Canada

• The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Infoculture, television, radio, newsworld, regions

Japan

• KYODO News Tokyo, Japan

USA

• ABC News
• Associated Press (AP) Headline news
• CBS News
• CNN News and CNN All Politics
• The Discovery Channel News briefs, feature stories dealing with science, technology, popular culture
• ESPN The sports network: baseball, football, hockey, soccer, golf, basketball, tennis, extreme sports
• Fox News
• MSNBC News
• Newswire Most up-to-date news coverage
• National Public Radio (NPR) Includes Real Audio to listen to selected news broadcasts over your computer
• Policy News and Information Service Policy.com showcases leading research, opinions and events shaping public policy on dozens of issues including education, technology and healthcare. Policy.com is non-partisan and free to users.
• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). See also The Online News Hour
• Reuters Headline news
• U.S. Department of State International Information Programs and Archive of the Former United States Information Agency site (University of Illinois at Chicago): Includes data and news on current issues, international exchanges and training, US society and values
• Voice of America News in English. Includes English news scripts and a free RealPlayer 8 Basic download to listen to the news.
• A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. RealAudio stories for listening comprehension. The archive includes every performance of A Prairie Home Companion since the beginning of the 1996 - 97 season. Download RealPlayer 8 Basic, free of charge, to listen to these and other RealAudio spoken and music performances.

UK

• BBC Education
• BBC News
• ITN World News

Tools

For Grad Students Only

How to Survive Grad School A Handbook for Students and Advisors

General

The British Council English, Education, the Arts

English Departments Worldwide links

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Reference Sources English dictionaries, English thesauruses, foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries, quotations, scholarly references, guides to critical thinking, style and grammar guides, phone and e-mail directories, currency rates, atlases and geographical references, calendars and time

A Survey of English Resources on the WWW An excellent place to begin a more detailed search

Dictionaries / Thesauruses

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Fourth Edition (2000)

Cambridge DictionarieS (1) Cambridge Learner's Dictionary; (2) Cambridge International Dictionary of English, (3) Cambridge Dictionary of American English (2001).

Dictionary of SignsA Dictionary of Surnames

Merriam Webster Dictionary

New Words in English Rice University

Phrase Finder Phrases, sayings and cliches with their meanings and origins

Onelook Dictionary Word references in 351 indexed dictionaries

Webster's Dictionary Carnegie Mellon University

The American <-> British Dictionary Usage and vocabulary, pronunciation, history. More than just a dictionary, an excellent resource.

Britspeak: English as a Second Language for Americans

Dictionary of American Regional English

Etymological Dictionary of English

Roget's Thesaurus

The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

The International Phonetic Alphabet The IPA, Revised and Updated 1996 (The International Phonetic Association)

Encyclopedias / Almanacs

Biography Encyclopedia Search over 20,000 personalities

The Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia of the Orient

The Information Please Almanac Well-organized Facts and Figures that cover: Business and the Economy, Entertainment, Living, People, Science and Technology, Society, Sports, the World and more

The Reference Desk (University of California at Irvine) Jim Martindale has prepared a comprehensive one-stop reference desk site. Science, sports, medicine, technology, environmental studies, the internet - the list goes on.

Reference Encyclopedia

The World Factbook The almanac of the Internet. Detailed information on about every country in the world.

Writing Abstracts, Papers, Theses, Resumes, Summaries and Paraphrases. Making Presentations. Effective E-Mail

Writing

Academic Writing University of Toronto: Advice on Academic Writing

Better Writing Writing better: organization, style, logic, mechanics, revising. An Amherst University link

Online Writing Assistant Paper organization, documentation, editing

Research Guide How to find information, books, periodicals, magazines, web sites, and cite information.

Summaries and Paraphrases

University-Level Writing University of Toronto. Includes a step-by-step set of instructions on how to write a University-level English essay. Includes sections on writing, organizing, proofreading, and documenting sources.

