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- Seven excellent language reference books by Studying Online's blog on Nov 23, 2009
These are seven of the most loved / used language books on my shelves. All are useful for my work, but they’re also worth having in their own right; either as an everyday reference book, or for exploration of the English language in more depth.
- English language in the news by Studying Online's blog on Apr 27, 2009 in English in the news Esperanto Australian English China Turkey QuiTE Tesol
Just a small selection of English language related items that appeared in various online news sources last week. Australian authors defend local language An article relating Australian authors’ understandable alarm about a proposal to allow...
- Wordle in the English language classroom by Studying Online's blog on Apr 25, 2009 in Teaching English Vocabulary English language reading Wordle writing
Wordle creates word clouds from any piece of text. The image above is the word cloud of this blog; created by entering the blog’s RSS feed URL into Wordle. The resulting word clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently,...
- Accents and dialects of the UK by Studying Online's blog on Apr 18, 2009 in Pronunciation accents dialects English language Twitter
The British Library Sounds Familiar? site is an excellent source of sound recordings and short audio clips of accents and dialects of the UK, and as such could be a very effective way of demonstrating to English learners how pronunciation varies acro...
- Podictionary by Studying Online's blog on Mar 26, 2009 in Vocabulary English etymology
On Podictionary, Charles Hodgson delivers a daily short podcast describing the history of a common word. Each podcast is approximately 3 minutes long and is accompanied by a transcript in the form of a blog post. The site now has an archive of...
- Teaching English with stories by Studying Online's blog on Mar 4, 2009 in Books for teachers Teaching English English language teaching stories
Short stories are a particular favourite of mine and I like the idea of using them as a resource for teaching English. I have to say though, my attempts so far at integrating short stories into my lesson plans for adult ESOL learners haven’t b...
