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English as a Second Language (ESL)

LINCS English as a Second Language Special Collection
maintained by California Literacy, Inc. (in partnership with Laubach Literacy Action, Western/Pacific LINCS, and World Education, Inc.)

Classroom Activities

• Internet TESL Journal 

• Teaching the World English

• ESL Magazine 

• Practice Forms Online and in Print Form

• Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
  Divide the class into two teams. This game offers practice listening and practice answering questions.

   

Instructional Resources

• Practitioner Toolkit:  Working with Adult English Language Learners: This toolkit provides the needed support and resources to adult education and family literacy instructors who are new to serving adults and families learning English. The toolkit provides a variety of materials to help practitioners meet the language and literacy development needs of the ELL students they serve. These include responses to Frequently Asked Questions, a first-day orientation guide, lesson plans, research-to-practice papers on English language and literacy learning, and an annotated list of English and Spanish language assessments in use.

• CAELA Resource Collections:  Assessment and Evaluation in Adult ESL, Learning Disabilities and Adult ESL, Second Language Acquisition, What Beginning Teachers and Tutors of Adult English Language Learners Need to Know

• Literacy- and Beginning-Level Texts for English Language Learners This annotated bibliography describes some of the books commonly used with literacy and beginning level adult English language learners. Most have a few brief comments about the content, aims, and lay-out of the texts. They are grouped by publisher.

• Publishers of Adult ESL Materials
  This list consists of publishers who produce materials appropriate for the adult ESL context, including teacher resource and professional development books and student textbooks. An overview of the types of publications offered, titles of popular texts, and complete contact information for each publisher is provided.

• Annotated List of CAELA Publications
  This annotated and topically arranged overview of selected publications from CAELA can help individual teachers and staff developers decide what may be most helpful to them.

• Online Resources for Promoting Cultural Understanding in the Adult ESL Classroom
  Teachers can use this annotated collection of online resources as they work to promote cultural understanding in the adult ESL classroom. Resources include NCLE publications, lesson plans and instructional materials, background on specific cultures and cultural groups, and information on topics such as intercultural communication, tolerance, and trauma.

• Bibliographies and Annotated Bibliographies
  CAELA staff often compile bibliographies and annotated bibliographies of resources on topics and issues in adult ESL. Unlike the resource collections, these bibliographies focus on more traditional published materials such as journal articles, books, and research reports that may or may not be available on the Web.

  • Program Standards in Adult ESL

  • Content Standards in Adult ESL

  • Health Literacy for Adult English Language Learners

  • Second Language Acquisition in Adult English Language Learners

  • Dialogue Journals: Published Works about Dialogue Journal Research and Use

  • An Annotated Bibliography of Reading Research

  CAELA also provides annotated bibliographies of materials specifically available in the ERIC database. You can view the topics of the annotated bibliographies on the CAELA publications page.
   

• The Holiday Zone  Welcome to The Holiday Zone -- your one-stop resource for free holiday and seasonal educational activities. Click on the icons below to find free learning resources for all of your favorite winter holidays including learning games, language activities, writing prompts, songs, action rhymes, finger plays, printable worksheets, flash cards, word walls, puzzles, coloring pages, arts and crafts, ELL resources, and other winter fun.
   

• a4esl.org Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL).This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. multi-level grammar, vocabulary, and exercises

• answers.com (dictionary with translations in all languages)

• Dave’s ESL Café (idioms, slang, phrasal verbs, quizzes, flashcards, and chat)

• bbc.co.uk/skillswise/ (great site for writing, quizzes, and reading)

• Better English Lessons (free weekly online English lessons)

• cdponline.org (reading, video and exercises)

• ego4u.com (grammar, vocabulary, test, business communication, etc.)

• englishlearner.com (grammar, vocabulary, reading, exercises, and tests)

• englishpage.com  (presentation of all verb tests)

• english-to-go.com (For teachers and students of the world)

• esl.about.com

• esljunction.com (conversation starters)

• eslpartyland.com (multi-level quizzes, lessons, discussions, and chat)

• ezslang.com (Reduce your accent, speak more naturally, and understand conversational speech)

• slangsite.com (A dictionary of slang, webspeak, made up words, and colloquialisms.)

• freewebs.com (weekly themes, websites, conversation starters)

• Top 50 Resources for ESL Teachers (practice in listening, reading/writing, grammar, civics, games, and more)

• Hyper-dictionary: a new kind of dictionary, where related words are linked together in a hypertext, so that readers can easily surf on the English language.)

• idiomsite.com (common idioms)

• ClichéSite.com has amassed a list of over 2100 clichés, euphemisms, sayings and figures of speech complete with definitions and explanations.

• languageguide.org (picture dictionary; 100 language combinations)

• learnenglish.britishcouncil.org (grammar logic)

• leo.stcloudstate.edu (more verb work, exercises)

• lousywriter.com (Learn how to write better; grammar, etc.)

• manythings.org (word games, quizzes, exercises, proverbs)

• The Perdue Online Writing Lab (rules for grammar)

• starfall.com (systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice)

• Picture Dictionary (beginner sites-also great for kids)

• usingenglish.com (reading comprehension, grammar & quizzes)

• ESL Lounge  

• Intelecom's Crossroads Cafe

• Randall’s ESL Cyber -Lab

• Language Acquisition (Learn about stages)

• 100 Best Resources and Guides for ESL Teachers

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Free ESL Online Classes

• U.S.A. Learns

• Learn English Online

• Learn English British Council

• Beginning English

• English - Online

 

Lesson Plans

 

The Library of ESL Lesson Plans

The materials in this Virtual Library of Lesson Plans are for ESL instructors to use and/or adapt in their classroom teaching. Most of the materials were developed and tested in North Carolina community colleges under the sponsorship of EL/CIVICS grants. The originating schools and organizations have provided them in electronic form for inclusion in this library. These materials should not be sold or published, in whole or in part. Users are expected to abide by copyright law and by any membership requirements for cited web sites.

 

An Introduction to the NC ESL Curriculum Guide

This online tutorial is designed to introduce you to the North Carolina ESL Curriculum Guide, 2nd Edition and help you to integrate the lessons into your instructional delivery.  The tutorial includes guidance on instructional planning and assessment and a wealth of online ESL resources.

• Tennessee ESOL Curriculum Resource Book

• Florida 6 levels of ESL Curriculum

• OR ESL Family  Literacy Curriculum

• Worksheets for ESL

• Worksheets II for ESL

• Absolute Beginner English - 20 Point Program

• 130 Short ESL Lessons

• REEP ESL Curriculum

Breaking News English
EFL/ESL English Lesson Plans & Podcast for studying Current Events and News. Keep up with the news and learn English - Reading, Writing, Listening & Speaking.
 

Student Activities

• Interesting Things for ESL Students

• Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab

• ESLhome  Student Page

• California Distance Learning Project

• The English Club

• Ohio ESL Activities

• Interactive Student Activities

• Business English Exercises

 

Tests for English

• Free-TOEFL

• ESL - Student Test page 

• ESL Test - Wordskills

• ESL Blues Diagnostic Quiz (Intermediate)

• ESL Exercises and Online Tests

 

Icebreakers

• Inter-activities for the Adult ESOL Classroom