USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES FOR APPLIED LINGUISTS

USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES FOR APPLIED LINGUISTS

GENERAL ACADEMIC SEARCH
(all are freely available from Hiroshima University except for Questia)

Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/

Blackwell Synergy
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/

Cambridge Journals
http://journals.cambridge.org/

ERIC
http://www.eric.ed.gov/

Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.co.jp/

Ingentaconnet
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/

Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications
http://www.multilingual-matters.net/default.htm

Oxford Journals
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/

Questia
http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp

SAGE Journals
http://online.sagepub.com/

Science Direct
http://www.sciencedirect.com/

SPECIFIC ACADEMIC JOURNALS
(all are freely available from Hiroshima University)

Applied Linguistics
http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/

Annual Review of Applied linguistics
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=APL

ELT Journal
http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/

English Today
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ENG

English World-Wide
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jbp/eww

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/IJAL

Journal of Communication
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/JCOM

Journal of Research in Reading
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/JRIR

Journal of Second Language Writing
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10603743

Language Learning
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/LANG

Language Teaching Research
http://ltr.sagepub.com/archive/

Language Testing
http://ltj.sagepub.com/

Modern Language Journal
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/MODL

Second Language Research
http://slr.sagepub.com/

Studies in Second Language Acquisition
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=SLA

System
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0346251X

TESOL Qurarterly
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tesol/tq

World Englishes
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/WENG

Written Communication
http://wcx.sagepub.com/

FREE ONLINE REFERENCES

Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/

Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

USEFUL FREE SOFTWARE

Firefox (Recommended for flexible use, Japanese edition)
http://www.mozilla-japan.org/products/firefox/

Safari (Recommended for comfortable reading in English, Japanese edition)
http://www.apple.com/jp/safari/

Zotero (Recommended for managing your research sources, Firefox extension)
http://www.zotero.org/

Googley design

Design is one of my keywords. I'm attracted to it because I define it as "the science and art of reducing complexity for comfortable human interface." Design is pervasive from a mobile phone to an academic paper. It helps us to deal with reality that in itself is too complex for our bounded rationality. Through the science of design, we discover structures in reality. Through the art of it, beauty in experience. Design crystallizes our our being.


Together with technology, design is between science and art. In the sequence of science, technology, design and art, we find gradually shifted human activities to manage our life on earth (or in the universe). By the rationality science reveals, the efficiency technology acquires, the pleasure design affords and the joy art declares, human beings ceases to be a miserable being that must bear with harsh reality of the earth and the universe.

And here we meet, most likely thanks to the Google technology. Google is one of our icons of technology and design.

The official Google blog recently announced the Googley Design Principles:

1. Focus on people―their lives, their work, their dreams.
2. Every millisecond counts.
3. Simplicity is powerful.
4. Engage beginners and attract experts.
5. Dare to innovate.
6. Design for the world.
7. Plan for today's and tomorrow's business.
8. Delight the eye without distracting the mind.
9. Be worthy of people's trust.
10. Add a human touch.

The principles are extensions of Google's philosophy and you can read the detail of the principles here.



Gee, I'd like to be a little Google in my work and life!