Language & Literature Guide for Visiting Scholars
Sources for English language learning and instruction.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Oxford English DictionaryAn essential tool for the study of the English language, providing definitions of words, along with illustrative quotations, throughout history
- Cambridge DictionarySearch interface for a variety of Cambridge University Press language dictionaries. Includes English/Chinese (both traditional and simplified)
- Encyclopedia of Applied LinguisticsCovers key areas of the field, including Language Learning and Teaching, Bilingual and Multilingual Education, Assessment and Testing, Corpus Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Discourse, Cognitive Second Language Acquisition, Language Policy and Planning, Literacy, and Technology and Language. Features entries on the philosophy and history of applied linguistics and biographies of key applied linguists.
- Encyclopedia of Bilingual EducationCovers the subject from various angles: history, policy, classroom practice, designs, and research bases.
- Visual Dictionary OnlineA thematic rather than alphabetical approach. Choose a theme like House and find words and illustrations about all aspects of that theme.
