This is only a sampling of subject headings which may be used to search COAST.  For a more complete list of  headings relevant to LINGUISTICS, consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located in the Reference Center on  the first floor of the University Library.  Click on any of the following subjects now to retrieve records from COAST.  If you would like to search for a subject other than one of those listed, click here now.
  

ELECTRONIC REFERENCE RESOURCES

LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR ABSTRACTS (LLBA)
Indexes and provides abstracts to the world's literature in language behavior, linguistics, and related disciplines.  Coverage:  1973 to date.  Updated quarterly.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
Good source for references to journal articles and documents on teaching languages.  References to thousands of educational topics. Coverage: 1966 to date.  Updated monthly.

MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Indexes scholarly books, critical articles and essays in journals, and books on post-classical literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.  Coverage:  1963 to date.  Updated ten times per year.

HUMANITIES ABSTRACTS
Citations to more than 400 periodicals on archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Abstracts are available from March 1994 to date. Coverage:  February 1984 to date.  Updated monthly.

SCIENCE DIRECT
In addition to data for many science journals, includes full-text data for approximately 25 journals in the language and linguistic fields.  Coverage:  1995 to date.  Updated as information received.

ACADEMIC SEARCH ELITE
Find references to more than 3,000 periodicals in a wide range of subject areas, with many dating back to 1984.  Also provides full-text data for over 1,200 journals, with many dating back to 1990.  Updated as information received.

DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS
Doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 North American and European universities.  Coverage:  1861 to date.   Updated monthly.

PROJECT MUSE
Provides full-text electronic versions of more than 40 scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.  Updated monthly.

JSTOR
A continuously growing electronic archive of core scholarly journal literature in full text, with the aim of digitizing the complete backfiles of selected journals in these major subject areas: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population/demography, sociology, and statistics. Coverage: not a current file. Most current issues of the JSTOR journals are two to five years old.

INGENTA
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database indexing topics ranging from science, technology, and medicine to the humanities and social sciences.  Updated daily.   

OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY 
Not a database to help you find articles, but THE authoritative dictionary of the English language; includes etymologies, quotations, etc., in addition to the usual definitions and pronuciation guidance (uses the IPA: International Phonetic Alphabet).

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

The following journals are available on the internet.  Please note: in order to access the full contents of some titles, you may be required to register for and/or subscribe to the journal.

APPLIED SEMIOTICS
A refereed journal devoted to literary semiotic research on the world wide web from the Department of French Studies, Univesity of Toronto.
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa

BRJ Online (BILINGUAL RESEARCH JOURNAL)
The Bilingual Research Journal Online is a joint project of NABE, the National Association for Bilingual Educaton and the Southwest Center for Education Equity and Language Diversity,  College of Education, University of Arizona.
http://brj.asu.edu/staff.html

CATESOL NEWS
CATESOL News is the official newsletter of the California Teachers of English.
http://www.catesol.org

THE INTERNET TESL JOURNAL
Articles, research papers, lesson plans, classroom ideas for teachers of English as a second language.
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~teslj/

LANGUAGE LEARNING & TECHNOLOGY
Free refereed journal for second and foreign language educators.
http://llt.msu.edu/

TESOL-EJ
TESL-EJ, a freely-distributed fully refereed academic journal, is a source of research and information in English as a Second or Foreign Language.
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/

TESOL Matters
Selected articles from the publication.
http://www.tesol.org/pubs/articles/tm0006.html

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INTERNET SITES

These internet sites may be of particular interest to students and faculty in LINGUISTICS.

ACTFL:  American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
ACTFL's mission is "To provide vision, leadership and support for quality teaching and learning of languages."  ACTFL is taking the lead on 2005: The Year of Languages celebration.

ASL UNIVERSITY
This site "is an online curriculum resource for American Sign Lanugage (ASL) students, instructors, and partents of deaf children."  It provides lessons and other resources for self-study of ASL.  It has a bibliography of resources, 'baby's first 100 signs, glossary, FAQs, etc.

CATESOL
California Teachers of English site which states the mission of the organization is to promote excellence in education for English language learners and a high quality professional environment for their teachers.
http://www.catesol.org

CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS
CAL's mission is "improving communication through better understanding of language and culture.  "CAL is a private, non-profit organization: a group of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related problems.  CAL caries out a wide range of activities including research, teacher education, analysis and dissemination of information, design and development of instructional materials, technical assistance, conference planniing, program evaluation, and policy analysis."
http://www.cal.org

ETHNOLOGUE: LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD
Brings together information available on the languages of the world.
http://www.ethnologue.com/

BASIC DICTIONARY OF ASL TERMS 
Here are a few American Sign Language terms to help those who are trying to communicate with a person who signs, but does not hear. 
http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html

iLOVE LANGUAGES
Catalog of language-related internet resources.
http://www.ilovelanguages.com

THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ASSOCIATION
Home page of The International Phonetic Association.
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html

LANGUAGE HOTSPOTS
The National Geographic's Enduring Voices project to save disappearing languages.
http://www.languagehotspots.org

LANGUAGE LINKS
Materials for use by teachers and learners of languages.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html

THE LINGUIST LIST
Comprehensive site for linguistics sources maintained by scholars and graduate students at several universities.
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/

LINGUISTIC LINKS
Comprehensive list of links maintained by the University of Rochester Linguistics Department.
http://ling.rochester.edu/linglinks.html

LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Home page for the LSA.
http://www.lsadc.org/

TESOL
Home page for TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages). Information on membership, publications, resources, services, etc.
http://www.tesol.org

VERBIX: ON-LINE CONJUGATOR
Choose your language, then either one of the top 10 verbs or type in the infinitive of another verb; also has translation of verbs from and to other languages.
http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/

VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE
A collection of resources for humanities research.  Includes links to information on general humanities resources, and to other disciplines among which one may find links to anthropology, archaeology, architecture, area and regional studies, art and art history, classical studies, history, literature, music and dance, philosophy, religious studies, and women's studies, for example.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

WWW RESOURCES FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Sites gathered for foreign language teachers and sponsored by the Foreign Language Teaching Forum.  Has links for specific languages.
http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/flteach-res.html

YAMADA LANGUAGE GUIDES
Guides to language resources on the world wide web from the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon.
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html

YOUR DICTIONARY.COM
The Web of On-line Dictionaries is now a part of yourDictionary.com. Includes language dictionaries, multi-lingual dictionaries, specialty dictionaries, and many other type of language resources.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

PRINTED RESOURCES

Baker, Colin, and Sulvia Prys Jones.  ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BILINGUALISM AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION 
REF LC3707 .E53 1998

DeMiller, Anna L.  LINGUISTICS: A GUIDE TO THE REFERENCE LITERATURE
P121 .D45 2000 

Frawley, William, ed.  INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LINGUISTICS
REF P29 .I58 2003

RELATED CSULB ACADEMIC HOME PAGES

Linguistics Department
http://www.csulb.edu/depts/ling/