Grammar guides:
Grammar.net
Grammar.net is a free online English grammar reference guide. It's also a comprehensive English grammar guide, with many examples of sentences to help you understand how they work.
Grammarly
Grammarly is a powerful writing enhancement tool that helps you detect and correct over 500 writing problems. It's a free online application that can be used on any device with a web browser. The app is also available to students for free!
English Grammar
This website has a lot of information on English grammar explanations and rules with lots of examples, and it's easy to navigate.
Grammar Bytes
https://chompchomp.com/menu.htm
Grammar Bytes! is a website for ESL students who want to learn grammar courses. It has many lessons, which are well-organized and easy to navigate. This site also has a forum where you can ask questions, as well as exercises that help you practice your new skills.
Worknik
Wordnik is a dictionary and thesaurus website that's owned by Dictionary.com. It has many features, including Ask Wordnik (a feature where you can ask questions about English grammar), A Word A Day (a daily email containing an example sentence using a word from the dictionary), and Word of the Day (a daily email containing an example sentence using a particular word).
Vocabulary lists:
Excellent ESL 4U
https://www.excellentesl4u.com/esl-vocabulary.html
This section has many vocabulary lists, exercises, and activities to help you learn English vocabulary. All of which are divided into topic areas.
Adult ESL
https://moabadultesl.weebly.com/vocabulary.html
850 words that can be used to explain 90% of English. All of which are divided into topic areas.
Grammar Monster
https://www.grammar-monster.com/ESL-vocabulary-lists.html
A list of 83 vocabulary categories for you. The words in every category can be edited to suit your learning level.
ESL Gold
https://eslgold.com/acad_vocab_list_master/
This is a concise academic vocabulary word list with definitions.
ESL Desk
http://www.esldesk.com/vocabulary/basic
This is a basic vocabulary list containing important words worth learning. Words are divided into thematic groups and there is even an audio clip of every word to help with pronunciation.
Language learning apps
Duolingo
Duolingo is a fun app that offers bite-sized lessons to help you learn over 40 languages. You can practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
Hello English
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.CultureAlley.japanese.english&hl=en_US
Hello English is a top-ranked app that offers interactive lessons, games, and discussions with teachers. It also allows users to practice speaking and conversation.
FluentU
Fluent U is an app that uses real-world videos like news and commercials to help you learn English.
RosettaStone
Rosetta Stone is a unique app that immerses you in the language and helps you learn basic words, phrases, and sentences.
Memrise
https://www.memrise.com/en-us/
An app that uses humor to help you learn English words. Courses are created by other users.
Online language tutorials
Speak English with Vanessa
https://www.youtube.com/@SpeakEnglishWithVanessa
Speak English naturally, confidently, and fluently with Vanessa. Subscribe for free YouTube lessons every Friday. Vanessa has a very positive personality that makes learning so much fun. You will love her humor and detailed explanations of accurately pronouncing American English.
Learn English with Vince
https://www.youtube.com/@LearnEnglishwithVince.
Learn English with Vince is an ESL teaching network providing the most effective American English language learning content by a native English teacher from the United States with years of experience teaching ESL in a foreign country.
USA Hello
https://usahello.org/education/learn-english-language/
Do you want to learn English? You can find free classes and apps to study online. Get tips for English conversation and improving your grammar. Learn about the TOEFL test.
USA Learns
USA Learns has several free courses to help you learn English, improve your skills, study for a job, prepare to become a U.S. citizen, and more!
American English Podcast
https://americanenglishpodcast.com/home-2/
Learn American English and the History and Culture of the United States in this Intermediate English Podcast.
Note-Taking Tips
What is the Cornell Note-Taking System?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEsBd_Rgzfs
How to Use the Cornell Note-Taking System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX-xshA_0m8
Free Cornell Note-Taking System Online Course
https://canvas.cornell.edu/courses/1451
Time Management Tips
Time Management-Conquering Long Assignments
Time Management for College Students
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxjnKL4Hhqo&t=29s
Academic Writing Resources
Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
Resources
To enhance their instructional practices, educators can turn to a range of English language learner resources. By exploring professional development platforms, instructional strategies, assessment tools, and more, educators can stay up to date with the latest research and gain insights into effective teaching methods for ESL instruction.
