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1. Vocabulary Development   2. Students   3. Teachers   4. Other Links  

1. Vocabulary Development 

• Paul Meara - The Importance of an Early Emphasis on L2 Vocabulary.
• Tom Cobb - Why & how to use frequency lists to learn words.
• Scott Thornbury - Memorising Vocabulary
• Rob Waring - Basic Principles and Practices in Vocabulary Instruction.
• Organised Vocabulary Notebooks - a short background to Word Surfing
• Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group - University of Wales Swansea.
• CALLforAll - How technology helps teachers, researchers and students
• Phil Quirke - Lexis
• WordNet - a lexical database for the English language.
• CILL - Centre for Independent Language Learning.
• Richard Wakely - Good practice in teaching and learning vocabulary.
• UEfAP - Using English for Academic Purposes
• Paul Shoebottom - Learning Vocabulary.
• Shaun Dowling - Lexical notebooks
• Teaching English - Ideas from the BBC and British Council.
• Vocabulary and Autonomy - more from the BBC and British Council.
• One Stop Magazine - Techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning.
• Vocabulary Articles - the BBC & British Council again.
• ADELEX  - University of Granada.
• Independent Learning - from the University of Manchester.
• Jo Stirling - Helping students to learn the vocabulary we teach them.
• Bruce Zhang - Learning English Naturally and Effectively.
• Interlex - creating your own bi-lingual vocabulary lists

2. Students

vocabulary exercises.

• English-test - excellent interactive tests - and much more.
• Agenda Web - also highly recommended.
• Goethe-Tests 
• CNN Student News Vocabulary Exercises (Intermediate)
• E.L.Easton
• Learning words on the web
• The Internet TESL Journal
• nonstopenglish
• Many Things
• More Self Study Crossword Puzzles
• Collocations
• Trivia Quizzes
• Professional Word Web
• Verbocity - a good vocabulary building website with free trial offer.
• Vocabulary University
• MadridTeacher (Spanish)
• La Mansion Del Ingles (Spanish)

online dictionaries

• Longman Online Dictionary – English
• Foreignword.com – multilingual
• Diccionarios.com - excellent for English, Spanish, French and Catalan.
• Slang and colloquialisms - a great resource for real language lovers.

general sites with lots of good opportunities to improve your English.

• Isabel Perez - with some great stuff from sunny Spain.
• English Daily - with lots of good exercises.
• ESL go.com - English as a second language teaching and learning.
• E.L. Easton - an incredibly useful resource.
• Teaching English - British Council Site
• LanguageAssistant - tips, materials and more useful links.
• Learning English - from the BBC.
• English Language Teaching - Andrew Littlejohn.
• Volterre-Fr - English and French language resources.

... and some more very useful  sites.

• Nellie's English Projects - just full of interesting ideas and materials.
• English Specialist - a growing and increasingly interesting site. 
• TOPICS  - a great online magazine for learners of English.
• One Stop English - another good magazine.
• Vocabulary Profiler - shows lower frequency words on any Web page.
• Anglesonline - award winning multimedia and interactive exercises.
• FreeEnglish - improve and have fun.
• English on the Run - activities using the web.
• Wordmania - Free activities, games and puzzles for ESL students
• Word Safari - Expand your word knowledge while surfing the Web.
• Games Activities and Lesson Plans - lots of good stuff here.
• esl Gold - good general resources for language learners and teachers.
• TEFL/TESL Website Index - and more good ones from Aaron Martin.
• 4-esl  - also recommended.
• Magda's ESL - an interesting "World of ESL Resources"
• ECNEBI - online reading and writing activities.
• Canada-ESL - rated "very good" 2003 Canadian Web Awards.
• Sites for Teachers - lots of educational links.
• The Translation Source - Language Teacher Resources.

3. Teachers

• Dr. Rob Waring - second language vocabulary acquisition.
• Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group - University of Wales Swansea.
• Phil Quirke - a very informative site on a wide range of issues.
• Costas Gabrielatos - methodology and more.
• ADELEX - University of Granada.
• STORK - Methods and Methodologies in Language Teaching.
• CILT - Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research.

independent learning

• CILL - What is Independent Language Learning?
• Independent Learning - devoted to Learner and Teacher Autonomy.
• AILA - Learner Autonomy in Language Learning.
• Learning Paths - research and action for promoting learner autonomy.

articles

• EL Gazette - the English language newspaper.
• Humanising Language Teaching - a favourite internet journal.
• TESL Journal - articles and research papers.
• Developing Teachers - always interesting.
• Karen's Linguistic Issues - more interesting opinions.
• Scott Thornbury - on fossilization.
• Vance Stevens - Computers in the classoom.
• Darren Board - Teacher Learner Strategies and Vocabulary Acquisition.
• Bangkok Post - Building Your Vocabulary
• Andrew Littlejohn - reports on the importance of motivation.
• Teaching English - more on motivation
• Galina Kavaliauskiene - writes about the lexical approach.
• Seth Lindstromberg - Collocations and associations HLT 2003
• Seth Lindstromberg - My good-bye to the Lexical Approach HLT 2003
• Dimitrios Thanasoulas - on learner autonomy.
• Torsten Daerr - How to learn English
• Karen Bond - on what makes a successful language learner.
• Fatemeh Alipanahi - the Internet and vocabulary instruction.
• H. Catherine Walter  - reading in a second language.
• Paul Nation - Language Learning Benefits of Extensive Reading.
• Carolyn Samuel - Collins COBUILD English Collocations.
• Lesson plans - TESL Journal.
• Articles for the Language Learner

academic, alternative and innovative

• Extensive Reading - and it's relevance to language learning.
• Collaborative Learning - introducing a more co-operative approach.
• Teaching Unplugged - an alternative view from Dogme.
• Teacher's Pet - an innovative site for making your own lessons.
• The Academic Word List - Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.
• World Wide Words  - amusing and educational.
• Thinking Approach - a creative project in Latvia.
• Optimnem - a forward thinking site well worth exploring.
• Collins Cobuild - A 10-Step Introduction to Concordancing.
• Frequency Level Checker - it does what it says.
• Technology in Language Learning - and how it can help.
• ReadingNet - vocab acquisition forum for ESL teachers & rearchers.

4. Other  Links

... and, finally, some others which you might like to visit. 

• Art and Windsurfing - a great collection of surfing artwork.
• DavidFilms - creations from a gentle German genius. 
• Emmegi - from Marsala, Sicily - A Life for Art. 
• EYE Visto  - a fine photo-bank site run by a friend from Hamburg.
• Liverpool FC - by far the greatest team the world has ever seen.
• Patrizio - from Marsala, Sicily - and his digital paintings.
• Radio City - listen to Liverpool.
• Skype - free international phone calls on the world wide web.
• WORD-wide-web - a translation service we use and recommend.
• World Maps - Anyone here from Liverpool?

Pictures that paint a thousand words can be seen at THE ART OF SURFING

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