BILINGUAL RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
This page is a collection of links to various
kinds of resources for those with bilingual children or interested in the
phenomena of bilingualism and multilingualism generally. It is my intention to
expand the list to be as comprehensive as possible.
General Resources
The Bilingual Pages – excellent resources - http://www.angelfire.com/ut/henrikholm/bilingual/bilingual01.html
Bilingual Families Webpage - http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/biling-fam.html
Bilingual Supplies (a huge and helpful catalogue of resources) - http://www.bilingual-supplies.co.uk/
The Bilingual Site - http://www.pitt.edu/~dpbrowne/bilingual/
Index of Bilingual Resources - http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/resources.html
Multilingual Munchkins
– many resources for parents bringing their children up with more than one
language.- http://www.multilingualmunchkins.com
Bilingualism
Database - http://www.edu.bham.ac.uk/bilingualism/database/ctlnlg.htm
Bilingualism
FAQ - http://www.lsadc.org/web2/faq/bilingualism.htm
Bilingual Mailing Lists and Fora - http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/talk.html
Bilingual Education Reasources
on the Internet - http://www.as.miami.edu/english/faculty2/bpearson/bsg/default.htm
Information on Bilingualism: links - http://www.speech.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/survey1/Bi_info.html
Culture Bytes: site for multicultural families – http://www.culturebytes.com
It’s International: Culture - http://www.rice.edu/projects/topics/internatl/center.htm
Vocabulary and Conjugation – http://www.vocabulix.com New
Academic Resources
Bilingualism Study Group,
Bilingualism and Speech therapy -
http://www.speechtherapy.co.uk/Speech_Therapy/Bilingualism/Bilingualism_main_menu.htm
Centre for Research on Bilingualism,
The Effectiveness of Bilingual Education - http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos/bi.html
ERIC Digests on Bilingual Education - http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/subject.html#bilingual
A Global Perspective on Bilingualismn by G. Richard Tucker - http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/digestglobal.html
Information on Bilingualism: links - http://www.speech.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/survey1/Bi_info.html
International Journal of Bilingualism - http://www.ncl.ac.uk/speech/research/ijb.htm
Language, Literature and Culture - http://bubl.ac.uk/link/lan.html
Language and Cognitive Processing Laboratory
- http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/language/html/children___bilingualism.html
The Multilingual Mind - http://www.multi-faceta.com/issues.html
What Teachers need to know about Language - http://www.cal.org/ericcll/teachers/
Resources on Specific Topics
Bilingualism and ESL - http://babyparenting.about.com/library/weekly/aa091699b.htm
Bilingual Parenting in a Foreign Language - http://www.byu.edu/~bilingua/
Bilingualism and supposed delay in speaking - http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/expressnews/articles/news.cfm?p_ID=384
The International Couples Homepage - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4448/Couples.html
Myths about Bilingualism - http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/myth.html
The Politics of Bilingualism - http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/polit.html
Expat-Moms.com - http://expat-moms.com/
Educational Resources
Articles
A Double Life: Raising Bilingual Children, by Robert Henderson - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/world_languages/30284
Bilingual Babies - http://www.kidsears.com/milestones/frmilestone2.htm
Bilingual and Multilingual Children - http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/bilingual-multilingual-children.html
Bilingual Kids Network - http://hjem.wanadoo.dk/~wan42942/frameset.html
Bilingualism and supposed delay in speaking - http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/expressnews/articles/news.cfm?p_ID=384
Bilingual Parenting in a Foreign Language - http://www.byu.edu/%7Ebilingua/
Child Bilingualism: Bibliography - http://www.cal.org/ericcll/Minibibs/child_bilingual.html
Children and Bilingualism –
Children and Bilingualism –
http://www.asha.org/speech/development/Bilingual-Children.cfm
Another link - http://www.kidsource.com/ASHA/bilingual.html
Children and reading - http://www.myparentime.com/articles/article176.shtml
A Idade e o
Aprendizado de Línguas - http://www.english.sk.com.br/sk-apre2.html
Enfants Bilingues (French, with some English and German) – www.enfantsbilingues.com
Hortencia Kayser: Interviewing Bilingual Parents – http://www.bilingualtherapies.com/Dr-says/Old_articles/02_06_00.html
The Joys of Bilingualism - http://www.familiesonline.co.uk/topics/clubs_classes/clubs_classes_bilingualism.htm
Language Acquisition and Suntractive Bilingualism - http://www.eeadopt.org/home/parenting/development/language/acquisition/language_acquisition.htm
Language learning and the developing brain –
Learning a Second Language - http://www.familiesonline.co.uk/topics/clubs_classes/clubs_classes_language.htm
Jill Metzler: Raising Children Bilingually - http://www.germanlife.com/Archives/1997/9708_01.html
