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English Language Learners

Enrich your students' learning by sharing these excellent English resources that they can check out in the classroom or on their own.

• Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon: Check out this lexicon that offers images demonstrating the true meaning of the word, making it easier for English language learners to understand.
• ManyThings: On this website you'll find many things, including: quizzes, word games, puzzles, and a random sentence generator to help students better grasp English as a second language.
• bab.la: Bab.la is a really fun site for ELL learners, with reference tools like a dictionary and vocabulary, supplemented with quizzes, games, and a community forum.
• ESL Basics: On this site, you'll find free English videos for both students and teachers
  English Pronunciation: Okanagan College's resource offers 13 different unit lessons for learning and teaching English pronunciation.
• BBC Learning English: In this website from the BBC, students can find help with grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, with plenty of references to current events. Plus, you'll find a special section for ELL teachers.
• ESL Gold: ESL Gold is, no joke, golden, with seemingly endless learning resources for English. Students can practice pronunciation, find a book to study, and even talk to someone in English on this site. Plus, teachers can find a job, search for textbooks, discover games, and so much more.
• Real English: Check out this free site for learning English, with loads of videos from real English speakers, plus quizzes and community support.
• Repeat After Us: In this online library, students can get access to a huge collection of English texts and scripted recordings.
• Google Translate: An awesome resource to use for simple translations, Google Translate can help your students see how its done and better understand translations between two or more languages.
• ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Direct your students to this ESL cyber listening lab with study guides, quizzes, and even teacher features.
• Vocabulix: This online tool is designed to help jumpstart students' vocabulary skills, with more than 90 vocabulary lessons, and the option to create lessons of your own.
• Wordsteps: Wordsteps makes it easy for students to build their own vocabulary collection, and even access their vocabulary through a mobile device for English language learning on the go.
• Freerice.com: this is a great website for students to practice and enhance their vocabulary as it experiment and practice with a variety of synonyms