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Corpora and Concordancers

Annotations of these and more can be found on the Concordancers page 

• Just the Word

• VIEW (Variation in English Words and Phrases)

• PIE (Phrases in English)

• Introduction to using Corpora via the Cobuild Sampler

• Glossanet

• The Cambridge Learner Corpus is a large collection of examples of English writing from learners of English all over the world.

Dictionaries and other lexical resources

• Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• Oxford Reference online

• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: all definitions written with the Longman Defining Vocabulary

• Wordnet

• Visual Thesaurus available only as a sampler, and now includes pronunciation.

Language Courses and other online assistance

• E-Academy a comprehensive course in English, taught online in Czech.

• Netgrammar Written by an ESL/EFL practitioner, NetGrammar focuses on English grammar through interactive listening, reading and writing activities. The concept of the structure and user interface of NetGrammar is based on the OnlineAcademy Modules (onlineacademy.org) being developed at the University of Kansas. Listening included.

• Chemnitz Grammar. This includes a bi-lingual corpus which allows words to be compared across German and English.

• Guide to Grammar and Writing

• Interactive sites for English study

• English nebo Czenglish

Translators

• Online Translators: from English to Czech, try Britanik. 

• For a wide range of other languages, try  Babelfish from Altavista.

• In Google, select Language Tools for a similar array of languages. 

NLP Resources

Ted Petersen's portal

Other things of interest

• Polar Adjectives: As reported by Howard here are major polar adjective useful in helping consumers understand brands

• EXTENDING VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE WITH COMPUTERS, an article by James Thomas
  Teaching English with Technology
  A Journal for Teachers of English

• Industrial Clock

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Courses

• ICT4ELT Training future trainers in Information and Communication Technology for English Language Teaching: Czech Ministry of Education

• Computers, Corpora and Concordancing in ELT a course to be held in UK in July 2006.

Learning Management Systems

• Moodle

• Mood-link-a (Faculty of Education, MU)

• ELF (Faculty of Arts, MU)

• Nicenet

• Hot Pots in Moodle demo only

• Our Web Class a limited number of courses can be created in Moodle for free.

  Portals

• ICT4ELT

• Data Driven Learning

• Authoring Tools for creating multimedia activities

• Communication in language learning

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