A list of Spanish-language lists is available from the RCP (La Red
Cientifica Peruana/Peruvian Scientific Network) listserver. (These
lists are currently not included in Bedell's list mentioned above.)
Topics discussed include chess, architecture, bird life, science
fiction, computers and other technology, human rights, economics, and
education. To get a list of the available lists, send email to:
listasrcp@rcp.net.pe with the message: index. For more information send
email to Yuri Herrera Burstein, odi@rcp.net.pe.
RCP is also experimenting with a World-Wide-Web server that contains
general and historical information about Peru. Their WWW server is also
pointed to a gopher server that contains a variety of information about
Latin America. To view these resources, set your WWW viewer (Mosaic,
Cello, et al.) to:
Document title: RED CIENTIFICA PERUANA--Home Page
Document URL: http://www.rcp.net.pe/rcp.html
You are invited to send comments about the RCP WWW server to:
www@amauta.rcp.net.pe
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David Bedell, University of Bridgeport
(email: bedell@cse.bridgeport.edu),
has compiled a list of electronic lists for
language learning. Some of the lists "focus on issues of language
learning, others focus on language points, and others just use a
language as a medium for discussion of culture or current affairs."
These lists can be used by language teachers and students for
supplementary reading material, and they could also be used as a way to
locate native speakers.
Bedell's list of lists covers 11 areas: (1) lists concerned with
language, language learning, and cross-cultural communication
(primarily written in English); (2) lists for teaching and learning
English; (3) other Germanic languages; (4) Romance languages and Latin
America; (5) Slavic and Eastern European languages; (6) other European
languages; (7) languages of the Middle East and Africa; (8) languages
of South Asia; (9) languages of Northeast Asia; (10) languages of
Southeast Asia and Pacific; and (11) other languages (includes
endangered languages, languages of aboriginal peoples, sign language,
Esperanto, and artificial languages).
Parts of his list have appeared in issues of Athelstan Newsletter on
Technology and Language Learning. The complete list is also available
by email to registered subscribers of the TESL-L (Teachers of English
as a Second Language) list. TESL-L subscribers can send email to:
listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu with the message: GET LIST OFLISTS1. To become
a registered TESL-L subscriber, send email to: listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
with the message: sub TESL-L your_firstname your_lastname
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