Just a small selection of English language related items that appeared in various online news sources last week. Australian authors defend local languageAn article relating Australian authors’  understandable alarm about a proposal to allow...
Topics: Australian English, China, English in the news, Esperanto, QuiTE, Tesol, Turkey

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Wordle creates word clouds from any piece of text. The image above is the word cloud of this blog; created by entering the blog’s RSS feed URL into Wordle. The resulting word clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently, and.
Topics: English language, reading, Teaching English, Vocabulary, Wordle, writing

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The British Library Sounds Familiar? site is an excellent source of sound recordings and short audio clips of accents and dialects of the UK, and as such could be a very effective way of demonstrating to English learners how pronunciation varies across...
Topics: accents, dialects, English language, Pronunciation, Twitter

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On Podictionary, Charles Hodgson delivers a daily short podcast describing the history of  a common word. Each podcast is approximately 3 minutes long and is accompanied by a transcript in the form of a blog post.The site now has an archive of...
Topics: English, etymology, Vocabulary

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Short stories are a particular favourite of mine and I like the idea of using them as a resource for teaching English. I have to say though, my attempts so far at integrating short stories into my lesson plans for adult ESOL learners haven’t been..
Topics: Books for teachers, English language teaching, stories, Teaching English

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