Resources and Projects for Foreign Language Learning: German

Resources for German Classes

General Professional Resources

Search Engines at one site: click on the Home page of the Episcopal Academy, Merion, PA to access a full collection of Search Engines.

Global Excite has a menu of countries in which to search, including
Excite France and Excite Germanyand Excite Italy.
Yahoo has many international sites, including
Yahoo France,
Yahoo Canada
Yahoo Germany.

Click on Alta Vista and Hot Bot> for a pull-up menu of countries in which to search.
Click on Magellan site then on countries to bring up countries beyond the US.
Click on Lycos for information relating to other laces, including foreign travel, government and specific topics.

The ACTFL Home page: the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign languages has links to specific language organizations and offers information on all aspects of foreign language teaching. Click on area of choice in this extensive menu.
Academic Organizations for FL Teachers: Click column One of Agora, a Language Marketplace, for basic information about FL Organizations including AATF, AATSP, AATG and AATI in North America and throughout the world or column Two to link directly with their Web site. There is even a column noting next Conference! Scroll down to link with US state and local Language organizations.
Swarthmore Language Lab on the Web: M Jones offers an excellent site with useful links to many languages, especially French, German and Spanish.
Foreign Language Resources on the Web: Select Steve Thorne 's site for a useful index to many Foreign language data bases and other Web sites for FL teaching.
Teaching with the Web: Lauren Rosen has compiled an excellent site with ideas for teachers to use with FL classes. Click on her extensive set of links to related sites for teaching with the Web.
German Internet Project: Purcell's excellent site offers a wealth of information and data bases for German Literature, Culture, Art and History projects.
Penpals Worldwide for German Speakers: Penpals from the german-language student magazine Oskars lets German-speaking individuals type in information about themselves and in turn read about German young people seeking penpals.

Christmas Page for Modern Language classes Peter Jones from Ontario, Canada has put together a super site with information-gap activities (The 5 friends Logic puzzle; magic Phrases) in French, Spanish and German. Ideal for the Christmas season!

Go to Resources and Projects for more ideas.
Go to German Home Page
Go to German Pen Pals for more ideas.

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Go toSpanish resources page
Go to Italian resources page

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The administrator of EA's Modern Language Page can be contacted at Celi Putnam