- Translating Opportunity: Improving Postsecondary Pathways for Multilingual Learners of English, examines the opportunities and challenges for MLE students navigating the postsecondary system. The report offers recommendations that can help educators, institutional leaders, policymakers, service providers, advocates, researchers, and funders better serve this diverse population with effective and equitable policies, programs, and structures.
- 5 Strategies for Better Supporting Multilingual Learners by Guillermo Lopez and Amy Getz explains how faculty and staff can make a big difference in students’ learning by using strategies to create a positive classroom and campus environment for Multilingual Learners of English. They shed light on important opportunities for strengthening postsecondary pathways for multilingual learners. Guillermo Lopez and Amy Getz are co-authors of the WestEd and Student-Ready Strategies report “Translating Opportunity: Improving Postsecondary Pathways for Multilingual Learners of English.”
- Lessons From Multilingual Learners to Improve Student Success demonstrates how institutions can better meet the needs of MLE students. WestEd and Student-Ready Strategies have released a report on how institutions can better support Multilingual Learners of English (MLE) as they pursue postsecondary pathways. The report highlights the importance of a culture of care, relationships within the college community, and the need for intentional opportunities for MLE students to connect with each other and the institution. It also highlights the challenges MLE students face, such as balancing life obligations with school, and the need for institutional leaders to provide support and guidance to ESL instructors.
- College Ready or Not? Engaging and Supporting English Language Learners in Higher Education This article illustrates the landscape of ELLs enrolled in institutions of higher education. It explores how ELL students are classified and how these different profiles intersect with the limited range and types of English as a Second Language (ESL) support available at the institutional level. The article explains the very limited practical knowledge base on ELLs in the college setting, with a summary of promising best practices for college faculty across disciplines to consider in their instruction.
- Listen to students sharing their perspectives on how institutions can better meet the needs of MLE students the following videos:
Multilingual Learners of English Discuss the Importance of a Culture of Care in Higher Ed
Multilingual Learners of English Discuss Pursuing their Postsecondary Goals
Multilingual Learners of English Discuss Balancing Life + Higher Education
- The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition gives educators access to webinars and workshops focused on ESL teaching strategies, research-based publications about effective ESL instruction and language acquisition, as well as information on policies, laws, and guidelines related to ESL education.
- TESOL offers an array of articles, research papers, and publications that cover topics such as lesson planning, language assessment, classroom management, and cultural competence. Additionally, TESOL provides a platform for teachers to connect through discussion forums, online communities, and networking opportunities.
- Using English (UE) offers relevant information that will benefit you and your students of all ages. UE is an easy-to-navigate site with several categories for teachers and students alike. It offers tests, quizzes, forums, English references, articles, tools and extensive material you can utilize.
- Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Listen Up! This online listening lab is the perfect resource for listening exercises. The audio listening exercises are organized by level of difficulty (easy, medium, difficult) and are listed by topic. Topic examples include “Clothing Styles,” “Car Rental,” “Breakfast Recipes” and “Friday Night Mishaps.” Each lesson includes a short audio clip (usually less than two minutes), a quiz, vocabulary activities, post-listening exercises and online investigations, which ask the student to research the topic further online.
- Barto and Muriel Saville-Troike. Introducing Second Language Acquisition: Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics. 3rd Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Beginning to work with Adult ELL's https://www.cal.org/caela/esl%5Fresources/digests/beginQA.html
- Burt et al. “Working with Adult English Language Learners with Limited Literacy: Research, Practice, and Professional Development”. Washington: Center for Applied Linguistics, 2008.
- Dong, Yu Ren. Teaching English Language Learners in Secondary Subject Matter Classes. 2nd Edition. North Carolina: Information Age Publishing, 2019.
- Hawkins and Henshaw. Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom. Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 2022.
- Language Experience Approach https://www.cal.org/caela/esl%5Fresources/digests/LEA.html
- Leith et al. “Teaching Mathematics & Language to English Language Learners”. The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 109, No. 9 (May 2016), pp. 670-678.
- Miller, Finn Susan. “Promoting Learner Engagement When Working with Adult English Language Learners”. Washington: Center for Applied Linguistics, 2010.
- Moore, Sarah Catherine K. “Uses of Technology in the Instruction of Adult English Language Learners”. Washington: Center for Applied Linguistics, 2009.
- Parrish, Betsy and Johnson, Kimberly. “Promoting Learner Transitions to Postsecondary Education & Work: Developing Academic Readiness Skills from the Beginning”. Washington: Center for