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English learning websites for university students
These notes introduce you to a variety of websites, mainly at English-speaking universities around the world, covering the following areas:
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY（學術詞彙）
Using the Academic Word List
The Academic Word List is the result of research conducted by Dr Averill Coxhead, then of the University of Wellington, New Zealand, who carried out a computer-based analysis to measure the frequency of vocabulary items in academic texts. The outcome of her work was a list of 570 keywords used across a range of subject areas, from the physical and life sciences to the humanities.
Checking the AWL keywords
Each keyword is a 'family' of related words. So analyse represents analysis, analyser, analyst, analytical, and so on. You can look up the keywords in AWL at
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/awl-headwords.aspx
Using VocabProfile on an academic reading text
Click on Google Scholar http://scholar.google.co.uk/
to find an academic text on a subject you are interested in.
1. Use the Edit -Copy icon (top left corner) to copy all or part of it.
2. Go to the Compleat Lexical Tutor website at http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/
3. From the menu, select VP English version .3
4. You will then get a short set of instructions from VocabProfile. Move your cursor to the top of the instruction box, Paste in your text, and wait a few seconds.
5. VocabProfile then shows your text with words in different colours: green for words from the first 1,000 list, blue for the second 1,000, yellow for the AWL, and red for “off-list” words. You also get alphabetical lists of the words in your text in each category.
Then write down the percentage figures for those four categories in the table below:
Frequency category Percentage in the text
first 1,000 words
second 1,000 words (1,001-2,000)
Academic Word List keywords
Off-list
Vocabulary activities on the Net: Further advice
We have explored only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of websites intended to assist the learning of academic English language skills - and of course vocabulary is only one area.
Here are some others you may find useful:
Advice on vocabulary learning
http://www.f.waseda.jp/vicky/students/help/vocabulary.html/
Andy Gillett's vocabulary exercises:
http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm
And this site represents vocabulary in diagrammatic form:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html
WRITING（寫作）
The various academic writing websites shown below provide some excellent help with university assignments. One way of deciding which site to use is to decide what questions you want a site to answer. Then choose two sites and visit them. Make brief notes on the advantages and disadvantages of each one in giving answers to your questions. Decide which is the better website, for your needs.
• Academic Phrasebank (by John Morley at Manchester)
• Academic Writer (from Virtual Language Centre, Hong Kong)
• Academic Writing Module (from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
• Advice on Academic Writing (University of Toronto)
• Cornell University (General information about efective library research when preparing a research paper)
• On-Line Technical Writing (On-line textbook from Austin Community College, Texas)
• OWL (Purdue University's On-Line Writing Lab) （這個很實用，特別推薦，連留學申請的指導也有）
• Plagiarism and How to Avoid it (By David Garner in Hong Kong)
• Research Paper Internet Library (Information and links for writing research papers)
• The Rice On-Line Writing Lab (from Rice University, Houston, Texas)
• Writer's Web (Good resources for essay writing)
• Writing and Presenting your Thesis or Dissertation (Advice from Joseph Levine at Michigan State University – also available in Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese versions)
• Writing DEN (Writing tips: paragraphs & essays)
• Writing Examination Answers (from ELTC, University of Edinburgh)
• Writing Resources (from Harvard University)
• Citing electronic sources (E-reference formats recommended by the APA)
• Keys for Writers (companion to Anne Raimes's book)
• Punctuation (Learn about full stops, commas, colons, etc.)
• Punctuation made simple (by Gary Olson at Illinois State University.)
LISTENING（聽力）
Listening resources
Andy Gillett's materials on Listening Comprehension and Note-Taking
http://www.uefap.com/listen/listfram.htm
Links to Listening sites
• Voices from the Archives (BBC Audio Archives)
• BBC Radio 4 (Old and new radio programmes from BBC Radio 4)
• CNN.com Video (Top news and stories from CNN)
• Euronews (News in six European languages, including English)
• freevideolectures.com (Links to lectures on a range of subjects).
• Great Speeches (Famous speeches from the History Channel)
• Listening Lab (Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab)
• Real English (Interactive Video Online)
• Reith Lectures (A selection from the historic BBC series)
• Videojug (Everything you want to learn explained on video)
• World Service (Watch and listen from BBC World Service)
• Academic Study Skills BBC (includes contributions from Prof. Tony Lynch, ELTC)
READING（閱讀）
Reading exercises and resources
Visit Andy Gillett's practice materials on Reading
http://www.uefap.com/reading/readfram.htm
and try out some of his activities. Which do you think is the best, and why?
