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• BBC Learning English www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ Comprehensive materials for intermediate to advanced ESL learners from the BBC World Service. Uses simplified news stories to present English in context

• Teaching English British Council www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ The award-winning global home for English teaching on the web brings together everything busy teachers need, from classroom materials to ideas for development.

• BBC Skillswise www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/ www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/ BBC Skillswise enables adults to improve reading, writing skills and Grammar.

• VOA Voice of America Learning English www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/ www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/ Learning English Text Videos and POD Cast from the VOA

• English Club www.englishclub.com/ www.englishclub.com/ English Club online, helping you learn English or teach English. You'll find everything from lessons for learners to jobs for teachers, including fun pages like games, quizzes and chat - all free!

• World English www.world-english.org/ www.world-english.org/ World English English Language Activities, Exercises and Tests

• eleaston.com eleaston.com/ eleaston.com/ E. L. Easton: Materials for Teaching and Learning

• The Internet TESL Journal iteslj.org/ iteslj.org/ The Internet TESL Journal Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links

• UsingEnglish.com www.usingenglish.com/ www.usingenglish.com/ UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse our grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.

• esl.about.com esl.about.com/ esl.about.com/ All About English as 2nd Language

• Language In Use www.putlearningfirst.com/language/index.html www.putlearningfirst.com/language/index.html Language In Use hear it, speak it understand it & use it This site aims to help students learn about - and teachers teach - the English language. There are tasks to help work through the material, expert advice and strategies for identifying unknown texts.

• Lingu@net Europa www.linguanet-europa.org/plus/en/home.jsp www.linguanet-europa.org/plus/en/home.jsp Lingu@net Europa is a multilingual, on-line resource centre for foreign language learning. It provides information about and links to good on-line resources from around the world relating to the learning and teaching of any modern foreign language.

• www.krysstal.com www.krysstal.com/language.html www.krysstal.com/language.html Languages and Linguistics Language Families The English Language Words Grammar History of Writing UK and USA English London English Place Names Writing for the Internet

• EFL Classroom 2.0 eflclassroom.ning.com/ eflclassroom.ning.com/ EFL Classroom 2.0 is a site dedicated to providing and sharing the best resources and methods available for EFL / ESL teachers and students around the globe. A site by teachers and students for teachers and students. The focus is on materials and methods that help language learning.

• Common Errors in English Usage www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ What is an error in English? The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I'll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we're concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.

• Language Impact www.languageimpact.com/index.htm www.languageimpact.com/index.htm At Language Impact you'll find language learning articles, product recommendations, MP3 files, and internet resources a site for teacher and students

• Dave's ESL Cafe www.eslcafe.com/ www.eslcafe.com/ One of the old Skool ESL Websites a Classic

• Free American English www.freeamericanenglish.com/category/american-english www.freeamericanenglish.com/category/american-english Its American English and its free

• Mind Tools www.mindtools.com/index.html www.mindtools.com/index.html MindTools.com helps more than 10,000,000 visitors learn the essential skills they need for an excellent career. Lots of interesting stuff on Read Writing Life Skills Getting a Job and much more! Worth a look!

• Grammar of English www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates. However, we hope that it will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language. IGE does not assume any prior knowledge of grammar

• The Hyper Text book of Modern English Grammar papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/ papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/ The Hyper Text book of Modern English Grammar by Daniel Kies Department of English College of DuPage

• An Encyclopedia of English Grammar and Word Grammar www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/enc-gen.htm www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/enc-gen.htm This encyclopedia is freely available for consulting or downloading The basic version, which is written in HTML and consists of a number of separate files provide the most up-to-date version of the theory and analysis. An e-book version, which consists of a single file. Is recommended as this version works more smoothly than the basic one. It was made by Professor Liu Haitao of the Applied Linguistics Department, School of Presentation Art, Beijing Broadcasting Institute.

