Anglès: recursos lingüístics

The Library and Language Service have joined forces to select a series of resources for English. This dossier includes reference works and tools to help resolve doubts on spelling, grammar or vocabulary. You can also find resources to help with pronunciation or to keep up-to-date with the news and new developments in the use of English.

Last modified:

09.03.20

The Language Service

UOC Language & Style

This site, run by staff at the Language Service, provides specific guidelines for UOC-related texts in English.

UOC Language and style

This resource will help you discover the extensive support on offer in the 3 sister sites of UOC Language Service.

Practical Guide to English Usage

This guide is designed to provide support for members of the UOC community who need to write in English.

@UOCllengua

The UOC Language Service's Twitter account.

Language learning

English Toolkit

The UOC has put together a collection of resources to help you improve your level of English.

Learn English Network

An NGO which has provided support to students and teachers of English since 1999.

BBC Learning English

A BBC website that has been teaching English since 1943, with free audio, video and written materials

Writing

This section offers a range of resources to help improve writing skills and address specific doubts.

Interuniversity Style Guide for Writing Institutional Texts in English

A style guide designed for people who have to write institutional documents in English.

Writing Guides: Scholarly Publishing

They address issues related to the publication of research work.

Research Writing

The University of Florida University Writing Center is a resource for writing, research and scholary writing.

Anglès per a catalans de Lou Hevly

A selection of tools and resources to help Catalan speakers learn English.

Writing Skills - EnglishClub

Section of the EnglishClub website with guides to help users write in English.

Writing help - Oxford Living Dictionaries

Help section on writing within the grammar section of the Oxford Living Dictionaries website.

Academic Writing - Warwick

Academic writing section from the University of Warwick's Faculty of Social Sciences.

Purdue Online Writing Lab

Portal with a wide range of resources to help with writing in English.

Reading

Short Stories - EnglishClub

Section of the EnglishClub website with short stories for increasing English vocabulary.

Metropolitan Barcelona

Magazine published in English dedicated to the city of Barcelona and aimed at visitors.

Short Stories - East of the Web

Section of the East of the Web website dedicated to stories in English.

World News in English - The Big Project

Website with links to newspapers in English from around the world.

Listening

SUB inglés

A website which offers song videos in English with subtitled lyrics.

BBC Sounds

Site for browsing and listening to BBC radio stations and podcasts in English.

Pronunciation

This section offers tools to find out how to pronounce words in different languages.

FORVO

The place where you can find millions of words pronounced in their original language.

howjsay

Online English pronunciation dictionary.

Pronunciation Lessons - 5 Minute English

Pronunciation section of the English teaching website 5 Minute English.

Shiporsheep

English pronunciation website based on the similarities between two sounds.

Vocabulary

English Word Games - Learn English Today

Section of the Learn English Today website for learning English through word games.

Grammar questions and doubts

This section has resources to resolve all kinds of doubts about language and grammar.

English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

A question and answer site for linguists, etymologists and serious English language enthusiasts.

Common Errors in English Usage

A useful and fun guide to mixed-up, mangled expressions and commonly mispronounced words.

Oxford Dictionaries (Grammar)

Useful information on English grammar and usage from the people behind the Oxford dictionary.

Headway Upper-Intermediate

A section of the Oxford University Press website dedicated to an intermediate academic grammar level.

Verb Tenses. Self Access Corner

The section of the Self Access Corner website on the Xarxa Telemàtica Educativa de Catalunya (XTEC).

Dictionaries

This section has a selection of lexicographic reference works.

Lexico

It offers free access to a number of the dictionaries produced by the Oxford University Press and grammar section.

Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster produces the leading dictionaries for US English.

Translation

Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and databases to help with translations.

Inter-Active Terminology for Europe (IATE)

The EU's inter-institutional terminology database.

Linguee

A search engine with which you can search billions of bilingual texts for words and expressions.

WordReference

A tool to find the word selected and offer its definition, synonyms & antonyms or translation into other languages.

Oxford Dictionaries (Spanish-English)

The English-Spanish dictionary offered by Oxforddictionaries.com

Corpora

This section has databases with large numbers of words and the contexts in which they appear.

Keeping up-to-date

This section has a selection of websites and blogs with news and new developments from the world of languages.

Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing.

Sentence first

Words are powerful tools and deserve careful use, but language usage changes constantly.

English: language resources