Research Guides: Bilingualism: Online Resources

Select Digital Resources & Professional Websites

CUNY-NYS Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals
A project of the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS) and the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education. Includes extensive translanguaging guides and teaching resources.
Corpus of New York City English
The Corpus of New York City English (CUNY-CoNYCE) is an in-progress project which aims to further the study of New York City English (namely, the varieties of English particular to New York City and the surrounding region), through the development and use of an innovative audio-aligned and parsed corpus of New Yorkers’ speech. The ultimate goal of the project is to combine recent advances in speech corpus development tools with the special talents and backgrounds of CUNY undergraduates to create a database that will be a resource for researchers in all areas of linguistics. An additional goal is to provide valuable research experience for CUNY undergraduates.
Digital Map of the Languages of New York City
Queens College Professor Daniel Kaufman’s ongoing collaborative work in mapping and documenting the languages of New York City
American Association for Applied Linguistics
Applied Linguistics addresses a broad range of real-life language-related issues by developing its own knowledge-base about language, its users and uses, and their underlying social and material conditions. This interdisciplinary field relates to education, psychology, communication research, anthropology, and sociology, among many others.
Center for Applied Linguistics
The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is a non-profit organization founded in 1959. Headquartered in Washington DC, CAL has earned an international reputation for its contributions to the fields of bilingual and dual language education, English as a second language, world languages education, language policy, assessment, immigrant and refugee integration, literacy, dialect studies, and the education of linguistically and culturally diverse adults and children.
Educational Linguist
Blog examining language and race in education.
Linguist List, Eastern Michigan University and Wayne State University
The aim of the LINGUIST LIST is to provide a forum where academic linguists can discuss linguistic issues and exchange linguistic information.
National Association for Bilingual Education
Since 1975, the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) has been a non-profit membership organization that works to advocate for educational equity and academic excellence for bilingual/multilingual students in a global society.
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
TESOL International Association advances professional expertise in English language teaching to speakers of other languages in multilingual contexts worldwide through professional learning, research, standards, and advocacy.

Select Video Resources

Ofelia García, "Translanguaging"

In this video on "Translanguaging," Ofelia García discusses the distinction between multilingualism, plurilingualism, and translingualism. She explains the way that translingualism (1) adopts the epistemology of a multilingual person by (2) challenging the concept of “named languages,” or languages that have artificial political boundaries. This is different from multilingualism and plurilingualism: two linguistic philosophies which treat the concept of named languages as a fact rather than as an ideological construct.

Sara Vogel, "Teaching Bilinguals (Even If You're Not One)"

This video, in which Sara Vogel explores "Teaching Bilinguals (Even If You're Not One)," is the first in a series of videos created by CUNY-New York State Initiative on Emerging Bilinguals (CUNY-NYSIEB) in 2015. The purpose of CUNY-NYSIEB’s new initiative, the New York State Network for Bilingual Education Programs (NYSNET-BE), is to support schools that offer bilingual education programs in New York State. This Network will provide professional development opportunities on bilingualism and education by virtually engaging participants in scholarly presentations, panel presentations by practitioners, and discussion of selected readings. In addition, the Network will make it possible for professionals in schools with bilingual programs to share information, resources and best practices with each other. Although the Network will operate virtually enabling participation of everyone in the state, there will also be possibility of face-to-face regional meetings.

The full series is worth a browse!