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 GROUP A 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 GROUP B GROUP C 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 GROUP D 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/