Applied Linguistics: Organizations and Web Sources
A research guide for Applied Linguistics
Google Scholar
Education: Tests and Measures
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in PrintIncludes information on commercially published tests and instruments, and also, full text, research reviews of tests.
- Tests and Measures in the Social SciencesArchives psychosocial tests and instruments from books, compiled by the University of Texas-ArlingtonLibrary.
Professional Organizations and Learned Societies
Web Sources
- The WWW Virtual Library Languages and LinguisticsAborginal Languages of Australia, French and the Linguist List, which provides information on language and language analysis.
- The Rosetta ProjectA global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language.
- Stanford University Center for the Study of Language and Information(CSLI) is an Independent Research Center founded in 1983 by researchers from Stanford University, SRI International, and Xerox PARC (now just PARC). It is devoted to research in the emerging science of information, computing, and cognition.
- EthnologueContains the entire printed text of the printed volumes (except language maps) of the Ethnologue Language Name Index and the Ethnologue Language Family Index.
- World Oral Literature ProjectAn urgent global initiative to document and make accessible endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record.
- Center For Applied LinguisticsA private, nonprofit organization working to improve communication through better understanding of language and culture, the Center for Applied Linguistics is dedicated to providing a comprehensive range of research-based information, tools, and resources related to language and culture.
- The Modern Language Association Language MapThe MLA Language Map uses data from the US Census 2000 to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.
- Learner WebDeveloped here at Portland State University, the Learner Web is a learning support system for adults who want to accomplish specific learning objectives or goals such as earning a GED, improving their English language or other basic skills, increasing digital literacy, transitioning to higher education, preparing for a job, or improving job-related basic skills.