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Instructional Materials

Educational use of these materials is allowed.

Materials by Language...
CARLA and the LCTL project have devoloped sharable material (both raw material and exercises) for the following languages:

Arabic

Aymara
Basque

Bosnian
Chinese

Croatian
Dakota
Hebrew

Hindi
Irish
Japanese
Korean
Khmer
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese

Serbian
Swahili
Swedish
Tamil
Thai
Tibetan
Turkish
Urdu
Vietnamese

Virtual Picture Album (VPA)
The VPA is an archive of digitized photographs and drawings, accompanied by useful descriptions and suggestions for ways LCTL teachers can incorporate these pictures into in-class and out-of-class activities. There is also a small collection of sample exercises using pictures from the VPA. All resources in the VPA can be used free of charge for educational purposes.

Virtual Audio-Video Archives (VAVA)
The VAVA is a collection of royalty-free audio and video files for teachers to use in their own creative exercises, along with a small number of sample exercises. The VAVA currently contains sounds in Arabic (Tunisia), Chinese (PRC), Chinese (Taiwan), Hebrew, Norwegian and Polish, with expansion to other languages in progress.

 
 
 
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