Websites and documents of interest

• European Day of Languages website
• Language Policy Unit, Council of Europe
• European Centre for Modern Languages website
• European Commission Languages in Education web page
• European Commission Languages for growth and jobs web page
• European Survey on Language Competences Executive Summary (2011) (120kb pdf)
• European Language Council website
• UNESCO MOST Clearing House Linguistic Rights web page
• UNESCO MOST Clearing House Links and resources web page
• Ethnologue Languages of the World website and database (6,700 languages of the world)
• Languages on the web website (30,000 links)
• The Linguist List website
• Berkeley Language Center Collections and Archives web page
• Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics web page
• University of Cambridge Language Centre website
• Sci.lang frequently asked questions about linguistics web page
• Modern Language Association (MLA) website
• Stanford University Spanish Language Program Resources web page
• Don Quijote Language Resources web page
• Ellis, Elizabeth (University of New England, Australia) (2006). “Monolingualism: The unmarked case,” (130kb pdf) in Estudios de Sociolingüística 7(2), pp. 173-196 on the Socio Lingüística website [Online] Cited 11/10/2014
• Spanish Education Office Australia
• Victorian Association for Teachers of Spanish (VATS)
• Spanish Australia Magazine
• Public lecture by Professor Catherine Travis (Australian National University). “A Portrait of Spanish Speakers in Australia” (2011) video
• Spanish Education Office in Melbourne
  Phone: 03 9347 9834
  Email: asesoriamelbourne.au@mec.es

 

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