1. 8. ONLINE REFERENCE TOOLS Dictionaries and Thesauruses Concordancers and corpuses for language analysis Translators for language analysis Encyclopedias for research and project work

2. Dictionaries and thesauruses A monolingual dictionary uses the same language for the words and their definitions.dictionarywords A thesaurus is a book that organizes words by categories and concepts, so synonyms and near-synonyms will be grouped together.wordssynonyms

3. Dictionaries http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/mini-dictionary.html TYPES OF DICTIONARY: Click on the links below to find out more about the different kinds of dictionaries available: Bilingual Dictionary Monolingual Dictionary Etymological Dictionary Crossword Dictionary Rhyming Dictionary Mini-Dictionary Pocket Dictionary Thesaurus Glossary http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ http://vvv.sederet.com/translate.php http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

4. Thesauruses Thesauruses are more suited to intermediate and advanced level.

5. Concordancers and corpuses for language analysis A concordancer is similar to a search engine in many respects. Essentially, it is a small program that can examined large quantities of text for patterns and occurences of particular words and phrases.