The Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Facility

Internet Resources for Language Studies

The following list of links is not intended to be definitive or comprehensive, but it may act as a starting point in your use of the web, and provide ready access to some of the more useful web reources. The inclusion of a link here does not imply any endorsement by the University of Cambridge.

To help keep the lists both useful and up to date, please submit, with suitable annotations, links likely to be of interest to other Faculty members. You can email call@mml.cam.ac.uk.

• Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
• Language Faculties and Departments
• Language Centres
• On-line Resources and Dictionaries
• Humanities Podcast Resources
• Resources for Language Teaching Officers
• Fun

Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Resources

• UK's National Centre for Languages HE pages CILT is a partner in the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS, based at the University of Southampton)
• Intute's Internet for Modern Languages tutorial
• The LLAS' Guide to Good Practice
• CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium): North American CALL organisation
• Alan Wood's Unicode Resources
• Fonts in Cyberspace
• Columbia's utf-8 sampler including information on Ethan Mollick's I Can Eat Glass Project
• Unicode Project Homepage
• The Human Languages Page
• Doulos Sil Font Homepage single Unicode-based font for almost any writing system
• Association of University Language Centres in the UK and Ireland
• British Universities Film and Video Council
• Language Learning and Technology refereed journal

Language Faculties and Departments

• Aston University Department of Languages and European Studies
• Carnegie Mellon Deprtment of Modern Languages
• University of Leeds School of Modern Languages
• Newcastle University School of Modern Languages
• Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University

Language Centres

• University of Cambridge Language Centre
• European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education
• Carnegie Mellon Language Learning Resource Center
• Dartmouth College Language Resource Center
• University of Leeds Language Centre
• Oxford University Language Centre
• University of Manchester's Language Centre
• Swarthmore College Language Laboratory
• Language Institute, University of Sussex
• The Robert Henderson Language Media Centre University of Pittsburgh
• Humanities Computing and Media Centre University of Victoria

Online Resources and Dictionaries

• The Creative Commons. Use it. Find other people's work you can use; consider licencing your own work under a Creative Commons licence for others to use
• Lingu@net Europa multilingual resource centre
• Text Encoding Initiative
• Bernard Moro's Guide to Web Literacy
• Kidon Media's encyclopedic guide to media online also see onlinenewspapers.com
• Newstran.com automated, online translation of newspapers around the world
• The Intute Arts and Humanities Portal easy access to lots of high-quality online resources. Highly recommended
• The Wayback Machine a great resource if you want to find a website that's disappeared from the link you have for it
• University of Virginia's Electronic Text Centre a portal to lots of high-quality online resources browseable by language or subject
• Graham Davies' recommended websites for modern language teaching
• The Speech Accent Archive hosted at George Mason University
• The BBC's Languages website
• CafeBabel multi-lingual online European current affairs magazine
• Geoffrey Rockwell's Humanities Computing Links
• Minority Language Media in the European Union
• Digital Humanities Quarterly online magazine

Digital Humanities, Web 2.0 and Podcast Resources

• Open Culture: a rich resource including University Podcasts, on foreign language and film, plus their own Podcast primer
• Digital Campus a biweekly discussion of digital media and technology in higher education
• Hannah Dovey's del.icio.us Podcast directory
• Recap Ltd's educational podcasting resources
• Kansas State University's Digital Ethnography Project
• Widgipedia's extensive listing of Web widgets
• Grazr widget and online reading list generator site
• Apple's iTunesU Higher Education podcast directory
• Alex Chaplin's iPods and 2nd language learning acquisition website

Resources for Language Teaching Officers

• CHUCOL's useful course links and guidelines on creating dynamic content
• Hot Potatoes Authoring Software an excellent package available for free to publicly-funded, non-profitmaking organisations
• Vincent Flanders' Guide to Web Pages that Suck an excellent guide on how not to write web pages
• Overstream.net's online subtitling software
• Longtail Video's excellent video embedding tools and tutorials (not for absolute beginners)
• Bob Godwin-Jones' Trailguide to Creating Dynamic Web Pages
• Bob Godwin-Jones' Emerging Technologies: Skype and Podcasting: Disruptive Technologies for Language Learning
• Hypertext-based Translation Programs
• Camsoft Educational Software for Modern Languages
• ICT for Language Teachers free collection of training modules
• Graham Davies' Favourite Language Teaching Resources website that's regularly updated
• Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers
• CamTools Cambridge University's own Virtual Learning Environment
• Home of the Sakai Project upon which CamTools is based
• The Moodle Course Managment System (CMS): an alternative to CamTools if you're not based in Cambridge
• Open Educational Resources free access to lots of high-quality HE courses online for use and inspiration!
• Open Courseware Consortium Higher Education content provided by over one hundred Universities around the world
• The JISC's e-Learning and Innovation guide to using new technologies
• The JISC's Guide to Using Podcasts in Education and the Law
• CasualConc OS X concordancer

Fun Stuff the Authors Came Across Whilst Researching These Links

• Use your mouse to see if you can paint like Jackson Pollock
• As recommended by Graham Davies, the University of Texas Austin's French materials presented in an entertaining and accessible manner
• BULL (Basic Unitary Literary Language) for fun - it produces exactly what you'd expect from the title - a very clever programme
• The Postmodernism Generator not to be outdone by the Shakespearean Insult Generator