Additional Resources
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.
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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.
