Language Links

Helpful/Interesting Language Links

Resources for Language Learners and Teachers

The following is a growing collection of some of the resources that students and teachers of English might find helpful. Feedback and input is welcome. Please send comments and suggestions to the webmaster.

Click here for a detailed set of recommendations and FAQ with regard to the Language & Use exams.

Online Dictionaries and other Resources

• Oxford English Dictionary (The UdS is an institutional subscriber)
• Merriam-Webster Online
• Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
• Macmillan English Dictionaries
• English Collocations Dictionary
• Online Etymology Resource
• Google books Ngram Viewer
• YouGlish (authentic pronunciation samples)

Teaching Materials/Resources, Blogs

• onestopenglish.com (Macmillan Publishers Ltd)
• Saarland Bildungsserver 
• British Council / BBC: Teaching English
• Writing and punctuation
• "Word on the Street," one of the BBC's many language teaching/learning resources
• English Grammar Profile Online (C1; Excel spreadsheet [*.xlsx])
• English Grammar Profile Online (C2; Excel spreadsheet [*.xlsx])
• Chunk of the day: https://www.lexicallab.com/chunk-of-the-day/
• Word of the day: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day
• Cambridge exam prep: https://www.flo-joe.co.uk
• Practise your English with a tandem partner: https://www.tandem.net
• Check grammar/vocab against the CEFR: https://www.english.com/gse/teacher-toolkit/user/lo
• Sketch Engine corpus tool: https://auth.sketchengine.eu/#login

Selected News Sources

• BBC News
• BBC Culture
• The Economist
• The Guardian | Audio
• The Independent
• Independent.ie
• National Public Radio News
• The New York Times
• Orion Magazine
• The Progressive
• The Times
• The Times of India

Radio/Podcasts (listening to English)

(The following XML links can be entered into your favorite podcast software [iTunes, available for both Windows and Mac OS X, is a good choice].)

• ABC podcasts | Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National
• BBC podcasts | British Broadcasting Corporation
• CBC podcasts | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• NPR podcasts | National Public Radio (U.S.)

Publishers

• Oxford University Press
• Pearson/Longman

Professional Societies/Associations/Publications

• International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
• Internet Teaching English as a Second Language Journal

Department specific

• Language Terminology – Syntactic Form and Function
• Moodle Language Courses I and II (otherwise known as the "MLCs"): FAQ