Useful Research Tools and Resources

Survey Tools

• Survey Planet
• Survey Gizmo
• Qualtrics
  • Note: The functions of the free versions are limited. Students at UIUC College of LAS can request a licensed account of Survey Gizmo and Qualtrics from UIUC College of LAS Survey Research Tools. However, since this is a pilot program, the ATLAS Tech Support cannot say with certainty that the program will be renewed until the beginning of each semester. If/when they become aware that the pilot program will end, they will alert active users so they may take the appropriate steps to preserve their work.
• UIUC CITL offers workshops and consultation on surveys.

Pictures resources (useful for creating pictures used in picture-based tasks)

• PIXTON
• VectorStock
• Note: the UGL has software such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator

Experiment Builders

• SR Research support (Eyelink): record eye movement
• Linger: primarily designed for masked, self-paced reading experiments
• E-Prime
• The Paradigm Experiment Builder
• Experigen RT: measure reaction times in web-based auditory experiments
• PennController (a javascript library for Ibex)
• See NHLRC for a list of experimental research tools

Meeting scheduler tools (for scheduling participants)

• Calendly <https://calendly.com/>
• SignUpGenius <http://www.signupgenius.com/>
• YouCanBook.me <https://youcanbook.me/>

Statistics

• UIUC CITL offers statistical consulting and workshops to students, faculty and staff in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
• Statistics.com

Sound related

• PRAAT
• Transcriber

Lexical/Corpus Database

• Wordbank: An open database of children’s vocabulary development
• CELEX (Dutch, English, and German lexical database)
• LEXIQUE (French lexical database)
• CHILDES Child Language Data Exchange System

Research Compliance at UIUC

• Campus Institutional Review Board (IRB)

Other Language Labs at UIUC

• Illinois Phonetics & Phonology Lab
• UIUC Electrophysiology and Language Processing Lab
• Educational Psychology Psycholinguistics Lab

Other (Second) Language Acquisition Labs in the U.S.

• USC: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~zubizarr/SLAGroup.htm
• CUNY: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/labs/sla_lab.html
• Hawaii: http://www.hawaii.edu/cslr/
• Ohio State: https://u.osu.edu/langlab/

Other (Second) Language Acquisition Labs in the world

• Ottawa (Canada): http://www.modernlanguages.uottawa.ca/lab.html
• Valladolid (Spain): http://albergueweb1.uva.es/uvalal/

Others

• National Heritage Language Resource Center