Tutorials

Tutorials

Resources
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Many of the teachers that we talked to mentioned the need for access to online tutorials. They wanted their ESL students to be able to work independently by utilizing online resources.

These are some of the most helpful online quizzes, activities, and tutorials that we have found in our research:

Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes
This site is a collection of over 1,000 quizzes and activities. They are for beginning to intermediate level students. The quizzes cover many different areas of grammar.

Interesting Things for ESL Students
http://www.manythings.org/
Many teachers that we researched mentioned that they would like to see a website from which the student is able to access and work independently. This site offers quizzes, word games, word puzzles, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator, and other study materials. All of these activities are completely interactive and would be endlessly useful for the English learner; however, for a student to use the interactive quizzes, the teacher would first have to download the Flash Player plug-in. The Flash Player is free and does not take very long to download.

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
http://www.esl-lab.com/
This site offers listening quizzes for all levels of language acquisition. The student can listen to a conversation and then take a quiz on the conversation. The listening stories are on several different topcs that are geared toward the level of student listening. The listening samples include several different media such as answering machine, telephone call, radio broadcast, etc.

eViews - Listening activities and lesson plans for English students
http://www.eviews.net/
This website would be an excellent source for teachers who wish to have a way for their ESL students to be able to listen to authentic native English-speakers speaking and pronouncing English words and phrases correctly. It also has links to ESL lesson plans. There are over 50 exercises in the site's library with new exercises and activities added every month. Students can listen to what native English speakers are saying and read their words at the same time. Real Audio and MP3 is required to listen.

English American Style
http://www.eslamerican.com/default.htm
This is a new interactive site which allows the user to review, learn, and practice English online. There are over 40 different tutorials, 160 exercises, and over 5,000 items. And, it's all free!