11 August 2007

Additional Resources

This is part of the August 2007 edition of eJournal USA.

Books

Berger, Harris M. and Michael T. Carroll, eds. Global Pop, Local Language. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.

Ostler, Rosemarie. Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Pennycook, Alastair. Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Stenström, Anna-Brita, Gisle Andersen, and Ingrid Kristine Hasund. Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus Compilation, Analysis, and Findings. Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA: J. Benjamins, 2002.

Internet Sites

U.S. Government

U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
English Teaching Forum
http://exchanges.state.gov/forum

Publication Catalog
http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/pubs/

Voice of America
VOA Radio English Course
http://www.dyned.com/voa/

Non-Government

American English
Public Broadcasting Service
http://www.pbs.org/speak/

English Daily
http://www.englishdaily626.com

Urban Dictionary
http://www.urbandictionary.com

The U.S. Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the resources listed above. All Internet links were active as of August 2007.