Phonetics
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/PhonResources.html#Archives
The Phonetics Resources page of the University of Washington.
Textbook page/s: 9
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Activity 2.3.1 Where do our words come from?
http://library.thinkquest.org/5585/rootwords.htm
Some examples of words from other countries and cultures.
Textbook page/s: 13
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Activity 2.3.2 Roots vs affixes
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/rootaffix.html
Properties of roots and affixes.
Textbook page/s: 14
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Parts of Speech
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html
Hyperlinked grammar site with activities.
Textbook page/s: 15
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Activity 2.4.1 Grammar
http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm
Grammar site.
Textbook page/s: 20, 23
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Activity 2.5.1 ESL Idiom page
http://www.eslcafe.com/idioms/
Lists, definitions and examples of idioms.
Textbook page/s: 25
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Ambiguity
http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/cl_ambig.htm
Discusses grammatical ambiguity.
Textbook page/s: 27
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Lexeme Morpheme Base Morphology
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/index.html
Academic site that gives a great deal of detailed information on lexemes.
Textbook page/s: 26
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Handbook of literary devices
http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html
Includes definitions and examples of literary devices.
Textbook page/s: 29
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Activity 3.1.2 Dialectology
http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/goodpractice.aspx?resourceid=964
This article introduces dialectology - the study of accents and dialects. It includes discussions of what it is, how it has evolved and how it is done, as well as considering recent developments in the field.
Textbook page/s: 36
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Australian accents
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1288796.htm
ABC Radio transcript of interview with two speech scientists, discussing Australian accents.
Textbook page/s: 39
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Profiles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)
Article on High Rising Tone.
Textbook page/s: 42
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Aboriginal English
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/definitions/aboriginal.html
Aboriginal English.
Textbook page/s: 46
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Activity 3.2.12 Komninos Konstantinos Zervos's Bookmarks
http://www.komninos.com.au/index.html
Links to cyberpoetry, java poems, sound poetry, spoken word, hypermedia, visual poetry, etc.
Textbook page/s: 49
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Activity 3.2.17 British and American English
http://esl.about.com/od/toeflieltscambridge/a/dif_ambrit.htm
Differences between British and American English.
Textbook page/s: 52
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Activity 3.3.1 Sociolinguistics
http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/
The sociolinguistics page of the University of Oregon.
Textbook page/s: 54
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Some examples of American slang
http://www.slanguage.com/
Slang expressions and how they develop in society.
Textbook page/s: 70
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Political correctness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
Information on political correctness.
Textbook page/s: 83
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Activity 4.4.3 The Mabo Case
http://www.nlc.org.au/html/land_native.html
Native title and the Mabo Case - a good summary.
Textbook page/s: 90
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Activity 4.4.3 Sexism
http://ethics.sandiego.edu/Applied/Gender/index.asp
Sexism.
Textbook page/s: 91
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Online Dictionary
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Search words in this online dictionary.
Textbook page/s: 123
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Australia Communications and Media Authority
http://www.acma.gov.au/
Links to a number of broadcasting codes.
Textbook page/s: 130
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Multiculturalism, language and identity
http://www20.sbs.com.au/sbs_front/index.html
The website of SBS.
Textbook page/s: 132
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Auslan
http://www.auslan.org.au/
An overview of Auslan.
Textbook page/s: 150
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Activity 6.1.3 Famous speeches
http://www.history.com/video.do?action=home
History.com audio clips of famous speeches.
Textbook page/s: 152
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Activity 7.1.1 Surfing with the bard
http://www.shakespearehigh.com/library/surfbard/
Online text of Shakespearean plays.
Textbook page/s: 174
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The Role Of Conversation In Collaborative Action Research
http://www.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/griceil.htm
Conversational Maxims and Principles of Language Planning.
Textbook page/s: 179, 180, 183
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Conversation Analysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_analysis
Information about Conversation Analysis, the study of 'talk in interaction'.
Textbook page/s: 183
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Tag questions
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-questions-tag.htm
Tag question exercises.
Textbook page/s: 184
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Gender miscommunications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Tannen
Information on sociolinguist Deborah Tannen.
Textbook page/s: 186
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Taping and transcribing information
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/hstories/hr060501.htm
An example of radio transcription from ABC Radio.
Textbook page/s: 192
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Transcriptions
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/
Transcriptions
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Transcriptions
http://www.racingvictoria.net.au
Transcriptions
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Collocations
http://www.better-english.com/strongcoll.htm
A short quiz on collocations.
Textbook page/s: 25
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