Links to Learning

Links to Learning will help you master English whether your a native speaker or an international student learning English as a new language.

The Guide to Grammar and Writing - Your complete online textbook. Great quizzes and powerpoints. Advanced.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - This multimedia site is designed to help English learners improve their listening comprehension through a variety of audio and video conversations, interviews, and news reports. Randall Davis, the developer of this site, has written, recorded, and edited all of the materials as an independent project at his home.

www.esl-lab.com

The Academic Word List - Concentrating on the Academic Word List can help you improve your English dramatically. Use this page to master these important words.

http://www.academicvocabularyexercises.com/

Free Rice - Here's a vocabulary game that makes a donation to end world hunger for every correct answer. Warning: It can be addictive!

www.freerice.com

Purdue’s OWL (Online Writing Lab) - Check out the Writing Lab Newsletter, which now has volumes one through twenty of its back issues available on-line. Also see the handouts for students and teachers about general writing concerns (the writing process), English as a Second Language (such as writing for an American audience and help with English conventions) , grammar, spelling, and punctuation, research and documenting sources (including MLA and APA styles), professional writing (such as resumes and cover letters), and writing across the curriculum (incorporating writing into a variety of disciplines.)

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

Activities for ESL Students - Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL). This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. No Advertising, No Nonessential Images, No CGI, No SSI, No PHP, No ASP, No CFM, Minimal HTML, No Nonsense. The pages should work even if your browser is not compliant with the newest web standards.

http://a4esl.org/

ESL Desk - Here you will find vocabulary lists, grammar help, ESL quizzes, spelling tests, reading help tools, and many other resources useful in learning English as a second Language. What I like about it is that it is made by someone who is not a native speaker of English.

http://www.esldesk.com/index.htm

Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation - This site describes four commonly used systems of documentation: MLA, used in English and the humanities; APA, used in psychology and the social sciences; Chicago, used in history and some humanities; and CSE, used in biology and other sciences. It even has samples papers of all four styles.

http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/

Pronunciation Links contains great sites to help you with your American Accent.

American Accent Training

http://www.americanaccent.com

American English Pronunciation Practice

http://www.manythings.org/pp/

Okanagan University College

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

Phonetics

http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eacadtech/phonetics/

Tip of the Day

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/eptotd/tiphome.htm

The Sounds of English

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/

Sounds of English is a website designed for learners of English and their teachers. It combines material made by both Sharon Widmayer and Holly Gray. The site includes links, handouts from presentations, activities and exercises for English pronunciation and listening, tips for teachers, and listening exercises with printable worksheets and teacher guides.

Speech Accent Archive

http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/

George Mason University has compiled over 349 samples of accented English from Afrikaans to Zulu.

Speech, Pronunciation & Listening Interest Section of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/SPLIS/

This is the Official Site of the TESOL
Speech, Pronunciation, & Listening Interest Section (SPLIS).

On this site, you will find information about the interest section, discussions of pronunciation issues, information about pronunciation teaching and resource books, pronunciation activities, articles, previous TESOL Matters columns, and links to interesting websites.