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Title: Using Google as a Corpus Tool
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From http://tesl-ej.org/ej26/int.html
The Internet is an enormous bank of language in use, and Google is a powerful tool for finding out information about language.
Here is an example of using Google as a corpus tool to investigate English usage: http://tesl-ej.org/ej26/int.html
Source: TESL-EJ
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Title: 4 Songs for Dealing with Tricky Conditional Structures
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From http://www.teachthemenglish.com/
In his blog post, Adam Simpson comes back with some songs that could be used to make the teaching of conditionals much more fun. His original post on songs was very popular, and you can access it here. Read the comments for more ideas, too.
Access the article at http://www.teachthemenglish.com/2015/02/4-songs-for-dealing-with-tricky-conditional-structures/
Source: Teach them English
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Title: Larissa and Inspector Z - Phrasal Verbs with Fun
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From http://larissaslanguages.blogspot.it/
If you’re looking for engaging ways to present phrasal verbs to students, here’s an idea: Create a comic strip so students can explore the meanings in context. Larissa shows us an example with the verb “look” followed by different particles.
Access the resource at http://larissaslanguages.blogspot.it/2015/02/larissa-and-inspector-z-phrasal-verbs.html
Source: Larissa’s Languages
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Title: Google Plus Community for Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching and Learning
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The Google Plus community for corpus linguistics and language teaching and learning is a dedicated online forum for discussing anything related to corpus linguistics and language teaching and learning. Besides regular discussion and resource and idea sharing, there is also a link to a helpful article about how to realistically use corpora in language classrooms: https://www.academia.edu/3368339/Integrating_corpora_with_everyday_language_teaching
Access the Google Plus community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101266284417587206243
Source: Google Plus
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Title: Order a Poster for National Foreign Language Week
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From http://www.lacitycollege.edu/academic/honor/amg/nflw.html
Every year Alpha Mu Gamma celebrates National Foreign Language Week. In 2015 the week will be March 9-15, and the theme is "Learn a Foreign Language: Gain a New Perspective." Every year AMG prints a new poster, available for free to members and for sale to the public. Learn more about NFLW, see what this year's poster looks like, and find out how to order one and how you can celebrate the week at http://www.lacitycollege.edu/academic/honor/amg/nflw.html
Source: Alpha Mu Gamma
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Title: Corpus Resources at Brigham Young University
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From http://corpus.byu.edu/overview.asp
Mark Davies, a professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University, has created ten different corpora, focusing on English (American and British), Spanish, and Portuguese. You can access all of them here: http://corpus.byu.edu/corpora.asp
His site also includes corpus tools, available here: http://corpus.byu.edu/resources.asp
Start out here for an overview of the resources available: http://corpus.byu.edu/overview.asp
Source: Brigham Young University
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Title: 31 Resources of Royalty-Free Images
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From http://www.teachthought.com
The use of images is an important part of teachers’ everyday planning, material creation and presentations. Here you have a collection of 31 sites with free images so you don’t have to worry about copyright.
Access the resources at http://www.teachthought.com/digital-media-2/31-sources-of-royalty-free-images/
Source: Teach thought
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Title: Book: Interactions across Englishes
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Interactions across Englishes. Linguistic Choices in Local and International Contact Situations.
By Christiane Meierkord
Published by Cambridge University Press
English is a language at the centre of research into language contact, because its global spread has resulted in contact with an enormous variety of different languages worldwide, leading to the creation of many new varieties of English, including second language varieties, and also pidgins and creoles. This book takes an original look at what happens when speakers of these different varieties interact with one another. Using her own rich fieldwork data from diverse international and South African contexts, Meierkord proposes an innovative approach to how Englishes merge and blend in such interactions, creating further new forms of English and further changes to the language. Through skillful analyses and descriptions, the book provides fascinating insights into where and who the users of English as a lingua franca are and what English then looks like at the levels of phonetics, morphosyntax, the lexicon and discourse.
To see the contents or order the book go to http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/interactions-across-englishes-linguistic-choices-local-and-international-contact-situations?format=PB
Source: Cambridge University Press
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Title: Book: French Grammar and Usage
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From http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138851108/
French Grammar and Usage
By Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell
Published by Routledge
Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena of French, and their use, illustrated by numerous examples taken from contemporary French, and distinguishes the most common forms of usage, both formal and informal.
Key features include:
- Comprehensive content, covering all the major structures of contemporary French.
- User-friendly organisation offering easy-to-find sections with cross-referencing and indexes of English words, French words and grammatical terms.
- Clear and illuminating examples help students at all stage of their degree.
- Useful indications of what cannot be said as well as what can.
Revised and updated throughout, this new edition offers updated examples to reflect current usage, new headers to include chapter number and section parts as well as enhanced cross-referencing for easier reference and expanded and more nuanced explanations of notoriously difficult points of grammar.
The combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of French at the intermediate to advanced levels.
This Grammar is accompanied by the Practising French Grammar: A Workbook (available to purchase separately ISBN 978-1-13-885119-1) which features related exercises and activities and a companion website offering additional resources at www.routledge.com/cw/hawkins.
To see the contents or order the book, go to http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138851108/
Source: Routledge
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Title: Call for Contributions: Conditional Constructions in African Languages.
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-1108.html
Expressions of interest are invited for contributions to a special issue of Studies in African Linguistics on conditional constructions in African languages. Contributions relating to under-documented and under-described languages are particularly welcome.
There is an extensive literature on conditionals both in linguistics and in philosophy, but most research is based on English or the better-known European languages. Conditionals in other languages are a neglected area of study. Although many descriptive grammars describe the morphological and syntactic forms of conditional constructions, the range of functions associated with such expressions is often inadequately described. For this reason, contributions should pay special attention to the functions as well as the forms of conditional constructions.
Analyses of English conditional constructions are not necessarily appropriate to other languages, and so contributions should describe phenomena in light of the structures and functions that are relevant to each language, rather than in relation to translation equivalents in English. Likewise, data should be drawn from participant observation and original texts rather than from translated or constructed examples.
Please send expressions of interest to the guest editor, Steve Nicolle (steve_nicolle@sil.org) stating:
- Your name and email address
- The name of the language or languages to be described, including the country or countries where spoken and the ISO code (see http://www.ethnologue.com) of the data sources that you intend to use.
The deadline for expressions of interest is 31 March 2015.
Contributions will be selected with a view to including languages from a wide range of families and regions within Africa, and avoiding duplication. Selected contributors will then be sent further instructions; submission of manuscripts is expected in early July 2015.
Studies in African Linguistics is an online, open access, peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish African language data and analysis that might not find a place easily or suitably in more general journals. Journal URL: http://elanguage.net/journals/sal/index
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