• Grammar Movies www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-grammar-movies.htm www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-grammar-movies.htm British Council made Flash Videos for Basic Grammar

• Grammar and Style andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ The English Language A User's Guide

• Grammar and Writing grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ The Guide to Grammar and Writing is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation,

• Grammarly.com www.grammarly.com/ www.grammarly.com/ 150+ Grammar Checks Check your text for use of grammar rules you never knew existed. Get accurate error explanations and correct grammar. Plagiarism Detection Find borrowed text before it gets you into trouble. Automatically generate references. Vocabulary Enhancement Use words that make an impact. Liven up your sentences and improve readability with context-optimized synonyms. Contextual Spell Check Spot correctly spelled words used in the wrong context. No more embarrassing typos like then-than, to-two-too, lose-loose

• LanguageGuide.org www.languageguide.org/ www.languageguide.org/ LanguageGuide.org offers free sound integrated resources for learning languages. These resources are developed collaboratively with the help of volunteers. It is sponsored by Language Guide, a registered non-profit organization. Your financial help is needed!

• The Visual Dictionary www.infovisual.info/ www.infovisual.info/ Visual Dictionary, to learn by way of image with thematic, clear and precise pages, with concise and rigorous texts, multilingual, the InfoVisual will become an academic resource. Different from an encyclopedia or from a traditional online dictionaries, thesauri and glossaries because the images replace the words.

• The Visual Dictionary visual.merriam-webster.com/index.php visual.merriam-webster.com/index.php The Visual Dictionary Online, the dictionary with a new point of view. A quick glance at the index is all it takes to connect words with images. Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before.

• Visuwords online graphical dictionary www.visuwords.com/ www.visuwords.com/ Visuwords online graphical dictionary Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

• WordSift www.wordsift.com/ www.wordsift.com/ WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. We want WordSift to be a useful tool, but we also want it to be fun and visually pleasing. We would be happy if you think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language!

• Borrowings into English www.askoxford.com/globalenglish/borrowings/?view=uk www.askoxford.com/globalenglish/borrowings/?view=uk In the following sections, arranged according to the world's major regions, is a wide selection of languages from which at various times and in various ways English has borrowed. The samples are organized so as to suggest the proportions in which material from other languages is present in English, but no section seeks to be exhaustive and the historical dimension (for example, the periods when particular words entered English) is not explored. In some cases, the intermediary languages through which material has passed are indicated

• Wordle www.wordle.net/ www.wordle.net/ Wordle is a toy for generating

• Wordcount.org www.wordcount.org/ www.wordcount.org/ WordCount is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is. WordCount data currently comes from the British National Corpus, a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent an accurate cross-section of current English usage. WordCount includes all words that occur at least twice in the BNC. In the future, WordCount will be modified to track word usage within any desired text, website, and eventually the entire Internet.

• WordSpy.com www.wordspy.com/ www.wordspy.com/ The Lovers guide to new words

• Lingro Webpage translation lingro.com/ lingro.com/ Lingro lets users read Web sites and click on any word for a translation. The new Web-based service works in English, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Polish. The site uses open dictionaries, so users can help fill in missing words

• Cambridge University Online English Dictionary dictionary.cambridge.org/ dictionary.cambridge.org/ Free Online English Dictionary, Thesaurus, Word of the Day and other language resources from Cambridge University Press.

• Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you want www.urbandictionary.com/ www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you want 4,351,444 definitions written since 1999

• English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm A monster online dictionary of the rich colourful language we call slang... all from a British perspective, with new slang added every month.

• Online Etymology Dictionary www.etymonline.com/index.php www.etymonline.com/index.php Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

• The online dictionary of financial terms www.finance-glossary.com/ www.finance-glossary.com/ The online dictionary of financial terms

• WORDWEB FREE wordweb.info/free/ wordweb.info/free/ WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Features of the free version include: Definitions and synonyms Related words 5000 audio pronunciations 65 000 text pronunciations150 000 root words 120 000 synonym sets

• TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system.

• The Phrase Finder www.phrases.org.uk/ www.phrases.org.uk/ The Phrase Finder phrases sayings and idioms

• Wordnik www.wordnik.com/ www.wordnik.com/ Wordnik is a place for all the words, and everything known about them

• The British National Corpus www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century, both spoken and written. The latest edition is the BNC XML Edition, released in 2007.

• The American National Corpus americannationalcorpus.org/# americannationalcorpus.org/# The American National Corpus (ANC) project is creating a massive electronic collection of American English, including texts of all genres and transcripts of spoken data produced from 1990 onward. The ANC will provide the most comprehensive picture of American English ever created, and will serve as a resource for education, linguistic and lexicographic research, and technology development.

