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The Language Garden è un innovativo sito britannico dedicato alle "language plants" mappe grafiche interattive per l'insegnamento e l'apprendimento delle lingue straniere basate sull'applicazione dei principi delle concept maps alla psicolinguistica. E' possibile utilizzare in diretta gratuitamente un 'language maps maker' da utilizzare nelle classi di insegnamento.

Linguist Rick Aschmann spent years creating this painstakingly detailed map of regional American and Canadian dialects. Aschmann has been steadily adding to it as people from all over the U.S. send him audio samples of themselves speaking. In addition to the videos people send him, Aschmann says he made the map from information he found on several language websites, from the Atlas of North American English, and also by watching a lot of online videos of people who he says retain their local dialect well, like politicians, gospel singers and NASCAR drivers.

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

The Romantic Circles Praxis Series (RCPS) is devoted to using computer technologies to investigate critically the languages, cultures, histories, and theories of Romanticism. RCPS is committed to mapping out this terrain with the best and most exciting critical writing of contemporary Romanticist scholarship.