Foreign Language Resource Centers

	LANGUAGE	MATERIAL
Website	Japanese Intermediate Advanced	Learning through Listening These online instructional materials include digitized video clips of natural spoken discourse along with teaching suggestions and activities that are designed to help students understand the content of the discourse as well as lexical, syntactic, an .. (more)
Downloadable File	Korean Intermediate Advanced	Korean Culture and Media Series II The goal of this series is to present language and culture as an integral whole-to enhance students' awareness of language through culture and to deepen students' understanding of culture through language. Individual workbook units that .. (more)
Hard Copy	Chinese Intermediate Advanced	Pathways V. 09 Eat Shandong From Personal Experience to a Pedagogy of a Second Culture This book examines the "celebratory," ritualistic and pragmatic functions that Shandong yanxi, or banquets, serve in games of gaining social status in the contemporary Shandong social milieu. Yanxi are a highly ritualized form of performance in which .. (more)
	Chinese Beginning Intermediate Advanced	A Self-Study Guide to the Film Strange Friends Prepared by the staff of the Chinese Language Program at The Ohio State University to accompany the film "Strange Friends". .. (more)
	Chinese Intermediate	Early Spring in February: A Study Guide This thoroughly annotated study guide is a wonderful way for second-year students of Chinese to approach the language as utilized in full dramatic action. The complete text of the film February (Zaochun Eryue, 1963), adapted by director Xie Tieli fro .. (more)
Video Tape	Chinese Beginning Intermediate	Task Based Language Instruction (Manual and Video) This is a textbook based on the famous task-based approach borrowed from the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. .. (more)
Hard Copy DVD	Chinese Intermediate Advanced	Tell It Like It Is (Text with DVD) This text features a Chinese television show, Tell It Like It Is, where informal oral discourse is addressed. The book also provides advanced-level text materials and vocabulary, grammar, and cultural notes. Published by Yale University Press. .. (more)
Downloadable File	German Beginning Intermediate	Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms: German Packet II CLEAR's second Business German Packet, "Wirtschaftsdeutsch für die High School: Die Wirtschaftswelt im Bundesstaat Michigan", a free downloadable PDF, was also developed for advanced high school language learners. It covers information on the indust .. (more)
Hard Copy	Mende Beginning Intermediate Advanced	Mende Brochure The brochure creates awareness about the language itself, basic information about its speakers and their culture, the advantages of learning it as a foreigner and details about institutions that offer it within the US. Illustrative pictures depicting .. (more)
DVD	Chinese Beginning Intermediate	Chinese Communicating in the Culture DVD This DVD accompanies the texts, "Chinese Communicating in the Culture 1," "Chinese Communicating in the Culture 2," and "Chinese Communicating in the Culture 3" .. (more)