Advice on Academic Writing: The advice files on this site answer the kinds of questions that University of Toronto students ask about their written assignments. Most were created by writing instructors her.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online: LDOCE Online offers you free access to a range of Longman monolingual and bilingual dictionaries that are specifically designed for learners and teachers of English, and for people who need to use English as a second language at work. Our dictionaries have integrated thesaurus, collocations and important grammar information.
Merriam-Webster Learner’s Dictionary: An online American English dictionary for English language learners.
Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary: Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: This site provides writers and teachers with information, inspiration, and community. Their goal is to provide a supportive learning environment in which visitors and members can write, share, and celebrate language.
Power Thesaurus: Power Thesaurus is a fast, convenient and comprehensive online thesaurus. Built by users for students and writers! The synonymic and other associations are suggested, rated and used by its visitors. Based upon regular visitor’s participation and constant work of our editorial department for more than 10 years.
Purdue Online Writing Lab:Welcome to the Purdue OWL. We offer free resources including Writing and Teaching Writing, Research, Grammar and Mechanics, Style Guides, ESL (English as a Second Language), and Job Search and Professional Writing.
Writer's Web: Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty.
About.com Basic English: 25 lessons on essential English grammar points.
About.com-English as 2nd Language: Whether you are a teacher looking for ESL teaching materials, a beginner who's just starting out, or an advanced student who wants to hone and polish reading comprehension, conversation, and writing skills, these resources can take you to the next level.
Englishpage.com: Free grammar lessons and interactive exercises. Lots of practice with verb tenses and prepositions.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL): We offer free resources including Writing and Teaching Writing, Research, Grammar and Mechanics, Style Guides, ESL (English as a Second Language), and Job Search and Professional Writing.
Edufind English Grammar: This collection of free English learning resources is designed to help you study whatever aspect of conversational English is most interesting or important to you at the moment. Improving your English a little each day is the most effective way to learn English.
English Central: Practice sounds by watching videos and recording videos of your own voice.
ESL Bits: Listen to audiobooks, news stories, short stories, songs and radio dramas. Choose between faster or slower listening speeds and read along with the texts of the stories and songs. For intermediate and advanced learners.
Librivox: LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net for free. Currently, the site has thousands of free audiobooks, short stories, poetry, and more.
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Provides online English listening comprehension activities for ESL and EFL learners.
Real English: Short video lessons using interviews with real people filmed on the streets of New York, Miami Beach, and Seattle. There are lessons for English learners at different levels. Exercises let you record your voice and compare your English to the native speakers in the videos or to the teacher.
Voice of America Special English: Learning English is VOA’s multimedia source of news and information for millions of English learners worldwide.
Eva Easton’s Authentic American Pronunciation: Lessons on sounds, word and sentence stress, linking, contractions and other pronunciation topics.
Perfect Pronunciation Exercises: Practice sounds, syllable stress, and sentence intonation with the exercises on the Merriam-Webster Learner’s Dictionary website.
California Distance Learning Project - Adult Learning Activities: Read and listen to news stories about family, school, health, and other topics. Vocabulary and reading comprehension activities are included for each story.
English Learning Centre Study Zone: Interactive reading and grammar activities for upper-beginner to advanced level English language learners.
TOEFL test preparation Prepare for the TOEFL® test and learn how to improve your score and English language skills from the experts who create the exam.
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.
BBC Learning English: Many of this materials are delivered as full length courses but each component of the course is standalone and can be studied on its own. This means the learner can choose the best way to study for them; by following a full course or by following the individual materials most appropriate to them.
Dave’s ESL Cafe A meeting place for ESL + EFL teachers and students from around the world. Explore and enjoy!(created by Dave Sperling, The English Language
English as a Second Language over 2,500 conversations with audio and 3,000 short stories and essays (created by Rong-Chang Li)
engVid: Learn English for free with 1793 video lessons by experienced native-speaker teachers. Classes cover English grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, IELTS, TOEFL, and more. Join millions of ESL students worldwide who are improving their English every day with engVid.
ManyThings: There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.
Language Reactor 'Language Reactor is a powerful toolbox for learning languages. It helps you to discover, understand, and learn from native materials. Studying will become more effective, interesting, and enjoyable! (formerly called 'Language Learning with Netflix')
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