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Spanish / Bilingual Resources

ESL and Bilingual Studies Other Information
Babel Fish [Alta Vista] Translation Service  
Activites for ESL Students  sponsored by The Internet TESL Journal
Center for Applied Linguistics    a large well-organized site focused on ESL; includes an online directory of ESL resources
Children's Notable Lists ALA : Association for Library Service to Children; Each year the Association identifies the best of the best in children's books, recordings, videos, and computer software. See also Great Web Sites for Kids, link below
EnglishClub.com   intended for both learners and teachers of English as a second language. Since 1997 it has grown into one of the largest ESL sites on the Web; the site has more than 7,000 pages including lessons on grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation; quizzes, games and jokes; and forums.
ESL/ Bilingual/ Foreign Language Lesson Plans and Resources  
ESL Games, Lessons, Links, and Resources  
ESL /EFL Resources from About.com  
Great Web Sites for Kids : Lugares en Espanol para Ninos American Library Assn : Association for Library Service to Children
National Clearinghouse for English Language Education (NCELA) a .gov site
Literacy Guide: English Language Learners  Bankstreet Education; Columbia University
Rural Education & Small Schools Kansas State
National Association for Bilingual Education  
TEFL Professional Network  
Texas Association for Bilingual Education  
UsingEnglish.com: Resources for English as a Second Language blue star one of the most fully developed ESL Web sites available.
   
Dictionaries, Grammar, Language  
Academia Mexicana de la Lengua [AML] provides access to three dictionaries compiled by the Academia
diccionarios.com  Diccionarios de Español, Inglés, Francés y Portugués  WordReference.com
General English-Spanish Dictionary free but lots of advertising on this site
Verb Conjugator  
Ethnologue    The standard directory of languages of the world; more than 6,000 entries.
Oxford Language Dictionaries CHOICE Outstanding Site  access restricted to currently enrolled UTPB students; in addition to Spanish, also French, German, Italian, Russian and Chinese dictionaries
Central, Latin American & Spanish Carribbean Literature Other Information
Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures Other Than English: Spanish and Portuguese--Peninsular, Latin America, Mexico  Choice Outstanding Web Site  Voice of the Shuttle is the premier North American web site in support of the humanities
Chicano Literature San Antonio College
Spanish American Literature  from The Columbia Encyclopedia
Brazilian Literature from The Columbia Encyclopedia
Modernismo from The Columbia Encyclopedia
Magical Realism from The Columbia Encyclopedia
Short definition of Realismo Magico (magical realism) Arizona State University
Surrealist Writers relatively brief overview of surrealism, which many critics see as a precursor of magical realism
Portals to the World: Mexico Library of Congress; Hispanic Division
Portals to the World Complete list of Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World  Library of Congress
Isabel Allende Emory University's Post Colonial Studies
Isabel Allende Voices from the Gaps
Julia Alvarez Voices from the Gaps
Reinaldo Arenas Papers includes a short biography of the author
Miguel Angel Asturias Miguel Angel Asturias
Miguel Angel Asturias  Guatemalan Nobel Laureate
Jorge Luis Borges Center University of Pittsburgh; interface available in both Spanish and English
The Garden of Forking Paths (Jorge Luis Borges)  
Jorge Luis Borges short encyclopedia entry
Alejo Carpentier short encyclopedia entry
Rosario Castellanos Rosario Castellanos: Poemas
Ana Castillo University of Illinois
Ana Castillo in Voices from the Gaps
Sandra Cisneros in Voices from the Gaps
Julio Cortázar  
Julio Cortázar Julio Cortázar
Ruben Dario short encyclopedia entry
Ariel Dorfman short encyclopedia entry
Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes
Carolina Garcia-Aguilara in Voices from the Gaps
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis  
Gabriela Mistral first Latin American female Nobel Laureate; Chile
Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda Nobel Laureate, Chile
Octavio Paz Mexican Nobel Laureate
Octavio Paz Octavio Paz 
Manuel Puig Manuel Puig
Horacio Quiroga  
Juan Rulfo Juan Rulfo
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project  
Gabriel García Márquez  Gabriel García Márquez  Nobel Laureate, Chile
Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel García Márquez
Mario Vargas Llosa Mario Vargas Llosa
Víctor Villaseñor  
Penninsular Liteature Other Information
Voice of the Shuttle:  Literatures Other Than English:
Spanish and Portuguese--Peninsular, Latin America, Mexico
 
