Language Teaching & Learning

• National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs
  U.S. Dept. of Education. Search their Resource Collection Database
• Center for Applied Linguistics
•           CAL  Digests (Short reports on topics of current interest)
• ESL, EFL and L2 Information (The Linguist List)
• ESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links The Internet TESL journal
• English as a second language  Yahoo
• Second Language Acquisition Topics
• Second language teaching methodologies.
• Resources in Language Testing WWW Page Glenn Fulcher. Includes links to testing organisations (with reviews) and video clips of academics talking about concepts. 
• Paul Nation?s home page: Includes a comprehensive bibliography, downloadable software and tasks related to the course textbook.
  EnglishClub.com For teachers and learners. Lessons and information.
  Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, U.S. Dept. of Education. Contains "brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction"
• Second Language Acquisition Topics
  English On-line New Zealand Unitec and Ministry of Education Resources for New Zealand English teachers.
  Online English Grammar  Anthony Hughes
  Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Purdue University Online Writing Lab   

       Guide to Grammar and Writing

• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
      Michael Harvey

       Vocabulary Guide

• Using English for Academic Purposes A Guide for International Students Vocabulary in EAP
      Andy Gillett, School of Combined Studies, University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, UK
• The Academic Word List
       Massey University School of Language Studies

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Linguistics

• History of the English Language
      Dan Mosser
• The Linguist List
      Eastern Michigan University/Wayne State University
• Linguistics Resources on the Internet
       Summer Institute of Linguistics. Wide range of links
• Intute Linguistics
      JISC page for UK universities

      Australia

• Australian Linguistics Network
      Sydney University
• Aboriginal Languages of Australia
• AIATSIS Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
       Includes MURA the AIATSIS Library catalogue

• New Zealand : Maori Subject List
      Te Puna Web Directory, National Library of New Zealand
• Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori
      Maori Language Commission
• Evaluating English Accents Worldwide
      University of Otago
• New Zealand English Website
      John Newman, University of Alberta

• Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
       University of Auckland
• An Introduction to Oceanic linguistic prehistory.
      John Bowden (University of Melbourne). Published Dhumbadji! vol. 1 no. 2, May 1993; pp. 15-27.
• Papua Web
      Academic research site for the Indonesian province of Papua.
      Joint project of the State University of Papua, Cenderawasih State University and ANU.
      Includes fulltext documents, theses, journal articles, bibliographies and links to other sites. 

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Native Language Newspapers

• Niupepa Maori newspapers. Maori newspapers 1842-1933 Full text and keyword searchable.
• Nupepa Hawai'ian language newspapers from 1861-1920

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Reference Sources

       Linguistics Dictionaries

• Glossary of Linguistic Terms
      Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) at the International Linguistics Center in Dallas, Texas.
• Glossary of terms related to the study of pidgin and creole languages
      Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
• Linguistics Glossary

       Language Dictionaries

• A Web of On-line Dictionaries
• Dictionaries (Linguist list)
• WordNet - a Lexical Database for English
      Princeton University
• Wakareo
       Combined Maori language dictionaries, keyword-searchable and updated by Te Taura Whiri.
• Pidgin/English dictionary
      Terry D. Barhorst and Sylvia O'Dell-Barhorst. "as spoken in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea"

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Databases

• CORPORA
• Ethnologue
      Electronic version of the Ethnologue, the Ethnologue Language Name Index, and the Ethnologue Language Family Index and contains the entire text of the original printed volumes (except language maps).
• CogPrints
      An electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. You must register to use.
• The Speech Accent Archive
      Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed.
      The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.
• Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (ASEDA)
      Focus is on information about Australian Indigenous languages, with nearly 300 languages represented.
      Also holds other information on Indigenous topics, such as the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
      And Land Claim transcripts, fonts, graphics and software, etc.
• Handbook of Western Aboriginal languages south of the Kimberley
• Aboriginal Languages of Australia
  
• Ethnologue Country Index - Languages of the Pacific
      (Summer Institute of Linguistics) Includes language maps of Indonesia, Papua-New Guinea and Oceania.