Using resources for reading
Choose one of the Links to Reading sites from Andy Gillett's website
• Reading Resources (Internet TESL Journal’s Reading Resources)
• Reading Resources for English Language Learners (Ohio University)
• Great Books Online (Fiction and non-fiction on-line)
• On-line books page (35,000 books in English to read on-line)
• Project Gutenberg (Almost every classic you can think of - on-line)
• Portrait of the Week (Weekly column of interest to art students and others)
Write brief notes on what the site offers and who it would be useful for. Compare/discuss them with someone else who has explored the same sites.
GRAMMAR（語法）
Before you start, think of two or three areas of English grammar that you are unsure about. Make a note of the points you think you need guidance or advice on.
• Academic Grammar for students of the Arts and Social Sciences (to help students with their academic assignments)
• Cybergrammar (to support and develop knowledge of grammar)
• Grammar Safari (hunt for and collect examples of language use)
• Guide to Grammar and Writing (from Capital Community College, Hartford, Connecticut)
• Internet Grammar of English (a complete online English grammar from University College, London)
• On-Line English grammar (on-line grammar practice)
• BBC grammar support
Testing the websites
Try out the various links and see whether each website covers the grammar points you want advice on. You may find that the information on one site for one of your points may be better or clearer than the information it provides on the others.
SPEAKING/PRESENTATIONS（口語／展示）
Pronunciation
Andy Gillett's materials on Speaking
http://www.uefap.com/speaking/spkfram.htm
There is a wealth of material on the Internet. (Googling for "English pronunciation" brings up millions of hits!) We suggest you start at the BBC Learning English website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/pron/
If you would like to compare your accent in English with those of speakers (native and non-native), you should visit this site:
http://accent.gmu.edu/howto.php
A speech recognition website that records your voice and provides instant feedback on pronunciation.
http://www.englishcentral.com/
Presentation Skills
If you are particularly interested in advice on giving an academic presentation, there is a good selection at:
http://www.uefap.com/speaking/spkfram.htm
• Designing Effective Oral Presentations (from Rice University, Houston, Texas)
• Giving Oral Presentations (from University of Canberra, Australia)
• Key Steps to an Effective Presentation (Academic speaking practice)
• Preparing an Oral Presentation (Tutorial on preparing effective presentations)
• Tips for Giving Scientific Presentations (Resource for scientific presentations)
• The Oral Presentation Skills Site (University of Hong Kong)
有機會會補上使用體驗及其他註釋。
（注：某些小標題加了中文是爲了讓信息更明顯。）
English learning websites for university students
These notes introduce you to a variety of websites, mainly at English-speaking universities around the world, covering the following areas:
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY（學術詞彙）
Using the Academic Word List
The Academic Word List is the result of research conducted by Dr Averill Coxhead, then of the University of Wellington, New Zealand, who carried out a computer-based analysis to measure the frequency of vocabulary items in academic texts. The outcome of her work was a list of 570 keywords used across a range of subject areas, from the physical and life sciences to the humanities.
Checking the AWL keywords
Each keyword is a 'family' of related words. So analyse represents analysis, analyser, analyst, analytical, and so on. You can look up the keywords in AWL at
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/awl-headwords.aspx
Using VocabProfile on an academic reading text
Click on Google Scholar http://scholar.google.co.uk/
to find an academic text on a subject you are interested in.
1. Use the Edit -Copy icon (top left corner) to copy all or part of it.
2. Go to the Compleat Lexical Tutor website at http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/
3. From the menu, select VP English version .3
4. You will then get a short set of instructions from VocabProfile. Move your cursor to the top of the instruction box, Paste in your text, and wait a few seconds.
5. VocabProfile then shows your text with words in different colours: green for words from the first 1,000 list, blue for the second 1,000, yellow for the AWL, and red for “off-list” words. You also get alphabetical lists of the words in your text in each category.
Then write down the percentage figures for those four categories in the table below:
Frequency category Percentage in the text
first 1,000 words
second 1,000 words (1,001-2,000)
Academic Word List keywords
Off-list
Vocabulary activities on the Net: Further advice
We have explored only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of websites intended to assist the learning of academic English language skills - and of course vocabulary is only one area.
Here are some others you may find useful:
Advice on vocabulary learning
http://www.f.waseda.jp/vicky/students/help/vocabulary.html/
Andy Gillett's vocabulary exercises:
http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm
And this site represents vocabulary in diagrammatic form:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html
WRITING（寫作）
The various academic writing websites shown below provide some excellent help with university assignments. One way of deciding which site to use is to decide what questions you want a site to answer. Then choose two sites and visit them. Make brief notes on the advantages and disadvantages of each one in giving answers to your questions. Decide which is the better website, for your needs.
