Developed by Prof. Averil Coxhead (Victoria University of Wellington), primarily for teachers preparing learners for tertiary level study, or by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at tertiary institutions
Publishes an open access journal: JESLA - Journal of the European Second Language Association
Open repository of instruments, materials, stimuli, data, and data coding and analysis tools used for research into languages, including questionnaires and interview schedules. Covers first & second languages, signed language learning, multilingualism, language education, language use, and language processing. It also holds postprints of journal articles and book chapters of the above research
Lexical tool developed by Lancaster University. Analyses lexical coverage of texts and compares it to the New General Service List that identifies 2,490 most frequent words in the English language. Individual words or portions of text can be input, analysis of the latter can indicate lexical complexity of the text
Guide to language testing related resources on the Internet. Other useful features include a searchable index of articles published in the journal Language Testing, conference news page and the Articles and Reviews section.
Website with resources specialising in vocabulary acquisition, largely the work of P.M. Meara (Swansea University)
Led by Professor Florence Myles (Essex), RiPL provides high quality video lessons & resources for primary schools teaching French or Spanish during the pandemic
International collaborative effort to collate and make available tools for second language speech research and teaching, including tests, questionnaires, oral tasks, and more
Site funded by the International Association for Task-based Language Teaching and Learning and based at Indiana University. The database encourages deposit of language learning tasks for use by language teachers & researchers
Developed by the AHRC to revitalise Modern Languages and encourage multilingualism, this free website has nine online games for learners to encourage use of different languages. Designed primarily for children aged 10-14