| General Sites |
| Activities for ESL
Students |
| This web site has over 1,000 activities to help study
English as a Second Language. |
| ABC Asia Pacific - Learn
English |
| Contains a number of interactive web sites useful for learning
and developing English language skills and IELTS tests. Also
features a series - The Business of English which looks at the
language used in everyday business situations such as meetings,
presentations and negotiations. |
| BBC World service: Learning English |
| Part of BBC World Service - uses radio, magazines, and cassettes
to teach English as a second language. |
| Business English Exercises |
| Offers free online exercises and quizzes in Business English as
well as a mailing list for teachers and students. |
| Dave's ESL
Cafe |
| Extensive ESL site, including many useful links to jobs,
resources, message boards, and chat rooms. |
| EduFind |
| Part of the Digital Education Network, this site has a wealth of
information about English language training organisations,
professional qualifications, job opportunities for teachers and
links to an ELT magazine and online grammar and learning facilities |
| E.L. Easton -
English Online |
| Extensive resources for materials for teaching and learning
languages in different subject areas. |
| English as
a Second Language home page |
| Categorized links to resources for language learners |
| English
Club |
| Offers grammar and vocabulary activities, word games, pen pal
listings, and question-and-answer service. Includes free classroom
handouts for teachers. |
| English Exercises Online |
| Free online English exercises for beginners / advanced levels
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| English-Zone |
| Offers grammar, spelling, vocabulary, reading and writing
exercises Features a conversation area with listening
exercises chat room and a message board. Many links to other
resources |
| ESL Help
Centre |
| A question and answer service for students experiencing
difficulty with the English language, including grammar,
writing, vocabulary, idioms, slang, etc. The site lists
previously-answered questions, and links to student and teacher
resources, such as the ESL Discussion Centre and online quizzes
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The ESL Area- A place to learn English |
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Free resources and online ESL activities and quizzes for students
learning English as a second language. Includes links to many ESL
websites. |
| ESL Independent Study Lab |
| Material organized by language ability and skill area. Detailed
explanations of teaching modalities involving computer-based and
Internet-based language instruction. |
| ESL Party
Land |
| Fun site with over 75 interactive quizzes, 15 discussion forums
and topic-based learning pages for students. On the teachers side,
loads of lessons and printable materials to use in class. |
| ESL List - www.growing.com |
| Links to information on Academic Testing, Articles about
Language, Associations and Institutes, Audio and Listening via
Internet, Audio &Visual Language Studies/Broadcasts, Computer
Assisted Language Learning, ESL Commercial sites, Conferences,
Games, Homepages, Jobs, Journals, Linguistics, and other
resources. |
| ESL
Resource Centre |
| Resources for international students including free
language lessons and links to other areas |
| ESL
town |
| Features stories, quizzes, games, listening exercises, overseas
program links, pen pals and forums. |
| Interesting
Things for ESL Students |
| A free online textbook and fun study site for students of
English as a Second Language Word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang,
proverbs and much more. |
| Isabel's
ESL Site |
| Offers exercises for secondary students of English: quizzes,
tests, comprehensions, popular songs and links to specific ESL
sites. |
| Learn English |
| Learn English is a free, on-line, educational resource helping ESL
and EFL student to learn English words. |
| Owl Online Writing Lab |
| Excellent collection of ESL resources |
| Oxford Reference Online |
| Oxford Reference Online, the web service for Oxford University
Press' vast selection of single and multi-volume reference works
consisting of 100 specialist and general reference dictionaries
covering the widest possible range of subjects including English
Language reference |
| TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other
Languages) |
| Resources and articles for teachers on examinations, job
hunting, language schools and lesson ideas. |
| Victoria University Language Studies Site |
| This website is for Language Studies Department at Victoria
University (TAFE). They have designed this site so that ESL
teachers, students can easily find information about their
department, their courses, resources as well as interactive
exercises |
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| Listening |
| About's Listening Links |
| Provides listening quizzes, interviews, specific English learning
