English as a Second Language
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Internet Sites
- About.com > English as 2nd Language
- Activities for ESL/EFL Students
- Dave's ESL Cafe - Comprehensive site that includes Business English and icebreakers
- FreeTranslation - Links to free dictionaries, translators (including web page translators) and language courses
- English as a Second Language - Links to dictionaries such as the Encarta World English Dictionary where you can click on a word and hear it pronounced
- English Club
- Heinle's Newbury House Dictionary of American English - Simple, clear definitions and sample sentences
- Howjsay.com: An English Pronouncing Dictionary with Instant Sound
- Phonetics: the Sounds of Spoken Languages - American English, German, and Spanish
- Purdue University Online Writing Lab > ESL Resources, Handouts and Exercises for Students and Teachers
- Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students
- TOEFL Online - Official web site for Test of English as a Foreign Language
- USALearns - Practice reading, writing, and speaking English
Articles: Indexes and Full Text
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
- WilsonSelectPlus
Print Sources
- To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
- English language--study and teaching--foreign speakers
- Readers for new literates
- Keyword
- ESL
OCC Departmental Web Pages
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See also: Languages
This page is maintained by
Mary Ann Nagler and was last updated on
3/24/09.
