Useful Links

101 Best Websites for ESL Students

 
1. English Writing

Research

Diana Hacker’s Research and Documentation 

Indiana University’s How to Avoid Plagiarism 

Purdue University's OWL How to Conduct Primary Research

Citation
Purdue University’s OWL APA Formatting and Style Guide

Purdue University’s OWL MLA Formatting and Style Guide

Diana Hacker's Documenting Sources in MLA

Diana Hacker's Documenting Sources in APA

Guide to Online Schools' Ultimate Resource Guides for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE

Long Island University’s Citation Guide for APA, MLA, and Chicago

Writing and Research Quizzes Write a Poem with Butterfly Haiku

Diana Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference Writing Quizzes

Diana Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference Research Quizzes

Capital Community College’s Guide to Grammar and Writing  

Capital Community College’s Guide to Grammar and Writing Quizzes

Encarta Quizzes

FreeRice.com

Grammar

A Grammar Girl

Capital Community College’s Guide to Grammar and Writing  

Capital Community College’s Guide to Grammar and Writing Quizzes

Diana Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference Grammar Quizzes 

ESL-Classroom's Grammar Quizzes 

Georgia Perimeter College's Instructional Handouts

Purdue University’s OWL Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling St. Cloud University’s

Leo Transition Cues

Diana Hacker's ESL Help 

Translation by AltaVista Babel Fish 

Model Essays
Academic English Cafe's Model Essays 

Bill Daly's Model Essay on Argumentative on Marine Parks

Capital Community College’ Model 5 Paragraph Essay

Diana Hacker’s Model Essays
 

Online Dictionaries and Translators

Babelfish Translator

 Cambridge Dictionary 

Dictionary.Reference.com 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Oxford Dictionary
 
Find a Reference Guide

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition By Joseph Gibaldi

Concise Rules of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style By APA 

The Elements of Style By William Strunk, E. B. White, Roger Angell

Rules for Writers By Diana Hacker

2. English as a Second Language 

Grammar/Writing Quizzes 

Academic English Cafe's Quizzes 

Academic Reading and Writing Exercise Links (Université de Franche-Comté') 

BBC's Learning English Quizzes and Exams

British Council's Learn English Page

Capital Community College’s Guide to Grammar and Writing 170+ Quizzes

Internet TESL Journal Links 

Dave's ESL Cafe Quiz CenterDiana Hacker's ESL Help

Diana Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference Grammar Quizzes 

Diana Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference Writing Quizzes

Encarta Quizzes 

English Club

FreeRice.com

Many Things Quizzes 

Maryville University Resources for ESL Students

Resource Guide ESL

Translation by Google

Translation by AltaVista Babel Fish

Listening/Speaking Sites

American Rhetoric's 100 great speeches  

Aurora Forum at Stanford University's Audio Library 

Aurora Forum at Stanford University's Video Library 

BBC Learning English BBC's Radio 4 Intelligent Speech 

BBC's Radio 3 Speech and Drama  

Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom

Jokes in English for the ESL/EFL Classroom 

MIT Open Course Ware Audio/Visual Courses 

MIT Open Course Ware Translated Courses 

National Geographic Videos 

NPR's FreshAir  

NPR's Radio Rookies

NPR's Talk of the Nation

PBS's Frontline

Hong Kong Polytechnic University's EAP Videos on Presentations 

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab  Repeat After Us Recorded Poems   

University of California’s Lunch Time Poetry Reading

A Way With Words

 
3. Teaching

Lesson Plans

50+ Resources for ESL Teachers

Dave’s ESL Cafée Idea Cookbook

Discovery School Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

Education World Lesson Plans

English Club Lesson Plans

Everything ESL

Guide to Online Schools Lessons

Internet4Classrooms Lesson Plans

MIT Open Course Ware Audio and Video Courses
Open Yale Courses
 
ReadWriteThink Lessons

Making Quizzes DiscoverySchool.com’s Quiz Center

Hot Potatoes

Quia

Resources for Non-Native English Teachers

Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s EAP Videos on Presentations (video)

Stony Brook University's "The Unexpected Student Question" (video)

University of Michigan’s Common Questions and Answers for TAs (audio)

University of Texas at Austin’s Preparing for Oral Proficiency Assessment (video)

Professional Development Journals and Links

Chronicle of Higher Education

ESL Magazine

The Internet TESL Journal

National Council of Teachers of English

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)