We will be updating this page frequently with links to other organizations that are promoting 2005: The Year of Languages, fun stuff, information on language learning, and much more. Check back often.
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Organizations and Universities
promoting 2005: The Year of Languages on their websites
Moshi Moshi Hola Hola: World Language Distance Learning Programs Portland Public Schools supports theYear of Languages: http://www.moshihola.org/year_of_languages/yol.html
The College Board celebrates the Year of Languages with new Advanced Placement (AP) World Language and Culture courses and exams: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/article/0,3045,184-0-0-37219,00.html
College of San Mateo: http://collegeofsanmateo.edu/yearoflanguages/
Ohio Foreign Language Association: Click here
Duke University: http://languages.duke.edu/year2005/
Department of Languages and Literatures Pacific Lutheran University
in Tacoma, WA, has organized a series of events to celebrate April's focus on Higher Ed. http://www.plu.edu/~lang/2005-year/home.html
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG):
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - http://www.unc.edu/depts/ed/news/fall2004/yol_moeser.html
Fairfax County Public Schools - A detailed calendar of what's going on in the Fairfax County Public Schools: http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/OHSICS/forlang/yol/yol.htm
The Center for Applied Linguistics: http://www.cal.org/yol/index.html
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute--This site includes information about the national Year of Languages initiative, a copy of Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle's proclamation declaring 2005 the YOL in Wisconsin, information about local YOL initiatives, and a calendar of language- and culture-related events on the UW-Madison campus. http://www.languageinstitute.wisc.edu/yearoflanguages
- Also featured is a great series of community panel presentations arranged and hosted by the UW-Madison Language Institute: http://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/yearoflanguages/
MERLOT World Languages Portal, an educational resource for teaching and learning. http://taste.merlot.org/portal/world_languages/
Languages of the World: www.nvtc.gov/lotw - The website contains information about language and language study, as well as descriptions of the major language families of the world and their most important and populous languages. Each unit includes a quiz based on the unit’s content.
Connecticut Council of Language Teachers: http://ctcolt.org/yearoflanguages.htm, also offers a calendar of events in Connecticut. Recently added is a "Scrapbook" page showcasing student work and photos of Year of Languages related activities.
University of Alabama: http://www.uab.edu/aaflt/2005%20Year%20of%20Languages.html
Foreign Language Association of Georgia: http://www.flageorgia.org/YOL/yol.htm
Foreign Language Association of Virginia:http://www.flavaweb.org/2005yol.htm
Massachusetts Foreign Language Association: http://www.mafla.org/YOLIntro.htm
Foreign Language Association of North Carolina: http://www.flanc.org/page.aspx?page_id=62
California Language Teachers Association: http://www.clta.net/yol/
"Word of the Day" Sites
Spanish: LA PÁGINA DEL IDIOMA ESPAÑOL - http://www.elcastellano.org
French: Mot du jour - http://french.about.com/library/motdujour/bl_motdujour.htm
Transparent.com offers Word of the Day in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and English for Spanish Speakers http://www.transparent.com/wotd/index.htm
Travlang.com: http://travlang.com/wordofday/ offers Word of the Day in languages too numerous to list!
Miscellaneous
Esperanto League for North America: http://www.esperanto-usa.org/
Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/outreach/americas.html
North Carolina in the World is a statewide collaborative effort to strengthen K-12 international education. http://www.ncintheworld.org/
Modern Language Association offers an impressive interactive map that displays the locations and numbers of speakers of the thirty languages most commonly spoken in the United States: http://www.mla.org/census_main.
Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon (CAPL) - License-free imagery for learning and teaching German - More languages will be added. This project aims at providing the world community with high quality, authentic, free resources to foster language and cultural understanding. www.washjeff.edu/capl/
Do you know of any websites, not listed above, that are promoting 2005: The Year of Languages, or other sites that should be given attention to? Send us an email with subject line "YOL Link Suggestion."
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