Selecting Multicultural Literature - http://www.4children.org/news/9-97mlit.htm
Teaching Kids to Speak – in Two Languages –
Annick De Houwer: Two or More
Languages in Early Childhood –
http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/expressnews/articles/news.cfm?p_ID=384
What can parents do to facilitate their child’s bilingualism? - http://www.as.miami.edu/english/faculty2/bpearson/bsg/answer1.html
Miscellaneous Resources
Children’s Songs and Games in Latin, German
and Spanish - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1794/
Comptines,
Chansons et Poesies - http://www.momes.net/comptines/index1.html
Baby vocabulary - http://babytalk.fluxcapacitor.net
Animal sounds in various languages – http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/
Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes - http://hometown.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html
Language Education - http://www.linguaweb.co.uk/
A Non-native speakers’ Guide to Toddler-English - http://www.tiborgrasser.com/babytalk/
Partners in Excellence: Moving languages education forward - http://www.pie.org.uk/
Worksheets - Free, printabke worksheets in various languages - http://www.happychild.org.uk/freeway/french/index.htm
Supplies
Bilingual Supplies (a huge and helpful catalogue of resources) - http://www.bilingual-supplies.co.uk/
Living Books: Interactive CD Roms - http://www.livingbooks.com/
Multilingual Munchkins
– many resources for parents bringing their children up with more than one
language.- http://www.multilingualmunchkins.com
Schoenhof’s Foreign Books - http://www.schoenhofs.com/
Sound Beginnings Children’s language tapes - http://www.soundbeginnings.com/
World of Reading Ltd - http://www.wor.com/
Schoolzone: has worksheets, information and links - http://www.schoolzone.co.uk
Clickteaching: includes worksheets and stories toprint out - http://clickteaching.com
Site with SATS past papers - http://learn.co.uk
Concordia Language
Villages - http://home.cord.edu/dept/clv/index.html
Language
Camps for Children – a searchable directory - http://www.kidscamps.com/academics/language.html
Specific Languages
The Alphabet in English, French and Spanish: Free software - http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,43739,.html
Learning Arabic - http://www.arabica.org.uk/
Learn Dutch - http://www.learndutch.org/
Dubbelop: Dutch bilingual website – http://home.wxs.nl/~stuur013/
English as a Foreign Language - http://www.eflclub.com/
French Grammar - http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/
Débrouillards (in French) - http://www.lesdebrouillards.qc.ca/
J’apprends avec les animaux - http://www.lescale.net/petits/
Val’s Basic French - http://www.valsfrench.fsnet.co.uk/
Allemand et Informatique pour Apprenants et Enseignants - http://www.multimania.com/orfanses/
German bilingual site – http://www.lake.de/home/lake/ruban/imf
German language homepage for Germans abroad – http://www.imausland.org
For
German Speakers in the
Bilingual Hebrew Forum - http://www.geocities.com/jewishgroups/1Bilingual.html
Hebrew for me - http://www.zigzagworld.com/hebrewforme/
Italian for Children - http://italian.about.com/cs/childrensitalian/
Découvrez l’italien en vous amusant - http://site.voila.fr/bambinissimo
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/jaltbsig/index.html
Kidsweb
Kid’s Window Japanese - http://www.jwindow.net/KIDS/
Spanish vocabulary (online Spanish Tutorial) - http://www.studyspanish.com/vocab/
Stories of Merpy in both English and Spanish - http://www.merpy.com/index_stories.html
A Swedish Language Course - http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~arubin/swedish.html
Greetings in More than 800 Languages - http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/hello.htm
Say Hello to the World - http://www.ipl.org/youth/hello/
Sounds of the World’s Animals - http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/
The World’s Top Twenty Spoken Languages - http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/COMMUNICATIONS/TopLanguages.html
Personal Pages
Beichen’s
Bilingual programme - http://bilingual4u.home.chinaren.com/
Raising our Kids bilingually - http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/bilingual.htm
Danish/English homepage by Danish/Faroese family – http://tosprogedeboern.subnet.dk
Discussion Groups
English-Italian bilingual children - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/italengbilingbabes/
Bilingual Mailing Lists and Fora - http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/talk.html
ImF-Familienkontakt-Forum (German messageboard) – http://f7.parsimony.net/forum9036/index.htm
Dictionaries
An astounding resource for online dictionaries - http://www.yourdictionary.com/
One Look Dictionaries - http://www.onelook.com/
Links to online dictionaries, of particular interest for Iberian languages - http://www.guai.com/enciclopedia.htm
Travlang Translating Dictionaries - http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
If you have any suggestions for other sites to be
included on this page, please e-mail me:
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2002, 2005, 2006 Ivan Moody
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