Foreign Languages

Dancing with Words | Strategies for Learning Pragmatics in Spanish      This website is specifically dedicated to strategies for learning pragmatics (i.e., how we convey meaning through communication) in Spanish.

With the help of a three-year grant from the US Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities, an eleven-member task force, representing a variety of languages, levels of instruction, program models, and geographic regions, undertook the task of defining content standards -- what students should know and be able to do -- in foreign language education. The final document, Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Preparing for the 21st Century, first published in 1996, represents an unprecedented consensus among educators, business leaders, government, and the community on the definition and role of foreign language instruction in American education. This visionary document has been used by teachers, administrators, and curriculum developers at both state and local levels to begin to improve foreign language education in our nation's schools. The NEW 3rd Edition Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century, revised including Arabic standards, is now available. 

The BBC - Language Page  Go here to learn French, German, Spanish and Italian.  Interactive!!  Open the page and click on the appropriate link.

Languages ICT from CILT This website from CILT and ALL provides a gateway to information and guidance for teachers of languages on using Information and Communications Technology in the classroom. Whether you are teaching French or Urdu, German or Japanese, at KS2, KS3 or 14 to 19, there is something here for you.