing instruction / Alan Hirvela. Adamany Undergraduate Library P 53.27 .H57 2004

The writing lab approach to language instruction and intervention / Nickola Wolf Nelson, Christine M. Bahr, and Adelia M. Van Meter. Purdy-Kresge Library P 53.27 .N45 2004

New Electronic Books available through the WSU Library Catalog:
Before you access this book, you will need to download an ebrary reader. Go to http://site.ebrary.com/lib/anysite/Download

Designing authenticity into language learning materials / Freda Mishan.

New Online Videos:
To access, just do a title search in the WSU Library Catalog. Click the link under Click the link(s) below to connect. Scroll down on the page to the video titles. Click the small gold VoD icon to the right of the title. You will need to go through the FREE sign-up with your e-mail address and a password YOU select (please remember this password, the WSU library system does not maintain them). You can then view the video.

Teaching foreign languages K-12 workshop: Connecting Standards, Research and Practice. Episodes 1-8 / produced by WGBH Boston in association with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

Teaching foreign languages K-12 : a library of classroom practices Episodes 1-30 / produced by WGBH Boston in association with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.