FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND ESL WEB RESOURCES

 

 

 

Statistics

 

 

            FedStats (Access to US federal government statistics.) http://www.fedstats.gov/

 

            National Center for Education Statistics (DOE) (Statistics from the Department of Education.) http://nces.ed.gov/

 

            Statistical Resources on the Web (U.Mich Library) (Access to International Education Statistics)  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html\

 

            United Nations: Statistics Division (Statistics from the United Nations) http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm

 

 

Political News

 

 

            CNN Inside Politics - http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS

 

Federal Election Commission - http://www.fec.gov

 

The Pew Research Center - http:// www.people-press.org

 

CQ.com- http://cq.com/

 

 

U.S. Government Sites

 

 

 

FirstGov, the U.S. Government's Official Web Portal - http://www.firstgov.gov

 

Thomas, Legislative Information- http://thomas.loc.gov/

 

U.S. Senate- http://www.senate.gov

 

U.S. House of Representatives - http://www.house.gov

 

The White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/

 

U.S. Department of State - http://www.state.gov/index.html

 

Central Intelligence Agency - http://www.cia.gov

 

U.S. Department of Defense - http://www.defenselink.mil

 

U.S. Census - http://www.census.gov

 

The National Security Archive - http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv

 

Library of Congress Country Studies - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

 

            Fed World, A Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce - http://www.Fedworld.gov

 

 

European Union Sites

 

 

European Union in the U.S. - http://www.eurunion.org

 

Europa, the European Union Online - http://europa.eu.int/

 

 

Gateways for Comparative Politics & International Affairs

 

 

International Affairs Resources - http://www.etown.edu/vl/

 

The World Bank - http://www.worldbank.org/

 

Enbassy.org, Resources of the Foreign Embassy Community - http://www.embassy.org/

 

Vincent Ferraro, Mount Holyoke College - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/feros-pg.htm

 

CIAO, Colombia International Affairs Online - http://www.ciaonet.org

 

Electionworld.org, Elections around the world- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Electionworld/Electionworld

 

News

 

 

The Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com

 

CNN News - http://www.cnn.com

 

USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com

 

BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk

 

 

Law Related Sites

 

 

Findlaw—Law, Lawyers, Attorney, Attorneys and Legal Resources - http://www.findlaw.com

 

U.S. Courts—The Federal Judiciary - http://www.uscourts.gov

 

OYEX, U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia  - http://www.oyez.org

 

National Constitution Center - http://www.constitutioncenter.org

 

 

Government Employment Sites

 

 

USA JOBS - http://www.usajobs.opm.gov

 

 

Job & Internship Search Links

 

 

 

Top Language Jobs http://www.toplanguagejobs.co.uk/

Asian-Jobs:  Jobs for bilinguals who speak English & Asian Languages www.asian-jobs.com

Hispanic-Jobs:  Jobs for bilingual/Spanish-speaking Professionals www.hispanic-jobs.com

Job openings - foreign languages http://www.tts.uwosh.edu/career/pages/french.htm

Info on jobs in Spanish speaking world. Entire site written in Spanish http://www.laneta.apc.org

Resources for International Job Opportunities (Riley Guide) http://www.rileyguide.com/internat.html

Bilingual Jobs - Bilingual Professionals & Career Seekers http://www.bilingual-jobs.com/

Overseas Jobs http://www.overseasjobs.com/

World Hire Online http://www.hire.com

World Wide Employment Office http://www.employmentoffice.net

MonsterTRAK http://www.monstertrak.com

Footprints Recruiting http://www.footprintsrecruiting.com/index.php

LatPro www.latpro.com

Saludos Web (Hispanic Careers and Education) http://www.saludos.com/

Bilingual Jobs http://www.bilingual-jobs.com/default_new.htm

LatPro: Job Board for Hispanic & Bilingual Professionals http://www.latpro.com/

BilingualJobs.net http://63.126.124.54/

Multilingual Vacancies http://www.multilingualvacancies.com/

Bilingual Career http://www.bilingualcareer.com/

Challenge USA http://www.challengeusa.com/

JobCentro- Hispanic Chamber of Commerce http://www.jobcentro.com/

 

Career Planning Links

 

 

Careers in Foreign Languages http://www.oswego.edu/student/career/careersin/foreign.html

International Careers Page http://www.duke.edu/~lpmaskel/international_page.html

International Career Resources http://www.duke.edu/~lpmaskel/intl_general.html

Department of State :  http://www.state.gov/employment/

      Careers in foreign language (from Samford University) http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/wlc/career.htm

·                     Through Wake Forest University—Links on professions, Associations, Organizations http://lrc.wfu.edu/careersinlanguages/

·                     Ohio State University—Foreign Language center http://flc.osu.edu/FLC_pages/careers/index_1.html

 

           Vistawide World Languages and Culture http://www.vistawide.com/careers/language_jobs.htm

            National Security Information http://www.nsa.gov/careers/careers_1.cfm

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Associations Links

 

 

 

Foreign Language Associations (links to associations) http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Language/DF_lang_assn.shtml

American Translators Association  http://www.atanet.org/bin/view.pl/181.html

Modern Language Association  http://www.mla.org/

American Association for Applied Linguistics  http://www.aaal.org/

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages  http://www.actfl.org/

 

Miscellaneous Resources

 

          Languages of the World http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/index.html

This site will translate text or web sites back and forth between English and Spanish, French, German, Italian or Portuguese.  Free http://www.learnplus.com/

The Electronic Embassy http://www.embassy.org/

Web of Culture (information of different cultures) http://www.webofculture.com

          Yahoo.com - Spanish Internet sites http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Languages/Specific_Languages/Spanish/

Yahoo.com - French Internet sites http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/ Languages/Specific_Languages/French/

United Nations http://www.un.org

Yahoo's Index of Country Information http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/

Agora Language Marketplace  http://agoralang.com/index.html?agora/prof.html

French resources (from University of Wisconsin) http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/french.html

Spanish resources (from University of Wisconsin) 

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html

National Capital Language Resource Center  http://www.cal.org

American Field Service (AFS) http://www.afs.org/

All About Spain http://red2000.com/spain/index.html

To translate text on this site to Spanish, click on the link below:

http://www.freetranslation.com/

Para traducir texto en este sitio al español, el chasquido en el eslabón abajo: http://www.freetranslation.com/

Small Business Association (in Spanish) http://www.sba.gov/espanol/