In addition to "blogging to learn" at Blogging English, there are also many other ESL study resources on the Internet. The list below is from the resource list I created for my 1st online ESL class. I'm cleaning out bad links and updating with new links.
Study on your own, or subscribe to one or more online courses that send free lessons by e-mail. Don't forgot to post to Blogging English about you self-paced study experiences and what you think of the different resources. Do you have favorite learning sites not on this list? Please post them as a comments.
BLOGGING ENGLISH LINKS (active links even if they don't look like it. originally on sidebar, some duplicated further on)
- Activities for ESL Students\
- BBC Learning English
- Better English
- Dave's ESL Cafe
- EL Easton - English Online
- English Club
- English-at-home
- ESL Gold
- ESL Handouts & Exercises - Purdue OWL
- ESL Kid Stuff
- Everything ESL
- Grammar Gorillas
- Interesting Things for ESL Students
- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- Rong-Chang's ESL pages
- TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links
- VOA Learning English
- Wordwizard
- World Wide Words
ONLINE LESSONS and COURSES
SELF-STUDY & ESL RESOURCE & ACTIVITIES PAGES
LISTENING and SPEAKING
READING
Besides self study material designed for ESL/EFL learners, don't forget the rest of the internet as a resource for reading and listening materials. Read about subjects that interest you.
Read and write in English everyday. Read an English language newspaper and online articles everyday. Keep a journal in English. Post messages to bulletin boards and forums at ESL sites. Join special topics groups and forums to practice reading and writing about topics that interest you,
Good luck with your studies
- 1-language http://www.1-language.com/
- About ESL's list of free online courses http://esl.about.com/cs/onlinecourses/a/a_ecourses.htm
- ESL About.com, newsletter, lessons, lesson plans and handouts by topic http://esl.about.com/
- EL Easton http://eleaston.com/english.html
- English@home http://www.english-at-home.com/
- English Cafe, Global English's "personal learning service" free to join, some free resources, lesson packages @ $169/3 months, 10 day free trial, Skype ID required, http://www.englishcafe.com/ and http://www.englishcafe.com/learn-english/frequently-asked-questions
- English for Everybody, FREE English Language Courses for young learners, beginners, elementary, intermediate, advanced. http://www.english-online.org.uk/
- English Practice (advanced, excellent verb tense lessons): http://www.englishpractice.com/
- Business English (free lessons by email) http://www.better-english.com
- English Page, advanced lessons, weekly lessons posted online, tutorials, outstanding verb resource) http://www.englishpage.com/
- esl●flow http://www.eslflow.com/
- ESL gold http://www.eslgold.com/ (English lessons available in other languages)
- EnglishTown (free trial, lesson packages by level, voice chat) http://www.englishtown.com
- English-to-go (new lessons weekly) http://www.english-to-go.com/
- ITESL-J, EFL/ESL Lessons and Lesson Plans http://iteslj.org/Lessons/
- Learn English, free and independent web site for EFL/ESL learners and teachers, http://www.learnenglish.de/
- Learn English Online, free beginners course, http://www.learn-english-online.org/
- NetGrammar (intermediate web-based course, extensive grammar practice through a great variety of reading, writing and listening activities) http://netgrammar.altec.org/
- Open Culture - not ESL but free online courses in English from top universities http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
- Parapal Online, interactive activities http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/
- Self Access for students of English as International Communication (fee based, free sample lessons, test prep courses, library access) http://www.selfaccess.com/
- World English, speaking lessons, activities, http://www.world-english.org/onlineschool_free.htm
- Digital Education Network (UK) online English grammar http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/
- English Grammar Clinic (also from D.E.N.) http://www.lydbury.co.uk/grammar/index.htm
- Purdue OWL (online writing lab) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
- Guide to Grammar and Writing http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/.
- Garbl's: grammar, writing, and literature resources http://members.home.net/garbl/writing/
- Bartleby's one stop reference site: grammar, literature & dictionairies: http://www.bartelby.com
- HyperGrammar http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/grammar.html
- TestDen Tipsomatic (essays, paragraphs, sentence level grammar) http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/contents.htm
- Merriam-Webster online dictionairies and thesauri http://www.m-w.com
- A Web of Dictionaries http://www.yourdictionary.com/
SELF-STUDY & ESL RESOURCE & ACTIVITIES PAGES
- quizzes collected from ESL teachers around the world http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/
- Dave's ESL Cafe on the internet http://www.eslcafe.com/
- Tower of English http://members.tripod.com/~towerofenglish
- Randall's Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/
- English Zone http://members.home.net/englishzone/
- English Practice (advanced verb tense tutoiral) http://www.englishpractice.com
- Frizzy Network: http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb/
- About.com: English as 2nd Language (free newsletter) http://esl.about.com
- links from TESL Ontario, with notes http://home.inforamp.net/~teslon/jims_links.shtml
- Ruth Vilmi's language help at http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/LangHelp/
- ESL Linguistic Funlandhttp://www.linguistic-funland.com/
- links from TESL Ontario, with notes http://home.inforamp.net/~teslon/jims_links.shtml
- English Learnerhttp://www.englishlearner.com/index.html
- learning oral English on line http://www.ehq.com/li/book/
LISTENING and SPEAKING
- 1-language http://www.1-language.com/
- (great site!) CyberListening lab at http://www.esl-lab.com/
- http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/listening.html
- http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/english/listening.html
- English Listening Lounge: http://www.englishlistening.com/
- World English, speaking lessons, activities, http://www.world-english.org/onlineschool_free.htm
- VOA (Voice of America) offers regular broadcasts especially designed for English learners http://www.voa.gov/ (main homepage) and http://www.voa.gov/special/ for VOA Special English, read at a slower rate and using a smaller vocabulary
- English Media Lab http://www.englishmedialab.com/beginnervideos.html
- ESL Galaxy http://www.esl-galaxy.com/video.htm
- Impact On-line, an interactive news magazine for intermediate and advanced ESL/EFL students http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/Impact/impact_homepage.html
- ITESL-J, links to ESL videos, http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Video/
- Real English http://www.real-english.com/
- YouTube
- Vimeo
WARNING ~ eslvideo is a malware site ~ DO NOT VISIT
READING
Besides self study material designed for ESL/EFL learners, don't forget the rest of the internet as a resource for reading and listening materials. Read about subjects that interest you.
- BBC Teaching English articles on Extensive Reading http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/extensive-reading
- Extensive Reading http://www.extensivereading.net/
- Fluency Through Fables http://www.teachersdesk.com/lessons/esl/fables/Fables.htm
- George Jacobs Extensive Reading http://www.georgejacobs.net/extensive.htm
Read and write in English everyday. Read an English language newspaper and online articles everyday. Keep a journal in English. Post messages to bulletin boards and forums at ESL sites. Join special topics groups and forums to practice reading and writing about topics that interest you,
Good luck with your studies
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