listening resources. Organised by level and type of skill such as
comprehension, pronunciation etc |
| ESL : Listening |
| Offers links of interest to students & teachers of English
as a Second Language. Also features games, quizzes and
puzzles. |
| Randall's
Cyber Listening Lab |
| Lots of interactive lessons with Real Audio. Lessons are divided
by level - easy, medium, difficult. |
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| Speaking |
| Learning Oral English OnIine |
| It is an online conversation book compiled for intermediate ESL
learners who want to improve their listening and speaking
skills. |
| Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL
classroom |
| Provides links and activities for ESL students to improve
conversation skills. |
| Designing Effective Oral Presentations |
| Strategies for organization and presentation |
| Presentations and Public Speaking |
| Notes for non-natives on preparation, equipment, delivery, and
language use; includes a self-test. |
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| Reading |
| ESL : Reading |
| Contains links of interest to students and teachers of English
as a Second Language |
| Internet Public
Library |
| A well maintained library with interesting and varied
sections. |
| Soon Online Magazine |
| A kind of online Readers Digest with stories from around the
world in simplified English to help with reading. |
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| Writing |
| Paradigm Online
Writing Assistant |
| An interactive on-line writing tutorial |
| The Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab |
| Purdue's OWL, is useful for general writing concerns. The
handouts provided by OWL will help you with everything from
punctuation to grammar. |
| Online Technical Writing: Online Textbook |
| Processes and Guidelines in Technical Writing |
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| Grammar |
| Blue Book
of Grammar and Punctuation |
| An on-line English grammar and punctuation reference guide
including exercises with answers. |
| Common Errors in English |
| It has an extraordinarily comprehensive list of errors in
English usage and advice for how to avoid them. |
| Edufind - Online English Grammar |
| A free On-line reference and guide for English grammar, writing,
pronunciation and learning. |
| ESL Blue(s) |
| English grammar, quizzes, tutorials and games |
| ESL : Grammar and English Usage |
| The Internet TESL Journal's ESL Grammar and English Usage has
precise links for various problematic issues in English, past tense
questions, confusing words, clauses, adjective order, auxiliary
verbs, passive voice, pronouns, etc. |
| Grammar and Style Notes |
| Grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style. |
| Grammar Tutorials |
| Grammar tutorials from Monash University. Passive Voice, Verb
Tenses and use of Articles. |
| Guide to Grammar and writing |
| It covers all the basic grammar topics, as well as spelling,
punctuation, and vocabulary. In addition, there is also a place on
this site called Grammar English where you can post questions which
will be answered and placed in The Grammar Logs |
| Karin's ESL PartyLand |
| Resources, lessons, and ideas on teaching grammar. |
| NetGrammar |
| NetGrammar focuses on English grammar through interactive
listening, reading and writing activities. |
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Quizzes/Games
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| Dave's
ESL Cafe Quiz Centre |
| Wide variety of interesting quizzes on vocabulary, grammar,
idioms as well as history, geography, etc. |
| Self-Study
Quizzes for ESL Students |
| Masses of quizzes from the Internet TESL Journal on a wide
variety of topics as well as grammar, vocabulary, idioms, etc. |
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| Idioms |
| The Idiom Connection |
| An A-Z list of English idioms and quizzes |
| ESL Idiom Page |
| Lists, Definitions, and Examples of Idioms |
| Self-Study Idiom Quizzes |
| Part of the Internet TESL Journal's Self-Study Quizzes |
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| Vocabulary |
| Compleat
Lexical Tutor |
| An excellent tool for learning academic vocabulary |
| TESL : Vocabulary |
The Internet TESL Journal's
TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL
Links |
| Wordnet 1.6 Vocabulary Helper |
| Wordnet is a lexical database for the English language. It
provides information about words. |
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| Pronunciation |
| Mouth
Mangler |
| A fun site with audio and let you repeat many times. |
| English Computerised Learning Inc |
| Improve Your Pronunciation with Pronunciation Power in a number
of different languages |
| Sounds
of English |
| Detailed instruction on how to pronounce each sound |
| ESL : Pronunciation |
| Directory of exercises |
| English Club:Pronounciation |
| Lessons on word stress; sentence stress; linking; -ed endings.
