Lexitronics

If you’re interested in our Lexitronics work, then you’ll probably also be interested in some of the following sites, included here to give credit where credit is due, and because we simply find the sites extremely useful in one way or another. So here’s our current top 10: 

1. The Compleat Lexical Tutor: Packed full of useful tools and resources, Tom Cobb’s site is at the cutting edge of all things lexical.

2. Using English for Academic Purposes: Andy Gillet’s site at the University of Hertfordshire is crammed with useful activities, many of them lexical, of fantastic use to anyone teaching or learning English for academic purposes.

3. The Purdue Online Writing Lab: You can’t get a much more comprehensive guide to the skills involved in writing than at this ‘OWL’.

4. Wordle: This is a new entry. It provides a quick way of generating a visual map of the most frequent lexis in a text. Interesting possibilities for student self-access.

5. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English:  Everyone needs a good dictionary. There are plenty of good ones, fortunately, and out of these, we’ve selected Longman online – full of information and activities.

 6. The Academic Word List: We’re somewhat critical of the AWL, but without Coxhead’s inspiration, much of our own work simply wouldn’t exist. Reason enough to link through to Coxhead’s own pages. 

7. International Journal of Lexicography: Covered by the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, this international journal ”is concerned with all aspects of lexicography, including issues of design, compilation and use, and with dictionaries of all languages, though the chief focus is on dictionaries of the major European languages – monolingual and bilingual, synchronic and diachronic, pedagogical and encyclopedic. The Journal recognizes the vital role of lexicographical theory and research, and of developments in related fields such as computational linguistics, and welcomes contributions in these areas. IJL will include a regular feature on some practical aspect of dictionary-making and will publish, also on a regular basis, reviews of dictionaries and books reflecting the full range of the Journal’s interests”.