• Compleat Lexical Tutor & Online concordancers www.lextutor.ca/ www.lextutor.ca/ Range Vocab profile Concordance CORPUS N-Gram RT Builder Word recognition Vocab Stats Research Base Text Tools CORPUS BUILDER Familizer Frequency Lists Text_Lex _Compare KeyWords Morphology

• The Collins Word-banks Online English corpus www.collins.co.uk/corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx www.collins.co.uk/corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx The Collins Word-banks Online English corpus sampler 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. The query syntax allows you to specify word combinations, wildcards, part-of-speech tags, and so on.

• Vocabulary Profiler ec.hku.hk/vocabulary/profile.htm ec.hku.hk/vocabulary/profile.htm 1. the list of the most frequent 1000 words, 2. the list of the most frequent 1001 - 2000 words, 3 .the Academic Word List (AWL), (Coxhead 1997), 4. the remaining words in Xue and Nation's (1984) University Word List not included in the AWL, and 5. the words that do not appear in any of the preceding lists.

• BBC Pronunciation pages www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/ www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/ Learn about and improve your spoken English with free pronunciation downloads. There are videos, audio examples, quizzes and other activities to help you.

• The Phonetics Flash Animation Project www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/# www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/# A real-time Flash animated articulatory diagram of each consonant and vowel. ... For each sound an animation with sound and movie will load. ... This project was produced at The University of Iowa

• Pronunciation Web Resources www.sunburstmedia.com/PronWeb.html www.sunburstmedia.com/PronWeb.html Just loads of useful links for anyone interested in Pronunciation Web Resources

• Phonetic Flash www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/flash/flashin.htm www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/flash/flashin.htm Phonetic Flash is a collection of JavaScript programs for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4+ and Netscape 4+. It is intended for anyone who wishes to improve their knowledge of phonetic symbols.

• Phonetics Web Tutorials www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/tutorials.html#phon www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/tutorials.html#phon Phonetics Web Tutorials from UCL

• IPA Help www.sil.org/computing/ipahelp/index.htm www.sil.org/computing/ipahelp/index.htm IPA Help is a computer program for learning to recognize, transcribe, and produce the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

• WASP www.speechandhearing.net/laboratory/wasp.htm www.speechandhearing.net/laboratory/wasp.htm WASP ('Waveforms, Annotations, Spectrograms & Pitch'), is a program for the recording, display and analysis of speech. With WASP you can record and replay speech signals, save them and reload them from disk, edit annotations, and display spectrograms and a fundamental frequency track.

• The IPA www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/ www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/ The IPA is the major as well as the oldest representative organisation for phoneticians. It was established in 1886 in Paris. The aim of the IPA is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science.

• ESL Video www.eslvideo.com/index.php www.eslvideo.com/index.php

• Yappr.com Video Bank en.yappr.com/welcome/Welcome.action;jsessionid=424768B4487AC49B411A9B5778AE17DC en.yappr.com/welcome/Welcome.action;jsessionid=424768B4487AC49B411A9B5778AE17DC Watch and learn from movies, music, sports, even celebrities. Choose from thousands of videos enhanced with subtitles, definitions and more; new videos added every day. Practice your pronunciation! Get immediate feedback from our unique pronunciation analysis tool.

• BBC The Flate Mates www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/ www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/ Online EFL Radio Show Soap POD Cast

• ELLO POD Cast Lessons www.elllo.org/ www.elllo.org/ The mp3 files and text on elllo are Creative Commons. Students and teachers are free to download, copy and distribute these materials for educational purposes.

• 6 Minute English www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/ www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/ POD Cast lessons from the BBC

• ESL Podcast www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html English as a Second Language Podcast

• Open Culture www.openculture.com/audio_and_podcasts www.openculture.com/audio_and_podcasts Audio & Podcast Collections Free Audio Books Download free MP3's of great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Free University Courses Discover and download free online courses from some of the world's leading educational institutions, including Berkeley, Stanford, MIT & Yale. Over 250 courses from the liberal arts and sciences. Free Foreign Language Lessons Learn a new foreign language for free. This collection features 40 languages including Spanish and English

• ESL Listening Lab www.esl-lab.com/ www.esl-lab.com/ Free ESL podcasts

• EnglishConversations.org englishconversations.org/ englishconversations.org/ EnglishConversations.org started as a collaboration between Mark White and Aaron Campbell as the internet and the digital revolution suddenly made audio and video technology freely and easily available. We set out to provide a source of free language learning materials on the internet because we believe that education is the key to making this world a better place.