Also, supplementary activities for users of Pronunciation Power
software |
| Pronunciation Skills and Activities |
| Offers a variety of activities and links to activities targeting
basic pronunciation issues |
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Acronyms and Abbreviations |
| The
Internet Acronym Server |
| This is a list of acronyms (abbreviations constructed mostly
from the initial letters of the words of a phrase), gathered from
many network sources and submitted by users |
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| Translation |
| Babel
Fish |
| Translation service from the AltaVista search engine. Translates
websites and up to 150 words of text into other languages. |
| Foreignword.com |
| Foreign word is one of the most popular language sites for its
translation services |
| FreeTranslation.com |
| FreeTranslation.com translates text documents of up to 13,000
words - about 20 pages of a word processing file. |
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| Dictionaries |
| Cambridge Dictionaries Online |
| An excellent monolingual dictionary on-line |
| Macquarie Dictionary |
| The concise version |
| Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online |
| Searches pronunciation, etymology and built-in thesaurus |
| OneLook Dictionaries |
| A one-stop resource which searches a large number of
dictionaries simultaneously. Includes translations in
different languages |
| Yahoo |
| A source of dictionaries for many languages |
| The
FreeDictionary |
| An excellent free online dictionary, thesaurus and
encyclopaedia. Features audio for pronunciation of terms
searched. Also provides links to medical, legal, financial and
computer dictionaries. |
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Computer
Assisted Language Learning |
| Computer-Assisted Language Learning |
| This features Planning a Language Resource Center, HyperCard and
Templates for Language Learning, CALL Bibliography, CALL orgs and
journals, Articles and websites, CALL software, *CALL specialists
& websites... |
| CALL@Chorus |
| Detailed software reviews and books for language students and
teachers |
| CALL EJ
Online |
| A merger of CALL EJ in Japan and the Australian ON CALL
journals. A refereed professional journal on Computer-Assisted
Language Learning and related sites |
| TESL : CALL |
| Comprehensive and well maintained list of software resources for
students and teachers of English as a Second Language |
| Virtual CALL library |
| Excellent collection of CALL software |
| ESL_Home |
| A Web Resource for CALL Lab Managers and for Teachers and
Learners of Languages Online |
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| Internet Directories |
| DMOZ |
| Collection of ESL Resources |
| Yahoo |
| Collection of ESL Resources |
| Google |
| Collection of ESL Resources |
| Academic Info: ESL |
| Collection of ESL Resources |
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Professional
Associations and Organizations |
| ACTA |
| Representing TESOL associations in Australia. |
| Australian
Council for Adult Literacy |
| The Australian Council for Adult Literacy Inc (ACAL) was
established in 1977 to promote issues regarding adult English
language, adult literacy and numeracy policy and practice. |
| NCELTR |
| National Centre for English Language Teaching & Research,
Australia. |
| British Council - ELT |
| Electronic community for ELT professionals - links to web sites
that other ESL, EFL teachers of English have found interesting or
useful from around the world. |
| CAELA -
Center for Adult English Language |
| Provides technical assistance to professional developers and
teachers of adult English language learners. A pathway way to ESL
resources. |
| CAL |
| Center for Applied Linguistics. |
| CALICO (Computer
Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) |
| A professional organization that serves a membership involved in
both education and high technology. It has an emphasis on modern
language teaching and learning, but reaches out to all areas that
employ the languages of the world to instruct and to
learn. |
| NCELA-National Clearinghouse
for English Language Acquisitions |
| Collects, analyses, synthesizes and
disseminates information about language instruction educational
programs for English language learners and related programs. |
| IATEFL |
| IATEFL is the International Association of English Language
Teachers of English as Foreign Language. |
| JALT |
| Japan Association of Language Teachers |
| KOTESOL (Korea
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
(KOTESOL) |
| A professional organization of teachers of English whose main
goal is to assist its members in their self-development and to
contribute to the improvement of ELT in Korea. |
| RELC (Regional
