Digging Deeper: Chapters 3 & 4

Students of this course are to present an in-depth project dealing with a topic connected to International English.

Below you will find resources for the research topics suggested on pp. 196-197 in Access to International English.

Remember: These topics are not meant to be definitive. It may be that they simply set you off in a certain direction.

 

Topic 1:               

Canada:

http://www.canadahistory.com/

http://www.censusfinder.com/canada-census-records.htm

New Zealand:

http://history-nz.org/

http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census.aspx

Australia:

http://www.australianhistory.org/

http://www.abs.gov.au/Census

South Africa:

http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/history.htm

http://www.statssa.gov.za/census2011/

 

Topic 2:                               

http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/september03_index.php?l=56

http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/attachments/London-Bomb-attacks-EN.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings

 

Topic 3:               

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/25/us-usa-immigration-court-idUSBRE85O0Q520120625

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/anti-immigration-law-database       

http://newamericamedia.org/2012/04/a-trend-toward-anti-immigrant-anti-choice-laws.php

 

Topic 4:               

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/park51-islamic-center-ope_n_975585.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/park51/index.html

 

Topic 5:               

http://wiki.lib.utexas.edu/mals/pmwiki.php/Main/Statistics

http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Le-Pa/Mexican-Americans.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_American

 

Topic 6:

http://www.wto.org/

http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

http://www.worldbank.org/

 

Topic 7:               

http://www.attac.org/?lang=en

http://www.adbusters.org/

http://occupywallst.org/

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/        

 

Topic 8:               

http://www.ngo.org/links/index.htm

 

Topic 9:               

http://www.davemanuel.com/investor-dictionary/bric/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC

http://indrus.in/articles/2012/04/02/new_delhi_brics_summit_the_charming_effect_on_global_politics_15337.html

http://indrus.in/articles/2012/05/04/developing_countries_promise_big_changes_for_the_world_economy_15680.html

 

Topic 10:

http://www.norway-un.org/NorwayandUN/Norwegian-UN-Politcies/Peace_Operations/

http://www.norway-un.org/NorwayandUN/Selected_Topics/Peace_Efforts/?CurrentPageN=3

http://english.nupi.no/Activities/Programmes2/Afghanistan-and-Pakistan-Programme/%28show%29/pub