This collection of links will help you to improve your grammar, as well as receptive and productive skills, through self-study.
In addition, you will find useful links to online dictionaries, study materials, as well as resources and newspapers from the main anglophone countries. Preceding the lists of links to external websites you will find the online exercises created by the Department of Anglophone Studies where you have the chance to improve your language skills through practice and test.
This first section provides study materials, online exercises and much more - all of which have been created by the Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen.
Collected by teachers from around the world, students of English as a Second Language have the chance to brush up their English with grammar and vocabulary quizzes, bilingual quizzes and crossword puzzles. Moreover, there are several to "You Tube"-videos and podcasts.
EnglishLearner.com has a variety of English lessons and tests for learners at all levels. This includes grammar and vocabulary tests, crosswords, reading exercises and multiple-choice tests.
Here you will find a large variety of EFL and ESL resources and exercises. The two main parts of the web page deal with various aspects of English grammar and dictionaries.
There are also sections, readings, listenings, games as well as tutorials.
This collection includes old, middle and modern English texts. Being subdivided into a number of sections, it offers easy access to all sorts of texts (e. g. poetry databases, religious texts, drama texts, fiction and prose. In the respective sections texts can be organized by author or title.
"The Learning Resources site offers web-delivered instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories. Though the intended audience is adults, instructors and learners (of all ages) are encouraged to use this material to promote better literacy."
This web page gives you useful ideas on how to read faster and more effectively. By making some of your reading habits explicit, it aims at improving your reading process. It will also give you some speed reading and self-pacing methods that might be useful in order to improve your reading skills.
VoyCabulary allows you to click on any word on any web page to look it up in a quick and easy way. By making your words on any web page into links, you can look them up with just a click-in a dictionary of your choice.
This web page concentrates on improving your listening skills. By offering numerous listening comprehension exercises, including accent quizzes, it is useful for both self-study (with a focus on learners on advanced levels) and in class use. Additionally, you will find links to Business English dictations.
An advanced EFL-learning site where you can download a program and set it up to listen to news, stories and songs with text displayed. Furthermore, it also offers learning software, audio books and audio articles to read and listen to.
This web page is especially useful for students who haven't had a chance to spend time abroad yet. You get the chance to listen to real people speaking real English.
This web site combines listening and speaking, but also provides methods in order to learn new words and meanings. E.g. you could listen to a story, look at the text in which the new words are highlighted and then click on the words to learn their meaning.
The exercises on this site address beginners at a lower level. You will find various listening comprehension exercises, including minimal pairs listening and pronunciation practice and more links for practicing your language skills. It really focuses on basic listening skills such as the alphabet, numbers and simple dialogues.
This excellent listening comprehension site offers listening quizzes subdivided in easy, medium and difficult. Nevertheless, you can also opt for long conversation exercises and vocabulary lessons. Additionally, it is worth looking at the general learning section.
This pronouncing dictionary for North American English contains over 125,000 words and their transcriptions.
Special features also allow you to find out more about lexical stress and much more.
Dave Sperling presents a platform for learners of English as a second language featuring not only 1000s of ESL Links but also the famous Dave's ESL Cafe.
FocusEnglish.com is dedicated to helping ESL/EFL learners develop their conversational English skills. On this web site, you can listen to and participate in dialogues representing real-life situations and learn useful idioms.
"The IPA is the major as well as the oldest representative organisation for phoneticians. It was established in 1886 in Paris. The aim of the Association is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science." The web site offers almost everything that is related to pronunciation including handbooks and sound recordings.
Listen to the funny mouth manglers and practice your spoken English with a bit of fun.
"Sentence stress is the music of spoken English. Like word stress, sentence stress can help you to understand spoken English, especially when spoken fast." In order to give you the theoretical background you will also find information about sentence stress rules and word stress.
A typical dialect of American English has about 15 distinctive vowel sounds. This web page lists them all and you can also listen to them.
The BBC news service is a chance to read and listen to the news every day.
Apart from offering information in the field of grammar, listening, reading and vocabulary, you can register and get free English lessons by e-mail almost every week. A list of hyperlinks includes useful websites about grammar secrets, resources and English lessons online.
Interactive English for business professionals. This commercial online-trainer features a sample lesson and a tour about how Executive English works.
Not exclusively focusing on business English, this web page is divided in various subsections where you can find listening and reading exercises, media evaluations, discussion groups and lesson plans for teachers. Additionally, it offers a community section where you can join in with teachers and learners.
A good site for all of you who want to get started with essay writing or even revise the basic features of essays. Including sample essays, instructions on form and structure these simple steps will guide you through the essay writing process and familiarize you with the basic format of essays.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant offers information about how to write informal essays thesis/support essays, argumentative essays, and exploratory essays. Additionally, it focuses on aspects such as basic punctuation, main problem areas, free writing. Here you will also find help on how to choose your essay subject.
Here you will find all sorts of support including materials and resources to help you with your writing. Apart from raising awareness about the most common writing mistakes, it helps you to learn more about punctuation, topics as well as how to quote.
Writing Help offers a list of links focusing on technical as well as academic writing.
Being collected by teachers from around the world, students of English as a second language get a chance to brush up their English with grammar and vocabulary quizzes, bilingual quizzes and crossword puzzles. Additionally, you will be linked to "You Tube"-videos and podcasts.
