Student ESL/Foreign Language Sites
News, a message center, and fun quizzes are available at ESL Partyland...
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News, a message center, and fun quizzes are available at ESL Partyland. Latino.com showcases writers and artists in both Spanish and English. It includes links to other resources.
To broaden students' understanding of the history of other languages view i Love Languages. Over 200 languges are included.
Students can visit Altavista's World page, which includes an automatic translation procedure for web pages and written text.
Bilingual Books For Kids (Spanish and English) also facilitate the transition to one language or the other. Software from Rosetta Stone (picture, text and audio) and Idiom Software include topics (parts of the body, house, family tree)can be incorporated also into sheltered English or transitional language classes.
At the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is an excellent collection of primary sources and discussions about "Mexican American History" (see also Hispanic, Latino).
Hundreds of fun activities (puzzles, sentence puzzles) can be reviewed at Many Things. everythingESL.net includes an ask-the-expert capacity and many content-based lessons.
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Several software publishers, such as Scholastic, are offering more and more materials. Some, particularly the National Geographic Society, publish discs which accelerate the transition to English.
