Modern Languages
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Recommended Databases:
Academic Search Premier*
A multi-disciplinary database that provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
EBSCOhost Databases
Search multiple EBSCO databases simultaneously. Custom select any number of databases from the library’s complete list available through EBSCO.
Films on Demand
A web-based digital video delivery service for streaming over 6000 educational videos from Films Media Group.
JSTOR
An archive of core scholarly journals in the arts and sciences.
Merriam–Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus
Database containing 225,000 entries, including more than 10,000 new words and definitions.
MLA International Bibliography
Citations from journals, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920s.
Project Muse
Free content only.
Roget’s International Thesaurus
Synonyms and antonyms with 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references, proverbs and quotations.
The World Factbook
General information about all countries including flag, map, statistical and government information and geography.
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Video Resources
Films on Demand
Multidisciplinary documentary film resource.
Language Learning Videos from Films on Demand:
Talk Spanish Series (1:37:57)
This spirited six-part series, filmed in the Mediterranean city of Valencia and its environs, introduces all of the basics of contemporary conversational Spanish while highlighting cultural aspects of the country. Each program uses a friendly group of speakers talking in a wide range of real-world settings to inspire beginners to have their say. “¡Hablar español es muy divertido!”
Suenos: World Spanish Series (4:44:56)
Filmed in Spain and across the Spanish-speaking world, this 20-part series covers practical basics for beginning speakers of the language and shows it being used in the richly diverse cultural contexts of Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, and the U.S. Each program revolves around a person or group intent on turning a compelling ambition or dream (sueño)into reality.
A Child’s Guide to Language: Teaching a Second Language (50:12)
Whether it’s English, Spanish, Chinese, or Urdu, babies and young children are able to pick up their native language with remarkable ease; no one language seems any more difficult than any other. Yet few children who are taught a language in school have anything to show for it when they grow up. Why is learning a second or third language so difficult? Are the teaching methods at fault? Enough is now known about the process of language acquisition to suggest that language teaching can be more effective. This BBC Horizon program looks at some of the different language acquisition methods in use in schools around the world.
Websites
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
TESOL- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
TEACHING SPANISH
Teaching Resources for Spanish
SPANISH
LANIC- Latin American Network Information Center
HLAS- Hanbook of Latin American Studies
Project Gutenberg: Spanish Language
FRENCH
Project Gutenberg: French Language
GERMAN
Project Gutenberg: German Language
CHINESE
Project Gutenberg: Chinese Language
RUSSIAN
Project Gutenberg: Russian Language
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