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Long page with notes about Japanese grammar. No claim is made for either originality or completeness in these notes. Most of the examples have been taken from, or have been suggested by, the references given at the end. The topics chosen are those which may benefit a person who is beginning to study Japanese and who would like a quick reference to supplement more complete and authoritative sources.

Welcome to the CITE -- a blog on Course materials, Innovation, and Technology in Education. CITE is a pun with multiple meanings - referring to cite as in citation, something people reference; site as in location, website, or place people go to; and sight as in foresight or looking ahead to what is coming. Comments, discussion, feedback and ideas are welcome.

Russian grammar reference guide

Companion website for the textbook "Français interactif". Includes grammar reference and practice activities.

"Since 1995 the purpose of the Language Testing Resources web site has always been to act as a reference guide to language testing related resources on the Internet by providing a history of, and links to, language testing related information, including publications that are freely available on other domains. However, it's purpose has broadened over the years. Now, resources on language testing, such as articles, features, videos and audio, are made freely available for language teachers, language testers, and students of language testing, applied linguistics, and languages."

This page contains some examples of how the BNC (XML edition) can be used in combination with non-corpus based activities and exercises to study the English language. The exercises are intended as illustrations of what can be done with access to the corpus. Refer to the sample search results provided or perform your own searches.

A little demo of a program that pronounces words in various languages. A good quick reference and definitely fun to play around with!

This page is designed to provide practical resources to support your assessment planning process. The focus is on program and institutional assessment of student learning. The websites and documents listed here are only a sample of the references that are available and should be viewed as an introduction to the world of assessment resources available.

The pages below contain examples (often hypothetical) illustrating the application of different statistical analysis techniques using different statistical packages. Each page provides a handful of examples of when the analysis might be used along with sample data, an example analysis, explanation of the output, a short sample write-up, followed by references for more information. These pages merely introduce the essence of the technique and do not to provide a comprehensive description of how to use it.

This blog is a companion piece to the Web 2.0 Expo run on May 14, 2007 at Wesleyan. At the expo we demonstrated various Web 2.0 technologies in action. As a resource for continued engagement, presenters in each of the areas created reference pages on this blog. The technologies covered include: Blogs, RSS feeds and readers, Wikis, Podcasting, Social bookmarking, Web-based Office Apps, Mash-ups, Content Management.

Kanji alive is a free, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level Japanese language learners to read and write kanji. It is cross-platform and will run in any browser that supports Adobe Flash and Apple Quicktime. Please Note: The current version of Kanji alive available on this site is an initial beta or pilot version. We are making it available now in order to solicit comments and suggestions from our users. It is not a dictionary: only searches for individual kanji, not words. Shows character in font and animation of handwriting, on/kunyomi, audio clips & translations of associated compound words, radicals, stroke count and breakdown, and grade level/reference numbers for kanji lists.

"This article is designed to help users who are new to NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) learn the basic controls for testing web content, and to serve as a reference for the occasional NVDA user. NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It supports over 20 languages and can run on any computer entirely from a USB drive with no installation."

This wiki describes tools and formats for creating and managing linguistic annotations. `Linguistic annotation' covers any descriptive or analytic notations applied to raw language data. The basic data may be in the form of time functions -- audio, video and/or physiological recordings -- or it may be textual. The added notations may include transcriptions of all sorts (from phonetic features to discourse structures), part-of-speech and sense tagging, syntactic analysis, "named entity" identification, co-reference annotation, and so on. The focus is on tools which have been widely used for constructing annotated linguistic databases, and on the formats commonly adopted by such tools and databases.

WALS is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of more than 40 authors (many of them the leading authorities on the subject). WALS consists of 141 maps with accompanying texts on diverse features (such as vowel inventory size, noun-genitive order, passive constructions, and "hand"/"arm" polysemy), each of which is the responsibility of a single author (or team of authors). Each map shows between 120 and 1370 languages, each language being represented by a symbol, and different symbols showing different values of the feature. Altogether 2,650 languages are shown on the maps, and more than 58,000 datapoints give information on features in particular languages.

Benchmark your language evaluation skills with your colleagues across Europe! On this site, you as a language learner or language teacher will be able to create, upload and assess your own samples together with teachers and language learners across Europe. The assessments are based on the Common European Framework of Reference. Participating in the WebCEF community will enable you to use the CEF scales more in assessment situations and practice your skills in collaboration with others across Europe. You will have access to multiple assessments, which will also give you feedback on your own.

This is an online thesaurus in Greek, with English translations.

Lists current local times around the world and has function to enter a particular time and convert it to a different time zone.

Organizes kanji info (image, related words, etc.) by study lists, especially for the JLPT.

A database of Japanese grammar points with notes and examples. Somewhat user-contributed. Has materials for JLPT, but otherwise, organization is difficult to understand.