LOTS OF GREAT TRANSLATION EXERCISES!

Translating sentences is a good way of practicing structures and comparing languages!
If you want to improve your translation skills, you are lucky: there are useful online websites which provide lots of exercises!

For example:
                           1.exercisesonline.com, where you'll find practice according to your level

                           2.lawebdelinglés offers good grammar explanations for each level and great              translation practice of the different grammar points. 

  

                  

SUMMARY WRITING :)

Capturing the essence of a text requires practice: we should focus on the basic information and express it in a fluent and comprehensible way. 
Here's a web that can help you a lot in improving:  caribexams, it provides lots of exercises with sample answers!

STANDARD VS NON-STANDARD ENGLISH

Another interesting linguistic issue is the value of standar and non-standard varieties of English.

Here is an interesting speech by Professor David Crystal on the subject. Don't miss it!

ENGLISH AND WORLD ENGLISHES

In this interesting video, professor David Crystal talks about the evolution variation and adaptation of English and by extention of any language. Don't miss it!

JACQUES DERRIDA EXPLAINS WHAT DECONSTRUCTION IS.

In modern Critical and Literary Theory, the work of  Jacques Derrida shed light on interesting aspects such as the relationship between language, thought and even ethics. Here's a good summary of one of his most famous assertions: There is nothing outside the text.

And in the video below, we'll see how Derrida himselfs defines Deconstruction:

JACQUES DERRIDA ON WRITING "OF GRAMMATOLOGY"

In this interesting video, the philosopher explains his truly exceptional epiphany when writing his masterpiece "Of Grammatology", where he discussed the work of writers such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Étienne Condillac, Louis Hjelmslev, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Roman Jakobson, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, André Leroi-Gourhan, and William Warburton.

THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR?

"The Death of the Author" (French: La mort de l'auteur) is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980). Barthes' essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text, and instead argues that writing and creator are unrelated. The title is a pun on Le Morte d'Arthur, a 15th-century compilation of smaller Arthurian legend stories, written by Sir Thomas Malory. 
A really interesting view that challenged traditional literary criticism and theory, read this summary from the Wikipedia and watch the following video.