Useful Tools & Websites

USEFUL TOOLS:

Dictionaries:

1.  SARA:  British National Corpus http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

2.  Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/

3.  Merriam-webster Online Dictionaryhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/

4.  Thesaurus.com http://thesaurus.reference.com/

5. Pronunciation http://forvo.com/  OR  http://inogolo.com/

6. Cobuild Concordance and Collocations Sampler (A) http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx

7. VIEW:  Variation in English Words and Phrases http://view.byu.edu/

Exercise Design Engine

HotPotatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Bookmarks

Delicious Main Site http://delicious.com/

Powerpoints

Cooliris http://www.cooliris.com/

Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/

Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com/

Classroom 2.0 http://www.classroom20.com/

Online (Audio) Stories

NAXOS spoken words library http://www.naxosspokenwordlibrary.com/home.asp

Storyboard Text Reconstruction http://www.lapasserelle.com/lm/exercices/storyboardindex.html

Librivox Audiobooks http://librivox.org/

Podcast Directory

Podcast Alley http://www.podcastalley.com/

Text-to-speech programme

Browsealoud http://www.browsealoud.com/page.asp?pg_id=80507&os=windows

SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Vocabulary

Vocaboly http://vocaboly.com/

 Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students (B-I) http://iteslj.org/cw/

Lingonet http://www.lingonet.com

Complete Lexical Tour (B-A) http://www.lextutor.ca/

Grammar

English 4 u (B-I) http://www.english-4u.de/grammar_exercises.htm

ESLgold (B-A) http://www.eslgold.com/grammar.html

English Test Store (B-A) http://englishteststore.net/

English Language Centre, University of Victoria (I-A): http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/

Chemnitz Internet Grammar from the Chemnitz University of Technology                                                                   http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/chairs/linguist/real/index.html

Centre for Independent language learning (CILL) (I-A): http://158.132.164.193/CILL/grammar.htm

Dave’s ESL Cafe (B-I): http://www.eslcafe.com/

HK Education City:  http://www.hkedcity.net/english/practise/grammar/

Reading & Listening

Breaking News (For advanced learners) http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

Gutenberg Project (ebooks) http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

NewsVOAcom:  Special English from The Voice of America (B-I) http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/index.cfm

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab (B-A) http://www.esl-lab.com/

ELLLO:  English Language Listening Lab Online http://www.elllo.org/english/

Lingualnet (Learning English through Movies) http://www.lingual.net/lingualproductitems/

Real English Online from The Marzio School and Real English, LLC (B-I/ Learning English through Dictation)   http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/index.php?page=english-listening-exercises

Reading

English Language Centre Study Zone from the University of Victoria http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/

Adult Learning Activities (Theme-based) http://www.cdlponline.org/

ESL Reading (graded reading tasks) http://www.eslreading.org/

Aural & Oral

Voicethread http://voicethread.com/

Alicebot (a synchronous chat robot) http://alicebot.blogspot.com/

ELT Websites

ESL Video.com http://www.eslvideo.com/index.php

eViews http://www.eviews.net/english-lessons/

English Online, British Council http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/listen-watch

Real English http://www.real-english.com/

Content-based Language

Arlyn Freed’s ESL/EFL ESP http://www.eslhome.com/esl/esp/

UsingEnglish.com (contain links for webQuest) http://www.usingenglish.com/

englishmed.com (I/British Medical English) http://www.englishmed.com/

EnglishClub.com (I/Using English for Different jobs) http://www.englishclub.com/english-for-work/tour-guide.htm

English Literature

Poetry: http://www.poets.org/

Useful Websites for L2 Writing Teachers–Online Writing Labs (OWLs):

1. National Writing Centres Association
http://departments.colgate.edu/diw/NWCAOWLS.html.
2. Purdue OWL
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
3.The Online Writery (Missouri)
http://web.missouri.edu/%7Ewritery/
4. The Writing Machine (HKU)
http://ec.hku.hk/writingmachine/
5. HK PolyU Writing Centre
http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/writing.htm
6. Garbl’s Active Writing Links
http://members.home.net/garbl/writing/action.htm
7. Bemidji State Writing Centre
http://cal.Bemidji.msus.edu/WRC/WRChome.html
8. Colorado State Writing Centre
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/English/wcenter/ecenter.com
9. Michigan State Writing Centre
http://pilot.msu.edu/user/writing/

* B=Beginning  I=Intermediate  A=Advanced