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Internet Sites:

 

• Bilingual Research Journal Online
The Bilingual Research Journal Online is a service of the National Association for Bilingual Education for its members and for the academic community.

 http://brj.asu.edu/

 

• Bilingualism Database. University of Birmingham.
Bilingualism bibliography. International in scope.

 http://www.edu.bham.ac.uk//bilingualism/database/dbase.htm

 

• Bilingual Families Web Page

 http://http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/biling-fam.html/

• Colorín Colorado
www.colorincolorado.org

 

•Directory of Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Programs in the U.S. 

http://www.cal.org/twi/directory/

 

• Education Week on the Web 

http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=8

 

• English language learners: boosting academic achievement. Winter 2004 Research Points: Essential Information for Education Policy

http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Journals_and_Publications/Research_Points/RP_Winter04.pdf 

 

• EPSL Language Policy Research Unit
Newspaper articles appearing in the world (English language) press related to language.

 http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/

 

“Evolution of Federal Policy and Implications of No Child Left Behind For Language Minority Students, Policy Brief” by Wayne E. Wright 56 pages.

 http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/documents/EPSL-0501-101-LPRU.pdf

 

• ERIC Digest – Ten Common Fallacies about Bilingual Education (1998)
http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/crawford01.html

 

• ERIC Digest – A Global Perspective on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education (1999)
http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/digestglobal.html

 

• The Internet TESL Journal: for Teachers of English as a Second Language.

Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links

http://iteslj.org/

 

• Language Policy Web Site & Emporium
This site from a former editor of “Education Week” includes information on bilingual education and the English only movement.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/

 

• The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
“OELA’s National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) under Title III of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.”
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/

 

• Teaching Indigenous Languages 

This web site is an outgrowth of a series of annual conferences started in 1994 at Northern Arizona University focusing on the linguistic, educational, social, and political issues related to the survival of the endangered Indigenous languages of the world.

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html

 

• U.S. Department of Education Office of English Language Acquisition.  

“OELA’s National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) under Title III of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.”

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html

 

 

Online Communities:

 

• BILING 

Forum for Discussion of Research on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

To subscribe, address an e-mail in the following manner: 

To: listserv@asu.edu

In content area enter: 

sub biling first-name last-name

For example, sub biling juan lopez

 

• BILINGUE-L
This list is devoted to elementary teachers of Spanish/English. It is a forum for questions and discussion of any issues relating to serving the needs of Spanish-speaking students becoming literate in Spanish as well as in English. Dialogue may be in either Spanish or English.
To subscribe, address an e-mail message in the following manner:
To: Bilingue-L@lists.reynolds.k12.or.us
SUBSCRIBE

• BILINGUAL
An unmoderated electronic forum on bilingualism, bilingual education and language planning dedicated to issues involving bilingualism, bilingual education, etc., particularly with an international approach.
To subscribe, address an e-mail message in the following manner:
To: Majordomo@ied.edu.hk
Subscribe BILINGUAL

• Bilingual Families mailing list
To subscribe: send an empty message to
To: biling-fam-help@nethelp.no

 

Organizations:

• National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
Suite 605
1220 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005-4018
Tel: (202) 898-1829
Fax: (202) 789-2866
Email: NABE@nabe.org
http://www.nabe.org/

• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
700 S Washington St., Ste. 200
Alexandria, VA 22314-4287
Tel: (703) 836-0774
Fax: (703) 836-7864
EMail: info@tesol.org 
http://www.tesol.org