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English is a foreign language for 95% of the world's children. Yet almost all digital literacy tools for young children are written in English. Mobile learning is therefore out of reach for all but those very few children prepared to start learning a foreign language before they have mastered their own. Isabelle Duston, a self-professed "serial entrepreneur" decided to tackle the problem by creating educational applications that will bridge the digital language divide without losing cultural diversity in the learning process. Her iLearn4Free venture is developing apps in several languages for teaching little ones how to read in their native language.

Digital Dialects offers a nice selection of educational games and activities for learning 55 different languages. Most of the games are designed to learn and practice the basics of each of the 55 languages listed on the Digital Dialects homepage.  Another good website for learning and practicing language basics is Literacy Center.net. Literacy Center offers games for learning and practicing French, Spanish, German, and English. The Literacy Center is a 501c non-profit with a contract from the US Department of Education.  Applications for Education The educational games and activities found on Digital Dialects and Literacy Center are great for students just beginning to learn a new language. The games provide instant feedback to students and parents so that they can monitor progress and choose a skill or set of vocabulary terms to practice. 

ANVILL (A National Virtual Language Lab) is a speech-based toolbox for language teachers

The Mixxer - a free educational website for language exchanges via Skype

"Well like a lot of people I've bought an iPad over the summer and I've been having my first taste of shopping for apps to extend the capabilities of the iPad. I've also been having a look at how some of these can be used for language learning, so I thought I would share with you a little bit of information about the first few apps I've tried."

Well like a lot of people I've bought an iPad over the summer and I've been having my first taste of shopping for apps to extend the capabilities of the iPad. I've also been having a look at how some of these can be used for language learning, so I thought I would share with you a little bit of information about the first few apps I've tried.

Here we can find the results of important research conducted by credible neuroscientists. It may help those interested in the topic to build knowledge in the field of neuroeducation.

Use your native language to search for images from foreign language websites.

Integrating technology into English language teaching https://t.co/0SzAll6LDx https://t.co/wgUuUtVrGs

That's http://conjugation.com/. It's simple to use: just enter a verb and get the conjugations. English language only.

That's http://conjugation.com/. It's simple to use: just enter a verb and get the conjugations. English language only.

Fantastic tool for verbs, verb conjugation in many languages.

 Professor David Crystal answers questions about the English Language 

Using action research to explore technology in language teaching https://t.co/hxmibAAhsO #edtech #ict #research… https://t.co/RMhHmybgkQ

Ten innovations that have changed English language teaching https://t.co/dZPDB6K2lB #elt #tesol #efl #edtech #ell https://t.co/mTGx9RMJub

Networking for the English language teaching community