This PowerPoint presentation was created by the LLAS Centre and is intended to be used as a promotional tool for encouraging young learners to consider linguistics at university. It can be used for visits to schools or at University open days.

Introduction to acoustic phonetics. Basic concepts.

This collection showcases some of the resources in HumBox relating to linguistics and TESOL

Level 4 English Language course on Syntax and Morphology. This forms part of a series of interactive learning activities that complement lecture and seminar delivery methods and work as continuous assessment. To see the nature of this resource please preview the word document.

Level 4 English Language course on Syntax and Morphology. This forms part of a series of interactive learning activities that complement lecture and seminar delivery methods and work as continuous assessment. To see the nature of this resource please preview the word document.

Level 4 English Language course on Syntax and Morphology. This forms part of a series of interactive learning activities that complement lecture and seminar delivery methods and work as continuous assessment. To see the nature of this resource please preview the word document.

This website: www.tesolacademic.org provides free video webcasts from leaders in the field and other researchers who talk about their work its impact on language pedagogy. Keynote contributors include David Little, Amy Tsui, David Nunan and Keith Johnson.

Word Document - Plotting the Linguistic Map of Europe. an annotated list of the languages spoken in Europe, giving information on language relationships, the places where the languages are used, their status. the alphabet(s) used and (not in all instances) the number of speakers. Used as a handout

The exercise allows students to experiment with the concepts of prototype, goodness of example and family resemblance through the category of 'bird.'

Professorial Lecture on 'Up an Orthographic Tree: Language Ideologies in Czech Spelling Reform', by Professor Neil Bermel, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, given Wednesday 11 June 2008.

Professorial Lecture on 'Up an Orthographic Tree: Language Ideologies in Czech Spelling Reform', by Professor Neil Bermel, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, given Wednesday 11 June 2008.

A lecture summary and powerpoint for the first lecture on the first-year module Sounds of English. The lecture is an introduction to the anatomy and physiology of speech. Also see http://www.shef.ac.uk/ipa/ for a website demonstrating the International Phonetic Alphabet created by Andrew Linn and Sandra Whiteside.

Professorial Lecture on 'Science and Ideology in Early Soviet Linguistic Theory', by Professor Craig Brandist, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, given Wednesday 28 January 2009.

A powerpoint that explores some of the linguistic features of contemporary science writing.

A workshop exercise which explores the ethical implications of Sociolinguistic research.

A workshop exercise which involves a very basic quantitative analysis of social and linguistic variation. It requires students to analyse an extract of data, identify variants, quantify them and analyse patterns of variation in a larger dataset. Note: This resource contains occasional swear words.

A workshop exercise which can be used to explore the interaction between linguistic variables and social factors such as social class and style.

A powerpoint which provides guidance on how to undertake a basic quantitative sociolinguistic study.

A powerpoint which explores the study of Style in Sociolinguistics. It considers the different approaches to Style that have been used and give examples from relevant studies.

A powerpoint which explores how Sociolinguists have studied language variation in small, local groups. It explores the concepts of Social Network and Community of Practice and examines work undertaken using these methodologies.

A powerpoint which explores how Sociolinguists have studied Gender. It explores the meaning of the term 'gender' and compares the findings of Variationist and Interactional studies.

A powerpoint which explores how Sociolinguists have traditionally studied Social Class and Style. It considers how Sociolinguistic work differs from Dialectology and examines the concept of the Speech Community.

A powerpoint which introduces the discipline of Sociolinguistics, explaining the type of work undertaken by sociolinguists and the background to the field.

A powerpoint which explores the dialect resources available on line. These resources can be used by students to complete assessments exploring different varieties of British English.

Introduction to Forensic Linguistics

A course in phonetics for students of French, German and Spanish. Contains exercises.