Resources for Learners

This site provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse our grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.

Explore Voice of America’s interactive teaching and self-learning tool. Free featured articles on a variety of subjects with online activities for English language teachers and learners.

National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences Kid's Pages
These pages offer many links to U.S. songs and items of interest to the children and adults.

Online Graphical Dictionary
Teachers and learners can use this to look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. It produces diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. You can learn how words associate.

Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County
Search Engines and Directories just for kids on topics such as Art & Music, Ancient Civilizations, Animals, Environment, Health & Nutrition, History, Just for Girls, Literature & Language, Science and Sports.

Voice of America Special English
News reports in language adapted for English Language Learners. Includes a glossary and podcasts for English learners. Broadcasts can be downloaded and played while offline, and transcripts of broadcasts are also available.

Reading-English Club
Variety of English reading texts with exercises for students.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University
OWL houses writing resources and instructional material, and they provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

TOEFL Practice Online
The only official practice test for the TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) and the only test preparation that uses real TOEFL iBT questions.

Conversation starters English language students
This site presents short conversation starters or readings that you can study and then try to apply in everyday situations.

EZ Slang
Reduce your accent, speak more naturally, and understand conversational speech. EZSlang is designed to help you reach these goals rather than sounding like an English textbook.

Grammar Bytes, Interactive Grammar Review
Index of grammar terms, interactive exercises, handouts, and a section on grammar rules with interesting PowerPoint presentations.

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
This has a broad range of activities from easy to advanced levels.

BBC World English, Learning English
A variety of longer listening passages from the news. Includes learning materials for beginning to advanced level English learners on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and Business English based on news stories from BBC world service.

Dave’s ESL Café
Variety of exercises and lessons for practicing English language skills.

EFL/ESL English language lesson plans & podcasts
This page offers free, 13-page, Ready-to-Print EFL/ESL Lesson Plans on Current Events.

NASA Kid's Club
This page offers activities from NASA for kids for whom English is a first language.

CNN Student News
Multimedia news resources for middle and high school students produced by CNN.

Phonetics: Sounds of American English
This site offers animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, German, and Spanish.

Poetry for High School readers
The Library of Congress has an extraordinary collection of materials and programs for use by teachers and students.

Ask Oxford: Ask the Experts
This is a database of some of the questions sent in to the Oxford Word and Language Service team, including frequently asked questions like "What is the longest English word?" and "How many words are there in the English language?" Also included is a "Jargon Buster" that "gives clear and concise definitions for grammar and literary terms."

Visual Dictionary
This is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is a good language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home, or at work.

English Listening Lesson Library Online
Listening activities, games, videos, and songs with reading, speaking, and vocabulary activities and audio downloads for practicing listening skills

ESL Reading
Free graded reading material.

Mark’s English School-Games
Interactive grammar games.

English Grammar Secrets
Self-study grammar lessons and exercises for students.

Real English
Video and interactive lessons for improving listening comprehension and speaking.

Speech Accent Archive
Provides sample phrases for use in conversation.

U.S.A. Learns
A free site for adults to learn English and improve basic reading, writing, speaking and life skills.

The World Bank’s Scholarship and Fellowships Program
The Program provides opportunities for graduate and postgraduate studies leading to master's and doctoral degrees in development-related fields for mid-career professionals from eligible developing countries.

Train your Accent
Improve your accent and rhythm in English and learn daily expressions at the same time. This site provides you with samples of relaxed, North American English that reflect everyday activities and helps you sound more natural.

Zoom in on America
This is an interesting online magazine for students of American English.

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