• Podomatic www.podomatic.com/featured www.podomatic.com/featured Listen to the best free podcasts on the planet. PodOmatic. Well thats what they say any way!

• Breaking News English www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ EFL / ESL English Lesson Plans & Podcast for studying Current Events and News. Thousands of FREE 13-page, Ready-to-Print Handouts with Downloads & Quizzes. Keep up with the news and learn English - Reading, Writing, Listening & Speaking.

• English-Zone.Com english-zone.com/index.php english-zone.com/index.php Graded ESL texts

• Aesop's Fables www.aesopfables.com/ www.aesopfables.com/ Online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed Great for making Jigsaw reading lessons.

• Thr Logos Foundation www.logos.it/ www.logos.it/ Logos Foundation Highlight of Free Resources at a glance: The Dictionary: Featuring 251 languages currently and genesis of the Logos Foundation Logos Library: more than 700 million words within a library search resource, featuring multilingual novels, technical literature and translated texts. Children's Dictionary: 180 languages featured with words specially targeted to encourage children'sinterest in language. Images and sounds are provided to stimulate the learning process.

• 100 free short English stories for ESL learners www.rong-chang.com/qa2/index.html www.rong-chang.com/qa2/index.html Good for Kids and Adult learns Reading Jigsaw Reading Grammar dictation or prompts for a writing exercise.

These are simple Google-like search engines but for PDF files, Word Doc and power point slides. I usually start my ebook search using one of these sites. Type in the title of the document or book name you're looking for and click on the search button. Find your book in the search results and click on download link. Done.

• Just free books www.justfreebooks.info/ www.justfreebooks.info/ JustFreeBooks search the content of more than 700 web sites, including gutenberg.org, wikibooks.org and archive.org. With JustFreeBooks you can find public domain texts, open books, free audio books, ad-supported books and more. Just type in the search box the book, author or theme you want to find.

• Slide Share www.slideshare.net/ www.slideshare.net/ Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar.

• WiZiQ www.wiziq.com/ www.wiziq.com/ WiZiQ enables teachers and learners to collaborate through * Virtual Classes * Online Tests * Educational Content * Contact Network

• Scribd www.scribd.com/about www.scribd.com/about Scribd is the largest social publishing company in the world, the Website where tens of millions of people each month publish and discover original writings and documents. On Scribd, you can quickly and easily turn nearly any file

• Issuu.com issuu.com/home issuu.com/home Issuu is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, books, catalogs, reports, and more. In just a few seconds users can create beautiful digital editions simply by uploading their publications.

• Google Docs docs.google.com/ docs.google.com/ Create and edit web-based documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Store documents online and access them from any computer.

• PDF Queen www.pdfqueen.com/ www.pdfqueen.com/ This site offers thousands of academic books and files in PDF format to download for free it surely breaks many copyright laws however if you can get hold of a book you need this is a good place to look.

• PDF Geni www.pdfgeni.com/ www.pdfgeni.com/ PDFGeni is a dedicated pdf search engine for PDF ebooks, manual, catalogs, spreed sheets, forms and documents.

• datasheet.net www.data-sheet.net/ www.data-sheet.net/ pdf ebook datasheet manual search engine you can search any ebook datasheet pdf files and download

• Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

• Many Books manybooks.net// manybooks.net// Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you'll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 25,742 eBooks available here and they're all free.

• Feed Books www.feedbooks.com/ www.feedbooks.com/ Discover: On Feedbooks you'll discover thousands of public domain books and original books from new authors that you can read on any mobile device. Publish: Turn your book into a high quality e-book with our publishing service or contribute to our collection of public domain titles.Feedbooks can distribute ebooks to a whole ecosystem of reading platforms and reach a global audience of millions of users.

• BBC RAW www.bbc.co.uk/raw/words/story_writing/ www.bbc.co.uk/raw/words/story_writing/ RAW Story Writing, full of tips and ideas that can make writing a story easier. Learn all about the Writing Process in our five part mini comedy. Follow Deakus (Lenny Henry), Nina Wadia and friends as they discover how to plan, structure, draft and edit their stories.

