LibGuides: World Languages: Home

Need Help? Ask Us!

Visit (Coulter Hall, OCC Main Campus)
Call (315-498-2334)
Email (library@sunyocc.edu - response time for email questions is usually within 2 class days)
Report an electronic resource issue.

Welcome!

World Languages:

This guide is for those interested in learning or increasing their fluency in a foreign language. Do you want to become bilingual? OCC's language courses develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in ESL, Chinese, French, German, Italian, American Sign Language, and Spanish.

Best Bets

Babel by Gaston Dorren
Call Number: P375 .D67 2018
ISBN: 9780802128799
Publication Date: 2018-12-04
This title whisks the reader on a delightful journey to every continent of the world, tracing how world languages rose to greatness while others fell away, and showing how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. Whether exploring tongue-tying phonetics, complicated writing scripts, or mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs.
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition by Susan M. Gass (Editor); Alison Mackey (Editor)
Call Number: REF P118.2 .R68 2012
ISBN: 9780415479936
Publication Date: 2012-01-12
The Handbook covers a wide range of topics related to Second Language Acquisition: language in context, linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic theories and perspectives, skill learning, individual differences, L2 learning settings, and language assessment. All chapters introduce the reader to the topic, outline the core issues, then explore the pedagogical application of research in the area and possible future development.

WordReference.com
Started in 1999, this site was created in an effort to provide free online bilingual dictionaries and tools to the world. It has grown gradually ever since to become one of the most-used online dictionaries, and the top online dictionary for its language pairs of English-Spanish, English-French, English-Italian, Spanish-French, and Spanish-Portuguese. It is consistently ranked in the top 500 most-visited websites in the world and is a top 100 website in Spain, France, Italy and all of Latin America.