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Dr. Jon Aske 
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In my travels through the World Wide Web in search of good sites, I often run across interesting links for learners of English. So, as a public service, I have decided to start up a page to collect those links.
At Salen State College ESL is offered through the English Department and the Center For International Education.
Links for students of English
1-language.com's ESL Center
Free, comprehensive ESL Site including forums,
realtime chat, jobs, grammar, helplines, multi-lingual content - and
more
Sounds of English
Pronunciation help for learners of American English
BBC World Service - English language learning and teaching
Activities for ESL Students
"Study Materials for Students of English as a Second Language
Written by Many Teachers from Around the World " Self-study quizzes, interactive quizzes, crossword puzzles and more by
many teachers from around the world.
Interesting Things for ESL Students
"- Quizzes, puzzles, proverbs, anagrams, slang and more by Charles Kelly
and Larry Kelly."
eviews: listen to interviews
"eVIEWS is FREE for students of English who want to practice and improve their English comprehension, as well as teachers and schools of EFL/ESL looking for prepared material. Listen to authentic interviews with native English speakers. A wide range of English accents and different subjects available in our library.
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Links courtesy of James Buckingham [James.Buckingham@zu.ac.ae]
- http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/ESL/Listening/
A very very comprehensive list of links to online listening activities provided by the Internet TESL Journal. - http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/ESL/Quizzes/Quizzes_with_Sound/index.html
Another comprehensive list of links to online listening activities provided by the Internet TESL Journal. ESL : Quizzes : Quizzes with Sound - www.esl-lab.com
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab * Excellent resource for all levels. - http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/LCRA/
University of Illinois' online resources - Interactive Listening Comprehension Practice - http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/listeninglist.html
University of Illinois' online resources - General listening links on the web * i.e. World News - http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/
A few interactive listening sites * Great general resource too. - http://www.stir.ac.uk/celt/CALL97/Charlott/Dissn/index.htm
One person's efforts to produce online listening/ reading discrimination exercises - http://www.englishlistening.com/
The English Listening Lounge * highly rated. - http://auc-acs.eun.eg/www/eli/list.html
Listening Resources for EFL/ESL Students * (point and click conversation book) - http://www.ucfv.bc.ca/esl/listwrit.htm
Interesting example of an interactive online form used for teaching/testing listening and writing comprehension - http://englishtown.ef.com/en/lessons/monthly/
EF Englishtown - Rich variety of online listening activities presented in dialogue format ..with transcript. - http://realguide.real.com/news/?c=220&t=sites
Real Audio's links to over 100 News Radio sites on the Internet. - http://www.candlelightstories.com/Radio.htm
Candlelight Stories Story Theatre * many stories hear ranging from 3 to 30 minutes * featured "The First Voyage of Sinbad" * Note that there is no supporting text. - http://www.voa.gov/stream/voa/english/spec/specengla.ram
Voice of America. International news stories are spoken slowly for the benefit of international listeners. - http://www.monumental.com/richardx/listen2.html
Over 30 online reading and / or listening texts * most are complemented by pictures, pronunciation exercises; others are simple dictations of short sentences or passages. Good models to use for producing your own materials. - http://www.otan.dni.us/cdlp/lllo/home.html
30 listening and reading passages * each with online detail, main idea and vocabulary comprehension quizzes. - http://www.studint.net/takako/
Takako's great adventure * excellent 10 episode story with supporting worksheets for each episode. - http://www.stir.ac.uk/celt/Listen/logic/index.html
*Model* Listening puzzles * not functioning - students listen to a passage for clues to help them complete a chart. (great for a review of comparatives) - http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~allenq/pronunciation/similar.htm
*Model* - A unique "listening" crossword puzzle * students listen and discriminate minimal pairs to complete a crossword puzzle (done in Hot potatoes). - http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/readinglist.html Has a link to an extensive list of Electronic Books on-line
- http://www.promo.net/pg/ Project Guttenburg - fine literature digitally re-published. Light literature, heavy literature, reference books. They have completed over 2000 e-texts as of January 2000. Permits searches by title, subject and author.
- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/search.html Online books * search engine with links to over 10,000 online books. You can access a book * sometimes all the way down to selecting individual pages from it * an excellent source for texts.
- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/writers.html "A celebration of Women Writers"- Browse by author, country or century.
