The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries have compiled a research guide of interactive websites for learning for ESL/ELL students.
Chuck Guilford's Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): ESL Students
University of Nevada, Reno's English Language Learners (ELL) Resources
University of Richmond's Writer's Web
University of Toronto's Advice on Academic Writing
Eva Easton maintains a Web site, "Authentic American Pronunciation," that helps ESL students understand and speak American English using linking and reduction.
Easton's Authentic American Pronunciation is also available on YouTube.
Randall Davis maintains a listening lab, "Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab," that provides more than 300 activities, lessons, and exercises for all-level ESL students to improve their communication and critical thinking skills.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab is also available on YouTube.
The Excelsior OWL is a FREE online writing lab designed to help English Language Learners with their writing. Excelsior OWL guides you through the various steps for writing a paper. It also provides a tutorial on plagiarism to teach you what plagiarism is and, importantly, how to avoid it.
Using English for Academic Purposes (UEfAP) is a Web site that offers many activities on listening, reading, and writing skills in English for Academic Purposes.
1. Virtual Writing Tutor is an online grammar checker and proofreader designed for ESL learners and teachers.
2. This index includes more than 400 references to the “Guide to Grammar and Writing” and “Principles of Composition,” which are two online resources sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports scholarships, faculty development, and curriculum innovation.
3. Frankfurt International School has an ESL site with grammar and vocabulary content for English language learners.
4. EF Education First, Ltd., has compiled a comprehensive English grammar guide.
5. One-Language.com offers several online English courses.
1. Paul Brians, Emeritus Professor of English at Washington State University, maintains a popular Web site, "Common Errors in English Usage," which is a guide to English usage.
2. Averil Coxhead, Senior Lecturer at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, developed and evaluated The Academic Word List (AWL) for her master's thesis.
3. EF Education First, Ltd., has compiled several English vocabulary lists to help you learn the most common words in English (e.g., nouns, verbs, adjectives).
4. Soundkeepers.com offers a GRE vocabulary builder.
1. Common ESL Errors Workbook is an online workbook that covers common ESL errors in English college writing.
2. English Online France (EOLF) is a Web site that offers many resources, including online mini-courses, on grammar, pronunciation, Academic English reading & writing, and listening.
3. The Internet TESL Journal maintains a Web site with a host of TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL links for students and teachers of ESL.
4. Additional FREE English resources focused on listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary are available at free-english-study.com.
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