Links to useful resources and websites
National and international websites and resources
The following is not an exhaustive list of websites relevant to adult language, literacy and numeracy.
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Australian:
Australian Council for Adult Literacy (ACAL), www.acal.edu.au/
Queensland Council for Adult Literacy (QCAL), www.qcal.org.au/index.php
Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council (VALBEC), www.valbec.org.au/
South Australian Council for Adult Literacy (SACAL), www.sacal.sa.edu.au/
Western Australian Adult Literacy Council (WAALC), www.waalc.org.au/
New South Wales Adult Literacy and Numeracy Council (ALNC), www.nswalnc.uts.edu.au/
Adult Learning Australia, www.ala.asn.au/
Adult Community and Further Education, www.acfe.vic.gov.au/
LiteracyNet, www.deewr.gov.au/SKILLS/PROGRAMS/LITANDNUM/LITERACYNET/Pages/default.aspx
Workplace, English Language and Literacy (WELL) Programme, www.deewr.gov.au/Skills/Programs/LitandNum/WorkplaceEnglishLanguageandLiteracy/Pages/default.aspx
Language, Literacy and Numeracy Programme, www.deewr.gov.au/skills/programs/litandnum/llnp/Pages/default.aspx
The 3 R's Revisited, www.tafe.tas.edu.au/3rs/HTMLPages/index_1.htm
Taking the Lead, www.takingthelead.com.au/
Reframing the Future, www.reframingthefuture.net/
Australian Flexible Learning Framework, www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go
Creating the Connections, http://www.ames.net.au/index.php?action=productcatalogue&prodcat_id=3858&prod_id=10124&pageID=6081§ionID=0
Sugarbag on Damper Publishing,sites.google.com/site/sugarbagondamper/home
International:
ALADIN Adult Learning Links http://www.unesco.org/education/aladin/?menuitem=11
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) database for effective practice in literacy and numeracy worldwide, www.unesco.org/uil/litbase/
New Zealand Literacy Portal, www.nzliteracyportal.org.nz
The Literacy Project, www.google.com/literacy/
National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy, www.nrdc.org.uk/index.asp
National Adult Literacy Database, www.nald.ca/index.htm
National Adult Literacy Agency (Ireland), www.literacy.ie/
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, www.niace.org.uk/
National Centre for Language and Literacy, University of Reading, UK, www.ncll.org.uk/
Workbase, NZ, www.workbase.org.nz/
Comments
At present, I am looking for resources to assist a very reluctant 35 year old male to read. I thought your website would help, but after visiting the various links, it appears to me that it is a website on which academics air their theories and their research findings but really do nothing practical to assist either the tutor or the reluctant reader! Perhaps you could come up with a host of FREE resouces suitable for people such as myself to use and forget all the theory for a while.
Perhaps you need to include the TESOL world as well. For example, VicTESOL (previously known as VATME)