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Peter M. Nardi, Skeptic's Cafe, 2012.03.22

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in list: Linguistics

"The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers" (About page, ¶2, 2012.04.10).

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in list: Linguistics

UsingEnglish provides a "free text analysis tool which gives you statistics about a text including word count; unique words; number of sentences; average words per sentence; lexical density; and the Gunning Fog readability index. More detailed statistics are available to members" (Text Analyser, retrieved 2011.09.20).

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in list: Vocabulary Development

"VocabProfile will tell you how many words the text contains from the following four frequency levels: (1) the list of the most frequent 1000 word families, (2) the second 1000, (3) the Academic Word List, and (4) words that do not appear on the other lists" (Instructions, retrieved 2011.09.20).

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in list: Vocabulary Development

One item in the British Council and BBC's teaching knowledge database, which provides definitions, examples, and brief suggestions regarding classroom practices

BBC education language learning resources teaching

in list: Teacher Education

"Project Zero is an educational research group at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels" (¶1, 2011.09.14).

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in list: Brain Matters

September 2, 2002
... about an international conference to standardize the names of cities, countries, and other features of the landscape.

language policy geography international

in list: Language Policy, Global Education

English Engrish errors humor humour Japan language

in list: Language Assessment

"Online programs for recording, uploading, mixing, and interacting" (tagline), found thanks to Carla Arena's micro-review of one of the tools: <a href="http://collablogatorium.blogspot.com/2011/05/audio-delivery-made-super-simple.html">Audio Delivery Made Super Simple</a> (Collablogatorium, May 23, 2011).

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in list: Educational Technology

"The Purdue OWL offers global support through online reference materials and services" (Mission, ¶1, 2011.05.10).

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in list: Writing

Warschauer, M., & Healey, D. (1998). Computers and language learning: An overview. <i>Language Teaching, 31</i>, 57-71.

CALL computers education language learning overview practices research

in list: Educational Technology

"four conversational maxims that arise from the pragmatics of natural language" (¶1, 2010.09.28)

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in list: Pragmatics

language task-based teaching

in list: Teacher Education

Chart for comparison of Secure Program and Institutional Program TOEIC and TOEIC Bridge

ETS TOEIC English language tests

in list: Language Assessment

Presents English language learning targets for broad segments of the Chinese populace, leading up to and extending beyond the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing; announce English website for Beijing

China English language learning goals plans policy Global Times

in list: Language Policy

Discusses prospects for employees of large Japanese retail firms having to learn English to keep their jobs and compete in international markets, in some cases without support from employers

English Japan language learning jobs self-development TOEIC proficiency testing

in list: Language Policy

Represents a do-it-yourself approach to forming and fostering language teaching movements

Dogme language language teaching methodology teaching

in list: Teacher Education

Dictionary of phrases comprising categorical lists for Biblical, Sailor's, and Shakespearean lingo

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in list: Online Dictionaries

"385+ million words, 1990-2008"

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