Recommended English Language Learning Sites
by Dr. Monte Salyer, Dalton
State College, revised 02/27/08
You will want to bookmark
these recommended learning sites. Your English language learners
will love these engaging and interactive language exercises. Your students
will also learn a lot from them in the areas of vocabulary, reading
comprehension, grammar, pronunciation, and many other skills. You will
want to link the quizzes to your instructional units, perhaps using a web page
creator such as Microsoft Front Page. After all, appropriate online practice is
often the vital first systematic step to web-enhancing your language
instruction.
After interactive quizzes, a
useful complimentary step is to collect associated PowerPoint lessons from the
hundreds available on the web. If you cannot find the right PowerPoint,
use either your favorite textbook or a good online lesson to create your own
PowerPoint lessons. For examples, take a look at Dr. Salyer's course web
pages. Then you can teach lessons using your PowerPoints and follow them
up with your collected online drills. Eventually, you may want to develop
all your own lessons and exercises. How far you go is up to you.
Remember, though, starting is as easy as finding the online web sites that you
want to use in your classes, such as these:
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Academic Word Power
teaches ESL students the 570 most frequently used words in academic textbooks.
http://college.hmco.com/esl/obenda/word_power1/1e/students/ace/index.html
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Activities for ESL Students
includes quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn ESL. The
project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of
contributions by many teachers.
http://a4esl.org
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Better English
draws ten thousand ESL students to its Business English exercises everyday.
http://www.better-english.com
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BBC Learning English
has sections for news, business English, watch and listen, grammar,
vocabulary, and more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
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BBC Skillswise engages ESL students in lots
of great grammar, spelling, reading, writing, listening, and vocabulary
exercises online.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar
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EFL Net
offers many very useful grammar, phrasal verb, and vocabulary exercises for
ESL students at various levels. http://www.eflnet.com
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ESL Blues
provides diagnostic quizzes and hundreds of online quizzes suitable for
intermediate ESL students.
http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/trouindx.htm
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Electronic ESL
contains links to ESL grammar lessons and quizzes from Long Beach City College
and many other sources.
http://esl.lbcc.cc.ca.us/mmcportal.htm
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English
Club has lots of
lessons,
games,
quizzes,
forums,
chat,
lesson plans,
jobs,
and more for ESL
learners and
teachers.
http://www.englishclub.com
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English
Study Zone offers five progressive levels of online ESL courses,
with interactive grammar, reading, and vocabulary exercises.
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone
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Everything ESL created
by an award-winning ESL teacher, the site includes lesson plans, teaching
tips, resource picks, and online bulletin boards and discussion forums.
http://everythingesl.net
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ESL Home Page links you
to many great ESL learning sites. The variety of materials allows you to
choose something appropriate for yourself.
http://www.rong-chang.com