How to Outline Outline format

Writing with Gender-Fair Language

Writing Abstracts

Abstracts Style, content, example

How to Write an Abstract

Citing

APA Format Bibliography Style Guide for citing resources using the American Psychological Association format

APA Electronic Reference Format

MLA Format Bibliography Style Guide for citing resources using the Modern Language Association format

MLA Style Guide FAQs

Citing Electronic SourcesMLA citation style

Research Papers and Presentations

Research Papers The Web's largest collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects. Includes Art and Literature, History, Business, Society

More Research Papers Purpose, form and content hints

How to Write a Thesis Statement

Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation A practical guide

E-Mail

Writing Effective Email A beginner's guide

E-Mail Basics In Japanese

Cover Letters and Resumes

Writing Resumes and Cover Letters Career Resource Center

Making Presentations

Communication: Making Oral Presentations The Structure of a Presentation

Preparing Oral Presentations

Libraries

Library Research Guide Helpful hints on how to do library research.

Cambridge University Library

The Library of Congress Collection previews, early motion pictures, maps, photographs, sound recordings, texts, research tools

Library of Congress Gopher Menu

Library of Congress Search

Library WWW Servers Libweb currently lists over 2700 pages from libraries in over 70 countries.

National Library Catalogues Worldwide

Osaka University Library Search In English and Japanese

Research Library Collections

Subject Catalogue of Online Literature in English University of Goettingen

Universities

American Universities Homepage reference to US colleges and universities



American College and University Rankings A US News survey

Australian Universities Directories

Business Schools U.S. and International

College Catalogs 8,100 College catalogs available online. Complete cover-to-cover catalogs include Tables of Contents and Indexes that are fully hyperlinked so you can quickly find all the details you need: Complete course descriptions, academic policies, faculty information, admission requirements, campus maps.

Canadian Universities

European Universities Homepage reference to European colleges and universities

Japanese Universities Alphabetical listing of both Japanese and English homepages

Study in the States

Embark.com A good place to begin for anyone wishing to attend university in the States.

Study in the USA U.S. Journal of Academics for Non-U.S. Students. LEARN about studying in the United States by exploring our exclusive guide to universities, colleges, English Language Programs, and internships!

Study USA Study in the USA is the education guide for international students. Here you can access information about universities and colleges in the USA or choose an intensive English program. Featured Schools provide you with program descriptions in a variety of languages, as well as Request Information forms for contacting admissions offices. See also the Resource Guide in Japanese.

Language and Tests

TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links

Browse: Links for Students, Links for Teachers or What's New

THE COLLEGE BOARDS: A starting point for the SAT. Use the web site search function to access sample questions and to learn more about the SAT I: Reasoning Test, and the SAT II: Subject Tests.

TOEIC Exam and Reference Page In Japanese

TOEFL On-line Information for students and test-takers of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), Test of Written English (TWE) and Test of Spoken English (TSE). Includes test formats and schedules.

The GMAT (Standard test for entering Business Schools in the US)

The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) Sample Tests to download

Selected Links for ESL Students Daily English Study, Quizzes, Vocabulary Study, Sites with Sound, Song Lyrics, Communicating with Others (Maintained by the TESL Journal)

Film* and Television

Click all headings marked * for a wider selection

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The Academy Award site

The American Film Institute News and information

Cinemachine Film reviews

The Greatest Films Detailed analysis and synopses for the Greatest Films include memorable movie quotes, lines of dialogue, and scenes.

The Internet Movie Database Summaries, awards, trivia, literature, ratings critics, reviews. Go to Screen Talk for recent movie scripts or visit the Magazine Rack above.

Television Magazine (American and British) Reviews, scripts, histories

TV Guide Weekly updates on televsion programming and American culture

Bilingualism/Biculturalism

Bilingual, ESL and Multicultural Education Resources

Bilingual Education Questions and Answers

Bilingual Education Resources The National Education Association

Bilingual Education: Is It Dead? PBS August 23, 2000

Jim Lyons and Ron Unz Bilingual Education for and against

Cross-Cultural Communication The American University

Immigration and Education Equity and cultural diversity.

The National Association for Bilingual Education

Black English and Ebonics

• African American Vernacular English (AAVE) A Defnition and discussion
• Ebonics The original Oakland, California Resoultion
• Ebonics Amended The amended Oakland Resolution
• The Linguistic Society of America Resolution on the Oakland Ebonics Issue

The English-Only Movement

Bilingual Education Act of 1968 and discussion.

