French

Professional organizations

• American Association of Teachers of French
• Indiana Chapter of American Association of Teachers of French
• Northwest Indiana Chapter of American Association of Teachers of French
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
• F�d�ration Internationale des Professeurs de Fran�ais.
• Midwest Modern Language Association.
• Modern Language Association.
• Women In French (WIF); Women In French a pour but de promouvoir les recherches sur les femmes �crivains d'expression fran�aise, sur les femmes dans les litt�ratures et civilisations de langue fran�aise, ainsi que les recherches dans d'autres domaines li�s � la critique f�ministe. L'organisation souhaite aussi faciliter l'�change de renseignements sur le statut des femmes dans les pays d'expression fran�aise et dans l'enseignement sup�rieur en Am�rique du Nord. WIF est une association � but non-lucratif.



Distance Learning/Self-Instruction

• National Association for Self-Instruction Language Programs
• School of Continuing Studies, Independent Study Programs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
• Jeu de l'Oie: Apprendre et practiquer le fran�ais en s'amusant.

CLassroom Instruction




For Teachers of French

• Internet project for teachers of French at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. "A MMLC language program sponsored by French Cultural Services"
• Web site for the journal French Review, published by the American Association of Teachers of French
• "Using the World Wide Web in the French Classroom: Everything for the Beginner and Even Something for the Experienced User" by Dr. Jayne Abrate, Executive Director, American Association of Teachers of French. An unparalleled collection of information and links.



Databases, Link Collections and Search Engines

• All Academic: This professionally designed academic search engine and index offers a searchable database of scholarly articles and a browseable list of alphabetized links to online journals all available at no charge on the Web. The search results are listed in a choice of APA, MLA, or Chicago style and include abstracts for articles as well as the date of posting. Searches can be run by subject, author, publication, or article title. Scholars may post articles to the site -- subject to review.
• American and French Research of the Treasury of the French Language.
• Biblioth�que Universelle: L'acc�s libre au texte int�gral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993 de l'Association des Bibliophiles Universels; contains a full text database of many French works.
• Dave's French Links.
• The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of Analyses et Traitements Informatiques du Lexique Fran�ais (ATILF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago. Full text database which consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
• Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links Collected by Bob Peckham, director of the Global-Gate Project at University of Tennessee-Martin.



Dictionaries, other reference

• Dictionnaire des synonymes: contient approximativement 49 000 entr�es et 396 000 relations synonymiques . La base de d�part est constitu�e de sept dictionnaires classiques (Bailly, Benac, Du Chazaud, Guizot, Lafaye, Larousse et Robert).
• Dictionnaire Universel Francophone online.
• La CL�: R�pertoire de proc�d�s litt�raires.
• French Grammar Central: With over 525 links, this resource is ample material for courses on an advanced college level, and would be particularly good for those studying for exit exams, where a thorough knowledge of structure is required. It contains grammar guidance, with thousands of verb conjugations, research and hundreds of activities.
• Online grammar, "grammaire de l'absurde" is designed for first-year students, but can be used for review at all levels.



Academic Resources

• Early Modern French Women Writers: A Women's Studies Digitization Project Initiative.