Matthew Walsh's
EFL ESL website
Stuff for fellow
University of Birmingham Tefl/Tesl MA students
Below is a collection of links useful for us. Maybe I can save us a
little time by posting them here.
If anybody has any more good stuff, I'd be happy to add it if you send
it to me.
mattandyukari@hotmail.com
*Note: This page was made
in 2004-5 so many of the Birmingham things may have changed.
*Scroll down for
pics from Hiroshima Seminar 2004
I'm on Skype as
highlanderhouse please add me to your buddylist so we can talk about
coursework!
New!
Click here
for recordings and materials from both Paul Nation's and Ronald Carter's
presentations at JALT 2007
Resources
from Birmingham:
University of Birmingham's main page for MA TEFL/TESL
http://www.cels.bham.ac.uk/prospectus/ODL/odlteflinfo.htm
'Bank of
English'
Once you have your user name and password from B'ham
telnet to: titania.bham.ac.uk
The Users guide is at:
http://www.titania.bham.ac.uk/docs/svenguide.html
However, you will need to use some special software to telnet.
Other, easier to use web concordancers can be found on my 'Rad Links' page.
Athens
http://www.athensams.net/myathens/
EKT's
http://www.ad.bham.ac.uk/ekt/asp/welcome-EKT.asp
MA TEFL/TESL "assignment bank" has past examples of essays
http://www.cels.bham.ac.uk/resources/Essays.htm
Academic
writing guides:
"Effective use of English" The Open University
http://www3.open.ac.uk/learners-guide/learning-skills/english/pages/index.asp
'What is an Academic Essay?', University of Sussex Language
Institute
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/skills/ac-essay.html
'Writing Tools', The Writing Center, Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/index.cgi?section=tools
The ABCs of Academic Writing, Middlesex University
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/Gloess.htm
'Advice on Academic Writing', University of Toronto
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/advise.html
'Writing a Literature Review', Wesleyan University Library
http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/tut/litrev/index.html
Getting your ideas into a logical sequence, U of Canterbury, N.Z.
http://www.studentservices.canterbury.ac.nz/awc/Question/HowToOrder.htm
Reference
citing guides:
Guide to Harvard Style of referencing published material. ( Paul
Moritosh said this was safe. )
http://www.lmu.ac.uk/lss/ls/docs/harvfron.htm
Guide to the Modern Language Association (MLA) style of formatting
manuscripts. ( I used this one to format the title )
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
CiteSeer:
You can search an author or researcher's name and it will give
you contexts where they were cited
in other papers. Kind of a shortcut, but brings clarity
to what exactly was claimed by that author.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
Monica mentioned these
for reference citing in her presentation:
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/academic_services/documents/Library/Citing_References.pdf
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/using/guide_to_citing_internet_sourc.html
http://www.asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level5.asp?UserType=6&Level5=3165
Other things Monica Mentioned on the
third print entitiled 'Research Tools'
How to Organize your Thesis:
http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/thesis.html
How to make effective power point presentations:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/index.html
How to be a good graduate student:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html
Software mentioned for automatic reference citing:
EndNote ( http://www.endnote.com )
ProCite
ReferenceManager
Papyrus
Biblioscape
Scholar's Aid
Nota Bene
Scholar's Workstation
LaTeX/BibTex
Library Master
Link organizing research tool 'Copernic'
http://www.copernic.com
http://www.copernic.co.jp
Libraries in Japan:
http://www.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/index_e.html
http://www.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/riyoan/riyo2004_e.html
Nacsis Webcat:
http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat_eng.html
http://www.hirokoku-u.ac.jp/japanese/frame/tosyokan/index.html
Pics from
Hiroshima Seminar.
