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Carolyn Ralston ESL Instructor |
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ESL WEB SITES
General Sites The ESL Department publishes a student Web site with material for all ESL students. You'll find links to helpful Internet sources for practice in reading, writing, grammar, and listening/speaking. This site also has information about the ESL Department and SCC services. Here is the link: http://scc.losrios.edu/~langlit/esl Professor Judi Keen has created a useful annotated guide to ESL Web sites: http://web.scc.losrios.edu/keenj/ Web sites for ESL R310
1. The New York Times Learning Network News summaries, lessons, issues in depth, and more. Geared for grades 6-8 and 9-12. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html 2. Free access to the text of 18,000 books in the public domain. Searchable database, freedown loads. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page 3. Using English for Academic Purposes Numerous exercises in reading skills: the structure of texts, purposes of reading, reading strategies, and more. http://www.uefap.com/reading/readfram.htm 4. Affixes, searchable list: http://www.bartleby.com/64/83.html 5. Word Forms: esl.about.com/od/vocabularyadvanced/a/a_wordforms1.htm http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~esl-rc/HTML/grammar/exmenu_word.html 6. Vocabulary: General Service List: jbauman.com/gsl.html Academic Word List: www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/research/awl/frequent.html 7. Parts of Speech sites: http://www.rong-chang.com/ex/contents.htm http://www.englishpage.com/grammar/Adjectives/Exercises/ http://a4esl.org/ ice age: migrations: http://arkarcheology.uark.edu/indiansofarkansas/index.html?pageName=Origins:%20Ice%20Age%20Migrations Web Sites for W310
1. OWL http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ 2. “Guide to Writing a Basic Essay” gives you a step-by-step guide to writing essays: http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay 3. “Guide to Grammar and Writing”: grammar and writing exercises from easy sentence-level writing/grammar to more advanced exercises in essay writing. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/. Web sites for research documentation: 1. A guide for writing research papers, including MLA documentation. From Capital Community College, Hartford, CT. Good explanations of the reseach writing process and specifics on how to use quotations and how to format a Works Cited page and format in-text citation. http://wwwold.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml 2. Various online reference resources: dictionary, encyclopedia, www.bartleby.com 3. MLA Documentation Style: color-coded examples. http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citmla.htm 4. http://eslbee.com/compcont.htm 5. http://english.colstate.edu/writingcenter/resources/types_essays.htm Web sites for ESL G310 1. English in Context http://gocsm.net/sevas/review/index.html
An excellent resource based on the Azar grammar books. Select "Lessons" for explanations and "Grammar" for practice exercises. 2. University of Victoria, English Language Centre Study Zone http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm Good explanations of how verb tenses are formed and used. From the home page, choose level 330 or 410, then choose “grammar.” If exercises won’t open, try finding the site from a Google search for the verb tense you want to study. 3. englishpage http://www.englishpage.com/index.html Explains most verb tenses and presents exercises that can be quite difficult. Use the left menu on the home page to get to a grammar topic. Has flashcard exercises at various levels for learning irregular verbs. Also covers modals. 4. OWL http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ No exercises, but has handouts with basic explanations of grammar (search in esl section) and an Internet search window. 5. ESL Blues http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/trouindx.htm Flash quizzes are an entertaining way to learn the past irregular verbs. For other quizzes, go to "past tenses" on the sub-index and select "intermediate" or "intermediate to high intermediate" level. 6. Intensive English Institute http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/programs_index.html A University of Illinois site for advanced students. Use the search function from the home page to find alternate explanations of grammar topics. Some exercises have the answers at the bottom of the page, but others are limited to students in the program. 7. English Club http://www.englishclub.com/ ; (or Google “English club esl”) Simplified explanations of how tenses work. Click “Grammar” under “English Lessons on the left menu, then choose “Tenses” under “Hot Links. "Web Sites" Sacramento
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