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Asia Education Foundation  
URL:http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/default.asp
Category:General LOTE resources  General Asian Studies resources 

The Asia Education Foundation (AEF) was established in 1992 as a national organisation to promote the studies of Asia in Australian schools. The AEF works with schools to promote and support the study of Asia across all curriculum areas in Australian schools. The website provides online resources for primary and secondary.

Australia's Language Potential  
URL:http://cmslive.curriculum.edu.au/leader/default.asp?id=13408
Category:Journals and publications  School leadership issues and research  General LOTE resources 

Extracts from a recent book that passionately endorses the need for foreign language instruction in Australia's schools. Australia's Language Potential examines the changing fortunes of language policy in Australia, and summarises a collaborative strategy for managing linguistic diversity. Challenging the 'myth of the overcrowded school curriculum that has no space for any language other than English', the author calls for Australia to develop its language potential to the fullest, extending students' cultural awareness and their cognitive communication skills.

Castles of Japan  
URL:http://pages.ca.inter.net/~ttoyooka/oshiro/index.html
Category:Senior secondary history  Tourism  General LOTE resources  Japanese 

A website that has collated information pertaining to the temples/castles in Japan, with additional links to general castle information and Japanese information.

Clip Art Collection for languages instruction  
URL:http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/
Category:General LOTE resources 

Contains a growing collection of clip art, in the form of simple line-drawings, which would be suitable to be used by foreign language instructors. Drawings are designed to be culturally and linguistically neutral and can be used freely as long as they are used for not-for-profit educational purposes. Images are bitmap graphics.

Edsitement  
URL:http://edsitement.neh.gov/
Category:General arts resources  General LOTE resources  English teaching units  Society and Environment teaching units  Society and Environment resource lists 

Edsitement is an expanding collection of excellent online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. EDSITEment is a joint project of the National Endowment for the humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI WorldCom, and the National Trust for the Humanities. It includes downloadable lessonplans for school and family projects. For teachers.

Fonetiks - the Online Language Laboratory  
URL:http://www.fonetiks.org/
Category:General LOTE resources 

Intended as an archive of human speech sounds, it provides phonologically complete guides to seven varieties of English and to seven other languages. In addition to assistance to language learners, it also aims to serve as a historical record of vowel sounds as they shift from generation to generation.

Goethe Tests - Multilingual Tests and Language Exercises  
URL:http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/
Category:General LOTE resources 

Tests and Multilingual vocabulary exercises in 24 languages and 552 language combinations by Goethe-Verlag. Includes Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian and Indonesian language tests.

Good Practice in Teaching and Learning Vocabulary  
URL:http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/1421
Category:Multicultural education  English as a Second Language  English as a Second Language  General LOTE resources 

This article which examines the processes involved in acquiring vocabulary and the ways in which teachers can assist with vocabulary acquisition in a second language.

Google Language Tools  
URL:http://www.google.com/language_tools
Category:General LOTE resources 

Search Google in specific languages or countries, translate a block of text or a web page or use the Google interface in a particular language. There is also a language toolbar available for download.

ICT in the Curriculum : Modern foreign languages  
URL:http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=cu&catcode=ss_cu_ac_mfl_03
Category:General LOTE resources  Using the Internet 

This site has been developed as part of the Modern Foreign Languages and IT Support Project and is supported by Becta. The project aims to encourage the use of ICT to enhance and enrich MFL teaching and learning in secondary schools. Topics include: interactive whiteboards, electronic flashcards, text chat, enhanced word-processing, electronic worksheets, online notice boards, web-based resources, PowerPoint presentation.