This web page offers you a variety of activities. Covering areas of language learning you will not only find grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation exercises, but also business English learning materials, resources for teachers and many specials.
This magazine for teachers and students of English (EFL/ESL) contains much more than only exercises. It is for people who have either started a career in teaching English as a foreign or second language, or who want to start one. All kinds of resources should make your life as a teacher easier. Additionally, you will find vacancies around the world and school directories.
A web page that offers conversational lessons, exercises in the field of vocabulary and cultural slide shows. You will also find "Virtual Talk" section and a language learning center for many languages.
Welcome to the English as a Second Language site, which is a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English through the Web. Many people have created ESL learning material for the Web. This site links you to those good and free ESL places. The variety of material offers something appropriate for everyone.
Weekly lessons, Grammar tutorials, most of the exercises are available in a printable version, too - for free.
A commercial site that also offers a valuable free program for English learners. Nice feature: Find a pen pal from anywhere in the world.
Dave Sperling presents a platform for learners of English as a second language featuring not only 1000s of ESL Links but also the famous Dave's ESL Cafe.
Welcome to Language Impact, where you will find language learning articles, communities, MP3 files, and internet resources, as well as Language Learning, our free weekly e-mail newsletter helping language learners learn language.
Free offer to improve your knowledge of the English language. Learn English is a program offered by the British Council, the international institution for culture and education of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. MLA members host an annual convention and other meetings, work with related organizations, and sustain one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. For over a hundred years, members have worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature.
This is the LEARNING ENGLISH section of the SOON ONLINE MAGAZINE in easy English. The whole magazine is designed to help those learning English, or who speak it as a second language.
For Research and Refernce this site features a Web Concordancer and a Net Dictionary. Also available are exercises and reference materials for Grammar, Vocabulary, etc.
This section is dedicated to Newspapers from various English-Speaking Countries.
Serious Newspapers:
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This web page powered by the English Institute offers an elementary preliminary grammar book that really focuses on the needs of the learner. Being divided into 24 sections this grammar book concentrates on the main and basic aspects of English grammar.
Apart from the grammar sections, learners can access book lists and find useful information about language courses in England. Main Page of the English Institute
Grammar bytes offers nearly everything you need. Starting off with an extended index of grammatical terms where you can find detailed definitions of common grammatical terms (if you haven't got time you can also go to "tips and rules-fast"), it also offers interactive exercises where you can test your grammar knowledge and handouts accompanying the exercises. Additionally, you will find a variety of presentations on various skills such as appropriate words and expressions or misplaced modifiers.
Grammar Slammer contains the rules and tips you need to write your best and make yourself clear. It focuses on style and usage, capitalizing, abbreviations, letter writing etc. It even has a an easy-to-use glossary to help with those grammatical terms you can't remember. It will truly Slam your Grammar Agony!
"Guide to Grammar and Style" is a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations. Being designed as a glossary it comments on style as well as suggestions on usage. It should really help you to get an A in your essays.
The Internet Grammar of English is an online course offering a glossary of grammatical terms, online exercises and a handbook including core grammatical topics such as introducing phrases, word classes, clauses and sentences.
This dictionary offers a number of links to grammar and language courses for over 100 languages online. The large variety of topics covers numerous grammatical aspects of the English language. You will also find additional language resources such as newspapers, online radio stations, translations and dictionaries that are linked to each language.
This web page offers an exhaustive list of homonyms of the English language. Apart from the list, the author gives you general information about what homonyms are.
The Cambridge International Dictionaries web page provides various online dictionaries such as American English, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs etc. Links on the web page itself take you to sites where you can browse Cambridge University Press products and download free teaching resources.
This pronouncing dictionary for North American English contains over 125,000 words and their transcriptions.
Special features also allow you to find out more about lexical stress and much more.
Huge Collection of Links. All about Translation, Language Learning and Teaching, Language Magazines, Software, Etymology...!
This is an online up-to-date dictionary and thesaurus where you can browse entries that have already been submitted by other members of the community, but also submit and share entries that aren't already in the dictionary.
This classical thesaurus does not only provide you with the features of a classical thesaurus, i. e. main entry, definition, synonyms and notes, but also with multilingual online translators and dictionaries. The fun & game part also offers classical crosswords, word games, podcasts and multilingual online translators.
This web page concentrates on synonyms. Being a project at Vancouver Webpages, the list is extensible and you can add new words, or add synonyms for an existing word.
Apart from Webster's online searchable dictionary, the web page has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free. Additionally, you will find biographies, references, study guides and teacher resources.
World Wide Words is devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution. Being organised into sections, the web page provides almost everything. Additionally, you will find a large number of essays on rather unusual topics as for example The odd history of omnibus or The vocabulary of British lotteries. There is also a great list of weblinks which refer you to web pages on the English language, the world of words, vocabulary, and linguistics (e. g. American dialects, estuary English, slang, glossaries and dictionary centres).
The free dictionary search gives you definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and etymology results. Additionally, it provides resources for a number of languages. You can either browse the dictionary alphabetically or by related terms.
The Australian National Dictionary Centre was established in 1988 with the twin purpose of conducting research into Australian English and providing Oxford University Press with editorial expertise for their range of Australian dictionaries. It is jointly funded by the Australian National University and Oxford University Press Australia.