Links and Resources

Links

• Applied Linguistics Students Association (ALSA) is a graduate student run organization.
• UW-Madison Scholars in Linguistics
• UW-Madison Language Departments
• UW-Madison Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition
• UW-Madison Program in English as a Second Language
• UW-Madison Language Institute
  

  The Language Institute is an initiative of the College of Letters and Science which fosters and promotes collaboration for research, education, and community outreach efforts in languages, literatures, and cultures.

• UW-Madison Waisman Center
  

  The Waisman Center is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases throughout the lifespan. The center is one of nine national facilities that includes a Mental Retardation Developmental Disabilities Research Center and a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.

• UW-Madison Writing Center
  

  The Writing Center offers individual consultations and classroom instructions to students in all disciplines. Writing instructors offer professional advice on all aspects of academic writing, such as structuring of research papers and proposals, writing research posters, writing with PowerPoint, and writing and delivering conference papers.

• Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
  

  The UW-Madison Department of English is proud home to the world-famous Dictionary of American Regional English, praised as the most exciting linguistic project going on in the United States by William Safire.

Communities of Scholars

• The LINGUIST List - the world's largest online resource in linguistics
• American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
• American Dialect Society

Web Snippets

• The Language Feed - a weekly roundup of language news article found around the web.
• Lexicon of Linguistics mainly theoretical linguistics
• language log one of the better-known linguistics blogs