Useful Websites
World Languages on the Internet - Chris Green (2007)
General
- the teaching and learning of English as an Additional Language (EAL)
- raising the achievement of ethnic minority learners
- supporting bilingualism
- the development and understanding of this field of education
- http://inclusion.ngfl.gov.uk/ - Inclusion provides a catalogue of resources to support individual learning needs for teaching professionals, parents, carers and learners. Resources include publications, software, equipment and online information.
- www.tes.co.uk -
The EAL subject page on the TES site is particularly useful for mainstream teachers featuring ideas for those with limited experience of EAL learners through features such as @Good practice tips for teachers of EAL pupils’
Websites to enhance displays and dual language resources
Language and translation websites
- www.google.com/language_tools - translation tools
- www.newburypark.redbridge.sch.uk -
Language of the Month – a fantastic website with a wealth of bilingual resources and ideas to stimulate and enhance your classroom environment
- www.ccceducation.net -
Useful Polish and other resources
- www.seasite.niu.edu/ -
Interactive learning resources or Southeast Asian languages, literatures and cultures
- www.omniglot.com – a very useful site to start from. Contains a catalogue of useful phrases in many languages about many subjects. You can also access their catalogue of phrases for individual languages
- http://unilang.org/ - Go to ‘Language Resources’ and then you have access to numerous vocabulary lists in a multitude of different languages
- www.travlang.com worth trying for a variety of languages and links. Features 80+ world languages with vocabulary lists under the following headings – Basic Words, Numbers, Shopping, Directions, Places, Time and Dates
- www.speak . . . .co.uk – A good interactive site Type in language required into the web address e.g. ‘www.speakdutch.co.uk’
- www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/ a catalogue of words and phrases in hundreds of different languages. These include lots from many different African languages
- www.languageguide.org - has extensive vocabulary lists and phrases in the following languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. They also come with sound
- www.freelang.net/dictionary Has free dictionary programmes to download (approx 70 languages) plus instant translation for 24 languages
- www.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/ Will do immediate word and phrase translations for 28 languages, including, Bulgarian, Finnish, Polish and Tagalog
- www.101languages.net contains useful words
lists and phrases in the following languages: Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- www.ilovelanguages.com/
- www.20000-names.com/ -
meanings of names
- www.usborne-quicklinks.com -
Type in key words e.g. Thousand Words, click on appropriate language required to hear the translation and find other links.
Science Websites
Specific Languages
- www.languageguide.org - has extensive vocabulary lists and phrases in the following languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. They also come with sound
Albanian
Arabic
Bengali
Bulgarian
Chinese
Dari
Estonian
Finnish
French
Ga
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hungarian
- http://impulzus.sch.bme.hu/info/hungary.shtml Takes you to a home page where you can access information about the country, people, culture, maps, and the Hungarian language. It has vocabulary lists under headings like ‘Important Words and Phrases’, Numbers, days of the week etc.
Italian
Japanese
Lithuanian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Russian
Shona
Sinhala
Slovak
South African Languages
- www.cyberserv.co.za/ includes the 11 official languages, including Afrikaans, IsiXhosa and IsiZulu plus others like Northern Ndebele
Tagalog
- www.seasite.niu.edu – A good site for South East Asian countries. E.g. Tagalog – Excellent pages suitable for children/schools. I’ve also looked at the Cambodia pages (Khmer) which looked reasonable. For some of the other countries you would need to download fonts.
Thai
Turkish
Urdu
Websites relating to cultural diversity, resources and workshops for schools
Curriculum links
Publishers and book companies
Multicultural books
Tamarind Ltd -
Email:contact@tamarindbooks.co.uk
Local Authority BME Achievement Services
Portsmouth Ethnic Minority Achievement Service
This site has been developed by the Portsmouth Ethnic Minority Achievement Service as a 'resource base for teachers, parents, educational agencies, students - indeed anyone with an interest in bilingual education and ethnic minority achievement issues'. Features of the site include copyright free images for use with teaching materials as well as a wealth of material of interest to EMAG services and teachers.
Sadly this site is no longer being updated, but is currently still available.
Hampshire EMA Service
BLSS is part of the Inclusion branch of Hampshire County Council. The service aims to support schools and parents across Hampshire through training, achievement projects, bilingual assistance and cross-cultural counselling.
Nottingham City's EAL Service
Lewisham' s EMAS Community
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