These sites may be used for multiple purposes such as providing lessons, exercises and activities for teaching and practicing reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and/or listening as well as research and teacher resources. Some of these sites may be interactive.
About.com: English as a Second Language
http://esl.about.com
Includes a wide variety of resources for both students and teachers. Most of the material is appropriate for intermediate to advanced English language learners. Free weekly newsletter is available.
Dave's ESL Café
http://eslcafe.com
The Internet's meeting place for ESOL teachers and students from around the world. Includes discussion forums, chat rooms, message boards in addition to pages devoted to specific English language skills and lessons plans.
Discovery School
http://school.discovery.com
Teachers can create their own word searches, crossword puzzles, anagrams, etc. and set up a personal account in which to save all the activities they create.
English Club
http://www.englishclub.com
This site contains lessons for students and information for teachers regarding listening, speaking, reading, and writing English. Interactive pages such as forums, games, quizzes, chat, help, and pen pals are also included.
ESL: English Study and Learning Materials
http://www.eslgold.net
Over 1,000 pages of information and resources for teachers and students regarding English language skills. The materials, which range from low beginning to advanced, are organized by skill and level.
ESL Study Hall
http://home.gwu.edu/~meloni/eslstudyhall
This site has many different exercises and quizzes for reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and listening.
Fun Brain
http://www.funbrain.com
Contains lots of games.
OWL Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl
Grammar, punctuation and spelling resources for students and teachers. Includes resource pages, handouts, exercises, and links to other websites. Too difficult for most beginning ESOL students.
REEP Gateway
http://www.reepworld.org
Arlington County's website for ESOL teachers and adult learners. Teacher pages include life-skills based curriculum for all ESOL levels (including activities to teach English skills) and annotated resource list of links to other websites. Student pages include interactive instruction on how to use the mouse and navigate the website, audio/video interviews with follow up activities. Also includes segments on health-related topics (the body, healthy life, food, health problems, emergencies, and medicine) along with follow up activities such as matching vocabulary words with pictures.
Student Lessons
http://www.marshalladulteducation.org/student_lessons1.htm
Contains interactive exercises for the beginner and intermediate learner in many different topic categories.
T.H.E. Journal & netTrekker: Educational Roadmap to the Web
http://thejournal.com/highlights/roadmap.aspx
This site offers links to other sites covering educational subjects. The most useful for reading and writing are:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar with lots of instructional materials and exercises.
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/grammar.html an online grammar course.
TEST/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links
http://iteslj.org/links
Site monitored by the Internet TESL Journal. Provides over 14,000 links for students and teachers and highlights some of the best links.
The Literacy List
http://alri.org/literacylist.html
Provides access to a large collection of discussion lists and other Internet resources for adult literacy and ESOL learners. The links are to Internet sites (e.g., a site containing easy reading material for adult learners) which have been suggested by adult literacy and ESOL practitioners.
Tower of English
http://towerofenglish.com/index.html
This site contains about 300 websites in 34 different categories to help ESL students and teachers find places to practice English.
USALearns
http://www.USALearns.org
Launched by the U.S. Department of Education in 2008 to help immigrants learn English, the site contains instructional materials to teach basic English skills and help adults improve their English proficiency. It is designed to allow learners with low-level literacy skills to use the tool independently, but can also be used with a teacher or tutor. In the beginner course, 20 units are offered in such areas as numbers, the calendar, places to go, families, schools, clothes, money and shopping. For intermediate students, more challenging exercises can help them further their English reading and writing skills.
Western Pacific LINCS ESL Special Collections
http://literacynet.org/esl/home.html
National Institute for Literacy Special Collections website providing links for ESOL teachers to a variety of sites to assist in their teaching, as well as numerous links for ESOL students at all levels for learning practice, communicating with other ESOL learners and citizenship/immigration.
