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Paul Nation on activities aimed at incidental vocabulary learning http://bit.ly/h4wPPr

BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS - 100 MILLION WORDS, UK, 1980s-1993.

Office of National Statistics posts news and analysis of the 2011 census as it is finished.

The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.

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RT @talkclouds: "Beyond single words: the most frequent collocations in spoken English" (Shin & Nation, ELTJ) http://is.gd/kczx5 a MUST read

Podcasts from the Australian National University

English Language Teaching World Online: Voices from the Classroom (ELTWO) is a free refereed e-journal published by the Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore.

Staffroom Monologues - This series of short plays based on winning scripts from the 2008 competition run by Teachers TV, in association with the National Union of Teachers, offers an alternate view of life in an educational environment, written by those who work within it. There are 9 videos in this series.

Asian and Pacific Speed Readings for ESL Learners Twenty passages written at the one thousand word level

BNC

The pack offers resources for exploring many issues relevant to the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Curriculum Framework . The resources provided an opportunity to develop critical awareness of language and culture, to encourage learners' self determination by valuing their own identity and choices, and to celebrate difference and diversity. * language choices in speech and writing * concepts of identity and self image * cultural practices * stereotyping and prejudice. The teaching materials included a DVD and transcript and suggested approaches and materials for working with individual learners and groups.