Books, Audiovisual Material and Journals

Reference Sources of LRC

Online References

Internet Resources

Databases and Electronic Journals

Books, Audiovisual material and Journals

To find books, audiovisual material and journals in the LRC, search the catalogue using a keyword or subject search on your topic, or ask Information Desk for assistance. Some main call numbers for this subject area are:

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 Reference Sources of LRC

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary                        TK 423 CAM
 

English Pronouncing Dictionary                                          TK 421.5203 JON
 

International Acronyms, Initialisms& Abbreviations Dictionary                                                                            TK 423.1 INT
 

Longman Pronunciation Dictionary                                     TK 428.1 WEL
 

Microsoft Encarta College Thesaurus                                  TK 423.1 MIC
 

Oxford American Interactive Wordpower                           TK 423 URB
 

Oxford Collocations Dictionary                                            TK423 OXF
 

Oxford Idioms Dictionary                                                    TK 423 OXF
 

Oxford Phrasal Verbs Dictionary                                         TK423 OXF
 

Oxford Picture Dictionary                                                    TK 423 FUC
 

Reverse International Acronyms, Initianlism

& Abbreviations Dictionary (5th Edition - 2 volumes)       TK 423.1 VER
 

The Linguistics Encyclopedia                                              TK 410.3 LIN
 

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language      TK 420 CRY
 

Từ điển Anh - Việt -- Việt – Anh                                           TK 423.495922 BUI
 

Từ điển thành ngữ- tục ngữ Pháp- Anh- Việt                       TK 413.82 TƯ

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Online References

ALLwords.com                                 

Free online English dictionary with the ability to search for words in English, German, Dutch, French, Italian & Spanish. All English words have "wav" files that provide pronunciation of that word.

Dictionary.cambridge.org               

Searches for English words, idioms, phrasal verbs.

Dictionary of Slang & Colloquialisms

English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom.

Encyclopedia.com                           

Searches for more than 17,000 articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, third edition - free, quick and useful information on almost any topic.

Encyclopedia4u.com                                   

Covers every field of knowledge, and is indexed by subjects.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

HP Group

Provides students with materials and softwares for English language learning.

Onelook Dictionaries

Searches 392 dictionaries simultaneously or allow you to choose specific subject based dictionaries.

Rhyming Dictionary

Enter a word and the server will return a list of words with which your word rhymes, along with synonyms, homophones, and other similar or related words; also find definitions, quotes, and Shakespearian works containing the word.

Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrase

Provides 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references, over 2,900 proverbs and quotations from classic and modern authors illustrate the 1,000-plus entries.

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed.

Contains 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index.
 

Semantic Atlas                                

Provides the user with a French-English / English-French dictionary and an English / French synonym dictionary, as well as a geometric model for representing the meanings of words.

Wikipedia                                        

Covers every field of knowledge, and is indexed by subjects.

Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus

Offers several kinds of searches, including searches for synonyms and similar words, and searching definitions to find a word. Several other features of interest to students, educators, and linguists are also available, including Words of the Week, a monthly newsletter, and a Cross Word Puzzle Solver.

Yourdictionary.com                        

Hundreds of specilised languages or subject dictionaries available on other sites

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Internet Resources
 

Activities for ESL Students             
Includes over 1,000 quizzes, exercises, and puzzles to help students studying English as a Second Language (ESL). The activities are contributed by teachers and include grammar and vocabulary activities.

Babelfish.altavista.com                   

Visitors can translate texts and web pages on this website.

Boggle's World                                

Includes a variety of resources for teachers of elementary and middle school English, English as a Second Language (ESL), and English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Resources include crossword puzzles, flash cards, songs, work sheets, lesson plans and more.

ESL images                                      

Provides teachers with fun, colorful, and attractive ESL images and ESL Flashcards, to help elicit new vocabulary and teach new language structures, also features a large variety of task-based ESL lesson plans full of pair and group activities, and focusing on all four language skills.

ESL/EFL recourses                         

Provides students of English as a Second Language with grammar book, vocabulary, verb tenses, conditionals, prepositions, mini- tutorials, irregular verbs, reading room, listening lounge, games, student forums and English schools...

Freetranslation.com                                    

Automatic translation service of texts (A/F, F/A).

Global Education                             

Includes a variety of resources for English learners and teachers such as grammar, structures, phonology, listening, tests, exam papers, learning and teaching methodology…

Interesting things for ESL Students           

Provides students of English as a Second Language with word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, proverbs and much more.

Sounds of English

Provides handouts and audio practice exercises as well as diagrams showing the shape of the mouth when making certain sounds

Systranbox.com

With SYSTRANBox, visitors can translate texts, web pages and even surf the Internet in their native language.

The Internet TESL Journal              

This is a monthly online journal for teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL). It includes Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links. The links include resources for ESL teachers and activities for ESL learners. Issues from 1995 to the present are archived on the website.

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Databases and Electronic Journals

LRC provides multi-disciplined databases and e-journals in English for users whose specialties are natural or social.

Databases

EBSCO is a group of multi-disciplined databases serving for most users. Many databases in EBSCO are updated on a daily basis. Below are some examples of relevant databases:

Academic Search Premier provides full-text for 4,500 publications covering the disciplines: history, politics, literature, languages, psychology, and sociology etc.

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) contains more than 2,200 digests from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

MasterFILE Premier provides full-text for more than 2,005 publications, covering the disciplines: education, culture, and sciences dating as far back as 1975. It also contains a huge amount of reference resources, images, maps and flags.

Blackwell Publisher provides articles from 814 leading journals covering the subjects: mathematics, informatics, history, literature, languages, philosophy, and law etc.

Oxford University Press provides a variety of journals of a wide subject coverage serving different groups of users.

Access to most of these databases is open within LRC (Username and Password are not required).  For remote access, contact Information Desk at level 1.

Electronic Journals

Applied Measurement in Education contains researches, strategies for the evaluation and improvement of new educational measurement. Access is open in LRC. No remote access provided.

Discourse Studies is a multi-disciplined journal of the subjects: linguistics, anthropology, psychology, communication studies, law etc. Access is open in LRC. No remote access provided.

Educational Assessment. Access is open in LRC. No remote access provided.

Multilingual Matters provides journals of the subjects: language and education. Access is open in LRC. No remote access provided.

For further assistance, please contact your College liaison

Ton Nu Phuong Mai: mai.tnp@lrc-hueuni.edu.vn

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