linguistics education resource guide

A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Teacher

Introduction

The field of linguistics involves research, modeling, analysis, and developing hypotheses. The investigation of human acquisition of the knowledge of language, variations of language across geographic regions, and creatingcomputational models that reflect such data are all tasks linguists tackle. Yet you don’t have to be linguist to find something worthwhile within this guide. Filled with over 40 resources, spanning the history of languages to the content of a modern-day podcast, the following links will appeal to students, teachers, or those who simply have a healthy curiosity about the subject.

General Linguistic Education Resources

This general resource section contains links to answer many of the questions you may have about linguistics and its various aspects.

FAQs About Linguistics

Follow this link to find out everything you ever wanted to know about linguistics and more.

The Word Detective

Interested in the meaning of little-known words and expressions? Check out this site to uncover them.

Verbix

Follow this link to an online verb conjugation tool in almost any language. Type in the verb of your choice and instantly receive its complete conjugation.

Affixes

Find more than 1,250 entries about prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, and infixes with definitions and illustrations.

Glossary of Linguistic Terms

From A to Z, find hundreds of linguistic terms and explanations at your fingertips.

Linguistic Education Teaching Resources

No matter if you’re exploring the finer points of language with elementary, middle, or high school students, at least one of the following teaching resources will meet your needs.

Linguistic Anthropology Teaching Resources

This site is dedicated to materials shared by colleagues for teaching and learning linguistic anthropology.

NativLang

Find free text and video linguistics lessons on popular ideas and themes as well as more specific topics.

Linguistics Lesson Plans

Western Washington University Linguistics in Education presents a repository of linguistics lesson plans for K-12 students.

Linguistics for Teachers of ELLs

Teaching English language learners requires different skills than teaching native English speakers. This site explores topics such as morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

Exploring Language

Follow this link to find linguistics information and lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school students.

Psycholinguistics Resources

Psycholinguistics is the study of how language manifests in our brains. Find helpful tools and references below.

MCWord

MCWord is an orthographic wordform database that allows users to obtain lexical and sublexical orthographic information related to English words.

IPhOD

The Irvine Phonotactic Online Dictionary was developed for research on speech perception and production.

Journal of Memory and Language

Interested in topics based on memory and learning, reading, language, or speech? This journal delivers.

Applied Psycholinguistics

In this journal readers will find original research papers on the psychological processes involved in language, such as language development, use, and disorders.

The International Picture-Naming Project

Find a wide variety of picture stimuli and related norms, which are available in seven languages and can be used for picture naming in psycholinguistic studies.

Auditory Word Recognition

Follow this link to find auditory word recognition tests such as word-nonword, word frequency, and word gating.

Sociolinguistics Resources

Sociolinguistics looks at how language intersects with the different classes, races, and genders of society. Find related references, databases, and archives below.

Varieties of English

Visit Encyclopædia Britannica to learn about the background and features of the different Englishes spoken across the globe.

Speech Accent Archive

Review this helpful resource comparing the demographic and linguistic backgrounds of native and non-native English speakers to determine which variables are the key predictors of each accent.

IDEA

The International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) offers an online archive of dialect and accent recordings.

DARE

The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a reference that documents the differences between dialects throughout the regions of the United States.

Computational Linguistics Resources

Think of computational linguistics as a marriage between computer science and linguistics where programming is used to do things such as model linguistic structure. See the resource links below for examples.

Association for Computational Linguistics

ACL is an international scientific and professional society for those who work on computational problems that involve human language.

Computational Linguistics

This quarterly publication offers a wide variety of information regarding the research of language, linguistics, and the psychology of language processes.

SIGMORPHON

The ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology (SIGMORPHON) provides a forum to discuss computational morphology and phonology.

NACLO Practice Problems

Try out computational linguistics skills with these practice problems that have been used by the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.

WordNet

This tool is useful for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

Historical Linguistics Resources

Historical linguistics studies how languages evolve over time. Browse the links below to find information about the origins of words, ancient writing systems, and more.

Studying the History of English

Improve your knowledge of the history of English via the texts, timelines, galleries, bibliographies, and more living on this site.

Online Etymology Dictionary

If you’re not familiar with the word etymology, then this link might be of interest. While it takes you to a dictionary, it’s not one that’s full of definitions. Instead, it contains explanations of how words came to be.

Indo-European Etymological Dictionary

Find a Proto-Indo-European Language Lexicon and an Etymological Dictionary of Early Indo-European Languages here.

Language Change of English

This resource may interest anyone who is studying language science or who just has a general interest in the subject.

Ancient Scripts

Visit this site to learn about worldwide writing systems that date back to prehistory and extend forward to modern times.

Linguistic Blogs

If the study of language intrigues you, check out the following blogs to find one that fulfills your interests.

All Things Linguistic

This linguistics blog maintained by Gretchen McCulloch is her full-time job. Expect daily updates on anything and everything about linguistics.

Superlinguo

Follow this link to Lauren Gawne’s language and linguistics blog designed for people who enjoy and use language.

Harmless Drudgery

When lexicographer Kory Stamper isn’t working at Merriam-Webster reading citations and defining obscure words, she’s writing on this entertaining blog.

Separated by a Common Language

Discover the often subtle differences between American and British English with Dr. Lynne Murphy as your guide.

Language Log

When it comes to linguistics blogs, this one is the best-known. It contains a variety of authors, includes a comment section, and features a comprehensive blog roll along the side.

Language: A Feminist Guide

If a feminist blog written by a feminist linguist sounds intriguing, check out this link. You’ll find FAQs about language, discussion and debunking of language myths, and more.

Linguistic Podcasts

Wit, wisdom, and entertaining linguistic banter are what you’ll discover when you listen to one or more of the following podcasts.