English Dictionary and Reference Tools

• Cambridge Dictionary Online https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
• Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
• Collin’s Dictionary https://www.collinsdictionary.com/
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/
• Purdue Owl Writing Lab https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
• Citation Machine https://www.citationmachine.net/

Literary and Cultural Studies

• BBC Radio- In Our Times https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player
• Global Shakespeare—Video and Performance https://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/
• The Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews
• The Shelley-Godwin Archive http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/
• Project Gutenburg https://www.gutenberg.org/
• Victorian Web https://victorianweb.org/
• World Literature Today https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/

Linguistics and Translation Studies

• AntConc and other corpus tools https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software.html
• English Corpora https://www.english-corpora.org/
• Linguee https://www.linguee.com/chinese-english
• Collocaid https://www.collocaid.uk/
• Lextutor https://www.lextutor.ca/
• Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/
• TCSE TED corpus search engine https://yohasebe.com/tcse/
• Use YouTube to improve your English https://youglish.com/
• PlayPhrase https://www.playphrase.me/#/search
• Bootcat Corpus builder https://bootcat.dipintra.it/

Language Centre 

• https://lc.hksyu.edu/en

Online Newspapers/ Magazines

• CNN Interactive https://edition.cnn.com/
• BBC https://www.bbc.com/news
• Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/
• New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/