(Un)Gopher aka ERIC

    (Un)Gopher Activity

    Ok, ok, ok!  First, I had a really nice bunch of Gopher activities and pages that became obsolete when Gopher went by the board.  Then, even though they didn't use Gopher, I developed some good activities to help you find useful information for FL teachers using the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.  THEN the government, in its non-wisdom, decided to collapse the sixteen ERIC clearinghouses back into one generic ERIC site, so I had to trash those pages also.  Geesh!  But we can still find much of the good information that was on the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics by going to the website for the Center for Applied Linguistics. Bless their pea-pickin' hearts -- they tell you where the ERIC CLL went and promise to keep many foreign language teaching resources available. So . . . we're back in business.

    1. First, access the page of the Center for Applied Linguistics where they give us the dirt on the demise of ERIC.

    2. From the Online Resources menu, select Digests.

    which will take you to another page that has a listing of many ERIC Digests with topics germane to your specialization.

    3. Pick a Digest, read it, and summarize it for your foreign language methods class.
     

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