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"Reinforce your students' understanding of figurative language with VocabularySpellingCity's figurative language lessons, interactive games, printable worksheets, and powerpoint presentations. Learning figurative language gives students at the elementary school, middle school, and high school levels the ability to transform their pencils into paintbrushes, as they paint a picture with their words. VocabularySpellingCity can give your students this gift by providing figurative language lessons and exercises that will establish an understanding of the main types of figurative language."

Duolingo is a free service that helps you learn languages with your friends while simultaneously contributing to translate real-world content from the Web. We're a team of computer scientists, designers, and language specialists creating tools to empower language learners.

site put together by the European Union, includes materials on language learning and language teaching.

EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is not intended to represent a complete curriculum in the humanities, nor does it prescribe any specific course of study.

"The Digital Dialects website features free to use interactive games for learning languages. Language sections are updated regularly and new sections are under development. This site requires the use of Macromedia Flash Player."

a "mashup" of resources for learning a second language

11 good foreign language resources to try in 2011 (a couple of ESL/EFL resources in this list).

students writing comic books or travel guides, newsletters or complete newspapers - in a foreign language, no less. And while they are honing their foreign language skills by composing in Spanish or French, they are also mastering valuable technology sk

collection of on-line resources

The Best Online Video Games For Learning Language & Content (history & lit materials mentioned here)

images for use with language instruction

Using technology in the language arts classroom opens a new world of educational possibilities for both teachers and students. This wiki chapter hopes to expand new possibilities for language arts instruction by offering various ways that technology can b

Technology, especially the Internet, can provide access to authentic sources of language that are simply unavailable any other way. When we integrate technology meaningfully, we are supporting them in the development of two essential tools for lifelong le

Joe Dale offers practical tips and advice on using ICT to enhance the teaching of modern foreign languages

Many students in this country speak more than one language well, but some of their classmates struggle to learn English. How can brain science help the English language learner?

Resources for French as a second language

Foriegn Language Tutorials Mango is a free (for the first few lessons) enterprise language learning course online service. Eleven courses are now available in Mango beta release. Each course has 100 lessons available. (Updated 9/18/2007 8:39 PM)

EFL, but lots of practical applications for technology in the classroom, for any subject, as well as ideas focused on language

Welcome to French Steps, an online course for beginners. Learn practical spoken French with the help of French teacher Hakim M'Barek in just 24 manageable steps.

Lessons on ReadWriteThink can be sorted by literacy engagements so that teachers can highlight specific language functions in the classroom. Following M. A. K. Halliday's model, lessons are designed to engage students in authentic and meaningful language