Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. Funded by New York University Abu Dhabi, this mass digitization project aims to expose up to 15,000 volumes from NYU and partner institutions over a period of five years. NYU and the partner institutions are contributing all types of material-literature, business, science, and more-from their Arabic language collections. ACO will provide digital access to printed books drawn from rich Arabic collections of prominent libraries.
TTBJ is a collection of tests developed by the International Student Center at the University of Tsukuba. TTBJ is available for use according to the following two methods: as an individual test taker, as a group test taker. Also known as the SPOT test.
Collection of online resources for learning Japanese from the Japan Foundation. Includes online courses in basic Japanese, learning hiragana and katakana scripts, discussion forums, and games.
Reading Russian Short Stories is an open resource by Filip Zachoval that contains stories written in Russian by different authors in the 20th and 21st centuries, each accompanied by questions and assignments.
The collection is designed for learners of Russian, including heritage learners. There are numerous texts that are suitable for novice-high or intermediate-low learners. However, the majority of these texts are more suitable for learners who have reached or are about to enter higher levels of language competence, i.e. students at intermediate and advanced levels.
A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, podcast, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other web 2.0 projects.
Listen to audio recordings of prominent Hispanic writers including Nobel Laureates Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz, and renowned writers Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, and Julio Cortázar reading from their works at the Library of Congress.
Video Assistance for Understanding Language Teaching Techniques (VAULTT) is a collection of original videos highlighting various aspects of language teaching in the classroom. Each short video is accompanied by supplementary information (in a PDF) explaining the techniques and relating them to best practices in language teaching. Some of these videos are real classes, and some are staged.
Although these materials are based on current research in second language acquisition, they are produced at a level accessible for teachers with little or no pedagogical training. We are still in the process of constructing this site, but your feedback is welcome!
This website contains a corpus of the modern Russian language incorporating over 300 million words. The corpus of Russian is a reference system based on a collection of Russian texts in electronic form.
The Corpus is intended for all who are interested in the Russian language and various associated fields: professional linguists, language teachers, school and university students, foreigners learning the language.
The project of Arabic Learner Corpus (ALC) aims to provide a collection of written and spoken materials produced by learners of Arabic in Saudi Arabia.