| 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 | 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 |
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 |
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:
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| 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 | 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 | ![]() |
| 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 |