Paul's Aston Links




LINKS for Aston MSc

There is also a new set of links, PhD links.

Publishers sites:

Collins COBUILD  
Cornelsen  
Cambridge University Press (CUP)  
Hueber  
Klett  
Langenscheidt  
Longman  
LTP  
Macmillan/Heinemann  
Oxford University Press (OUP)  
PONS  
Routledge  
Triangle Publishing (Educational Action Research)  
Triangle Publishing (European Educational Research Journal)  
Cambridge ESOL Research Notes  

Book Shops & Books:

The International English Book Centre  
BEBC  
Keltic  
Amazon  
The International English Book Centre (Aston Specific Area)  
Writing Dissertations  

Useful Places at the University:

Phil's Support  
The Library  
Discussion Lists Archive  
About the Discussions Lists Archive  
Language Studies Diary and Activities Plus News and Events  
Pastoral Page  
Phil's EFL Support Site  
The Aston MSc Quick Start Guide  
E-Mail Login Page  
Library Web Pages  
Library Catalogue  
Black-Board (Bb)  
Language Studies News Letter  
School of Languages and Social Sciences  
LSS Staff List  
Preparing for a Visit to Aston  
Language Courses at Aston  
TESOL Quarterly via ASTON  
Inter-Library Loan Forms  
Library Photocopy Requests  
The Current Issue of "The Chat"  
Library Electronic Resources. You will need your athens password.  

For Teachers of English:

ERIC  
English Teaching Professional  
ELT Journal  
Digital Education Network  
IATEFL  
British Council  
English Language Gazette  
Developing Teachers  
CARN  
World Libraries Search Tool  
Modern English Teacher  
Modern English Digest  
Educational Action Research  
TESOL  
The Free Dictionary (A very interesting Site. Also Very Useful)  
The Most Amazing Grammar site You'll ever Find  
TESOL Quarterly  
Cambridge TKT  
The Internet TESL Journal  
The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning  
The Primary English Community!  
The World Education DataBase  
KinderSite  
World Wide Words  
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism  

Other:

UCL Phonetics & Linguistics  
UCL Sound & Speech Analysis Software  
UCL ICE Project (Fantastic for Anyone Working on ASI)  
Sound Recording Software Audacity (Free)  
Sound Recording Software (3D about $30.00)  
Soundscriber Audio File Transcription Software  
UCL Internet Grammar (Fantastic for Anyone Working on AWD)  
The English Teachers Assiciation of Switzerland  
A Good Site for Methodology Information  
ETH Lbrary in Zürich  
DELTA Intercultural Academy  
Concordance Software and Corpra (A very interesting Site)  
Concordances  
Web Concordances  
Concordancing  
Tim John's Page at Birmingham University  
An Article That May Be Of Great Interest(MET July 2003)  
Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Zürich Central Library)  
TYL Support Materials in a ZIP File  
Dave Willis' The Lexical Syllabus in a ZIP File  
My FTP Site  
Professor Malcolm Coulthard (Birmingham Site)  
Professor Malcolm Coulthard (Aston Site)  
The Linguist as Expert Witness PDF
Some Forensic Applications of Descriptive Linguistics PDF
Author Identification, Idiolect and Linguistic Uniqueness PDF
On plagiarism, patchwriting and the problems of overseas students in British universities PDF
Dr Alan Firth Aalborg University Denmark  
TESOL Careers  
LangUse  
English Unplugged (Site recommended by Rob)  
The ISTC (Institute of Scientific & Technical Communicators)  
Materials Development Association (MATSDA)  
Distance Learning Guide  
The Compleat Lexical Tutor (Great for Text Analysis)  
IngentaConnect Academic Articles Website  
Corpus Linguistics  
Robinson (CMD Reference from Unit 2)  
Citation Ideas (Aimed at Electronic Sources)  
Affect in Language Learning (Motivation Site)  
WFWSE Frequency lists This is one from Ch 4 of the CMD Module  
The Psychology of Cyberspace  
Papers4You  
FreePint  
UK Student Net  
MOODLE  
Word Nerds  
Learner Styles  
Learner Styles Index  
Different Approaches to Learner Styles  
Learner Styles Test and Explained This site looks at both aspects.  
ATHENS (You can download a useful tool bar from here & Access EBRARY)  
The Chartered Institute of Linguists  
IATEFL  

Corpus

Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Devoted to Corpora
Collins on-line
BNC
BNC Frequency Lists

Rob Waring's Homepage (Frequency Lists)

Michael Barlow
Rob Waring's Homepage
Just The Word Internet Concordance
Mr Oliver Mason Corpus Linguistics
More from Oliver Mason
CLAWS part-of-speech tagger for English
Automated Part of Speech Tagging
Interesting Papers related to Tagging and Chunking Text
TreeTagger - a language independent part-of-speech tagger
The National Centre for Text Mining
Welcome to the Edinburgh Language Technology Group
The SUSANNE Analytic Scheme
TnT -- Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagging
Computational Linguistics
Paul Rayson Paul is a key part of the CLAWS Project
CORPUS ANNOTATION
UCREL Home Page
Textual Analysis Computing Tools (TACT)
TaPOR Text Analysis Portal University of Alberta
TaPOR V2 Download Page

Media:

Guardian Weekly Education Suppliment
Guardian Style Guide 2004 (pdf Downloadable)
Guardian Style Guide 1928 (pdf Downloadable)
Style Guide Website. You Can Also Get A Word Document Version
TESOL-EJ (TESOL Electronic Journal)
TESOL Journal and Quarterly in full text
MET Resource Material for Portfolio Task 2
Is Grammar Innate? (Article in PDF)
El Gazette Article (Donated by Glyn)
El Gazette Article (Donated by Glyn)
Practising neuroscientist and monoglot Dr Mark Lythgoe grapples with the science of learning languages
 

Dictionaries:

The Cambridge English Dictionary  
Websters  
Dictionary Com  
COBUILD Concordance & Colocations Dictionary  
OED online  

Tools:

Concordance Software (Wordsmith)  
The Elements of Style  
 Google Scholar  
Qualitative Analysis Various Software Tools  
Liverpool`s Academic Tools  
WordStat Review [(Follow the Links)Linguist Lists]  
Provalis Research  
Content Analysis Software  
Content Analysis Resources  
International Phonetic Association  
WordNet Lexical DataBase  
Statsoft  
Concordancer  
WordShark (A very special tool for helping dylexic learners)  
ToSuccess.org (A fantastic site with masses on dylexia)  
Just The Word Concordancer  
Cygwin This is a UNIX emulation programme for Windows.  

Lesson Tools:

Time Lines
Multiple Matching
Word Scramble
Ordering Events
Gap Fills
Multiple Choice
Index
Crosswords1 or Crosswords2
Word Soups

 

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please e-mail me on:

raperple (at) aston.ac.uk