Favorite Links

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Listening

• Radio-Locator:  http://www.radio-locator.com/   
• 《The most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. There are links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.》
• ESL Cyber Listening Lab: http://www.esl-lab.com/ 
• 《There are three different levels of listening materials- easy, medium, and difficult. The procedures of training your listening is by following the steps: Pre-listening Exercise, Listening Exercise, and Post-listening Exercise. Moreover, you can also find “quiz script”, “explanation of answers”, and “text completion quiz” along with each practice.》
• National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org/ 
• 《You can click on the “NPR Program Stream” to listen to the 24-hour radio station or the “Hourly Newscast” for a five-minute news summary.》
• British Broadcasting Corporation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/   
• 《You can listen to live audio from BBC World Service as well. This is a British Broadcasting so that it may differ from the American accent we’re used to listening to or learning. However, it's always good to expose to different accents. Even you’re in the State, you will also find that accent in the North varies from that in the South as well.》
• Voice of America: http://www.voanews.com/english/portal.cfm 
• 《Another good radio station to listen to on-line.》

Source for Holiday Celebration

• Holidays on the Net: http://www.holidays.net/
• 《For some important celebrations, there are additional pages naming “Mother’s Day on the Net” or “Thanksgiving on the Net” and the like. In each page, you can see what’s the origin of that holiday, how people celebrate, how to make crafts or decorate your home, etc..》
• Noble: North of Boston Library Exchange: http://www.noblenet.org/year/ 
• 《Here list the all the holidays and celebrations month by month. There are also other general holiday sites for reference.》

Online Dictionary

• Dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/
• 《Mostly, I’ll looking up new words on this website.》
• Merriam Webster OnLine: http://www.m-w.com/
• The free dictionary: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
• Roget’s Thesaurus: http://thesaurus.reference.com/
• Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webclopedia
• The Concise Columbia Electr. Encyclopedia: http://www.encyclopedia.com/
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online: http://tw.britannica.com/
• 《Traditional Chinese Version》
• 遠流字典通/線上資料庫：http://140.128.159.78/yldict/default.asp
• 線上英漢字典：http://cdict.giga.net.tw/
• Business English: http://203.64.185.208/glossary/comerce/show.php?char=a
• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/104554766/HOME?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 

Grammar

• Daily Grammar Lesson Archives: http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml
• 《There are 440 lessons in this website. They are classified into three groups: Parts of Speech, Parts of the Sentence, Mechanics. Answers are given immediately at the bottom of each lesson.》
• English-test.Net: http://www.english-test.net/index.html 
• 《This is a good website for self-study. You can also find other links helpful, like TOEFL Prep, GRE Prep, and TOEIC Prep.》
• British Council Grammar Archive: http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/mainindex_wide.html
• English Grammar Online 4 you: http://www.ego4u.com/
• Common Errors in English: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
• 《Here you will be stunned by the errors listed on this website. You may find out that you’ve been using the wrong words or phrases for a long time.》

References for Teachers

• Sites for Teachers: http://sitesforteachers.com/index.html
• English Club: http://www.englishclub.com/index.html 
• 《Learners and teachers are all invited to visit this website. There are Learning Center, ESL Clubhouse, Teachers Lounge, ESL Resources, and ESL World.》
• YZU English Wanderland: http://www.yzu.edu.tw/yzu/aa/wec/fli/index.asp
• 《It offered lots of websites for English learning and Teaching》 
• NCU English Learning Database: http://www.ncu.edu.tw/~wenchi/english/index.html
• Electronic Journal of English Education: http://ejee.ncu.edu.tw/