School of Education
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CELT’s English Language Links
General
The following sites offer an opportunity to practise most or all language skills and contain lists of other links, discussion forums or chat rooms, and study advice.
Internet TESL Journal’s Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students contains many simple exercises grouped by level.
Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students contains a huge number of graded activities, including a list of bilingual exercises for users from many different languages (for those who are using portable devices or computers that cannot use the Flash plugin or do not support JavaScript, use this link : http://a4esl.org/q/h).
Wicked Stuff offers interactive self-testing, quizzes and exercises, including phonetics.
Dave Sperling's ESL CAFE contains links to many different activities, including discussion forums for students and teachers.
E.L. Easton English On-Line offers multiple links to materials on all aspects of English.
English Club has a wide range of quality activities on language skills plus links to local English club sites around the world.
Hong Kong University’s English Centre contains many sub-sites of interest.
The website of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies offers an extensive Materials Bank as well as links to various other useful sites.
Grammar (Visit also General and Writing Links)
Edunet's On-Line English Grammar is a simple grammar book.
Susan Jones' Spelling Rules provides a complete list of spelling rules for nouns and verbs.
Grammar When You Need It offers grammar exercises at three different levels.
Capital Community College has a guide to grammar and writing
manythings.org is an interactive grammar quiz
NonStopEnglish.com presents interactive grammar and vocabulary tests.
Grammar and Style Notes is a guide to grammar and style for advanced/native speakers.
Guide to Grammar & Writing guidance from word up to essay-level; written primarily for native speakers; includes practice exercises.
Grammar Bytes is designed for school children but has useful exercises and explanations including sentence problems.
University of Illinois Writer's Workshop is general writing site which includes a guide to grammar and common usage problems.
The Purdue University Online Writing Lab offers grammar explanations and exercises with printable handouts.
Dave Sperling 's ESL CAFE provides simple quizzes and practice of phrasal verbs.
CNN Newsroom and Worldview for ESL offers grammar exercises based on world news stories.
Vocabulary (Visit also General Links)
CNN Newsroom and Worldview for ESL offers vocabulary exercises based on world news stories.
The Bangkok Post contains vocabulary exercises based on news stories.
Word Play offers an assortment of vocabulary links.
JustTheWord a powerful tool for discovering appropriate vocabulary usage (collocations, grammatical patterns) and alternative words.
General Service List lists the 2000 most commonly used English words.
Academic Word List presents the 570 most commonly used 'academic' words.
University of Manchester has an academic phrasebank
New Words in English lists neologisms and novel uses of words in English.
Heteronyms : Words that Look/Sound Similar a list of Heteronyms: words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently; e.g. 'lead', pronounced LEED, cf. 'lead', pronounced LED, meaning a metallic element.
Acronym and Abbreviation List a searchable database.
Color-Related Idioms will help you learn expressions which make reference to colours.
Interesting Things for ESL Students gives a different English proverb everyday; vocabulary quizzes; and interactive examples of English sentence structure.
Listening
BBC World Service - Learning English contains audio and video listening materials.
ESL: Listening listening links from the Internet TESL Journal.
Randall's Cyber Listening Lab a collection of American English listening materials at different levels.
English Listening Lounge has excellent materials, but only those in the Guest Area are free.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University offers a range of strategies and links for effective listening and pronunciation.
Using English for Academic Purposes: A Guide for International Students: Listening has a range of speeches, lectures and other listening texts with tasks.
Warwickblogs features podcasts from the University of Warwick consisting of short interviews on a wide range of subjects.
University of California Berkeley's Institute of International Studies: Conversations with History presents recordings of interviews and lectures from famous politicians, scholars, writers from around the world.
Speaking
Sounds of English explanations (with diagrams) of British English sounds with practice exercises.
Effective Presentations site at Kansas University Medical Centre contains tutorials on giving presentations (find your way to the link 'Begin your tour of this guide to...').
schMOOze University has a live chat site for learners of English.
Dave's ESL Cafe offers a number of discussion forums.
Pronunciation
International Phonetic Association provides lots of links and information, including Phonetic Fonts for Windows and Mackintosh.
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eacadtech/phonetics/ This University of Iowa site features animated graphics to show articulation and also has sound files of individual phonemes.
http://www.manythings.org/pp/ This site offers some very useful short minimal-pair quizzes using soundfiles.
The Tongue Twister Database is a collection of over 100 tongue twisters.
Reading
The ESL Reading Index at Gallaudet University (USA) offers instruction on effective reading including practice exercises, plus links to other reading sites.
Scholarly Journals via the WWW provides a link to academic journals in electronic format in a wide range of academic subjects.
Nature and Scientific American are good sources of reading material for students in the sciences.
At BBC News and BBC World Service News you can read (and listen to) up-to-date news and also take part in a discussion through 'Talking Point'.
The Bangkok Post will help you learn to read an English newspaper. Includes links to many other EFL sites.
Student connections with the New York Times: The news articles at this web site include a "Word of the Day" with a test quiz as well as "News Summaries" you can study and compare with the longer articles.
Visit Great Books Online from the Bartleby Library if you’re looking for something to read.
Candlelight Stories allows you to travel through the world of illustrated stories, animations, cartoons, music and games from artists around the globe (there is a limited amount of 'Free Stuff'; the rest is members-only).
English Poetry Database is a full-text searchable database of hundreds of poems.
Internet Poetry Archive offers a selection of poems from a number of contemporary poets.
Virtual Library: Theatre & Drama contains resources for theatre including complete texts of plays in different languages.
Drew's Scripts-O-Rama is the most comprehensive collection of screenplays anywhere on the Net.
