Educational Resource List

http://www.chinesesavvy.com

From the website: “Chinese Savvy is a comprehensive and efficient new web-based tool for Chinese language learning.”

http://creativechalk.com/

From the website: “Our mission is to provide free online tools to ESL teachers that enable them to connect and share ideas and teaching materials online.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/reading-extra.html?ref=books

From the website: “It is impossible to write about any one piece of research at great length, so for those interested in more in-depth information [about reading, online and off], here are links to some studies, speeches, reading tests — old and new — and other resources.”

http://cdextras.cambridge.org/VocabTrainer/intlegalenglish/

Online activities for the practice of International Legal English

Disclosure: The post author works for Cambridge University Press at the time of posting. The opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily those of my employer. This blog is not sponsored nor endorsed by my employer.

http://www.mychineseclass.com/mianmian/authors.htm

The textbook series is “ideal for intermediate-high to advanced-low students”. The linked page is to a bio for the authors (at the time of posting, the bare domain URL was not resolving.) There are sample lessons and other materials.

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/english365/vocabtrainer/index.htm

Support site for the Cambridge University Press ESP series English 365.

Disclosure: The post author works for Cambridge University Press at the time of posting. The opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily those of my employer. This blog is not sponsored nor endorsed by my employer.

http://spandg.blogspot.com/

Collects photos of grammatically incorrect signage. Can be quite humorous.

http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/

From the website: “A lot of people make claims about what “good English” is. Much of what they say is flim-flam, and this blog aims to set the record straight. Its goal is to explain the motivations behind the real grammar of English and to debunk ill-founded claims about what is grammatical and what isn’t.”

http://www.hnhsoft.com/dictec

From the website: “It contains over 140,000+ entries, Pinyin (the official Chinese phonetic system), and most remarkably, a real person’s pronunciation for every single Chinese word!”

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

From the Wikipedia: “Language Log is a collaborative language blog maintained by University of Pennsylvania phonetician Mark Liberman.

“The site is updated daily at the whims of the contributors, and most of the posts are on language use in the media and popular culture. Google search results are frequently used as a corpus to test hypotheses about language. Other popular topics are the descriptivism/prescriptivism debate and linguistics-related news items. The site has also occasionally held contests in which visitors attempt to identify an obscure language.

“Language Log is now one of the most popular linguistics blogs in the blogosphere. As of August 2007, it receives an average of about 9,500 visits per day.”