A History of the English Language Online Course

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[Abstract] This paper is a general illustrated description of the contents and structure of the History of the English Language (HEL) Online Course designed by the author for the students enrolled in Historia de la Lengua Inglesa at the University of Jaén (an obligatory year-long course in English Philology curricula in Spain). The purpose of the HEL Online Course is to offer students a very extensive range of both theory and practice-related materials, as well as otheruseful resources, such as a blog-page and a Google-powered search page. Also, the website of the HEL Online Course iscomplemented by materials available on the university’s virtual oe-learning platform. The website was launched at the beginningof the academic year 2007-2008 and is currently being used by 2008-2009 students.