English Learning Resource Websites

To my students

Basic Skills Coverage (options for all skills)

http://www.manythings.org/

http://www.englishcorner.vacau.com/

http://english-zone.com/index.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/english.shtml

http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.asp

http://www.englishmedialab.com/index.html

http://oelp.uoregon.edu/learn.html -- Very Comprehensive Collection of Options

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://www.eslcafe.com/

http://home.gwu.edu/~meloni/eslstudyhall/

Grammar

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/

http://chompchomp.com/

http://www.grammarbook.com/english_rules.asp

http://www.drgrammar.org/frequently-asked-questions

http://www.punctilious.org/grammar/clauses.htm

http://www.punctilious.org/grammar/phrases.htm#participial

Pronunciation

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/resources/skills/interactive/pron_animations/index.htm

http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/

http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/index.htm

http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html

http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/index.html

http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html (list of homonyms)

Vocabulary Practice

http://www.missioncollege.edu/depts/ESL/faculty/chan/voc/index.html

http://www.academicenglishgenerator.com/introduction.htm (upgrade basic words)

http://www.academicvocabularyexercises.com/id21.htm (practice with AWL)

http://www.syvum.com/squizzes/vocabulary/

http://www.vocabulary.com/resources/

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm

http://www4.caes.hku.hk/vocabulary/tutorial/index1.asp (technical vocab)

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm

Vocabulary Dictionaries & Word Study

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/

http://wordnik.com/word-of-the-day

http://www.synonym-finder.com/

http://www.visuwords.com/fullscreen/ (very interesting word association/derivation graphic)

http://www.wordsift.com/

Vocabulary Analysis & Corpora

http://www.wordle.net/ (word cloud creation:  great for poems, predictions, etc.)

http://www.wordcount.org/main.php

http://www.just-the-word.com/ (concordance shows frequency, easy to use)

http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/ (vocab analysis)

http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html (concordance: good sorting options)

http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/WWWConcappE.htm

http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ (focus on contemporary American English)

http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/ (focus on contemporary British English)

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/ (British Slang)

http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nomlex/NOMLEX-2001.exp  (nominalization)

Vocabulary Tutorials

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/concordancers-elt (tutorial on concordances)

http://iteslj.org/Articles/Krieger-Corpus.html (tutorial on concordances)

www.wordworkskingston.com is Pete Bower's website.

www.realspelling.com is Melvyn Ramsden's.

Reading

http://www.classicreader.com/ (free online books)

http://theweek.com/home (USA and international news)

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ (current events)

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page (free online ebooks)

http://www.emule.com/poetry/ (free online poetry)

http://www.encyclopedia.com/ (free online encylopedia)

http://www.newspapers.com/ (links to newspapers around the globe)

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp (front pages from around the globe)

http://www.americanfolklore.net/ (American folk stories)

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

http://www.eslreading.org/

http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/reading/signalwords.html (text organization tips)

Listening

http://www.esl-lab.com/

http://www.elllo.org/

http://www.npr.org/ (streaming and podcast resources)

http://librivox.org/newcatalog/ (audio books read at natural speed)

http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm (articles on life experiences)

http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/esl/index.html

http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/notetaking.systems.html (academic note-taking options)

http://themoonlitroad.com/ (Folk Stories of the South (USA))

http://www.rong-chang.com/eslread/eslread/dict/contents.htm (dictations)

Speaking

http://esl.about.com/od/speakingenglish/

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/ (speeches, historical and film)

http://www.voxopop.com/ (audio message boards)

Writing

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/ (technical writing)
http://www.writingfun.com/ (mind-mapping, organizer tools)

http://www.acts.twu.ca/Library/research_essays.htm

http://www.writefix.com/

http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/ (plagiarism tutorial)

http://www.englishlit.pitt.edu/lit_plagiarism.html (plagiarism guidelines)

http://www.bu.edu/today/node/12001 (plagiarism report)

http://karen.stanley.people.cpcc.edu/Composition%20I.htm (useful topical handouts)

http://webpages.csus.edu/~hansonsm/Constructing/constructing_title.html

Plagiarism Tutorials

http://infotutor.sdsu.edu/plagiarism/index.cfm

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/plagiarism.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC2ew6qLa8U

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/col/bruinsuccess/03/02.cfm

http://baervan.nmt.edu/Petrophysics/group/avoiding_plagiarism.htm

Academic skills

http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/olib.html (online resources - Learning Centre, University of New South Wales)

http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl.html

http://www.yorku.ca/cds/lss/

Playful or Practical Creations

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ (mad lib word play)

http://www.crayon.net/ (create your own newspaper)

http://simplebooklet.com/index.php#  (make a booklet)

http://www.podomatic.com/login (make a podcast)

http://voicethread.com/#home (online collaboration)

http://www.onlinelogomaker.com/ (logo maker)

http://www.spiderscribe.net/ (mindmap maker)

Idioms & Slang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_idioms_derived_from_baseball (baseball)

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/ (British Slang)

Typing Lessons

http://www.powertyping.com/

http://sense-lang.org/typing/index.html

http://www.typingweb.com/

Videos (fun and serious)

http://www.myspace.com/thebiggame# (superbowl ads)

http://www.brainshark.com/ (upload and add voice over to videos)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC2ew6qLa8U

http://www.myefa.org/login.cfm  (videos on life skills)

Proprietary Sites (free trial, paid membership)

http://www.openenglish.com/

http://www.babbel.com/learn-english-online

Early English Education Resources

http://www.languageguide.org/english/

http://www.learningchocolate.com/

Collected by Willilam Cole French