Bilingual Education in California: The Current Debate ABC News

The Bilingual Education Debate

The English Only Movement Issues in US Language Policy

The Linguistic Society of America's Resolution on English Only

English First Make English America's official language. Give every child the chance to learn English. Eliminate costly and ineffective multilingual policies.

Language Legislation in the US Issues in US Language Policy

Ten Common Fallacies about Bilingual Eduaction James Crawford for ERIC (November 1998)

TESOL's Position on English-Only

US English The US Government and Language Policy

Hawaian Creole English

• Hawaiian Creole Background, sounds, vocabularly, grammar
• History and Preservation of the Hawaiian Language
• "Feeding Pidgin" Honolulu Advertiser April 2001
• Sociocultural Context of Hawaiian Language Revival and Learning
• "The Genesis of Hawai'i Creole English in the Early 20th Century"
• Ban of Hawaiian Pidgin in Schools
• Hawaiian Creole Audio examples
• Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Ohio State University

Cultural Studies

American Studies

• The American Decade of Immigration: 1910-1920
• The American 20s
• The American 30s Essays, links, tools
• The American 40s
• The American 50s: The Affluent Society
• The American 60s The history of a generation. University of Virginia
• America: The Vietnam Years
• American Civilization American Studies Crossroads Project: Georgetown University internet resoucres
• American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century Explore the decades: 1900-1989. Includes facts and information on and links to Art, Architecture, Books and Literature, Education, Fashions and Fads, History, Music, Technology, Theater, Film, Radio and Television. Prepared by Kingswood College.
• American Popular Culture: Critical Issues, Critical Approaches Includes sections on genres (television, music, film, cyberspace, advertising, magazines and comix), issues (race and ethnicity, gender, sexulaity, class, censorship), approaches (production analysis, text analysis, audience analysis, historical analysis)
• American Studies Organizations, the American government, the American West
• American Studies Web Includes: art and material culture, cuurent events and legal studies, economy and politics, gender and sexulaity, history, literature, performance and broadcasting, philosophy and religion, race and ethnicity, region and environment, sociology and demography
• Changing America Latest statistics on U.S. population, economics, education, health, crime, housing comlete with charts. PDF files only.
• Columbus and the Age of Discovery: 1492-1992
• Etiquette in [American] Society: in Business, in Politics and at Home Emily Post 1922
• Historical Census Data Browser: USA
• A History of the United States In November, 1995 the Department of Education issued its report on the knowledge of American history on the part of 22,000 students in fifty states. Lewis Lapham, Editor of Harper's Magazine, was utterly dismayed. He wrote that "More than 50 percent of all high school seniors were unaware of the Cold War. Nearly six of ten were bereft of even a primitive understanding of where America came from ... For twenty years, the ministers of American education (university deans as well as federal bureaucrats) have been reporting signs of decay -- low SAT scores, declining verbal aptitude and a general inability to find Tokyo on a map....
• The Making of America University of Michigan. Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
• The U.S. Census Bureau Statistics (U.S. Population: 286,386,924 as of February 4, 2002)

  One birth every 8 seconds; One death every 12 seconds; One international migrant (net) every 37 seconds; One Federal U.S. citizen (net) returning every 4833 seconds; Net gain of one person every 14 seconds.

General Culture

• Cultural Studies and Critical TheoryCultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices.
• Cultural Studies Culture /canon wars, generation wars (baby boomers, generation x), millenial studies, authors, writings, interviews, popular and mass culture, Frankfurt School, postmodernism
• Postmodern Culture A journal of essays on and reviews of postmodern texts

Literature, Texts and Criticsm

Literature in English

• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
• Literature in English General Resources, Postcolonial, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean, Ireland, Scotland, Subcontinental (South Asia), Wales
• American Authors on the Web Nagoya University
• American Literature General Resources Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages: Authors, Period, Social Context, Related Resources
• American Literature Links to worldwide sites. Impressive.
• American and Canadian Literature in English Internet Public Library collection of critcism, fiction, poetry, drama, essays, speeches, letters in English
• Post World War II American Literature and Culture and Database University of California at Berkeley. Includes bibliographies, genres, libraries and special collections, dissertation gallery, online resources
• British Literature Browse by Age and AUthor
• The Canadian Literature Archive
• Canadian Literature Online Authors, publishers, periodicals, organizations, study programs, culture

