| Activities for
ESL Students |
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http://grove.ufl.edu/~ktrickel/activity.html
This site allows students to work on grammar
and vocaulary. Quizzes and crossword puzzles are provided for varying
language proficiency levels. Resources for classroom ESL teachers
are also included.
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| BBC Worldservice:
Learning English |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
BBC news with interviews (using Real Audio),
commentary, science and technology, society and culture, study skills,
and speaking English.
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| Cal Poly International
Phonetic Alphabet Project |
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http://multiweb.lib.calpoly.edu/medialib/ipa/ipap.html
Websites teaching and illustrating articulatory
phonetics in English, Spanish, French, and German.
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| California Central
Coast Online Dictionary |
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http://cccod.lib.calpoly.edu/
An online dictionary containing some six hundred
entries describing the vocabulary of the California Central Coast.
Pronunciation information, photos, and videos are also included
in the dictionary.
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| CNN Newsroom
and Worldview |
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http://lc.byuh.edu/CNN_N/CNN-N.html
CNN news with grammar and vocabulary exercises.
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| Collins COBUILD
Student's Dictionary Online |
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http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ccsd/
English language dictionaries for second language
learners. Based on the University of Birmingham spoken and written
corpus.
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| Communicating
Through Fables |
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http://www.teachersdesk.com/lessons/esl/fables/Fables.htm
Learning English is enjoyable with this site
because it provides fables including "The Thirsty Pigeon,"
"The Kingdom of the Lion," and "The Tortoise and
the Hare." Related exercises include "completion,"
"true or false," "matching," and "discussion."
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| Dave's ESL Cafe |
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http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/
This website is filled with material for English
language teachers and students: global English, chat central, discussion
forums, FAQs, help center, hint-of-the-day, idea cookbook, idioms,
job center, phrasal verbs, photo gallery, quizzes, quotes, search
the web, slang, and today in history.
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| English Language
Club |
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http://www.englishclub.net/
Grammar, pronunciation, games, literature, and
a reference guide are included in this website.
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| The English
Page |
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http://www.englishpage.com/
The English Page provides weekly lessons, grammar
book, reading room, listening lounge, games, and forums for students
and teachers. Bilingual and monolingual English learners' dictionaries
as well as dictionaries for irregular verbs, phrasal verbs, and
a thesaurus are also included. |
| English Space
Information Center |
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http://www.englishspace.ort.org/launchpad/about_whatis.asp
English Space has quizzes, games, puzzles and
exercises to practice reading, writing and listening to English.
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| ESL Interactive |
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A great resource for links to self-correcting
quizzes on geography, grammar, history, idioms, slang, people,
reading comprehension, science, world culture, and writing. Crossworld
puzzles, hangman games, and internet treasure hunts also provide
activities for ESL students.
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| ESL Partyland |
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http://www.eslpartyland.com/
Student pages include over 75 interactive quizzes,
15 discussion forms, interactive lessons, a chat room, and various
other links.Teacher pages
provide lessons plans and material that can be reproduced for the
classroom.
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| ESL Online |
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http://eleaston.com/
This site contains links to numerous websites
used in language teaching and learning. Other than covering the
four skill areas, this sites includes a wealth of encyclopedic information
on topics such as architecture, currency, flags, food, holidays,
scripts, music, religion, terrorism, and weather. A variety of languages
other than English are also included in this website.
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| ESL Lesson Plans
and Resources |
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http://www.csun.edu/%7Ehcedu013/eslplans.html
A guide to ESL lesson plans and activities.
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| ESL Resources |
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http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/esl.html
Links to ESL journals, games, quizzes, forums,
information about studying abroad, and teaching aids.
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| ESL and Computer
Assisted Language Learning: CALL |
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http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/
Discussion of Computer Assisted Language Learning
and software reviews of languages ranging from Chinese to Hebrew
to Spanish.
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| Funland TESL
Page |
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http://www.tesol.net/tesl.html
A fun and interactive site for students and
teachers with activities, lesson plans, and more.
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| Guide to Grammar
and Writing |
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http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/
This site contains a
wealth of information for ESL students. The writing process is discussed
in detail, and students can click on a number of links to study
the paragraph and the essay. This site provides a small lesson on
just about every type of grammar problem imaginable.
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| Internet
TESL Journal |
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/
Over 5,000 links to websites for English language
teachers and students.
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| Journals and
Newsletters in TESL/TEFL, Linguistics, and Communications |
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http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/journal.htm
Links to professional development journals and
newsletters (both electronic and paperbound) for language teachers
and linguists.
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| Linguist List:
ESL, EFL, L2 |
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http://www.linguistlist.org/esl.html
Numerous links to ESL/EFL resources for students
and teachers, ESL/EFL Programs, and computer assisted language learning.
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| The Longman
Dictionaries Web Site |
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http://www.longman.com/dictionaries/students/sts_resources.html
This site is designed for both teachers and
students of English. Study exercises are an important part of this
site, ranging in difficulty from upper intermediate to advanced.
Exercises deal with word choice in speech versus writing, the use
of synonyms.
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| Mining Co. ESL
Guide |
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http://esl.miningco.com/education/esl/
Links to methods in English language teaching,
dialects of English around the world, online courses, TOFEL preparation,
careers in ESL and EFL, false lexical friends, and much more.
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| National
Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education |
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Numerous articles are arranged
by subject in ESL for adults in the U.S.
Frequently Asked questions on literacy development, technology,
and reading are also featured.
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| Newbury House
Online Dictionary |
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http://nhd.heinle.com/
Another English language dictionary for second
language learners.
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| Online English
Grammar |
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http://webnz.co.nz/checkers/grammar2.html
This site provides information on verbs, sentences,
fixing common mistakes as well as includes print-outs of tests and
lessons and exercises available by email. Guidance is given in areas
such as transitive versus intransitive verbs, punctuating sentences,
use of apostrophes, and which or that.
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| Online Writing
Lab--Purdue University |
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http://owl.English.purdue.edu/
Purdue's Online Writing lab has an entire section
devoted to ESL students. Handouts can be accessed on topics such
as article usage, verb tenses, preposition usage, parts of speech,
sentence construction, punctuation, spelling, and much more. Students
can utilize the actual writing lab by submitting inquiries through
the site.
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| Take Our Word
for It |
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This weekly word-origin
webzine focuses on vocabulary development for the English language
learner.Sites include featured
words, questions and answers about words, gripes and grumbles from
language purists, and humor in language.
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| TESL-EJ |
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TESL-EJ
is a freely distributed, academic, refereed journal.This online
publication, created in 1994, provides useful articles and reviews
for teachers around the world.Recent articles have dealt with "Etymology
and Vocabulary Development for the L2 College Student, "Teaching
about Sexism with English Composition in a Nigerian Classroom,"
and Reflective Teaching in EFL:Integrating Theory and Practice.
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| Tower of English
Lobby |
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http://towerofenglish.com/
Step into the Tower of English elevator
and stop on floors such as the library, study hall, game room, music
room, or comedy club.
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| Self-Study Quizzes
for ESL Students |
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/
This site is a project of The Internet TESL
Journal offering over 500 quizzes for the ESL student. Quizzes deal
with an array of topics such a holidays, reading, trivia, culture,
sports, writing, grammar, homonyms, idioms, phrasal verbs, slang,
scrambled words, and vocabulary. Answers are given to the students
immediately so that they can track their progress.
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| Soon Online
Magazine |
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http://www.soon.org.uk/
Soon is an "ezine" that is spefically
put together for ESL speakers. The articles are fresh, interesting,
and engaging for the students. They help to incorporate students
from all over the world by handling topics that are culturally diverse.
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