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Online Resources
The following is a list of online resources that may be helpful for instructors or K-12 teachers:
Chapter 3
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
This website provides a variety of information that is of interest to Speech-Language pathology. It also has detailed phonological charts with some major differences between English and other languages.
http://www.asha.org/practice/multicultural/Phono.htm
The Speech Accent Archive
On this website you can listen to a vast array of accents and languages spoken from a prompted text. In addition you can find phonological charts for many of the world’s languages.
Phonetics and Phonology
This website provides audio clips for the IPA chart.
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter1/chapter1.html
Articulation Movements
This website provides a detailed diagram of the movements that occur in the mouth for English, Spanish, and German sounds.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
Clip from My Fair Lady
Notice how a machine is used to assess the pronunciation of the glottal fricative [h].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gA7qq7Ja4U
Clip from The King’s Speech
Notice the immense amount of physical work it takes to speak. There are complex movements of multiple muscle groups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOtnSnVUouM
Chapter 4
The following websites have phonics activities that could be used for student activities.
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/consonants.htm
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/lesson-plans-and-activities-teaching-phonics
Chapter 5
Tree Diagrams
The following website can be a good resource for analyzing sentences by showing the tree structure. This can be used in several different languages.
The trees created for the chapter were created at the following website. You have to type the sentence in with brackets and identify lexical categories, but it produces nice trees.
http://ironcreek.net/phpsyntaxtree/?
Multimedia Resources
Daniel Everett, one of the linguists cited in the book regarding the “recursion debate,” can be found giving a lecture about the Pirahã language.
http://fora.tv/2009/03/20/Daniel_Everett_Endangered_Languages_and_Lost_Knowledge - fullprogram
Student Activities
This website, through the University of Pennsylvania, shows examples of ambiguous news headlines. These are funny and can be used to prompt discussion of grammar, irony, and ambiguity in the classroom.
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/headlines.html - structural-ambiguity
This website allows students to select particular parts of speech to fill in a story, seemingly at random. Usually the stories turn out funny, but still “grammatical.” This could be a useful tool for students to learn about nouns, adjectives, verbs, and so on.
There are several organizations that support linguistic games as an inter-school competition. These “Linguistic Olympiads” are very similar to what may be found in a Math Olympiad. They provide resources from old questions that can be used with students to build on logic and metalinguistic domains.
http://www.ioling.org/
http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/
http://www.uklo.org/
Chapter 6
Etymology is a fascinating area of study. The Oxford Dictionary explains how many words have come to mean the way they do throughout history. In English, words have been borrowed from years of language contact. So, this is one resource to see how the English language has evolved over the years. The Online Etymology Dictionary is another resource.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/the-oxford-english-dictionary
Games and Tools
In the following websites, there are activities regarding English prefixes and suffixes.
http://firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/other/prefixes/prefixes.htm
http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames/prefixsuffix.html
While it is easy to get caught up in false cognates, this link provides a number of cognates that may be useful for Spanish-speaking ELLs.
http://www.colorincolorado.org/pdfs/articles/cognates.pdf
The following website has a number of resources that are useful for working with Spanish-speaking ELLs and their families.
http://www.colorincolorado.org/
Chapter 7
http://blogs.transparent.com/english/make-a-metaphor/ [Transparent Language, Making a Metaphor]
The following website displays a number of “misuses of English” from around the world. Often these are due to translation errors or ambiguity. Often they come from errors in English morphology.
The following website explains the meanings of a variety of metaphors and idioms. This includes historical roots of the metaphors and idioms.
Chapter 8
The following website has information about the history of writing and scripts.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/elamite.html
The following websites discuss the different fonts and the importance of typography. The first is a link to a video about typography. The second two are specific rules for typography. The way printed language looks is meaningful as well.
http://www.typeculture.com/academic_resource/movies/
http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=2254
http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/rules/type.pdf
For reading instruction, the Florida Center for Reading Research is a great resource to have on hand.
http://www.fcrr.org/
In addition, the Institute of Educational Sciencesmaintains a synthesis of “What Works.” It can be useful in making large-scale decisions for curricula and interventions.
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wWc/topic.aspx?sid=8
Chapter 10
The following links are different links to mathematics from around the world. Think about the connection between math and language in these different sites.
Calculating Non-Decimal Systems
http://easycalculation.com/funny/numerals/sumerian.php
Ethnomathematics
http://homepages.rpi.edu/~eglash/isgem.dir/links.htm
http://www.prel.org/products/paced/apr03/ed_ethnomath.htm
Online Abacus
http://www.mandarintools.com/abacus.html
Babylonian/Sumerian Number System
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/images2/babylonian_numerals.gif
Number Systems
http://web.archive.org/web/20060714025120/http://www.saxakali.com/historymam2.htm
African Fractals
http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals.html
Chapter 11
Language has very specific uses. The following websites list a number of different functions of language:
Greetings in 2,400 Languages
http://users.elite.net/runner/jennifers/index.htm
Different Calendars throughout History
http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/index.html
http://www.calendarzone.com/Historic/
http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html
Forms of Address
http://www.formsofaddress.info/FOA_home.html
http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/OTHERREFERENCE/FORMSOFADDRESS/SpkWr itFrmsAddr.html
Measuring Systems
http://www.convert-me.com/en/
Etiquette
http://www.ediplomat.com/np/cultural_etiquette/cultural_etiquette.htm
Language can be highly specific with particular groups. Compare “Coffee Culture” and “Tea Culture”
http://www.teainfusion.com/
http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/
Chapter 12
Narrative is one of the most important functions of language. The following are different websites that can be great resources for making narratives, analyzing narratives, and studying about narratives:
Creating Comic Strip Narratives
http://www.bitstrips.com/create/comic/
Build a Story by Entering Words
http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/WritingCorner/StoryBuilder/index.html
Create a Story with Pictures
http://storybird.com/
The Book Box website has a variety of stories that are set to music and motion available in several different languages.
http://www.bookbox.com/
Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/
Tales
http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/stories
Political Narratives
http://electionwatch.enm.bris.ac.uk/US-Elections-2012/index.html#
Analysis of Social Media: Constructing Narratives in Real Time
www.twitter.com [search, hash tags]
www.google.com/trends [search online narrative of a topic]
RSS Feeds
The English Learning through Mathematics, Science, and Action Research Project (ELMSA) is a professional development program run through the University of Illinois at Chicago and funded by the Department of Education. Under the leadership of Dr. Aria Razfar, it uses a cultural historical activity approach to professional development by supporting teachers through action research. Teachers learn to develop curriculum through accessing students’ funds of knowledge.
www.Elmsa.org
http://elmsa.org/news
From time to time the Department of Education posts news and resources relevant to policies that effect ESL and bilingual education. Keeping connected through the Department of Education can keep us informed about the national movements within bilingual education.
http://www.ed.gov/
The New York Times has a feed about news relating to bilingual education.
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/bilingual_education/index.html