ESL Links
Comprehensive Sites
Dave's ESL Café The Internet's meeting place for ESL. Has a help center where you can email a question, student forums, help with idioms and slang, plus lots of quizzes,
ESL Blues A great site for intermediate English practice.
Adult Learning Activities Use this site to build reading and life skills. Topics include working, law and government, family, health and safety, money and more.
My Language Exchange helps you find a partner and practice your second language with a native speaker who is learning your language.
Karin's ESL Partyland Practice Eglish while having fun.
Grammar
Purdue OWL Purdue's Online Writing Lab that has resources pages, handouts, and exercises for ESL students
Grammar Quizzes Self-study quizzes for ESL Studenst from the TESL Journal.
Listening
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab One of the best sites to hear everyday conversations in English.
Pronunciation
ESL Pronunciation Practice Many sites to go to to practice pronunciation
Quizzes
Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students
Test Junkie Take a test on love and relationships or get a virtual palm reading.
Reading
Online Magazines for ESL Students
Interactive Reading Exercises Links include news articles, short stories, lessons with comprehension questions, and reading on various levels form beginner through advanced.
Reading Skills Many links covering topics like How to adjust your reading rate, how to improve your reading sikills, how to read textbooks, note taking, and speed reading,
Reference
Funk and Wagnalls Online Encyclopedia Encyclopedia, dictionary, news updates, pictures, maps. You have to register, but it is totally free.
The Internet Public Library Easy access to atlases, almanacs, newspapers, magazines, and on-line books.
Biographical Dictionary This site includes more than 25,000 notable mena dn women who have shaped our world.
Study Skills
The Study Strategies Homepage from the University of Minnesota
Online Study Skills from the Academic Skills Center at Cal Poly
Vocabulary
English Daily offers many resources for learning English, including learning about slang and advertising
Business English How to make presentations, medical English, and English exercises
English for Work English for cashiers, nurses, servers hotel staff
The Tower of English has hundreds of fun web sites in 34 categories including holidays, movies, people, mysteries, news, humor, and history,
Bilingual Quizzes Quizzes in Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Swahili, and many more.
Vocabulary help is available at the Language Guide.org site. Choose your native language and then pick from groups of words like clothing, pets. weather, the home, and many more.
English Tide offers a Chinese interface for students learning English
Writing Links
Advice on Academic Writing How to write a lab report or a paper on poetry, how to use sources, how to revise, and write an application.
The Argument and Opinion Essay Writing Site gives you tips on how to write timed essay exams.
A Visual Guide to Organizing Your Papers
Just for Fun
The Onion Humorous site of fake news stories