Language Learning and Technology

A collection of "cognitively informed," openly available and free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course in an online format.

Online journal focusing on technology and language education

a collection of language learning and teaching links

Foreign Language Technology Resources at UW Madison

Easy online cartoon creator.

with links to other languages

This tool allows you to find dictionary words and expand your vocabulary in many different languages including Bulgarian, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Ido, Indonesian, Italian, Kurdish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese and many others.

Lookup is a publicly available interactive searching program Jeffrey wrote primarily to allow him to access edict and kanjidic quickly and concisely, though it should be quite useful for searching any line-based text file (it's been used to quickly search huge C programs, English word-lists, and even e-mail archives). It features a rich and powerful flavor of regular expression search with support for Japanese text. If you would like to learn more about regular expressions, the powerful tool used to help you in your dictionary queries, see Mastering Regular Expressions and its successor, Mastering Regular Expressions Second Edition.

The Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP), a criterion-referenced, Web-based assessment tool, measures students' language proficiency at levels ranging from Novice-low to Intermediate-mid. STAMP currently measures reading, writing, and speaking proficiencies in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. CASLS strives to continually improve STAMP's test design while adding new languages and new levels. STAMP is available through CASLS' partner company, Avant Assessment.

ESL Video is a great free site that enables you to create your own quizzes based on video clips from popular sharing sites like YouTube or BlipTV. You have to register and log in and then you just grab embed codes for the video you want to build you quiz around. The site is multilingual so it doesn't just have to be an English language video.

QuickDiff is an interesting tool that analyses differences in two very similar texts. It was actually developed for examining programming code, but could be a really useful tool to use with students to get them to look more closely at the texts they write and notice the mistakes and corrections and differences in the text.

QuickDiff is an interesting tool that analyses differences in two very similar texts. It was actually developed for examining programming code, but could be a really useful tool to use with students to get them to look more closely at the texts they write and notice the mistakes and corrections and differences in the text.

Laryngoscopic images of the pharynx and larynx obtained using a Kay Elemetrics Rhino-Laryngeal Stroboscope 9100, halogen light source, Olympus ENF-P3 fibreoptic laryngoscope, Panasonic KS 152 camera, and 28mm wide-angle lens: View from the naso-pharynx adjusted to view the glottis, pyriform recesses, arytenoids, and aryepiglottic folds, as far as possible behind the epiglottis.

Currently, Arabic العربية, Armenian Հայկական, Bengali, Cyrillic Кириллица, Devanagari देवनागरी, Ge'ez / Ethiopic ግዕዝ, Georgian / Mkhedruli ქართული, Greek Ελληνικά, Gujarati ગુજરાતી, Gurmukhi / Punjabi ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ, Hebrew עִבְרִית, Kannada, Korean 한국어, Latin, Malayalam , Tamil தமிழ், Telugu, Thaana ތާނަ‎ and Thai อักษรไทย are supported.