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CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
'World Englishes'
by Eva M. Gutiérrez Moreno
E.O.I. “La Equidad” in Alcázar de San Juan
WebQuest designed as part of the course “WebQuest, aplicaciones educativas” within the training programme for teachers of “Instituto
Superior de Formación y Recursos en Red para el profesorado del Ministerio de Educación, Política Social y Deporte”. Noviembre, 2009.
Special thanks to my tutor Juan Cordero de Ciria for his help
Thanks to Alan Pulverness and Jamie Keddie for contributing with interesting links
RESOURCES
CITED
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DESCRIPTION
LINKS
Here you have a website to begin with:
http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/history/?view=uk
History/ Classification and related
languages/Geographic
distribution/Dialects and regional
variants/ Major regional variations and
much more in Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_English
Maps, facts and figures:
http://www.ieslamarina.org/departamentos/ingles/uploadjjaviering/project0708/index-ESC.htm
A site with some interesting links to other
sites:
An example on how to download
images from the Internet (also taking
into consideration copyright issues):
http://eleaston.com/world-eng.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdLWgVTas6s
A couple of sites to start with:
http://www.askoxford.com/globalenglish/types/?view=uk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_the_English_language
A site with some interesting links to other
sites:
http://eleaston.com/world-eng.html
http://www.language-capitals.com/english_varieties.php
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GROUP
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Accents of English from Around the
World Hear and compare how the
same 110 words are pronounced in 50
English accents from around the world instantaneous playback online
http://www.soundcomparisons.com/
International Dialects of English Archive
http://web.ku.edu/~idea/index.htm
Speech Accent Archive
http://accent.gmu.edu/
To start with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_the_English_language
Examples of regional accents and
dialects from across the UK on the British
Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website
Accents and dialects in UK:
British Library: Archival Sound
Recordings/Accents and Dialects:
http://sounds.bl.uk/BrowseCategory.aspx?category=Accents-and-dialects
BBC sound archive of accents in the
British Isles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/wil/
whoohoo.co.uk British Dialect Translator
Translate text into regional
dialects from the British Isles
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html
http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/
There’s a useful, fully searchable
archive at:
http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/wordoftheweek/wotw_archive.htm
Similar sites:
http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/newwords/?view=uk
http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/wordayear/?view=uk
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
http://www.wordspy.com/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/wodcalendar.pl
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And Times journalist, David Rowan, has
substantial portions of his book A
Glossary for the Nineties on his website
at:
You can also visit the Longman
Dictionary of Contemporary English
archive of new words online by
registering (free) at:
Borrowings into English:
http://www.davidrowan.com/2002/01/writing-on-language.html
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ldoce/login_ldoce.asp?reason=denied_empty&sc
ript_name=/ldoce/members/archive_word.html
http://www.askoxford.com/globalenglish/borrowings/?view=uk
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/changlang/across/languagetimeline.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences
Links to ubiquitous US/ UK
differences:
http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/us/?view=uk
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/CUSTOMS/questions/americanbritish.html
http://www.mansioningles.com/vocabulario63.htm
Other sites
mentioned:
http://www.davidcrystal.com/David_Crystal/english.htm
http://www.macmillanglobal.com/
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