- http://www2.shore.net/~mogget/justso.htm "Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling * includes "How the camel got his hump" * great source for texts.
- http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html A very comprehensive list of links to works by Jane Austen - almost all of them in "e-text" - hyperlinks to word definitions and language usage found in her writing.
- http://www.bnl.com/shorts/ Classic Short Stories * close to 100 classic "short" stories.
- http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/quran_browser/pqeasy.shtml The Quran Browser Basic Home Page * all in English * four different translations.
- http://members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/index.htm SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages. Annotated favorite tales, information about their histories, similarities with various tales, and other interesting tidbits.
- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/prize.html Prize winning books on-line.
- http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/bookrepts101498.html Over 300 approaches designed to make "book reports" interesting for students.
- http://www.englishclub.net/jokes/index.htm EnglishCLUB.net * (20) english jokes.
- http://www.esllessons.com/standard/Pag00051.htm ESL Lessons * a limited number of ESL focussed lesson plans and handouts targeted on reading. (PS You are invited to submit your own lesson plans)
- http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/index.htm Writing Den * A Canadian based site with 30 different themes. While labeled a writing den, it focuses more on reading skills. Each has a word, sentence and paragraph section, supporting photos and an online quiz.
- http://www.readersdigest.com/rdmagazine/archindex.htm Reader's Digest Interactive Archives * all of the favourites are here; laugh lines, word power, etc. .. however articles need to be read carefully for cultural appropriacy and level of difficulty.
- http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/treasure/ A wonderful site devoted to Treasure Island - rich in resources including a chapter by chapter e-text of the story.
- http://www.fansites.com/ Fansites.com * features links to websites on famous people.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dickens/ge/ A very rich interactive resource on Dicken's classic Great Expectations.
- http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading/index.htm 6 Nasreddin Stories (well known in the Middle East) complete with comprehension questions, online "recreating story" and "sumarizing" exercises and links to other Nasreddin stories / links,
- http://www.powa.org/ Paradigm Online Writing Assistant * may be more appropriate for advanced English classes
- http://www.hi.com.au/keypal1.asp Key pals link * arrange e-mail exchanges with another classroom in another part of the world.
- http://www3.sympatico.ca/ray.saitz/writing.htm Outta Ray's Head Writing Lessons * over 30 different writing assignments, many more ideas on themes * some suggestion of a module based approach to writing.
- http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm Guide to Grammar and Writing * a comprehensive reference site.
- http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html Grammar Safari * advertised as providing " you with (usually) hundreds or thousands of examples of any particular English words you choose, used in authentic communication
- http://www.protrainco.com/info/grammar-archives.htm Good Grammar, Good Style TM Archive * General information , search engine on Grammar points
- http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/fr_gram.html Grammar - Online lessons (rule based) * with online exercises (could be printed out).
- http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/fr_gram.html Punctuation * Online lessons (rule based) .. with online exercises (could be printed out).
- http://www.dailygrammar.com/ Daily Grammar sends you e-mail messages with a writing lesson five days of the week and a quiz on the sixth day
- http://webnz.com/checkers/grammar2.html Free on-line English grammar lessons. Free lessons and activity sheets e-mailed to you daily.
- http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html Common Errors in English * a quick reference for what must be over 400 common mistakes.
- http://www.englishclub.net/handouts/grammar/index.htm EnglishCLUB.net - Link page to "read to print" grammar handouts.
- http://esl.about.com/education/esl/blgrammar.htm About.com's online expert has assembled this page filled with links to grammar points. Each point presents examples of the grammar, the grammar's function, common expressions using it, structure (conjugation), and an online quiz.
- http://www.esllessons.com/standard/Pag00056.htm ESL Lessons * a link to a very comprehensive database of ESL lesson plans and handouts targeted on grammar points. Highly recommended.
- http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm A Grammar index from the University of Victoria, British Columbia features introductions to various grammar points and supplementary "Hot Potatoe" exercises.
Up to the topLinks for teachers of English
ESL Links
go to the resources section to see what K-12 teachers think about different sites
A Place to Start in Selecting ESL Software
TESOL CALL Interest Section Software List
The Internet for ESL Teachers
At Claire Bradin Siskin's page.
Organizations
TESOL Online
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.
Salem State College | Department of Foreign Languages