English as Second
Language Web Sites
Prepared by: Rosalind Frank
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http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/Impact/links.html
An interactive news magazine for intermediate and advanced ESL/EFL
students. This Web site features articles about current events, health,
sport, and entertainment.
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/
The Internet TESOL journal.
http://esl.miningco.com/homework/esl/cs/ezines/idex.html
This site has links to 12 different e-zines (on-line magazines) with
interesting information for instructors.
Articles from ERIC DIGEST http://www.askeric.org
Ask for variance Educational Research.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed386962.html
Adult ESL Learner Assessment: Purposes and Tools
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed383242.html
Teaching Multilevel Adult ESL classes.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed379965.html
Teaching low-level Adult ESL Learners.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed358749.html
Integrating Reading and Writing into Adult ESL Instruction.
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/
Lesson Plans for English language teachers. Click on ESL/EFL for language
lesson plans. Also, click on Internet Searches for additional lesson plans.
http://ezresearch.com/cgi-bin/odp.pl?search=/Arts/Education/English/English_as_a_Second_Language/
www.FreeENGLISH.com
This Site provides free instruction in ESL through a free, downloadable,
interactive Internet-based program called ENGLISH PRO WEB Edition. The
Web site also features interactive games, quizzes, chat, and bulletin boards.
Includes teachers section.
http://www.ouc.bc.ca/esl/pron/index.html
Pronunciation exercises (Okanagan University College).
http://www.utexas.edu/student/lsc/handouts/1501.html
How to get more Practice in English Conversation.
http://focusenglish.com/
FocusEnglish.com is dedicated to helping ESL/EFL learners develop
their conversational English skills. At this site, learners can listen
to dialogues on various topics, learn useful idioms as well as everyday
English, and practice giving oral responses as in a real-life situation.
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/LCRA/
Interactive Listening Comprehension Practice
http://www.englishlistening.com/?AID=36418&PID=2537.html
The English Listening Lounge-The student can listen to real people
speaking real English.
http://www.esl-lab.com/
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
This site is a fantastic way to get listening practice using the World
Wide Web. Do the Pre- listening exercises, listen to the audio, take a
comprehension quiz, and then review the quiz script. An excellent interactive
listening lab containing a vast array of listening material from the beginning
to advanced levels. Each listening selection has pre and post-listening
exercises.
http://www.npr.org/
Read a short article. Then listen to a related radio report. Real Player
audio lets you stop, pause, or rewind just likes an audio tape recorder.
(Advanced Level)
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
The ESL Independent study Lab has practice exercises in listening,
reading, pronunciation, writing, grammar, and vocabulary.
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~kpokoy1/grammar1.htm
Exercises for students.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/
ESL quiz center has some quizzes for students self study.
http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/help/grammar_help/
Grammar Help from Ruth Vilmi’s web world contains interactive grammar
exercises, quizzes, etc, a vast amount of other language developing material,
and many links to other sites.
www.elfd.com
Contains grammar, idioms, vocabulary, pronunciation, accent
reduction, listening and reading comprehension activities for the student.
http://www.yes-site.com/
Provides interactive grammar exercises with business vocabulary. The
student receives immediate feedback.
http://artsci.wustl.edu/limc/depts/esl/
Reference materials for students include thesaurus and Encyclopaedia.
http://www.keynews.org/
The Key provides reading material for adults with limited reading skills.
These include adults who have not completed their high school education.
TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL
Links-part of the most comprehensive and best-maintained list of links
for students of English as a second Language. This site links to other
sites with ideas on using the web for language teaching.
The ESL Study Hall
The ESL Study Hall has material to practice all language skills including
reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, conversation, and listening.
http://eleaston.com/
A site with excellent speaking, pronunciation and listening exercises,
business English, reading, grammar, writing information, quizzes and tests.
This site also contains many resources for instructors.
http://www.englishclub.net/newsletter
This site is for students who want grammar explanations. Students can
also receive a newsletter on their E-mail. Instructors can click on Homepages
and create a homepage their class where they can put students’ writing
on the Internet. Click on Teachers’ room for some lesson
plans and teaching activities.
http://www.academicinfo.net/englang.html
This site is a Directory of Internet Resources on English Grammar,
grammar citation guides, and ESL. Step by step guide for writing a research
paper.
http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/esl/
Click
on ENGLISH
This is a comprehensive site for instructors and students. Click on
the many links and find listening, speaking, reading, and writing information,
and exercises for ESL students. There are also additional links in each
skill.
http://esl.about.com/index.htm?COB=home&PID=2728
This is a comprehensive site for all aspects of English as a Second
Language.
http://owl.English.purdue.edu/handouts/index.html
This site has excellent handouts for students and teachers of all levels
of English grammar and writing courses.
http://www.troyst.edu/studserv/html/writingcenter/handouts.html
Writing Center Handouts for College Writing Courses.
http://www.brownlee.org/durk/grammar/
Click on Quizzes(on the top page) Excellent quizzes. Not Printable.
http://eslcafe.com/
One of the largest ESL Web sites with many activities including grammar,
student and teacher free E-mail, and many Web links.
http://www.paragraphpunch.com/
This site gives you guided writing practice. It takes you step-by-step
through the process of writing a well-organized paragraph.
http://www.academicinfo.net/englang.html
This is a Directory of Internet Resources on English Grammar, citation
guides, ESL, and a step by step guide for writing a research paper.
http://www.keynews.org/
The Key provides reading material for adults with limited reading skills,
which include ESL students and adults who have not completed their
high school education.
www.eslpartyland.com
ESL party land has over 75 integrative quizzes, 15 discussion forums;
interactive lessons on a variety of topics, a chat room, and many other
links for the student. It has lesson plans, reproducible materials, ideas
for ESL communicative practice, etc. for the instructor.
http://writesite.cuny.edu/grammar/
Grammar explanations and quizzes. ERROR ANALYZER – A program for evaluating
student error patterns.
http://www.comenius.com/idioms/
Comenius English Center’s Idiom Page
http://gabiscott.com/bigdog/
Big dog’s down & Dirty Grammar.
http://www.yes-site.com/
Provides interactive grammar exercises with business vocabulary. The
student receives immediate feedback.
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/
-scroll down to Pedagogy. Click on ESL +EFL
This site has a large amount of links.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
A Guide to Grammar and Writing- This site contains advanced grammar,
sentence and paragraph structure, and essay level instruction with many
exercises. It also contains Sentence Sense, a writing book
with many exercises prepared for the Internet.