PEDAGOGY

• RESOURCES FOR ONLINE RESEARCH
• DICTIONARIES
• INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET
• LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
• INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES FOR WEB-BASED ACTIVITIES
   

RESOURCES FOR ONLINE RESEARCH  

Queens LOTE Consortium Libraries 

• Queens College Libraries
  http://qcpages.qc.edu/Library
   
• York College Library
  http://www.york.cuny.edu/~lib/main.html
   
• LaGuardia Community College Libraries
  http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/library/
   
• Queensborough Community College Library
  http://web.acc.qcc.cuny.edu/Library/Default.htm

Other CUNY Libraries

• CUNY +  [CUNY online catalog]
  http://libraries.cuny.edu/lib-cpl.htm
   
• CUNY Office of Library Services  [Links to all CUNY libraries, CUNY-wide licensed resources]
  http://libraries.cuny.edu/
   
• Mina Rees Library of the CUNY Graduate Center  [Catalogs, databases, selected websites, and information on web searching]
  http://web.gc.cuny.edu/library/
   

DICTIONARIES 

• The Internet Dictionary Project  [Online dictionaries in a number of languages]
  http://www.ilovelanguages.com/IDP/
   
• Dictionaries  [Dictionary links from the Linguist List]
  http://www.linguistlist.org/dictionaries.html
   
• Yourdictionary.com  [Links to online dictionaries, thesauri, and other lexical sources, in many languages]
  http://www.yourdictionary.com
   
• Wordreference.com  [Translation dictionaries in several languages; offers a free plugin for Internet Explorer which translates words on any web page]
  http://wordreference.com
   

INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET 

• The International Phonetic Alphabet  [Reproduction (in the form of image files) of the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association]
  http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html
   
• Cours de Phonétique  [Interactive phonetics course, in French, from the Université de Lausanne; includes sound files with examples]
  http://www.unil.ch/ling/phon/index.html
   
• IPA Fonts  [From SIL International]
  http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html
   

LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS RESOURCES 

• Linguist List  http://www.linguistlist.org/
• Center for Applied Linguistics  http://www.cal.org
• SIL International  http://www.sil.org

• Ethnologue  [Languages of the world, facts & figures]
  http://www.ethnologue.com/
   
• Sounds of the World's Animals  [For well over two dozen languages, and for over a couple of dozen types of animals, this site illustrates cross-linguistic differences in the way animal sounds are named; includes sound bytes of the animal sounds]
  http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.html
   
• Omniglot: a Guide to Writing Systems  [A thorough and comprehensive guide to written language; learn about abjads, alphabets, syllabaries, logographic writing systems, undeciphered writing systems, alternative writing systems and newly invented writing systems]
  http://www.omniglot.com/
   

INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES FOR BUILDING WEB-BASED ACTIVITIES 

• Blackboard on CUNY On-Line  [Includes information on Blackboard, a system for online instruction; see also the company's page at Blackboard.Com]
  http://cunyonline.cuny.edu/
   
  • Blackboard servers in the Queens LOTE Consortium:
     
    • QC: http://online.qc.edu
    • YC: http://online.york.cuny.edu/
    • LaGCC: http://onlinecourses.lagcc.cuny.edu/
    • QCC: http://bb.acc.qcc.cuny.edu/
       
• MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)  [Links to learning materials for almost every discipline — including LOTEs — along with reviews of these materials by users and faculty]
  http://www.merlot.org/
   
• PedagoNet.Com   [A "learning resources search engine"]
  http://pedagonet.com/webpage.eht
   

• Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes   [Activities in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, ESL/EFL, Philipino and Latin, as well as a general discussion on designing web activities]
  http://www.clta.net/lessons/
   

• Foreign Languages for Travelers   [Despite the overwhelming pop-up advertisements, this site offers basic phrases in a multitude of languages]
  http://www.travlang.com/languages/index.html
   
• First International Collection of Tongue Twisters   [In many languages]
  http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/index.htm

UPDATED: 10/20/2004