Mystery-Net.com has mini-mysteries. Choose Solve-it and read carefully and look at the scene of the crime for clues that will solve the mysteries.
Writing
On-Line Resources for Writers is a list of on-line resources recommended by the English faculty of Capital Community-Technical College in Hartford .
Writing Help is an excellent resource for general writing advice.
Academic Writing & Study Skills
Using English for Academic Purposes by Andy Gillett at the University of Hertfordshire , Hatfield offers extensive guidance and activities on all skills.
Academic Phrasebank: John Morley 's site provides examples of phrases you can use to fulfil a number of academic tasks
www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Ealzsh3/acvocab: This site from the University of Nottingham lists and provides practice of the most commonly used academic vocabulary
Academic Grammar gives detailed guidance on writing essays.
Paragraphs is excellent material from the Victoria University of Wellington with practice exercises and a model essay.
Purdue University Online Writing Lab provides grammar explanations and exercises with printable handouts.
University of Illinois Writer's Workshop is a general writing site which includes a guide to grammar and common usage problems.
Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students contains links to other sites, exercises etc.
The Materials Bank of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies carries an English for Academic Purposes Online Resource which offers lots of links to other sites.
Writing Turbo-Charger useful advice on writing with computers (e.g. guidance on using MS Word's own proofing tools etc.)
The Writing Machine is very detailed and would be useful for the more advanced student (it also contains links to other resources)
Plagiarism and How to Avoid It speaks for itself!
Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English offers advice along the lines of American college writing courses
Writer's Web helps you draft, revise, edit, document and cite sources.
Guide to Grammar & Writing gives guidance from word up to essay-level; written primarily for native speakers; includes practice exercises.
Referencing contains advice on referencing from University of Sheffield Library .
'Kibbitzers' - at the University of Birmingham- give short reports on vocabulary & usage problems from actual students' writing clinics.
University of Toronto Writing Resources is a a clearly organised list of links to writing resources.
Writer's Web helps you draft, revise, edit, document and cite sources.
Hong Kong University's English Centre contains many sub-sites of interest.
Dictionaries
Cambridge Dictionaries searches in the Cambridge Dictionaries for Learners, Advanced Learners, Phrasal Verbs, Idioms and American English (and also bilingual French and Spanish versions).
Longman Web Dictionary an on-line version of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English; quick and convenient. Includes British and American English.
iTools is a collection of search, research, translation and dictionary tools
Foreignword.com searches 275 dictionaries on the Internet and allows you to translate from 69 into 73 languages.
VoyCabulary turns the words on any web page into links that you can look up in a collection of dictionaries.
JustTheWord is a powerful tool for discovering appropriate vocabulary usage.
Examination Links
Cambridge Exams is the home page of the UCLESM
IELTS provides information about the International English Language Testing System exam.
TOEFL Online is the official TOEFL web site from Educational Testing Service. Includes dates and practice questions.
TOEFL gives information on the TOEFL examination.
TEOFL Practice Tests (requires Shockwave plug-ins).
News Links
The BBC provides up to date news and much, much more.
The EL Gazette is the International trade newspaper of the English Language Industry w/ news and resources for teachers. Also contains a recruitment section.
For links to news from around the world visit The Paper Boy or Newspapers.com
The BBC World Service has sites in a number of languages.
Arabic newspapers are available at Maktoob.
Information / Resources for TEFL Teachers
IATEFL is the home page of The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
SATEFL is the home page of The Scottish Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Features a Jobshop!
BALEAP is the home page of the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes. Features an email discussion list and a link to EAP web sites.
The British Council website has information on teaching vacancies in its teaching centres around the world; support to British ELT and the English in Britain Accreditation Scheme; English language examinations; and teacher networks, including the highly successful English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme.
Dave's ESL Cafe features a Chat Central; Discussion Forum and a Job Center.
http:// www.jobs.ac.uk features academic, teaching and management positions in ELT and other fields.
The EL Gazette is the international trade newspaper of the English Language Industry w/ news and resources for teachers. Also contains a recruitment section.
ESL KidStuff is a terrific resource centre which offers flashcards, worksheets, games, songs, classroom tips, articles on teaching children and a Job Center.
OneStop English by Macmillan Publishers offers articles on teaching, lesson plans, games, and a Job Shop.
Teaching English provides a range of services including weekly updated articles on methodology, activities to try out and lesson plans complete with materials. There is also a community of language teachers who use the 'Talk' section to exchange ideas and opinions on ELT.
Language Assistants The language assistants' site was designed specifically to support English native speakers going abroad to work as language assistants, but it is also of use to those working in the field of EFL. The site has regularly updated teaching tips and links and materials that focus on developing understanding of UK culture. There is also a free downloadable teaching manual, which would be ideal for novice teachers.
Search English is a powerful search engine and community building tool that draws on databases of ELT news related articles and ELT journals. The site enables registered users to set up ongoing search queries and receive updates by email. As well as this, the site offers a number of community building features including forums and groups which can be used create special interest communities to store and exchange documents as well as ideas and opinions.
http://www.tttjournal.co.uk The Teacher Trainer - Edited by Tessa Woodward. This practical journal is for those who train, mentor and educate TESOL teachers - A Pilgrims Publication
eltlinkup.org is an online community for ELT professionals. Features include a searchable members database, a message board and a CV maker.
The Internet TESL Journal subtitled: Things for ESL Teachers.
The Language Classroomaddresses teaching methods and materials, and provides links.
Leslie Opp-Beckman, University of Oregon has usable materials for the classroom:
- a collection of creative writing activities
- links to word games and word sites
Web Enhanced Language Learning aims to promote wider awareness of the web with downloadable training materials for language staff and students.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators encourages students to critically evaluate Web information.