Languages and Linguistics

Languages and Linguistics

See also: English Language Arts | English as a Second Language (ESL) | Literacy

Databases

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
  The major index for the study of linguistics. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Also covers various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics.

• Education Abstracts
  Indexes English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Citations are included for publications since 1983, and abstracts from 1994 to the present. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more. Covers every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college. Provides citations for every article of at least one column in length taken from more than 550 sources. Includes citations to book reviews and selected series and supplements. The database is updated monthly. Earlier coverage is available from the print index The Education Index from 1929-2004 (Location: Regenstein, 4th Floor Reference Collection ; Call Number: Z5813.E25).
• ERIC
  ERIC is the largest database of materials for education in world. It contains annotated references to journal articles and to non-journal documents such as research reports, lesson plans, curriculum guides, information analyses, conferences presentations, bibliographies and more. Coverage begins with 1966 and more than 1,000,000 records are included. Learn more about the ERIC database.

University of Chicago Resources

• University of Chicago Center for the Study of Languages
  The Center for the Study of Languages, located in Cobb, supports language faculty with curriculum designs as well as technology enhanced teaching tools.

Clearinghouses

• Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
  This non-profit organization is composed of scholars and educators. CAL provides a wide range of services and materials for language educators, most of them free of charge, ranging from newsletters and digests to directories of internet resources in a wide array of language-related topics. Topics of interest include foreign languages, English as a second or foreign language, bilingualism and bilingual education, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, intercultural communication and cultural education, and study abroad and international exchange. CAL has archived most of the resources previously available from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.
• National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA)
  Formerly NCBE, the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, NCELA collects, analyzes, and disseminates information relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S. It produces a weekly electronic news bulletin, Newsline, and a monthly electronic magazine, Outlook. The Clearinghouse works with other service providers to help states and local school districts. NCELA offers a  National Linguistic Assets Database with information about translators and interpreters as well as the NCELA Bibliographic Database with more than 20,000 citations and abstracts.
  

Foreign Language Instruction Resources

• iLoveLanguages.com
  This site is a redesign and merger of The Human-Languages Page and the Languages catalog of the WWW Virtual Library. iLoveLanguages offers an extensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2000 links are individually reviewed and selected for inclusion. Topics include online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, and more.
• Foreign Language Resource Centers
  The United States Department of Education has awarded grants to a small number of institutions for the purpose of establishing, strengthening, and operating national foreign language resource and training centers to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Presently there are fourteen Title VI Language Resource Centers nationwide and this page listed above (maintained at Michigan State University) provides links to the various programs and to selected performance data. The University of Chicago operates the South Asia Language Resource Center.
• learninglanguages.net
  Sponsored by the Internet Scout Project and the University of Wisconsin, this site includes activities and resources for French, Japanese and Spanish. Its intent is to provide a guide to the best online resources designed to help children and young adults learn a foreign language. The portal's resources are hand selected by language and linguistics content specialists and cover everything from games to vocabulary exercises to sites that can provide context for a language. Also included are materials and resources for teachers who are interested in integrating web resources into their classroom curriculum.
• Yamada Language Guides
  From the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon, this site includes links to resources on more than 100 languages and an archive of fonts for about 40 languages.

Linguistics Resources

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
  The major index for the study of linguistics. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Also covers various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics.
• The Linguist List
  This mega-site and discussion forum is operated out of Wayne State University and Eastern Michigan University. It covers a wide range of topics of interest to academics and professionals. It includes conference and job announcements, book reviews, syllabi, directories, bibliographies, journal lists and more. The Ask A Linguist feature allows interested parties to submit questions to a panel of linguists and previous questions and answers are archived.
• Linguistic Data Consortium
  Hosted at the University of Pennsylvania, this is an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects, distributes and sells speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. A corpus catalog is available.
• Linguistics: A Reference Bibliography
  From Cornell University Library, the bibliography includes citations to print, electronic and web-based resources.
• Linguistics Society of America
  A wide array of useful information is here, ranging from directories of publishers, organizations, linguistics programs, and journals to specific documents such as guidelines for using sign-language interpreters, definitions of the fields of linguistics, and FAQs on general topics such as why people have accents.
• Linguistics, Natural Language, and Computational Linguistics Resources,
  This annoted list of internet resources is from Christopher Manning, Stanford University

Selected Organizations

• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
• Foreign Language Teaching Forum (FLTeach)
• International Reading Association (IRA)
• Linguistics Society of America
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Language Policy

• Language Policy Research Unit (LPRU), Arizona State University, Education Policy Studies Laboratory
  LPRU, directed by Dr. Terrence Wiley, promotes research and policy analysis on the challenges and opportunities posed by national and global multilingualism. It sponsors a journal and the website includes pertinent demographic data, research reports, bibliographies, lists of legal cases, and more.
• Consortium for Language Policy and Planning
  The Consortium is an unincorporated association of a number of research universities, advocacy bodies, and other scholars interested in issues of language policy and planning. The website includes information on membership and projects, bibliographies, and lists of internet resources. Also available is a listserv and its archive.