Teaching materials on language endangerment, an interactive e-learning module on the internet

In 2007, in the framework of the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) Research Programme on Endangered Languages, an interactive e-learning module has been developed on language endangerment. The module for students in secondary schools (15-18 years of age) is available free of charge, so far in Dutch and in English, on the internet: http://www.bedreigdetalen.nl. In the learning module "Endangered Languages" students learn about the diversity of the world’s languages, about the relationship between language and culture, why languages disappear, how serious that is, whether we can preserve languages and about the origins of language.