EAP: English for Academic Purposes for Non-Native Speakers of English: Reading and Writing

Basic rules of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and writing numbers.

Tools to help you cite your sources correctly in APA, MLA, or Chicago style.

Grammar lessons with accompanying quizzes to check your understanding. Includes a glossary of grammar terms.

Covers use of capital letters, spelling rules, punctuation, sentence variety, peer editing, and plagiarism.

Resource pages and handouts for English language learners and teachers.

This resource is from the English for Academic Purposes Foundation on Academic Writing.

Reading exercises, learning strategies and quizzes to improve English reading comprehension.

English reading help including reading comprehension quizzes and tests, reading lesson plans, reading types and strategies.

Includes poetry, short stories with vocabulary and comprehension quizzes, and author biographies.

Practice activities in listening, writing, speaking, and life skills necessary for success at work and in the community. Click on the Practice English and Reading link for intermediate-level stories and activities.

Click on an idiom for a sample paragraph providing a definition of the idiom and an illustration of how it is used.

Definitions, sample sentences, etymology, and synonyms.

Contains over 250 of the best Internet resources for ESL students. All Web sites are clearly annotated. Organization is by skill area and language level. Select the Vocabulary link.

A picture dictionary for beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners.

Sound-integrated resources for 13 different languages (with a choice of 21 native language interfaces). Particularly helpful for vocabulary building and word pronunciation.

Spelling games and quizzes from Interesting Things for ESL Students

Wordnik is based on the principle that people learn words best by seeing them in context. We've collected more than 4 billion words of text (web pages, books, magazines, newspapers, etc.) and have mined them exhaustively to show you example sentences for any word you're interested in." Wordnik also features a thesaurus and a Word of the Day.

A dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initials.

Includes audio pronunciation guide, thesaurus, word games, and a Learner's Dictionary for ESL students.

When you know what something looks like but not what it’s called, the Visual Dictionary will help you match the word to the image.

A search engine for words and phrases, offering both definitions and translations. Indexes more than 900 online dictionaries.