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EXAM PREPARATION

IELTS Online

IELTS online resources have been updated.

TOEFL Online Preparation Information & Resources 

TOEFL online preparation resources have been updated.



NEW! TESOL COURSES FOR EFL, ESL STUDENTS

 

On-campus and online courses for EFL, ESL students

 

Please see page for how to contact us to ask for inclusion.

 

The M.A. in TESOL from Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University is available both on-campus and by distance learning. You can specialise in any of the following areas:

  • English for Academic Purposes

    Business English

  • E-Learning

 

STUDENT RESOURCES

Activities for Students from the Internet TESL Journal

TEFL News and Resources from the Guardian

Visit the Internet Public Library

  Check your English grammar rules - explanations and examples.

FREE ENGLISH LESSONS

Practise your listening & speaking

Practise your reading & vocabulary

 

Read the newspapers.


BUSINESS ENGLISH

Courses & Free resources

 

Award for providing outstanding resources: Web Award from Web English Teacher

 

 

Welcome to our academic online courses and free ESL, EFL, TESOL web resources.

 

Do you need interactive online academic courses and resources designed for students of English as a second language? Are you looking for good value? For excellence? Are you looking for distance learning online? Do you want to study at a university in the UK, in Australia, in Canada or the USA? You can use our courses to prepare you for entry - both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

We offer English work and home study direct from the UK with one of our excellent ESL/ EFL courses with a range of course options to suit your needs. All tutors are highly qualified and experienced. We offer exam preparation courses for IELTS and TOEFL and courses in English for University studies. We offer world class teaching at excellent prices.

 

NEWS: There's an interesting piece by George M. Chinnery, in the February, 2008 edition of Language Learning & Technology which explores the pedgogical uses of google for language learning. Have a look at: ON THE NET -You’ve Got some GALL: Google-Assisted Language Learning

 

Would you like to meet ESL/ELT teachers from round the world? For stories, news, conferences and a chance to chat, visit Search English, the British Council website.

 

COURSE UPDATE: We are still working on a complete revision and update of our resources to run on moodle  . We like moodle because it was designed for collaborative learning. 

 

Are you a student of English who needs extra help studying English? Are you looking for free ESL/ EFL online help?

You can learn English online using the best  free resources on the web - this is open distance learning in its truest sense. There are interactive English language exercises for reading, listening, writing, grammar. You can visit online libraries, read English newspapers, listen to English radio, watch English TV and  news videos, use the free translators and online dictionaries. Try the Student Resources on the left, or the TESOL Online Resource Centre with free ESL, EFL, ELT resources - see the box below.
  

Are you an ESL  teacher looking for online English teaching resources?

We offer links and guides for ESL or EFL tutors, information on professional associations, TESL, ELT and applied linguistics  journals and articles and sites that offer free interactive activities that are excellently produced. Click on the link in the TESOL Online Resource Centre box below. You can browse and buy ESL, ELT and applied linguistics books, too.  Check out new publications and reviews at one of the Amazon online bookshops (go via Amazon Associate box link at bottom of the page). Or visit the Online Medical English Centre.    

 

for students, for teachers, for researchers

 

TESOL ONLINE RESOURCE CENTRE

 

FREE RESOURCES for ESL, EFL,ELT, EAP, TESOL

 

updated March 2008

 

 

ESL, EFL, TESOL ONLINE RESOURCES FOR  TEACHERS





  

Link to 'TeAch-nology' - Wide range of sites for teachers

Do you need help with online course development for e-learning?

This is one of our special areas of expertise.  We have a list of experienced consultants recommended by English Study Direct.

 

CONFERENCES  

TESOL Calendar of Events


BUSINESS ENGLISH

Courses, materials and resources for students and teachers of academic and business English

Business English Resources

Study Business & Academic English on NG Berger's Homepage

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 best translators

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 at Free-Translator.com

Can't understand the English on this page? Don't worry - click on Free Translator & type in the url (or anything else you want to translate).


Bodleian, Oxford

UK & Oxford News from the BBC

Oxford Teachers' Club

Join the Oxford Teachers' Club - run by Oxford University Press. It's free to join.

                                      ART AND LITERATURE

We would like to congratulate Doris Lessing on being awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Her writing inspires.

And here are some exciting new pieces from African writers. This is a new writing magazine. Please have a look at African Writing Online

If you like art, have a look at Ajagap!

Look up a word! Try it. When you get there, click on one of the definitions for more info.

 

Cambridge Dictionaries Online   

Click here for more excellent online English dictionaries (with sound, practice exercises etc)


Click here to set this as your homepage - your own ESL web site.

 

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT WHAT MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES ARE DOING - YOU COULD HELP, TOO....

 
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