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| Reviewed: |
Mar 19, 2007 by World Languages Editorial Board |
| Overview: |
The Linguist List, which is hosted at Eastern Michigan University and at Wayne State University, is an interactive website run by linguistics professors and graduate students. The site provides searches for everything from anthropological linguistics to writing systems. Its publications area links to thousands of book, dissertation, review, academic journal and publisher entries. Its language resources area provides links to 250 dictionaries in different languages, acronym dictionaries, thesauri, and dictionaries of special terms. It has an extensive text and computer tools area, as well as an extensive teaching and learning area, including links to hundreds of EFL and foreign language learning sites. Its also provides an ask the linguist capability, and a recipe book with recipes from linguists all over the world! |
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| Target Student Population: |
Language educators |
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Resource for language educators |
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| Strengths: |
The variety and quality of the web references are excellent. It is easy to find ones way around this site. It is efficient. No matter what question you are pursuing, you can rapidly find resources which will be useful to your purpose. |
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Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool |
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This is a reference site. Teachers will need to provide students with specific teacher-directed tasks within the site that connect to the aims of their unit of instruction. The value of the site is the richness of information accessible from a single location. |
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Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty |
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This reference site is easy to navigate. The language which describes the different categories is easily understandable, as are instructions for use. |
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