Databases and Corpora

BNC (British National Corpus)

COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)

IDEA (International Dialects of English Database)

IRIS Database

CCL (Centre for Chinese Linguistic)

BCC (Beijing Language and Culture University Chinese Corpus)

BYU Corpora (Chinese)

CN Corpus

OASIS (Open Accessible Summaries In Language Studies)

CORDE (Corpus Diacrónico del Español. REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA)

CREA (Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual. REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA)

Russian National Corpus (Национальный корпус русского языка)

The University of Mississippi eGROVE

Ethnologue (Languages of the World)

The Language Gulper

IPA Chart Interactive

Praat: doing phonetics by computer

Student Spotlight

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

EMAD GERGES:

A HIGHLY ENERGETIC AND ENTHUSIASTIC TEACHER

EMAD GERGES

Emad is a highly energetic and enthusiastic teacher. He has taught Arabic as a foreign language in several places including the Middle Eastern Studies Center in Kansas City, The TAFL Center at Alexandria University in Egypt, The University of Texas at Austin, and the AALIM Institute in Morocco. He has demonstrated an ability to teach, motivate and direct students at a variety of academic levels and consistently maintains excellent relations with students, faculty and administrators.

Student Spotlight

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

MAIYOJANNA PELAYO: IMPROVING AS AN EDUCATOR

MAIYOJANNA PELAYO

Mai is a Ph.D. student in Second Language Studies. While living in Venezuela, her native land, Maiyojanna studied Administration. After graduation, she embarked on an adventure of learning English at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). During this abroad experience, Maiyojanna tutored students learning Spanish. Through this practice, in combination with her own language learning experience, her love for teaching languages flourished, driving her to obtain a B.A. in 2002 and an M.A. in 2005 in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language.