• Academic Phrasebank (by John Morley at Manchester)
• Academic Writer (from Virtual Language Centre, Hong Kong)
• Academic Writing Module (from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
• Advice on Academic Writing (University of Toronto)
• Cornell University (General information about efective library research when preparing a research paper)
• On-Line Technical Writing (On-line textbook from Austin Community College, Texas)
• OWL (Purdue University's On-Line Writing Lab) （這個很實用，特別推薦，連留學申請的指導也有）
• Plagiarism and How to Avoid it (By David Garner in Hong Kong)
• Research Paper Internet Library (Information and links for writing research papers)
• The Rice On-Line Writing Lab (from Rice University, Houston, Texas)
• Writer's Web (Good resources for essay writing)
• Writing and Presenting your Thesis or Dissertation (Advice from Joseph Levine at Michigan State University – also available in Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese versions)
• Writing DEN (Writing tips: paragraphs & essays)
• Writing Examination Answers (from ELTC, University of Edinburgh)
• Writing Resources (from Harvard University)
• Citing electronic sources (E-reference formats recommended by the APA)
• Keys for Writers (companion to Anne Raimes's book)
• Punctuation (Learn about full stops, commas, colons, etc.)
• Punctuation made simple (by Gary Olson at Illinois State University.)
LISTENING（聽力）
Listening resources
Andy Gillett's materials on Listening Comprehension and Note-Taking
http://www.uefap.com/listen/listfram.htm
Links to Listening sites
• Voices from the Archives (BBC Audio Archives)
• BBC Radio 4 (Old and new radio programmes from BBC Radio 4)
• CNN.com Video (Top news and stories from CNN)
• Euronews (News in six European languages, including English)
• freevideolectures.com (Links to lectures on a range of subjects).
• Great Speeches (Famous speeches from the History Channel)
• Listening Lab (Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab)
• Real English (Interactive Video Online)
• Reith Lectures (A selection from the historic BBC series)
• Videojug (Everything you want to learn explained on video)
• World Service (Watch and listen from BBC World Service)
• Academic Study Skills BBC (includes contributions from Prof. Tony Lynch, ELTC)
READING（閱讀）
Reading exercises and resources
Visit Andy Gillett's practice materials on Reading
http://www.uefap.com/reading/readfram.htm
and try out some of his activities. Which do you think is the best, and why?
Using resources for reading
Choose one of the Links to Reading sites from Andy Gillett's website
• Reading Resources (Internet TESL Journal’s Reading Resources)
• Reading Resources for English Language Learners (Ohio University)
• Great Books Online (Fiction and non-fiction on-line)
• On-line books page (35,000 books in English to read on-line)
• Project Gutenberg (Almost every classic you can think of - on-line)
• Portrait of the Week (Weekly column of interest to art students and others)
Write brief notes on what the site offers and who it would be useful for. Compare/discuss them with someone else who has explored the same sites.
GRAMMAR（語法）
Before you start, think of two or three areas of English grammar that you are unsure about. Make a note of the points you think you need guidance or advice on.
• Academic Grammar for students of the Arts and Social Sciences (to help students with their academic assignments)
• Cybergrammar (to support and develop knowledge of grammar)
• Grammar Safari (hunt for and collect examples of language use)
• Guide to Grammar and Writing (from Capital Community College, Hartford, Connecticut)
• Internet Grammar of English (a complete online English grammar from University College, London)
• On-Line English grammar (on-line grammar practice)
• BBC grammar support
Testing the websites
Try out the various links and see whether each website covers the grammar points you want advice on. You may find that the information on one site for one of your points may be better or clearer than the information it provides on the others.
SPEAKING/PRESENTATIONS（口語／展示）
Pronunciation
Andy Gillett's materials on Speaking
http://www.uefap.com/speaking/spkfram.htm
There is a wealth of material on the Internet. (Googling for "English pronunciation" brings up millions of hits!) We suggest you start at the BBC Learning English website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/pron/
If you would like to compare your accent in English with those of speakers (native and non-native), you should visit this site:
http://accent.gmu.edu/howto.php
A speech recognition website that records your voice and provides instant feedback on pronunciation.
http://www.englishcentral.com/
Presentation Skills
If you are particularly interested in advice on giving an academic presentation, there is a good selection at:
http://www.uefap.com/speaking/spkfram.htm
• Designing Effective Oral Presentations (from Rice University, Houston, Texas)
• Giving Oral Presentations (from University of Canberra, Australia)
• Key Steps to an Effective Presentation (Academic speaking practice)
• Preparing an Oral Presentation (Tutorial on preparing effective presentations)
• Tips for Giving Scientific Presentations (Resource for scientific presentations)
• The Oral Presentation Skills Site (University of Hong Kong)
有機會會補上使用體驗及其他註釋。
（注：某些小標題加了中文是爲了讓信息更明顯。）
