Links for teachers and researchers
Internet Resources for Language Teachers and Researchers
This page is primarily addressed to staff and graduate research students in the Department of Applied Linguistics, but we hope that the links will be of help to visitors to the site.
General guides | Resources for teachers and learners | CALL | Corpus | Global issues | Grammar | Phonetics | Professional organisations | Research funding | SLA | Study Skills | Testing | Writing | Jobs
General
guides to linguistics resources on the Internet
The following sites are recommended starting points for locating useful general linguistic resources:
Resources
for language teachers and learners
Three sites offering comprehensive lists of resources for language teachers and learners are:
- http://www.fredriley.org.uk/call/langsite/
This site, run by Fred Riley, provides a vast number of links to sites related to language teaching and learning. The main categories under which the links are placed are as follows: General, Language-specific, Multilingual, Internet (sites related to the use of the Internet as a medium for language teaching and learning, including browser-based CALL software), Search Engines, Commercial.
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/teacher.html
A rich, varied set of links for teachers and learners of English as a Foreign
Language.
Alternatively, visit the home page (Volterre-Fr Directory
for English and French Language Resources) http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/
http://www.language-learning.net
This provides information on language courses around the world, including
information on language tests and certificates of proficiency, and on organizations
active in the field of language education.
http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/resources/bankcontents.aspx
Links
to a wide range of teaching materials resources for modern languages on The Subject
Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies website.
'Using the WWW for EFL Research and Resources', a paper by Bill Pellowe, is a useful introduction for research students to the potential of the Internet. The URL is:
CALL/Information
Technology in Language Teaching (ITLT)
The Virtual CALL Library offers access to a wide range of downloadable shareware CALL programs for PC users; CELIA, an extensive archive of CALL software, covers programs for both PCs and Macs. TESOL CALL Interest Section is building a CALL software list.
For resources such as bibliographies, try the excellent EUROCALL website. Fred Riley's CALL@Hull website is also an essential source of information about CALL.
The ICT4LT website features a set of modules explaining different ways of using ICT in language teaching.
The CTI page 'Internet-Based Language Learning' lists a number of good sites for activities, and software, including the 'Hot Potatoes' suite. Lauren Rosen's 'Teaching with the Web' site has many ideas for using the web as a teaching tool.
Michael Krauss has compiled a site of ideas for integrating IT into a content-based curriculum.
Johan Graus' thesis
'An evaluation of the usefulness of the Internet in the EFL classroom' can be
read at:
http://home.plex.nl/~jgraus/thesis/Evaluation.htm
Matisse Enzer has compiled a glossary of Internet terms.
Other links:
IATEFL Computer SIG
JALT CALL
TESOL CALL-IS
CALL-EJ (an online journal devoted to CALL)
ReCALL Online (a few issues of EUROCALL ReCALL are available)
Language Learning & Technology (online journal)
Michael Barlow's page of links is the best place to begin one's search. He offers a comprehensive listing of corpora, corpus analysis software, publications, and other related areas of interest. Another excellent listing is offered on the English Language Corpora and Corpus Resources page. For those interested in the applications of corpus analysis to teaching/learning, Tim Johns' 'Data-driven learning page' is highly recommended, particularly for the bibliography provided.
Mike Scott's site offers links for downloading his excellent corpus analysis and management tools, as well as several wordlists.
Peter Ruthven-Stuart reviews a number of concordancers, provides links to other sites, a glossary of terms used in concordancing, and has a useful bibliography.
You can perform limited concordance searches on the BNC corpus.
Global
issues
Chris Doye and Bob Keim have put together an interesting set of online activities based around New Internationalist articles on global issues. The IATEFL Global Issues SIG site is at: http://www.countryschool.com/gisig.htm: the Web Resources page provides useful links.
Grammar
The 'Web of On-line Grammar' presents a set of links to online grammars for an astounding range of languages. For other links to pages relating to the study of grammar, look at the general guides to linguistics resources listed above. The Survey of English Usage, at UCL, has published an online course in English Grammar.
Phonetics
The 'Speech on the Web' page compiled by Rob van Son, at the Institute of Phonetic Sciences, the University of Amsterdam, is comprehensive, and is regularly updated. The International Phonetic Association page is: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
Other web sites that will be of interest to those concerned with phonetics or the teaching of pronunciation are:
- TESOL
Pron-SIG
- IATEFL PronSIG
- UCL Phonetics Department: Computer
Aided Learning and Internet Teaching
- Sunburst:
a guide to web resources
- Centre for Independent Language Learning guide to learning pronunciation, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
An explanation of the SAMPA computer readable
phonetic alphabet can be found at:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm
Professional organisations
- American Association for Applied Linguistics (http://www.aaal.org)
- Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/alaa/)
- Applied Linguistics Association of Brazil (http://atlas.ucpel.tche.br/~alab/)
- Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (http://www.massey.ac.nz/~NZSRDA/nzssorgs/alanz/alanz.htm)
- British Association of Applied Linguistics (http://www.baal.org.uk/)
- British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (http://www.baleap.org.uk/)
- British Association of TESOL Qualifying Institutions (http://www.batqi.org/)
- British Institute of English Language Teaching (http://www.bielt.org/)
- Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (http://www.cilt.org.uk)
- The European Language Resources Association (http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/home.html)
- European Second Language Association (http://www.kun.nl/ttmb/eurosla.html)
- International Association for Applied Linguistics (http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/aila/)
- International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (http://www.iatefl.org)
- International Language Testing Association (http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ELI/ilta/ilta.html)
- Linguistics Association of Great Britain (http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB)
- Modern Language Association of America (http://www.mla.org/)
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (http://www.tesol.edu)
Research funding
The following are major UK funding organisations:
- Arts and Humanities Research Board (http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/)
- The British Academy (http://www.britac.ac.uk/)
- The Economic and Social Research Council (http://www.esrc.ac.uk/)
- The Higher Education Funding Council for England (http://www.hefce.ac.uk/)
- The Leverhulme Trust (http://www.leverhulme.org.uk/)
Second Language Acquisition
The International Commission on Second Language Acquisition web site gives an introduction to journals and sites dedicated to second language acquistion studies.
- James Cook University (www.tsd.jcu.edu.au/netshare/learn/studskls/online.html )
- University of Sussex: (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/skills/index.html)
- Basic study guides from the University of St Thomas, US (http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/ )
- Online writing lab at Purdue University, US (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ )
- Basic study guides from the Uni of St Thomas, US (http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/ )
- UK study skills sites (http://www.support4learning.org.uk/education/study.htm )
- Basic study skills advice to accompany/promote textbooks on the subject (http://www.palgrave.com/skills4study/html/studyskills.htm)
Testing
Glenn Fulcher, at the University of Leicester, has compiled an excellent list of useful links.
Writing
The Purdue University Online Writing Laboratory, otherwise known as an 'OWL', is an excellent starting point for information about all the OWL sites, and for links for both teachers' and writers' resources. The Houghton Mifflin site advertising Ann Raimes' book Keys for Writers has several useful links to sites giving advice to writers, providing resources for writers, and discussing issues related to writing and rhetoric.
For references to research on computers and composition, use the
Comprehensive Bibliography
for the journal 'Computers and Composition'.
EFL Job listings
UK-based listings:
- TEFL-jobs.co.uk
- The Guardian's Jobs Unlimited
- TEFL.com
- jobs.ac.uk
- ESLemployment
- English Job Maze
- ESL base
- ESL jobs