Level 4 of learning a language focuses on how,
what and why we want to learn |
Learning how to learn
Basic skills sites for UK based teachers
http://www.citycol.com/basic_skills/Background.htm
CfBT Education Trust
http://www.cfbt.com/
Intute – reliable educational materials for adults
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Management Learning System
http://www.haikuls.com/
Metacognition
http://www.retsd-conted.com/how_we_do_things_here/'Introduction/V-Teaching%20Metacognition.htm
Reflect and adult learning
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/323/reflect.html
Refugees into teaching
http://www.refugeesintoteaching.org.uk/
Self-assessment in a variety of languages
http://www.dialang.org/english/index.htm
Study guides
http://www.studygs.net/index.htm
Study skills
http://www.how-to-study.com/
Study skills – Birmingham City University
http://www.ssdd.uce.ac.uk/learner/Study%20skills%20index.htm
Task based learning of a language
http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/goodpractice.aspx?resourceid=412
Teaching a language
http://www.gabrielatos.com/
Testing yourself online
http://holisticeducator.blogspot.com/2008/03/test-your-language-skills-online.html
Using ICT for teaching
http://ferl.qia.org.uk/
Computer assisted learning of languages
http://www.call4all.us///home/index2.php
Encyclopaedia of language learning links
http://www.call4all.us///home/index2.php
London (mainly) culture and education
Advice on living in the UK
http://www.citizenskills.org/
Cass Business School
http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/
City University
http://www.city.ac.uk/
Education news – BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/default.stm
Electronic resources in the arts and humanities – University of Glasgow
http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/about/index.htm
Explore the British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/
Imperial College, London
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/
King’s College, London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/
London Observatory
http://www.community.yourlondon.gov.uk/londonobservatory/
London School of Economics
http://www.lse.ac.uk/
London University
http://www.lon.ac.uk/
Online learning portal - Open university
www.open.ac.uk/openlearn
Open learning portal – BBC and the Open University
http://www.open2.net/home.html
Open University - online learning portal – education & language
http://open2.net/society/education/index.html
Regional minerals information online map of England – British Geological Survey
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/digital_maps/maps/home.html
Royal Academy of Music Museum
http://www.ram.ac.uk/facilitiesandcollections/
Royal College of Music
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/
Royal Holloway
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/
Royal Shaespeare Company
http://www.rsc.org.uk/home/default.aspx
SOAS
http://www.soas.ac.uk/
Studying the History of English
http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/ca/brintonweblinks.pdf
The British Library
http://www.bl.uk/
The London Institute of Education
http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/index.html
The Royal Anthropological Institute – resources in London
http://www.therai.org.uk/pubs/resguide/3_material.html
University College London
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/
University of Surry - Guildford
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/
University of the Arts London
http://www.arts.ac.uk/index.htm
Promoting Higher education in London
http://www.londonhigher.ac.uk/
Welcome to London – English Learning - BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/london/index.shtml
In business and for employers
British Banker’s Association
http://www.bba.org.uk/bba/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=142
British Telecom – Better Business Game
http://www.btplc.com/Societyandenvironment/Businessgame/index.htm
Intellectual property rights and business centre – British library
http://www.bl.uk/bipc/
Business news – BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/default.stm
Business support and information – London
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/ home?r.l1=1073858805&r.l3=1074302123&site=181&r.l2=1073859137&r.s=m
Customs & Excise – Business education
http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?
nfpb=true&pageLabel=pageContactUsEducation
Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
http://www.berr.gov.uk/bbf/enterprise-smes/enterprise-framework/index.html
Embedded vocational learning – Skills for Life – Dfes
http://rwp.qia.oxi.net/embeddedlearning/search.cfm
Employer toolkit – Skills for Life – Dfes
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/employer_toolkit
ESOL materials – Skills for Life –Dfes
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/LearningMaterialsESOL
Greater London Enterprise
http://www.gle.co.uk/
London Development Agency
http://www.lda.gov.uk/server/show/nav.00100j
Overseas Trade Magazine
http://www.overseas-trade.co.uk/
People over 50 starting or running a business
http://www.primebusinessclub.com/
Professional English
http://www.rbuckmaster.com/espmaterials.htm
Language in culture
American paralanguage – University of Texas at El Paso
http://www.nigelward.com/egrunts/
Basic global English
http://freenet-homepage.de/grzega/BGE.htm
Body Language & Interview Techniques
http://www.howtobooks.co.uk/employment/interviews/techniques.asp
Body language during a job interview
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Marwijk1.html
Body Language in Job Interviews
http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/interviews/nvc.htm
Body language in job interviews - exercises
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~thomas/English/job/bodylanguage.htm
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~thomas/English/job/bodylanguage2.htm
Community languages – useful address
http://www.cilt.org.uk/commlangs/support.htm
Cultural differences in learning and communication
http://www.retsd-conted.com/how_we_do_things_here/'Introduction/VI-viii-Cultural%20Differences%20in%20Communicatios.htm
English as a world language
http://enjoywords.com/word_roots.html
English idioms and proverbs – examples
http://humanities.byu.edu/elc/student/idioms/idiomsmain.html
Global English – Open University
http://open2.net/society/education/globalenglish.html
Humour and business
http://www.business-spotlight.de/doc/32295?PHPSESSID=0e8ebdaf1f16bbb50d5362bccd15f0ff
Konglish – examples
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Konglish&m=text
Konglish – interlanguage
http://efl.htmlplanet.com/interlanguage.htm
Languages in London
http://www.rln-london.com/
Nonverbal communication
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/methodology/nonverbal.shtml
Quotations about humour
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_humor.html
Quotations on a whole range of subjects
http://www.brainyquote.com/
Religious faiths in London – British Library
http://www.bl.uk/learning/tarea/proj/believing/believinginlondon.html
Researching humour and laughter
http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MathNat/Ruch/research%26people.html
Linguistics
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/
Various texts
Audio poems – British Council
http://www.britishcouncil.org/home/arts/arts-artforms/arts-literature/arts-literature-feature1.htm
Audio slideshows - BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/
British national archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Children
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/
Classic English poems
http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/complete%20poems.htm
Digital collections – texts in English – University of Virginia
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/text/
e-texts modern English – University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
Everything about Shakespeare
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/
Help with listening to the BBC on the internet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/help/#teachers
Homepage – UK or International versions – BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Intelligent talk- Radio 4 - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/
National poetry day – 2003 - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/natpoetday/index_2003.shtml
News - audio - text - works sheets
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
News audio pods – The Guardian Newspaper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/audio/0,8137,380178,00.html
Newsround – children’s bbc - BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/
Poetry - sound & texts
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
Poetry web concordances
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm
Project Guttenberg – producing free online books
http://www.promo.net/pg/
Rachel Whiteread Videos – Tate Gallery
http://www.tate.org.uk/btseries/bb/rachelwhiteread/
Shakespeare glossary
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.03.0068
The Asian family archive from 2003 - BBC World Service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/archive/030818_asianfamily.shtml
The complete works of William Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html
The poetry archive
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
The science of love - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/love/
Watching BBC TV on the internet – BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
Women's Parliamentary Radio
http://www.wpradio.co.uk/
World’s first digital news archive 1896-1970
http://www.britishpathe.com/
Songs
http://www.musicalenglishlessons.com/
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