• Punctuation made simple lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/ lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/ A site about Punctuation Simple!

• English spelling problems englishspellingproblems.co.uk/index.html englishspellingproblems.co.uk/index.html This site presents the whole range of English reading and spelling problems. It shows why so many learners of English have difficulties with reading and writing.

• uefap.com www.uefap.com/index.htm www.uefap.com/index.htm Using English for Academic Purposes A Guide for Students in Higher Education

• Premier Skills British Council premierskills.britishcouncil.org/ premierskills.britishcouncil.org/ Premier Skills

• Mingoville.com www.mingoville.com/en.html www.mingoville.com/en.html Mingoville.com The World's Most Comprehensive Online English Lessons for Kids - for FREE! Kids Learn English the Fun Way in Flamingo City! Sign up today to learn English through Mingoville

• Learn English Kids from The British Council www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm Learn English Kids is for children who are learning English. Find games, songs, stories and lots of activities and learn English too.

• The English Blog jeffreyhill.typepad.com/english/ jeffreyhill.typepad.com/english/ Teaching English News Reviews tips etc

• Zotero Research Tool www.zotero.org/ www.zotero.org/ Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work in the web browser itself. Automatically capture citations Remotely back up and sync your library Store PDFs, images, and web pages Cite from within Word and OpenOffice Take rich-text notes in any language Wide variety of import/export options Free, open source, and extensible Collaborate with group libraries Organize with collections and tags Access your library from anywhere Automatically grab metadata for PDFs Use thousands of bibliographic styles Instantly search your PDFs and notes Advanced search and data mining tools Interface available in over 30 languages

• plagiarismchecker.com www.plagiarismchecker.com/ www.plagiarismchecker.com/ Check for Plagiarism On the Web for Free

• www.universalteacher.org.uk www.universalteacher.org.uk/default.htm www.universalteacher.org.uk/default.htm Andrew Moore's teaching resource site This is a bid site with lots of resources for teaching and good clear information covering a wide range of TESOL topics and other teaching and learning areas.

• teachers.tv www.teachers.tv/ www.teachers.tv/ Get a TV experience on your computer. Watch themed videos selected to match your interests, including great lesson ideas and inspiring documentaries.

• Survey Monkey www.surveymonkey.com/ www.surveymonkey.com/ SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily.

• NALDIC www.naldic.org.uk/index.cfm www.naldic.org.uk/index.cfm The National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) is the UK professional body for all those interested in raising the achievement of bilingual pupils with English as an Additional Language. NALDIC was inaugurated in 1993 and since its formation has acted as the voice of the profession. It provides a professional forum for Teaching and learning of English as an Additional Language Supporting bilingualism Raising the achievement of ethnic minority learners The development and understanding of this field of education

• Kwik Surveys www.kwiksurveys.com/ www.kwiksurveys.com/ 100% Free and easy to use service Create Web forms and surveys collect & download results

• Edutopia www.edutopia.org/ www.edutopia.org/ The George Lucas Educational Foundation A not surprisingly well funded and FREE teachers website. Well worth a look. Glad some people know how to use their wealth to benefit others May the Force be with you! We like it!

This is a collection of Websites that explore the uses of ICT CALL and Web 2.0 for Language Learning and Education.

• TALLENT www.solki.jyu.fi/tallent/index.htm www.solki.jyu.fi/tallent/index.htm Teaching and Learning Languages Enhanced by New Technologies Lingua course development project which is funded by the European Commission under LINGUA Action An interesting Site

• ReCALL journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=REC journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=REC The primary focus of ReCALL is the use of technologies for language learning and teaching, including all relevant aspects of research and development. Typical subjects for submissions include theoretical debate on language learning strategies and their influence on courseware design; research and development of practical applications; evaluative studies of courseware used in the teaching and learning process; exploitation and assessment of the potential of technological advances in the delivery of language learning materials; discussions of policy and strategy at institutional and discipline levels.

• CALICO Journal https://calico.org/p-5-CALICO%20Journal.html https://calico.org/p-5-CALICO%20Journal.html A journal devoted to research and discussion on technology and language learning

• Language Learning & Technology Journal llt.msu.edu/ llt.msu.edu/ Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and second language education.

