English as a Second Language
General Sites
- Dave's ESL Cafe - http://www.eslcafe.com/
A great place to begin exploring ESL resources on the Web.
- English as a Second Language from About.com - http://esl.about.com/
An excellent introduction to ESL materials on the Web for students of all levels.
- ESL Gold - http://www.eslgold.com/
For beginners and more advanced students. It offers vocabulary and grammar exercises, pronunciation guides and help for those studying for the TOEFL exam.
- ESL Resources, Handouts and Exercises - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html
This excellent resource includes a great deal of helpful information such as handouts covering a wide variety of topics, e.g. noun-verb agreement, and helpful online exercises.
- Ohio ESL - http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/index.html
A wonderful comprehensive site and an excellent starting point for finding ESL resources on the Web.
- Tower of English - http://towerofenglish.com/a-z.html
This list of links will lead to interesting and fun sites which will help increase reading comprehension.
Dictionaries etc.
- Bilingual Dictionaries -
http://www.issco.unige.ch/resources/Linguistics/bilingue-angl.html
This site,from the University of Geneva, lists many bilingual dictionaries.
- Idiom Connection -http://www.idiomconnection.com/
Lists and defines many idioms both alphabetically and by topic. Quizzes are provided as well.
- Merriam-Webster Online - http://www.m-w.com/
This site provides a thesaurus and a dictionary. The dictionary will pronounce words for you.
- One Look Dictionary Search - http://www.onelook.com/
This page lets you search many (112) dictionaries at once. The quality of the dictionaries searched is uneven, but this is still a good place to start looking for the definition of a word.
- Oxymorons - http://www.topskills.com/oxymorons.htm
This site lists and explains oxymorons, a feature of English where contradictory terms are placed together to create a new meaning. "Old news" is an example.
- Dictionary of Spanish and English - http://www.spanishdict.com/
Includes English to Spanish and Spanish to English words with pronunciations in both English and Spanish.
Grammar
- Common Errors in English - http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
Exhaustive and authoritative, most useful for advanced students.
- English Grammar - http://www.iscribe.org/english/
This site introduces grammar basics.
- Grammar Activities - http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/grammar/activities.html
Activities for learning grammar arranged by level.
- Online English Grammar - http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/toc.cfm
This site has a detailed table of contents which will lead readers to information about points of grammar.
Listening Skills
- Listening Theme Page - http://www.cln.org/themes/listening.html
A collection of links to sites that offer a wide variety of online listening opportunities.
- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - http://www.esl-lab.com/
Requires that users download Real Player. This page presents listening exercises divided into Easy, Medium and Difficult levels.
Pronunciation
Vocabulary
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