Literary Periods

• Middle English Literature 1350-1485
• Early Modern English Dictionary and Database University of Toronto
• 16th-Century Renaissance English Literature 1485-1603
• Early 17th-Century English Literature 1603-1660
• Eighteenth Century Studies This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies.
• Literary Resources on the Internet University of Pennsylvania. Includes: Classical & Biblical Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-Century (a separate archive), Romantic, Victorian British, Twentieth-Century British and Irish, American, Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature & Feminism, Ethnicities & Nationalities, Other National Literatures, Bibliography & History of the Book, Hypertext, Miscellaneous.
• Victorian Literature

Criticism

• The Cambridge Quarterly Article abstracts
• Literary Criticism The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 1367 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period.
• Literary Theory General theory, deconstruction,ecoliterature and ecocriticism, film theory, Marxist critique, feminist theory, media theory, narratology, postcolonial studies
• The Review of English Studies Article abstracts

Texts

• ALEX: Catalague of Electronic Texts This is the Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts, a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. UC Berkeley site.
• Eighteenth-Century Texts Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism.
• Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions Online electronic texts
• Univeristy of Virginia's Virtual Library English texts online: Modern English (1738 titles) , Middle English (40 titles) , Old English (3000 titles) and Electronic Text ResourcesByron, Keats, the Shelleys, Victorian Women Writers, Mark Twain, Jane Austen)

Literature and the Environment

• Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
• Literature and the Environment: Survey Syllabi
• The Wilderness in the North American Imagination



Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Language
• The Vocabulary "Shakespeare was so facile in employing words that he was able to use over 7,000 of them, more than occur in the whole King James version of the Bible, only once and never again."
• A Dictionary of Shakespere
• Shakespeare's Word Usage
• Elizabethan Accents Pronunication
Shakespeare's Grammar
• A Shakesperian Grammar 1879
• Shakespeare's Grammar 2000 (Syntax, Rhetoric, Usage, Glossary)

Shakespeare's Works

• Complete Works of Shakespeare Discussion, search, resources, chronological and alphabetical listing, Bartlett's familiar Shakespearean quotations.
• The Oxford Shakespeare Plays and poetry
• Play Synopses
• Shakespeare Stats Statistics of Shakespeare's Plays compiled by Hartmut Ilsemann English Department
• The Illustrated Shakespeare Emory University. The site explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another. of Hannover University

References

• Shakespeare and the Renaissance.
• The Folger Shakespeare Library Academic resources, public events
• Shakespeare and the Internationalisation of Japan [Marebita Toshite no Sao] by Daniel Gallimore, Oxford Uinversity (May 1999)
• The Shakespeare Magazine Criticism. A newly launched magazine sponsored by Georgetown University and Cambridge University Press

The Globe Theater

• International Globe Centre at the University of Cologne, Germany. The text of a slide lecture on The Elizabethan Theater by Professor Hilda D. Spear (University of Dundee) held at Cologne University in October 1989. Color slide illustrations are provided by Professor Spear.
• Shakespeare's Globe Globe Research
• Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now Encyclopedia Britannica: Biographies, Plays, The Elizabethan Context, Study Guide
• Shakespeare and the Globe on the Web Reading University. Begin your Shakespeare study search here.

Ethnic Studies

• African American Studies Culture, education, history, language issues, literature and research
• Asian American Studies Includes Cambodia, China, Hmong, Japan, Korea, Laos, the Philippines, and Vietnam
• Ethnic Studies University of Southern California's Resources for African American, American, Asian, Gender, Jewish, Mexican American and Native American Studies
• Jewish American Literature From Purdue University
• Latino/Hispanic Studies
• Multicultural Education Northern Arizona University
• Multicultural Voices Includes references for Native, African and Hawaiian America
• Native American Studies Texts, culture, education, history, issues, language, literature
• Themes in Theories of Colonialism and Postcolonialism
• "The Undermining of Ethnic Studies" from The Chronicle of Higher Education 10/95