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"As you begin the process of creating your own e-portfolio, you may be wondering exactly what it is you are working towards. What is an e-portfolio? Why should you create one? How do you do so? These are natural and important questions to be asking, and the purpose of this wiki is to help you start thinking about the answers. As you will observe, the site is organized around these three major questions, with each page providing a brief introduction to the ideas presented as well as links to external resources that address the question. The fourth question, "Where can I read more?" is essentially a bibliography incorporating the resources mentioned throughout the site plus some additional ones. While exploring the site, you are encouraged to think about e-portfolios in a few different ways: as something which you will create to document your learning, as an opportunity for reflection and growth, and as an educational tool both for yourselves and your future students. Enjoy! "

Updated 2010 ruling from Library of Congress indicating that university faculty can circumvent DVD CSS within fair use, but only film and media study students.

Provides new daily Italian vocabulary with native pronunciation.

Website for Arabic learning with fun videos that will help learn vocabulary effectively

"Understanding Assessment: A Guide for Foreign Language Educators is a tutorial on language testing for foreign language educators. It is designed to help new users of the Center for Applied Linguistics' Foreign Language Assessment Directory (FLAD) and it is also an excellent resource for anyone who wants to learn more about language testing."

"The VAC is a series of web-based learning modules that provides teachers with background information, step-by-step guidance, and many practical resources on developing proficiency-based second language assessments for the classroom."

"Margaret Malone, Senior Testing Associate at CAL, discusses four key concepts of assessment, describes free online resources that promote assessment literacy among language educators, and explores how these tools can be useful for all stakeholders"

SASLI offers elementary and intermediate levels of modern South Asian languages, as well as Sanskrit. SASLI prepares students for subsequent training domestically and abroad. SASLI is currently held on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students may only register for one language per summer. This 8-week program offers the equivalent of two full semesters of academic study.

List of handbooks/guides for tandem programs in a variety of languages.

"Simulate real relief efforts in Food Force: A major crisis has developed in the Indian Ocean and the United Nations is sending you on a mission to help feed the millions of people who are going without food! Designed by the United Nations, the premise of the game is to try and stop world hunger by strategic planning (though luck seems to be a bigger contributer to success than skill at times...)" Game is designed for native speakers (not language learners) but could be incorporated at upper levels into unit on food/hunger. Free downloadable software for Windows.

Copy and paste text to get a vocabulary glossary for your reading. Does bilingual lookup for Japanese-English, -German, -Dutch, and -Slovenian, and -Spanish. Can also analyze text for vocabulary and kanji level (for JLPT) and structure.

Download page, with keyboard layouts, for free BibleWorks Greek and Hebrew fonts.

Suggestions for students on email etiquette.

Discussion on FLASC-I mailing list about the ACTFL position statement on Use of the Target Language in the Classroom.

From Cornell University, excellent site with resources for studnets and faculty on plagiarism, the research process, and other aspects of academic integrity.

"The Index of Learning Styles is an on-line instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman. The instrument was developed by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman of North Carolina State University. The ILS may be used at no cost for non-commercial purposes by individuals who wish to determine their own learning style profile and by educators who wish to use it for teaching, advising, or research. Consultants and companies who wish to use the ILS in their work may license it from North Carolina State University. (Click below on "Frequently Asked Questions" for details.) "

"Princeton's 18th Conference on Chinese Lanugage Instruction 2010普林斯顿大学对外汉语教 学研讨会 Saturday, April 24, 2010 For the past seventeen years, the East Asian Studies Program at Princeton University has sponsored an annual conference on Chinese language instruction. We are pleased to announce that we are holding another conference this year, on Saturday, April 24, 2009, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. We invite proposals for presentations concerning research on Chinese language learning and teaching."

Corpus and treebank search including Danish, English French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Esperanto, Romanian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese