Thesaurus – Synonyms, Antonyms, and Related Words

Author: Farlex

Recommended by: David Carrascosa Cañego

“A comprehensive online thesaurus of synonyms, antonyms and related words. The thesaurus contains over 145,800 unique entries from three main sources: Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged, The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus, and WordNet.”

Lecturer’s Strategies in English Speaking Class

Author: Daddi, H. & Ul Haq, M. Z.

Recommended by: David Carrascosa Cañego

“This research aimed to reveal what strategies were applied by lecturers in English speaking class, how those strategies were applied and to know the students’ perceptions towards the use of those strategies.”

Strategies for Academic English

Author: Lee, K.

Recommended by: Alicia Fernández Barrera

“A lecture about EMI from a graduate student programme. It provides general strategies and tips to improve English academic writing and presentations. This includes the writing process and the difficulties in working in English as a second language.”

English for Teaching Purposes: A Mooc Provided by the Language Service at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

Author: Solá Viñals, S., Ygoa-Bayer, J. & James, I.

Recommended by: Alicia Fernández Barrera

“It provides the necessary tools to integrate different aspects of CLIL (methodological, pedagogical, strategic, linguistic and pragmatic) to put together their own-English medium course on their particular subject. It also describes the characteristics of the university lecture discourse genre and explains the appropriate linguistic aspects, micro-functions in English teaching discourse (metalinguistic, informative, evaluative, inductive, etc.) to consolidate their oral expression and interaction, as well as their grammar and vocabulary.”