Zurück zur Startseite Websites Update LANGUAGE TESTING www.ealta.eu.org European Association for Language Testing and Assessment www.surrey.ac.uk/ELI/ltr.html Resources in language testing www.dialang.org European project for the development of diagnostic language tests in 14 European languages rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~unicert Information about the UNIcert-Zertifikatssystem started in the early 1990s by German institutions of higher education to ensure some degree of uniformity in certification for foreign language proficiency. A special interest of this initiative is the C-test. www.dundee.ac.uk/language studies/ltest/ilta/ilta_test2.html International Language Testing Association (ILTA) www.alte.org Association of Language Testers in Europe. One page of the website contains a very good glossary of specialist terms used in language testing. www.griffith.edu.au/centre/call Website of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Languages at Griffith University in Australia. Have a look in particular at the fourth in the list of links given on the homepage, International Second Language Proficiency Ratings. This is interesting in relation to the current debate in Europe on a Common Framework of Reference. www.geocities.com/esolscale/ Provides an overview of all the major English language proficiency tests worldwide. www.examsreform.hu Website of the British Council Hungary, devoted to language testing. Includes a section on teacher training, familiarising teachers with the principles of testing. LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING www.langtolang.com Translation into and out of seven languages, word quizzes, word of the day, etc. www.coffeebreakarcade.com/games/texttwist/instructions.htm Visit this site and download Text Twist, a word game www.bell-centres.com Website of England's leading group of English language schools www.onestopenglish.com Free resources galore! www.readyforfc.com Downloadable free worksheets to help prepare students for Cambridge First Certificate http://engtap.greatnow.com/ Good source of listening material www.eviews.net/library.shtml Another good source of listening material www.tomwilson.com/david/NC/keywords/ Useful vocabulary - keyword lists for the different subjects of the English and Welsh National Curriculum. See in particular 'Modern Foreign Languages'. www.tomwilson.com/david/nc/keywords/HartonKeywords.html Vocabulary puzzles based on the subject keywords of the English and Welsh National Curriculum. See in particular 'German Word Matches'. www.esl.about.com www.englishspace.ort.org www.dliflc.edu Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey, California www.dlielc.org Website of the Defense Language Institute English Language Center at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas www.coe.eu.org/languages The language teaching and testing part of the Council of Europe website, the powerhouse of European developments in the field! www.etprofessional.com Website of the magazine English Teaching professional www.uni-hamburg.de/fremdsprachenlernen The webmasters would be grateful for any suggestions or ideas for improving this website still further, and can be contacted by email at fremdsprachenlernen@uni-hamburg.de www.bbc.co.uk/languages www.grammarcheck.com The following additional sources of grammar material and ideas are also useful: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/quizzes.shtml#grammar www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar www.iatefl.org Website of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language www.benjamins.com One of the world's leading publishers in the fields of linguistics and applied linguistics LANDESKUNDE www.visitbritain.com www.visitengland.com www.thetube.com/guru How to find your way around the London Underground - fast! www.tfl.gov.uk tfl = transport for London. Bus, train and tube routes www.geocities.com/colinswalesuk Just about everything the potential visitor to Wales will need to know http://uk.multimap.com There's probably no better way of finding your way around the UK ! www.streetmap.co.uk A serious rival to the website immediately preceding www.pro.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/default.htm A fascinating insight into the lives of Asian and black people in Britain between 1500 and 1850, and a useful corrective to the common assumption that the British population was exclusively white until comparatively recently. www.movinghere.org.uk This site contains accounts of how members of the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian communities came to the UK in search of a better life. www.collectbritain.co.uk Interesting online view of the British Library collections www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects Section of the immediately preceding website offering over 650 audio recordings of English accents and dialects going back to 1950 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk www.britain.tv A website that describes itself as an 'encyclopaedic overview of all aspects of British life and culture'. www.britishpathe.com Millions of photographs of historic events and moments www.visitliverpool.com www.theglasgowstory.com www.idler.co.uk The website of The Idler magazine, devoted to alternative lifestyles, in particular the notion that laziness is a virtue to be cultivated, not a vice to be eradicated! Contains various amusing bits and pieces which can almost certainly be used in advanced classes. You can also order your own personal copy of 'Crap Towns - The 50 Worst Places To Live In The UK' ! www.ireland.travel.ie/home www.germany-tourism.de www.thebigproject.co.uk Tons of useful links TEXT CORPORA, CONCORDANCERS AND FREQUENCY LISTS www.ldc.upenn.edu/ Website of the American Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), a useful source of English text corpora www.elda.fr/ Website of the Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), another source of text corpora www.edict.com.hk/concordance The web concordancer facility provided free of charge by Hong Kong Polytechnic University www.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html The Collins Cobuild Corpus Concordance Sampler. As it is a free demo facility, all output is restricted to 40 lines of concordance. But for language teaching and learning - as opposed to research - purposes, that is likely to prove more than adequate! www.lextutor.ca Tom Cobb's invaluable 'Compleat Lexical Tutor' for data-driven learning on the Web. Don't be put off by the ghastly black background: the website's content is much better than its design! www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/cv Tom Cobb's vita www.webcorp.org.uk Use the WWW as a text corpus http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html British National Corpus (BNC) http://khnt.hit.uib.no/webtce.htm Parallel concordancer English - German http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/pking/index.htm Philip King's homepage at the University of Birmingham (UK) www.rdues.uce.ac.uk Research and Development Unit for English Studies, based in the School of English at the University of Central England, Birmingham. Automated summarisation, neologisms, WebCorp. For those interested in purchasing their own concordancing software, the following addresses will be of use: www.lexically.net/wordsmith www.athel.com www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk WEBLIOGRAPHIES http://members.aol.com/elinks4u/ Wolfgang Banek's original list of links for English teachers. Although the last update lies a long way back, there are still plenty of leads here for teachers to follow up. www.unibw-hamburg.de/SPRWEB/index.htm Homepage of the Language Centre at the Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, with links to British and American media (newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations). Click first on 'Internationale Medien' and then on 'Englisch'. www.sester-online.de An outstanding achievement - even better than the website you're looking at now! MISCELLANEOUS www.songtext.net The website address tells you all you need to know! [Zurück zur Startseite] | ||||||||