English language and applied linguistics: useful websites

This page lists useful, free internet resources for English language and applied linguistics. See databases for English language and applied linguistics for a list of key online sources purchased by the University to help you find information in this subject.

Key sites

• Intute: Humanities - Linguistics
  Discovers, evaluates, catalogues and gives access to online resources considered useful for humanities teaching and research within UK higher and further education. It forms part of the online subject resource called Intute which covers resources from the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
  Please note: Updates to Intute ceased in July 2011. Links on the site will no longer be checked.

Guides and tutorials

• Internet for Allied Health
  One of a series of tutorials written for the Intute Virtual Training Suite. This tutorial aims to improve Internet information skills, knowledge of key Internet sites, Internet search skills and critical thinking skills. Useful for clinical linguistics.
  
  
• Evaluating websites: a guide
  Hints on assessing the reliability of information you find on the Internet.
  
  
• The web
  A brief guide to finding information which includes links to the main search engines.

General linguistics-related sites

• Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
  The Subject Centre aims to support learning and teaching in languages, linguistics and area studies in UK higher education. It provides links to a variety of resources relating to the study of modern languages. Some are general or multi-lingual, others relate specifically to linguistics. It is part of the Higher Education Academy.
  
  
• British National Corpus (BNC)
  The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100-million word collection of written and spoken modern British English representing a "unique snapshot of the English language". The data was collected between 1991 and 1994 and represents a wide variety of mostly written (90%) and spoken language.
  
  
• The Linguist List
  A site dedicated to providing information on language and linguistics, it contains over 2000 pages listing resources and links. It also runs a mailing list which provides a forum for exchange of information and discussion.

Applied linguistics

• Resources in language testing
  Guide to language testing related resources on the Internet. Each resource is reviewed in the Language Tester's Guide to Cyberspace section, which is updated regularly. Other useful features include a searchable index of articles published in the journal Language Testing, conference news page and the Articles and Reviews section.
  

Clinical linguistics

• Intute: Social Sciences - Social Welfare
  Provides search and browse access to high quality Internet-accessible resources for members of the caring professions. Includes links to information and resources on disabilities and people with learning difficulties. Each site is described and classified by subject specialists. Intute: Psychology is also available. It forms part of the online subject resource called Intute which covers resources from the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
  Please note: Updates to Intute ceased in July 2011. Links on the site will no longer be checked.
  
  
• Intute: Medicine
  Provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in health and medicine. Intute: Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health focuses on resources in nursing and the allied health professions. Created by information specialists and subject experts in partnership with key UK organisations. Both are useful for resources in clinical linguistics. It forms part of the online subject resource called Intute which covers resources from the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
  Please note: Updates to Intute ceased in July 2011. Links on the site will no longer be checked.
  
  
• National Information Centre for Speech-language Therapy (NICeST)
  The site is based at the Department of Human Communication Science, UCL.

Organisations & institutions 

• American Communication Association
  
  
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
  
  
• The British Association for Applied Linguistics
  
  
• International Association of Applied Linguistics
  
  
• International Phonetic Association
  
  
• International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
  
  
• Linguistics Association of Great Britain
  
  
• Linguistics Society of America
  
  
• NHS Choices
  
  
• Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
  
  
• TESOL

Please note: our site descriptions are based on information available on the site described at the time it was evaluated.

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