• ICT for Language Teachers www.ict4lt.org/en/index.htm www.ict4lt.org/en/index.htm The ICT4LT website is a collection of training modules in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Language Teachers, the outcome of a Socrates project funded in 1999-2000 by the European Commission. The site was originally produced in four languages but only the English language version is now regularly updated.

• Nik's Learning Technology Blog nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ Nik's Learning Technology Blog Tips, resources and teaching materials to help EFL and ESL teachers use ICT and new technology

• European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning www.eurocall-languages.org/index.html www.eurocall-languages.org/index.html The European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning. EUROCALL aims to provide a European focus for the promulgation of innovative research, development and practice relating to the use of technologies for language learning.

• Web 2.0 / Language Learning web20andlanguagelearning.wikidot.com/start-here web20andlanguagelearning.wikidot.com/start-here This website lokks at how Web 2.0 technologies can enhance language learning.

• The Webheads webheadsinaction.org/ webheadsinaction.org/ The Webheads are a world-wide, cross-cultural, and vibrant online-community of educators with an open enrollment for anyone who wants to join. There are many sites by and for Webheads. This site is an attempt to create a Webheads 2.0 portal for our amazing community. More about the Webheads in Action.

• EDUCAUSE www.educause.edu/ www.educause.edu/ EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

• The Twitter for teachers Wiki twitterforteachers.wetpaint.com/ twitterforteachers.wetpaint.com/ A Wiki about how teachers are using twitter in the Classroom.

• Language Learning & Technology journal llt.msu.edu/default.html llt.msu.edu/default.html Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and second language education.

• Teachers 2.0 teachers20.com/ teachers20.com/ Teachers 2.0 Web site on ICT in teaching

• Teachers for Tomorrow www.teachersfortomorrow.net/ www.teachersfortomorrow.net/ A blog about technology and curriculum to help other teachers create the classroom of tomorrow

• Go2web2.0.net www.go2web20.net/ www.go2web20.net/ Go2web20 has been one of the biggest web2.0 directories out there. Go2web20 includes over 3,000 services and more are uploaded everyday.

• Webs www.webs.com www.webs.com Webs helps you make your own free website. Personal, group, and small business websites complete with photos, videos, and ecommerce

• Wet Paint Website builder & WIKI www.wetpaint.com/ www.wetpaint.com/ Wetpaint is the largest network of free websites. Wetpaint sites are great for fansites, groups, classes, and more

• Delicious.com Social Bookmarks delicious.com/ delicious.com/ Search the biggest collection of bookmarks in the universe

• ZOHO WIKI wiki.zoho.com/login.do?serviceurl=%2Fregister.do wiki.zoho.com/login.do?serviceurl=%2Fregister.do Create Collaborative Online Wiki Websites Secure, Share, Manage Wiki Websites and Pages Online

• Ning.com www.ning.com/ www.ning.com/ Ning is the social platform for the world's interests and passions online Ning offers an easy to use service that allows people to join and create Ning Networks. With more than 1.8 million Ning Networks created and 37 million registered users millions of people every day are coming together across Ning to explore and express their interests discover new passions and meet new people around shared pursuits. Ning was founded in October 2004 by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen. The company is privately held.

• LingoPass! www.lingopass.com/ www.lingopass.com/ LingoPass The Unique, Global Language Exchange Initiative. With hundreds of members contributing from around the globe, you have the opportunity to practice around-the-clock. Each session will be dedicated to the target language. As such, there is no need to match languages by partner. After a member contributes, they earn points to exchange for a one-week membership to attend all other conversation lessons.

• Live Mocha www.livemocha.com/ www.livemocha.com/ Livemocha is the world's largest online community for language learners, with free lessons and a global community to help you learn a new language.

• Hello-Hello www.hello-hello.com/index.php www.hello-hello.com/index.php Hello-Hello is a revolutionary FREE language learning website with a community of like minded individuals that help each other during the learning process.

• English Cafe www.englishcafe.com/ www.englishcafe.com/ EnglishCafe the premier place on the Web to teach English. Create quizzes, upload audio and video content to your personal library, write blogs and then assemble it all in to online Lessons for learners.