Association for Classical Spanish Theater   Everything of interest to classical Spanish theater is linked through this site.
Comedia.org  Association for Hispanic Classical Theater; a comprehensive site devoted to Golden Age drama
Iberian Studies Web   WESS--a site sponsored by the West European Studies Section of the Assn of College & Research Libraries
La página del idioma español  
Página de la Lengua Española  
La Ficcion Popular en Tiempos De Cervantes  
Anthology of Spanish Poetry Golden Age Sonnets
Camillo Jose Cela Camillo Jose Cela Nobel Laureate
Pedro Calderon de la Barca Golden Age Spanish dramatist
Jacinto Benavente Nobel Laureate
Cervantes Digital Library
Cervantes short encyclopedia entry
Jose Echegaray Nobel Laureate
Angel Ganivet y Garcia Pedro Antonio Correia Garcao (1724-1772)
Federico Garcia Lorca  
Juan Ramon Jimenez  
Juan Ramon Jimenez Nobel Laureate
José Ortega y Gasset Selected sites of interest:
Jose Saramago kirjasto Jose Saramago Bartleby.com
Jose Saramago Portuguese Nobel Laureate
Juan Valera Juan Valera  longer biographical entry from 1917
Lope de Vega encyclopedia entry
   
Spanish Literature entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia
Portuguese Literature entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia
Generation of '98 entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia
Mexico, Central and Latin American Studies Other Information
Early Americas Digital Archive, 1492-c. 1802 CHOICE Outstanding site Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Mexico National Statistics, Geography and Informatics Institute (INEGI)  
Library of Congress/HLAS Online Home Page
Latin American Network Information Center  Choice Outstanding Web Site
Latin American Data Base  
Political Database of the Americas   Georgetown
United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures A joint project of the Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil, examines the history of Brazil and its interaction with the US and parallels and contrasts the two cultures from the 18th century to the present.
WWW Virtual Library: History of Cuba  
WWW Virtual Library: History of Mexico  
WWW Virtual Library: History of Puerto Rico  
WWW Virtual Library: History of Spain see especially the period since 1492  some 19th century information is also available at Spanish Contemporary History
Other Sites of Interest Other Information
The Borderlands Encyclopedia  A project based at UTEP
Artists—Mexican and other nationalities—some selections
Cuban Internet Resources created by Dana Lubow, a librarian at Los Angeles Valley Community College for the National Network on Cuba. The site has more than 3,300 entries; annotations are clear, concise, and keyword searchable.
Dunagan Library Web Page for Education Students  
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
The Global Language Monitor  A site that monitors language trends throughout the world; the site is the brainchild of Paul Payack who has written numerous books and articles on these trends.
Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande Library of Congress
LinguaWeb: Your Spanish Tutor Online While the site is a commercial site, there are many resources available for free. Fee-based lessons are provided in 4-month and 12-month sessions and at Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced levels. Signing up for the 4-months of sessions costs about $35.
LiTgloss  the project is a collection of texts written in languages other than English; a majority of selections are in French, German and Sapnish. The gloss function includes context statements, commentary and links to other relevant resources, definitions, and explanations of words, phrases, and idioms.
The Modern Language Association Language Map [of the U.S.]  Based on statistics gathered in the 2000 US Census, the creators of this site were able to extract language and linguistics data and provide a well-organized, unique resource. The site provides color-coded maps of 33 language groups in the nation, by county or by ZIP code, and allows comparisons of two language groups or two states.
Pew Hispanic Center: Chronicling Latinos diverse experiencies in a change America
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: 1831-1929  Library of Congress American Memory Project
Reflexiones: ensayos sobre escritoras hispanoamericanas contemporaneas
The South Texas Border, 1900-1920 Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection, UT-Austin
Spanish Books in Print the Spanish Ministry of Culture's database for Spanish books in print since 1972
Spanish Language and Hispanic Culture @ GlobeGate UTenn-Martin
Spanish Professor some free materials, some fee-based; fees are entirely the individual users responsibility
Study Abroad Directory good directory, but the site has lots of advertisements
Teotihucan: The City of the Gods
Traditions of the Sun
Yucatan & Chaco Canyon (Colorado); part of NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Educational Forum [SECEF], which is "dedicated to increasing science literacy". The site provides reliable coverage of known and suspected prehistoric solar observeratories in Chaco Canyon and the Yucatan.
Unmasking the Maya: The Story of Sna Jtz'ibajom a theater collective using May traditional tales to address contemporary political conditions of Maya; web site organized and supported by the Smithsonian Institute.
Miguel de Unamuno  
Voices From The Gaps:  Women Artists and Writers of Color
   
Spanish Language News & Search Engines  
LatinoLink News very heavily used site, very slow
CiberCentro Organized by country
IPL: Newspapers: Mexico Internet Public Library
IPL: Newspapers: South America IPL: Newspapers: Spain
Spanish Language Search Engines ¿Dónde?
Mundo Latino Ozu
Page Updated: 25 January 2011 Page Created: 10 January 2000

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