Tuesday 26 April 2011

System

SystemAn International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, available via an Essex University login here.


Wednesday 20 April 2011

A History of the World in 100 Objects


'High-brow’ audio recordings on a range of topics.  This Radio 4 project brings together history and culture in a study of 100 objects currently exhibited in the British Museum.

Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

Compleat Lexical Tutor

Apple - iTunes



(requires iTunes installation + a means of playing mp3s, but a wealth of listening material and video here)


BBC Learning English

Online Computing Dictionary

TED


There's a wide range of talks and lectures on this site, many of which are quite short (some are under 6 minutes) - useful either if you're busy or if you want to do some really intensive listening practice.

An impressive and useful feature of the TED website is the way that interactive tapescripts are linked to recordings. You can see the tapescriptto the right of each video, and clicking on a word will take you to that point in the video...not only that, you can call the tapescript up as subtitles...in English or - if you're desperate for help - in a choice of alternative languages.

The Albert Sloman Library

BBC iPlayer

British Media Lonline

BBC

Phonetics by The University of Iowa

Plagiarism - Advice for students at the University of Essex

Presentation Planner

Help Disk Writing Program

UEA Anti-Plagiarism Quiz

HK Polytechnic University English Language Centre

Strategies for Critical Reading and Writing

Academic Skills at Essex

University of Richmond Writer's Web

Longman English Dictionary Online

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus

Using the Academic Word List

Reference Machine


Writing Exercises for Engineers and Scientists

RMIT Learning Lab - Writing Skills

Financial Times Lexicon

Specialty Dictionaries

Natural Grammar

The Internet Grammar of English

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)