• CClearner www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware

• CNET Download.com download.cnet.com/windows/ download.cnet.com/windows/ Best Freeware and Shareware Site. All software on Download.com has been tested to ensure it's 100% free of spyware, viruses, and other malware.

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• The KMPlayer kmplayer.en.softonic.com/ kmplayer.en.softonic.com/ KMPlayer is one of the most powerful freeware video players we've seen. It includes a vast array of video- and audio-capturing options, as well as skins, a plethora of playback controls and tweaks, and broad DVD support.

• VUZE www.vuze.com/ www.vuze.com/ Find, download, play with the most powerful bittorrent app on earth Download fast Download and stream from the Vuze HD Network, or download any torrent file Download quickly and efficiently with intelligent bandwidth, queue and speed management Play on all your screens Sit back and savor the high-quality entertainment experience Now on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP and TiVo

• Spybot - Search & Destroy www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html Spybot - Search & Destroy has been in the antispyware game for a long time offering features we've come to expect in the best apps in the category

• Famous people lessons www.famouspeoplelessons.com/ www.famouspeoplelessons.com/ Free lessons based around famous people!

• LessonWriter.com www.lessonwriter.com/default.aspx www.lessonwriter.com/default.aspx LessonWriter makes possible LessonWriter creates opportunities to teach reading wherever comprehension matters - in every class and in every subject. Lessonwriter is a web site that generates comprehensive lessons* and lesson plans for teaching English language skills from any reading passage.

• Puzzle Maker puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ Excellent for making puzzles Crosswords and much more.

• The speech accent archive accent.gmu.edu/ accent.gmu.edu/ The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

• English varieties of the British Isles www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/britishisles.htm www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/britishisles.htm This guide is written for students who are following GCE Advanced level (AS and A2) syllabuses in English Language. This resource may also be of general interest to language students on university degree courses, trainee teachers and anyone with a general interest in language science.

• British Library Sound Archive www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/ www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/ You can listen to 76 sound recordings and over 600 short audio clips chosen from three collections of the British Library Sound Archive.

• The Catford Tapes: Professor Catford's Life in Linguistics deepblue.lib.umich.edu/simple-search?query=Catford&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Go deepblue.lib.umich.edu/simple-search?query=Catford&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Go The Catford Tapes: Professor Catford's Life in Linguistics A series of eight one-hour lectures given by Ian Catford in early 1985 on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Michigan Linguistics Department

• The Linguists Film www.babelgum.com/thelinguists www.babelgum.com/thelinguists Like modern-day explorers, the two academics featured in The Linguists travel to forgotten places around the globe to unearth rare treasures, in this case, endangered languages.

• The Linguistic Society of America Video Archive www.uga.edu/lsava/index.html www.uga.edu/lsava/index.html The Linguistic Society of America Video Archive is a storehouse of video clips of linguists and linguistic research. The clips on this archive deal with topics such as child language acquisition, language variation, grammar, etc.

• CAL The Center for Applied Linguistics www.cal.org/index.html www.cal.org/index.html CAL is a private, nonprofit organization working to improve communication through better understanding of language and culture. Established in 1959, CAL is headquartered in Washington, DC.

• London House School of English www.london-house.co.uk/ www.london-house.co.uk/ London House School of English is a fantastic place to study English. We are located in Kent, the garden of England, in the beautiful seaside town of Westgate-On-Sea. Westgate-On-Sea is only 25km from the famous city of Canterbury, 100km from London and within easy reach of the major London airports and the port of Dover. London House was founded in 1965. The school has a self-access and listening centre, a library, as well as computer rooms with free internet access and language learning programs. There is a students' lounge with books, television, DVD player, a pool table and table tennis and we have a garden for the summer.

• tesall.com www.tesall.com www.tesall.com Teach English Abroad with TESall.com, the Web's first vertical search portal for ESL TEFL TESOL job seekers.

• Tutor hunt www.tutorhunt.com/ www.tutorhunt.com/ Tutor Hunt is a service for both pupils and tutors wishing to advertise their service on this site. At Tutor Hunt, we know that finding a tutor is not an easy task. Whether searching for primary, GCSE, A Level or an adult learner, we strive to make the process as painless as possible listing all personal and private tutors closest to you