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• Foreign Language Education
  • English
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  • Spanish
  • Other
• Foreign Language Education in Kansai
• CALL and WELL
• Second and Third Language Acquisition
• Language Testing
• Language Policy
• Education News
• Sociolinguistics
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• Foreign Language Education
  • English
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Other
• Foreign Language Education in Kansai
• CALL and WELL
• Second and Third Language Acquisition
• Language Testing
• Language Policy
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• Sociolinguistics
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• Foreign Language Education
  • English
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Other
• Foreign Language Education in Kansai
• CALL and WELL
• Second and Third Language Acquisition
• Language Testing
• Language Policy
• Education News
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• Quick Links
• Foreign Language Education
  • English
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Other
• Foreign Language Education in Kansai
• CALL and WELL
• Second and Third Language Acquisition
• Language Testing
• Language Policy
• Education News
• Sociolinguistics
• Databases and Bibliographies

Quick Links

• Kyoto University Department of Foreign Language Education and Acquisition (FLEA)
• Kyoto University Library
• Webcat (search of all academic libraries in Japan)
• Webcat Plus (relational keyword search of academic libraries in Japan)
• National Diet Library Search (国立国会図書館検索)
• Multimedia Educational Materials (database from National Institute of Multimedia Education (メディア教育開発センター）
• ERIC/CLL Minibibs (list of basic bibliographies from the ERIC Clearinghouse)
• SLABIB (Professor Vivian Cook's extensive SLA bibliography)
• Linguist List
• Gaikoku.info (外国語広場）（excellent collection of links about foreign language education in Japan)
• Prof. Goto Hitoshi's Link Collection (outstanding collection of links)
• Prof. Yanase Yosuke's Link Collection (outstanding collection of links on English)

Foreign Language Education

General

• AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics)
• ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)
• ADFL (Association of Departments of Foreign Languages)
• ALAK (Applied Linguistics Association of Korea) (member of AILA)
• CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics)
• CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition University of Minnesota)
• CILT (Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research)
• Center for Multilingual and Multicultural Research (University of Southern California)
• International Phonetic Association (includes chart and fonts for IPA)
• Japan Association for Foreign Language Education (JAFLE)
• Japan Language Testing Association (JLTA)
• Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA)
• Japan Times
• Language Learning and Technology (online journal)
• LSA (Linguistic Society of America)
• MLA (Modern Language Association of America)

English

• Asia TEFL (new association for English education in Asia)
• Asian Journal of English Language Teaching
• Chosun Ilbo Series "The Competitive Power of English" (series on English education in 1999-2000)
• ELT News (webzine in English on ELT in Japan)
• IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language)
• The Internet TESOL Journal
• Japan Association for Asian Englishes
• Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET)
• Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET)
• Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT)
• Japan Association for the Study of Teaching English to Children (JASTEC)
• Japan Society of English Language Education
• Korea Association of Multimedia Assisted Language Learning (KAMALL)
• Korean Association of Primary English Education (organization for teaching English in elementary schools)
• Korea Association of Teachers of English (KATE)
• KOTESOL (Korea TESOL)
• Society for Historical Studies of English Teaching in Japan
• TESL-EJ (online journal)
• TESOL (Teachers of English to Students of Other Languages)

Chinese

• 中国の大学 (excellent database of universities in China)
• 日本文化フォーラム高校中国語教育情報
• 日本中国語学会
• 日本中国語CAI研究会

Japanese

• The Japan Foundation (excellent library on foreign language education in 日本語国際センター)
• Prof Mogi Toshinobu's Site (useful collection of links to sites in Japan)
• 国立国語研究所　(National Institute for Japanese Language)
• 日本語教育学会
• 日本文化フォーラム日本語教育情報

Korean

• Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai'i (useful bibliography)
• 朝鮮語教育研究会
• 日本文化フォーラム高校朝鮮語教育情報

