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The Petroleum Institute
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for faculty and staff
The following links are good sources of information with regard to language, language instruction and, of course, English.
Naturally, this is just a small sampling of what's available online. If you'd like to have any others added to this listing of hyperlinks, please let Marc Dyer know.
So, where do you want to go?
Acronyms and Abbreviations:
The Acronym Database provides an extensive list of... you guessed it—acronyms and abbreviations, etc. etc. etc.
ACTFL Proficienty Guidelines:
From novice to advanced, in all four skills areas. Plus other guidelines related to L2 testing.
Ask ERIC:
Search the large database and check out its Virtual Library, where there are various education resources (online and off), lesson plans, an education listserv archive, and quite a bit more.
BBC English Network:
Not surprisingly, this site has a lot to offer in the way of English language study and practice, as well as topics with an international focus.
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Various, free sites that at least let you take a peek at their data bases of authentic English language, both spoken and written. Good for finding examples of collocation, how puctuation is often used with certain words, and so on.
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British National Corpus:
"If you just want a taste of what is in the BNC, you can perform a simple search using the World Wide Web. You can do this directly from the web browser you are currently using to read this page, without registering. The restricted search interface will not return more than 50 hits, with a maximum of one sentence of context for each, but it will support any legal
CQL query...." (Ok, sounds good!)
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CobuildDirect Corpus Concordance Sampler:
"The CobuildDirect corpus is composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text. To get a flavour of the type of linguistic data that a corpus like this can provide, you can type in some simple queries here and get a display of concordance lines from the corpus..."
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Corpus of Middle English: Prose and Verse: Courtesy of the Humanities Text Intitiative (University of Michigan), this site may be useful for EES/lit classes, and of course can be great fun just for ourselves!
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International Corpus of English:
Although they'd like to sell us all their CD/ROM, we can download a sample of the ICE-GB (British component only) for free, courtesy of the University College London.
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The Modern English Collection:
Go here for "1,144 titles, including 3,000 manuscript and book illustrations, many of which are publicly accessible." (Courtesy of the University of Virginia Library.)
Dave's ESL Cafe:
Famous and huge, including a number of interesting and useful links.
ExChange magazine:
A great online source for teachers and students alike. For teachers it's a treasure-trove of EFL/ESL materials, and a place where you can share some of your own. This site actually incorporates quite a lot of student-generated work, including a small but growing online cookbook, writings on world cultures (e.g., festivals and other celebrations, parenting, cross-cultural mishaps), other class projects—even a means for your students to connect with other learners of English (email pen pals). A terrific resource, courtesy of the Intensive English Institute and the Division of English as an International Language (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Have your students find and establish email pen pals, post their class projects for others to read, and so on.
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ESL Games:
Links to all sorts of games for the language learner (e.g., crosswords, hangman, word searches, anagrams), some of which you can easily adapt for a particular class, others which you can have your students access directly online. A great resource.
Idioms:
A thorough resource for teachers, including explanations and useful information on variations; inflections and grammar; collocations; pragmatics; style, register, and usage; spellings; even cross-references and frequency bands—and the ubiquitous Idiom of the Day. All this is courtesty of the people at Collins Cobuild.
Internet Public Library:
"Contains 1253 critical and biographical websites [perhaps more by now] about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period." In addition, this large site—from the University of Michigan School of Information—has collections of magazines and serials, newspapers, online texts, and web searching.
Language Learning & Technology:
"A refereed journal for second & foreign language educators." A great site—highly recommended!
Linguistic Funland TESL:
Links to (still more) EFL / ESL resources on the web.
Oxford Teachers'Club:
"A site dedicated to ELT teachers and professionals everywhere." (Oxford University Press.)
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Many of these online newspapers and other publications/news outlets can, of course, be good sources of authentic English to use in the classroom. Others may just be of general interest to you—especially if you don't have a paid subscription!
Obviously, this list barely scratches the surface for what's consistently interesting and useful online these days.
Local and Regional
Engineering- and Science-Related
Practicing Oil Analysis
International / Miscellaneous
PHRASAL VERBS:
Here's an excellent site relating to two- and three-word verbs:
Dennis Oliver's large collection, located at Dave's ESL Cafe.
TESOL Arabia:
Find out what all is happening with regard to EFL in our own neck of the woods.
TESOL (International) publications:
These include subscription information, naturally, but there are free articles online as well.
Tongue Twisters:
So, how much wood would a wood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
A nice collection.
That's all...
and thanks a heap for stopping by...
to the
P.I. Annex homepage
Revised:
August 20, 2002
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