• ECAI Pacific Language Mapping
      Maps from Wurm, S. A.and Hattori, Shiro (Eds). 1981, 1983. Language Atlas of the Pacific Area. Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities in collaboration with the Japan Academy. Registered scans of the maps from the Language Atlas of the Pacific Area (excluding the maps of Japan) are made available through the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). Covers South East Asia, Japan, Indonesia and Oceania.
• PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures)
      "digital conservation and access for endangered audio, text and visual material from the Pacific region"
  
• Ethnologue Papua New Guinea
• Austronesian Languages from Encyclopedia Britannica
  
• Papuan Languages from Encyclopedia Britannica

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Bibliographies

       General

• SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics)  Bibliography
       Lists 21,000+ sources. Keyword searchable.
• BL Online The bibliographical database of linguistics
      Permanent International Committee of Linguists.
      "Contains all entries of the printed volumes of Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography for the years 1993-1998 and an increasing number of more recent references."
• Bamboo
      "A digest of English Language Education and Applied Linguistics research from Asia" Abstracts not full text.
• Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography
• Autonomy in Language Learning
      Phil Benson at the English Centre, University of Hong Kong
• Speech Acts Bibliography
      Andrew Cohen, University of Minnesota

       New Zealand

• Bibliography of New Zealand English
       Don Bayard, University of Otago
• Theses by N.Z. linguistics students
       The Linguistic Society of New Zealand
• Books by N.Z. linguists
      The Linguistic Society of New Zealand

       Melanesia

• A guide to resources on Melanesia
      UC San Diego
• An annotated bibliography of Vanuatu languages,
      John Lynch
• A West New Britain Working Bibliography
      Robin Hide(?) Revised 1998 by Dorothy Counts
• A bibliography of Morobe Province
      Sam Tua Kaima and Biama Kanasa, 1999  University of Papua New Guinea
• A bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, phrase books and study guides.
       Thomas H. Slone
• Tok Pisin Bibliography
      Robert.H.Eklund
• Vanuatu Languages (ANU Coombsweb): PaamaPentecostTannaEpiShepherdsMalakulaErromangoBislama 

       Micronesia

• Kiribati Bibliography. Linguistic
       Stephen Trussell. Subject and Island indexes.

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Listservs and Newsgroups

• The Linguist mailing lists
      (Eastern Michigan University. The Linguist List)
• AN-Lang Austronesian Linguistics
• Australian-linguistics-L
• Cogling
• Austronesian Languages and Cultures
• CPS-L
      Centre for Pacific Studies list for interdisciplinary studies of the Pacific regions
• ESFO-L European Society for Oceanists
• ASAONET Oceanic Anthropology Discussion Group
• nzlinguist
• Funknet
       an "email network for people who study various aspects of human language, communication, cognition, literacy, socio-culture, neuropsychology and other facets of cognitive and communicative behavior"
• Archives 

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Conferences

• Conference Schedules for Linguists, Translators, Interpreters and Teachers of Languages
• Calls and Conferences
      (Eastern Michigan University. The Linguist List)
• Directory of Published Proceedings 2005-
       Covers conferences, meetings and symposia and includes a directory of future conferences and meetings called MInd.
• PapersInvited
       Calls for papers from professional bodies, universities, journal editors and other conference organizers.

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Software

• Software etc.
       (University of Michigan. The Linguist List)
• Maori language software
• Lingualinks
       "language data management and analysis software" (Ethnologue)
• SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) Software Catalog

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Statistics

       Australia

• Australian Bureau of Statistics

       New Zealand

• Statistical Sources New Zealand 
       (the Library website page which covers both printed and electronic sources) Includes statistics on: Languages
• Links to Statistical Sources for New Zealand Information page on the Library website:
  Immigration
  Population 
  
• Pacific Statistics: See OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web (the Library website page)

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