French

• Alliance Francaise
• France-Japon.net
• Péka （ペダゴジーを考える会）
• Societe Japonaise de Langue et Literature Francaises
• Societe Japonasie du Dictatique du Francais (SJDF)

German

• Japanische Geselischaft für Germanistik
• Geothe-Institut Zentrale
• Der Japanische Deutschlehrerverband

Spanish

• Asociación Japonesa de Hispanistas

Other

Foreign Language Education in Kansai

• British Council Kyoto
• Centre Culturel Franco-Japonais (Kyoto and Osaka)
• Goethe Institut Kansai (Kyoto and Osaka)
• Instituto Italiano di Cultura di Kyoto
• JACET Kansai Chapter
• JALT Kyoto Chapter
• JALT Osaka Chapter
• JALT Kobe Chapter
• Kansai English Language Education Society (useful collection of links to sites in Japan)
• LET Kansai Chapter
• Rencontres Pedagogiques du Kansai

CALL and WELL

• CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium)
• ERIC Clearinghouse site on web-based language learning activities (excellent collection of links)
• EUROCALL (European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning)
• EUROCALL List of Bibliographies
• History of CALL (excellent site on history of CALL and technology in language learning)
• Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET)
• Language Learning and Technology
• Michael T. Smith's Homepage for Multimedia Research
• National Institute of Multimedia Education (メディア教育開発センター）(links to other institutions in Japan)
• WELL (Web-Enhanced Language Learning)

Second and Third Language Acquisition

• ICoSLA (International Commission on Second Language Acquisition)
• L3 Homepage
• SLABIB (Professor Vivian Cook's extensive SLA bibliography)

Language Testing

• ALTE Association of Language Testers in Europe
• Foreign Language Testing Database (Center for Applied Linguistics)
• ILTA (International Language Testing Association)
• Resources in Language Testing WWW Page (comprehensive site from Surrey University)
• TOEFL (list of downloadable publications on the TOEFL)

Language Policy, Bilingual Education, Immersion

• Annotated Bibliography for Immersion Language Teaching (from CARLA at the University of Minnesota)
• James Crawford's Language Policy Web Site (excellent collection of links)
• Lingua (information on European Union programs)

Education News and Information

• Japanaese Ministry of Education
• Hanguk Taehak Shinmun (University News)
• Japanese National Institute for Educational Policy Research
• Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development
• Korea Education Development Institute (KEDI)
• Kyoiku Shimbun (Education News Japan)
• Kyoyuk Shinmun (Education News Korea)

Sociolinguistics

• Japanese Sociolinguistics in English Bibliography (by Daniel Long, updated 1997)
• Linguasphere (dialect and language contact classification and mapping research)
• Southeast Asia: A Sociolinguistics Bibliography (by Howard Schriffman)
• Linguistic Politeness Research Group (based in the UK)

Databases and Bibliographies

• Autonomy in Language Learning
• ERIC Document Reproduction Service (search ERIC)
• ERIC/CLL Minibibs (list of basic bibliographies from the ERIC Clearinghouse)
• EUROCALL List of Bibliographies
• Guide to Primary Sources
• Immersion Language Teaching (annotated bibliography from Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota)
• Internet Public Library (search selected pages by category)
• Japanese Sociolinguistics in English Bibliography (by Daniel Long, updated 1997)
• KINDS (database of all articles from major Korean newspapers and magazines since 1994)
• Multimedia Educational Materials (database from National Institute of Multimedia Education (メディア教育開発センター）
• National Diet Library Search (国立国会図書館検索)
• National Diet Library Membership (for requesting copies of articles in journals in the library's collection)
• SLABIB (Professor Vivian Cook's extensive SLA bibliography)
• SOFWeb ESL Course Bibliography (site run by State of Victoria, Department of Education, Training, and Employment)
• Southeast Asia: A Sociolinguistics Bibliography (by Howard Schriffman)
• University of Oregon Yamada Language Center