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Useful Links
- Oxford - Some useful links
- American National Corpus access is free but you will need to register
- British National Corpus access is free but you will need to register
- INTUTE Arts and Humanities
- Internet for English a tutorial from the INTUTE Virtual Training Suite
- British National Corpus
- Dave's ESL Cafe from Dave Sperling. Focus on contacts between learners
- The Internet TESL Journal For Teachers of English as a Second Language
- Learn English effectively articles on how to learn English effectively, based on the experiences of successful learners
- UFAP Using English for Academic Purposes from the University of Hertfordshire
Language Resources
- Dictionaries and Reference
- Cambridge University Press, dictionaries free access to online dictionaries from Cambridge University Press. Search for words, phrases and idioms, suggest new words and meanings, and look at the top 40 word searches
- Hypertext Webster with links to the definitions of words used in each definition, allowing progressive vocabulary development
- Longman dictionary of Contemporary English online
- Newbury House Dictionary Online comprehensive English (American) dictionary.
- OneLook Dictionaries a one-stop resource which searches a large number of dictionaries at once
- Your Dictionary developed by Robert Beard
- Yahoo Dictionary Page large list of bilingual dictionaries and dictionaries for specific purposes, such as slang
- Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary online dictionary, with definitions and usage tips, word of the month feature, 'News Reader' style articles on personalities and news events, games and the 'Oxford 3000' list of key words
- Thesaurus a very good thesaurus. The site also has word games
- Grammar
- Common errors
- Grammar and Style Notes a guide by Jack Lynch
- Mary Nell's Grammar Summaries and Explanations
- Internet grammar from UCL
- The King's English H. W. Fowler's classic book on British English usage. This is nearly 100 years old, so clearly it is more sensible to consult a recent paper edition of Modern English Usage for serious work
- Listening
- Randall's ESL listening lab
- Stuff for English Learners includes a variety of unusual listening activities
- Yahoo - Radio: Programs a long list of programmes
- Phonetics
- Studying Phonetics on the Net resources For Studying Spoken English from George Dillon at the University of Washington
- Teaching and learning English pronunciation from Ted Power, includes a list of common mistakes by language background
- Reading
- BBC Learning English listening and reading activities
- Google Books
- Project Gutenberg digitally republished classic literature
- Everypoet.com a large online archive of works by well-known poets and poetry-related resources
- A celebration of Women Writers
- Just So Stories
- A comprehensive list of links to works by Jane Austen
- Prize winning books online
- Yahoo - Electronic Literature: Collections Yahoo's long list of sites offering literature online.
- Hyperizons - Hypertext fiction Original hypertext fiction, plus theory, criticism and reviews
- Myths and Legends Very well organised list of links, classified by region and language
- On-Line Books Excellent search engine for books available online. There are probably more than you think: 'Austen, Jane', returns 13 entries including the complete works!
- The Poetry Archive Searchable database of famous poets and poems
- Storybytes Collection of stories, all under 2049 words long
- Writing
- Academic writing
- Effective conference abstract from the Research Observatory at UWE
- Listen and write
- Phrasebank from the University of Manchester
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
- Purdue Online writing Lab
- Study tips for postgraduate students from The Student Room
- Writing a conference abstract by Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Writing a research article Thomas V. Perneger and Patricia M. Hudelson International Journal for Quality in Health Care 16:191-192 (2004)
- Writing conference abstracts by Peter L. Patrick, University of Essex
- Vocabulary
- Ask Oxford
- Just the word an interface of the British National Corpus
- Law The WWLIA legal dictionary
- Phrasebank Academic English from the University of Manchester
- A Word a Day A new word every day, with definition and audio for pronunciation
Media
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If you can't find the media you want in the language you want, try our multilingual page
- BBC
- Radio
- TV
- CNN Newsroom
- PBS News, entertainment and educational programmes
- CBC Newscast
Literature
- Virgo library at the Electronic Text Centre, University of Virginia Over 2,100 publicly available e-books
- Contemporary writers' database A joint project from the British Council and Booktrust
- Today in Literature Biographical information on writers, texts, and events in literary history
Exams
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