Recorded and Braille Materials for ENGLISH AS A
                        SECOND LANGUAGE
                                

1.   Library of Congress, NLS materials:


     Essential English for Foreign Students 1, 2, 3, 4
     (BRF 0750 - BRF 0753) produced originally by
     the Royal National Institute for the Blind,
     London, England (www.rnib.org.uk), and
     acquired for the NLS Special Foreign Language Collection.  Titles are listed in the NLS Voyager
     Catalog and available on loan through NLS
     cooperating libraries from the Multistate Center
     East. 

     NLS and its cooperating libraries have
     produced a number of bilingual books for
     adults and children that may have ESL
     applications.  These titles are listed in the NLS
     Voyager Catalog and available through NLS
     cooperating libraries.


2.   Other sources:


     American Printing House for the Blind
     1839 Frankfort Avenue
     Louisville, KY 40206
     Tel.: (502) 895-2405, (800) 223-1839, 
     fax: (502) 899-2274
     E-mail: info@aph.org
     www.aph.org
     (sells braille dictionaries)


     Association of Blind Citizens
     P.O. Box 246
     Holbrook, MA 02343
     Tel.: (781) 961-1023, fax: (781) 961-0004
     E-mail: president@blindcitizens.org
     www.blindcitizen.org
     (sells "English in 24 Hours")


     Audio-Forum
     One Orchard Park Road
     Madison, CT 06443  
     Tel.: 800-243-1234, fax: (203) 245-0769
     E-mail: info@audioforum.com 
     www.audioforum.com
     (sells ESL audio programs)


     California Language Laboratories
     P.O. Box 176
21135 Freedom Drive
Cupertino, CA 95014
Tel: (800) 327-1147
Fax: (408) 446-4441
     E-mail: info@esltapes.com
     www.esltapes.com
     (audio ESL materials for many different languages)

     
     Multi-Cultural Books and Videos, Inc.
     28880 Southfield Rd., #183
     Lathrup Village, MI 48076  
     Tel.: 800-567-2220, (248) 559-2676,
     fax: (248) 559-5285
     E-mail: service@multicultbr.com
     www.multiculturalbooksandvideos.com
     (sells commercial audio materials)


     Pimsleur Language Programs
     Tel.: 800 831-5497
     E-mail: pimsleur@simonandschuster.com
     www.simonsays.com
     (sells ESL audio language learning programs
     for speakers of Arabic, Chinese, French,
     German, Farsi, Hindi, Korean, Portuguese,
     Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese )


     Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic         
     20 Roszel Road
     Princeton, NJ 08540
     Tel.: 800-221-4792/4793, fax: (609) 987-8116
     www.rfbd.org
     (ESL textbooks on tape)


     
3.   ESL materials for Spanish-speaking persons:


     Ingl‚s al Dedillo (English at Your Fingertips) (RC
     20739) by Richard J. Nelson.  A guidebook for
     Spanish-speaking persons, produced by NLS
     and available from NLS cooperating libraries.


     El Berlitz Sin Maestro, Ingl‚s (The Berlitz Self-
     Teacher, English) (BR 8787).  A self-study
     guide for Spanish-speaking persons, produced
     by NLS and available from NLS/BPH
     cooperating libraries.


     Ingl‚s para Espa¤oles 1 - 3  (English for
     Spaniards)  (RCF 0108 - RCF 0110), by Basil
     Potter, on cassettes, originally produced by the
     Organizaci¢n Nacional de Ciegos de Espa¤a,
     Madrid, Spain (www.once.es), and acquired
     for the NLS Special Foreign Language Collection. 
     Title are available through NLS cooperating
     libraries from the Multistate Center East.


     Gram tica Biling�e/Bilingual Grammar (BR
     6946) by Joaqu¡n A¤orga and Graziella
     Montori, produced by NLS and available from
     NLS cooperating libraries.


     See also: AudioForum and Pimsleur Language
     Programs cited above.


4.   Bilingual Materials


     NLS has produced a number of bilingual
     English/Spanish audio (RC) and braille (BR)
     books that may have ESL applications.  These
     are listed in the NLS Voyager catalog and
     available through NLS cooperating libraries. 
     (Use keyword "English and Spanish" or
     "Spanish and English" when searching in the
     Voyager Catalog).