Multicultural Literature Sites

• Celebrating Cultural Diversity Through Children's Literature Offers annotated bibliographies of children's literature. Organized by genre, these titles offer information about many cultures. Additional links are offered to many resources related to each culture covered in the site.
• Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents In Spanish and English, this site includes books centered around Latino people and culture and about books in Spanish and their value in education of English-speaking and Spanish-speaking children and adolescents.
• Classic African American Literature

• Native American Literature

• Race, Culture, Religion, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Children's and Young Adult Books Access to many web sites concerned with issues of culture and gender in children's and young adult literature. In the Topic Bibliographies section, brief annotations of books about Asian Americans, Native Americans, and interracial families can be found.
• Story Place -- bilingual Spanish/English 

   

  Language/Literacy Sites

• Ask the Language Experts: Frequently asked questions about language education, linguistics, and cross-cultural education.

• Bilingual/ESL/Multicultural Education Sites and Full Text Sources from the Center for Multilingual and Multicultural Research, University of Southern California.

• Center for Applied Linguistics A group of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related problems.

• English Forum Comprehensive web portal with a wealth of resources for students and teachers of English (ESL/EFL). Interactive Exercises, Message Boards, ELT Book Catalogue, Good School Guide, Web Directory, World News, Learning and Teaching Links, Cool Tools, and more.
• ESL and Bilingual Education Sites from Multicultural Pavilion
• ESL Lessons (searchable website for teaching methods, lessons, authors, books, etc.)
• ESL/TESOL and Bilingual Education Super Sites
• Foreign Language Resources and Links
• Foreign Languages (Language Learning Lab at University of Illiniois Urbana Champagne) Language, teaching, research, culture, dictionaries, radio and periodical links.
• iLoveLanguages A comprehensive searchable catalog of language-related (and reviewed) Internet resources. Online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools.
• Language Learning and Academic Achievement The Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence has created a collection of research about language learning and academic achievement.

• Language Policy and Language Rights From the Center for Multilingual and Multicultural Research, University of Southern California. Related sites and articles and a searchable database for supreme court opinions.

• Language Policy Links Located down on this list of Language links. This list also includes links to resources concerning Official English, Endangered Languages, Language Rights, Ebonics, and Language Minority Education. (for more information on Language Policy see the home page of this site: James Crawford's Page)
• Literacy & Technology An excellent place to begin your search for literacy resources (including concept maps, portfolios, internet projects) on the Internet. This site includes links to resources that support the new literacies of the Internet as well as more traditional literacies.
• National Center for ESL Literacy Education Includes digests, resource compilations and a listserv.
• National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement This site provides research, a newsletter, links, and teaching resources, such as learning materials and online journals. It also includes examples of research-to-practice booklets like Improving Literacy Understanding Through Classroom Conversation.
• Online Directory of ESL Resources An annotated collection of resources related to English as a Second Language (ESL), particularly "major sites where such documents could be found in significant numbers. Provides an online reference for the most useful ESL resources primarily for teachers and students, though other groups, such as administrators, business people, researchers, and parents, may find them helpful as well.
• The United Nations CyberSchoolBus Multilingual Database including resources, community and curriculum.

  Associations, Dictionaries, Reference Sources etc.

• Associations and Societies In the area of Language/Literacy, Culture.
• Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri Many online language dictionaries and translation services.
• YourDictionary.com (http://www.yourdictionary.com/) Searchable database for you to enter a term and find its translation.
• Yamada Language Center A guide to language resources on the World Wide Web. In the Guides, you will find pointers to: The Yamada Font Archive; annotated list of language-related news groups. links to language-related mailing lists.

  For some general Education Internet sites see Internet Links

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