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Welcome to the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon, CAPL, the source for authentic images for language learning. As a language teacher and learner, I always seek to connect language, culture, and meaning. This site represents my interest to not only write about language learning, but provide concrete examples. Our world rich in diversity, both linguistic and visual, and often the connection between word and image can be lost. As commercial globalization brings the world together through 'common products', we sometimes forget how our visual perception of the world affects our use of words and the meanings they convey. Is a house really a Haus, is pain really хлеб, and when we see red cabbage, is it really red? These are simple and mundane questions that underscore the fact that visual perception is culturally determined and visual cognition varies from culture to culture. The CAPL project seeks to explore this idea through a collection of authentic photographs arranged by language and context. In the coming year, we will add more photos, more databases, and more textual descriptions. Check back often as we expand our collection. It is our hope that the collection itself can spur research in a variety of areas and that the collection can be used by language teachers and learners throughout the world with its generous Creative Commons license.

Free online survey of learning styles

"Foreign or second language (L2) learning strategies are specific actions, behaviors, steps, or techniques students use -- often consciously -- to improve their progress in apprehending, internalizing, and using the L2 (Oxford, 1990b). Strategies are the tools for active, self-directed involvement needed for developing L2 communicative ability (O'Malley & Chamot, 1990). Research has repeatedly shown that the conscious, tailored use of such strategies is related to language achievement and proficiency."

Collection of links for French learning resources geared towards professionals who want to work in the hospitality industry abroad.

Duolingo is a free service that helps you learn languages with your friends while simultaneously contributing to translate real-world content from the Web.

Digital language learning for Italian

A site that lists reviews of language learning software. Although reviews are useful to some extent, their assessments of the effectiveness of the software may not agree with our pedagogy.

"Study More Chinese is a social network for everyone learning Mandarin - music, videos, blogs & discussion community"

Chinese Savvy is a website community where members can share tips and have access to different tools for Chinese language learning.

Special Issue: Using Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning

Spanish learning games!

A compilation of useful links to spanish learning resources.

Free Language Learning Software available in 70 languages

Every few minutes as you work in other apps (you choose how often)... Popling displays a question in a small window. Ignore it and it goes away... click it to see the full flash card. It's learning, with no motivation required!

White paper from the New Media Consortium, produced in conjunction with the Economist Magazine and in collaboration with Apple, Inc. The paper, entitled "The Future of Higher Education: How Technology will Shape Learning " reports the results of a study of nearly 300 CIOs and technology leaders inside and outside of education.

The ELISA corpus is being developed at the University of Tuebingen (Dept of Applied English Linguistics, AEL) and the University of Surrey (Dept of Languages and Translation Studies, LTS) as a resource for language learning and teaching, and interpreter training. It contains interviews with native speakers of English. They talk about their professional career (e.g. in tourism, politics, the media or environmental education). We are very grateful to all speakers for their kind contributions. You can use our Concordancer (written in PERL) on text versions of all corpus files. It can be utilized to extract KWIC concordances with variable context length, sentence concordances and word counts.

With 23,000+ students and rates as low as $79/month, Arab Academy's online Arabic courses are your best and most convenient option for learning Arabic.

Social learning platform focusing on vocabulary and dictation. Learners can sign up for free, does spaced review and tracks progress. Can use "courses" already created by the company or create your own.

"Online education is booming, but not at elite universities-at least not when it comes to courses for credit. Leaders at the University of California want to break that mold. This fall they hope to put $5-million to $6-million into a pilot project that could clear the way for the system to offer online undergraduate degrees and push distance learning further into the mainstream. The vision is UC's most ambitious-and controversial-effort to reshape itself after cuts in public financial support have left the esteemed system in crisis."

Different games to help French language learning, including vocabulary and grammar.