English Language Centre, Singapore) |
| SEAMEO RELC aims to help the region in communicating across
cultures and languages to foster international understanding through
cooperation in language education. |
| TESOL (Teachers
of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc) |
| Its mission is to develop the expertise of its members and
others involved in teaching English to speakers of other languages
to help them foster effective communication in diverse settings
while respecting individuals' language rights. |
| TESOL Canada |
| A national organization dedicated to advancing communication and
coordinating awareness of issues for those concerned with English as
a second language and English skills development. |
| TESOLANZ TESOL New
Zealand |
| TESOLANZ is for anyone involved in teaching ESOL (English for
Speakers of Other Languages) |
| ThaiTESOL |
| The organisation of English teachers in Thailand. Provides access
to learning and teaching links, journals etc. |
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| Electronic Journals |
| AILA news |
| Newsletter of the International Association of Applied
Linguistics. |
| APPLES: Applied Language Studies |
| International refereed journal from the Centre for Applied
Language Studies at the University of Jyvaskyla. |
| Applied Language and Literacy Research |
| Published by the Centre for Applied Language and Literacy
Research, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia for the
dissemination of their research findings. |
| Applied Language Learning |
| Published by the Defence Language Institute Foreign Language
Centre, Monterey, CA. USA. Contains both theoretical and practical
articles. |
| English in Australia |
| Journal of the Australian Association for the Teaching of
English (AATE). |
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AMEP Resource Centre |
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Features a list of free electronic journals in TESOL and Linguistics
compiled by Macquarie University. |
| English Teaching Forum |
| A journal for teachers of English as a second and as a foreign
language. Articles focus on the theory and practice of teaching
English and include discussions of methods, techniques and ideas
useful in the classroom. |
| Humanising
Language Teaching |
| Contains lesson plans and a major article in the areas of
humanistic thinking. |
| The Internet TESL
journal |
| A monthly web journal including articles & research papers,
lessons & lesson plans and teaching techniques as well as links
of interest to teachers of English as a second language. |
|
Second Language Studies |
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An international journal on second and foreign language writing
and writing instruction. |
| Language Learning
and Technology |
| A journal for second and foreign language educators. Contains
research articles, commentaries and reviews and is indexed in the
ERIC database. |
| Literacy link: Newsletter of the Australian Council
for Adult Literacy |
| A free online newsletter. |
| ReCALL |
| ReCALL is a fully-refereed journal published by Cambridge University Press on
behalf of EUROCALL. Contains articles relating to theoretical debate
on language learning strategies and their influence on practical
courseware design and integration, as well as software
reviews. |
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TESL-EJ |
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An electronic academic journal, fully refereed and internationally
recognised as a source of ESL and EFL information. |
| TESL Reporter |
| Semi-annual publication of the Division of Languages and
Linguistics at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. |
| WJMLL - Web
Journal of Modern Language Linguistics |
| This journal contains scholarly articles written in English,
French, German or Spanish, reports of projects and book
reviews. |
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| Databases |
| ERIC |
| Educational Resources Information Centre is a online
database of education (including ESL) materials. |
| SAALT - Supporting
Adult and Applied Learning & Teaching |
| SAALT focuses on supporting professional
development delivering both adult and applied learning and teaching
programs in the post-compulsory sectors - (ACE and community
providers, schools, TAFEs, ACE and private RTOs) |
| VOCED |
| VOCED is a research database for technical and vocational
education and training and is available free on the web.
Publications and resources produced from WELL and ALNP are now
indexed in the VOCED database. |
| DELTAA |
| Database of English Language Teaching for Adults in Australasia
is a online database of Australian ESL materials held in the NCELTR
Resource Centre. |
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