Generally Useful EAP sites:


RMIT University Study Skills - A fantastic resource with tutorials for a range of writing and academic skills. One not to miss!


UEfAP: An excellent site for students studying academic English.

Nottingham University – Self Access Centre: Has a range of excellent resources and exercises for academic English

University of Victoria – ELC – Study Zone: Another site with many, many interactive exercises helpfully arranged by level.

Essay map: This is a useful tool for learning how essays can be planned, as it shows how paragraphs should be developed. 

Thesis Builder for persuasive essays by Tom March: a very interesting tool for making a thesis statement for essays and understanding how essays are structured.

English for Students- Social letters: You will find here some of the standard letter writing conventions with a wide range of sample letters.

Reading

Eyercize: A good site to help you with speed reading, exercise for the eyes, similar to Eye Q the program to teach you speed reading. But free!

Zap reader: Another great web based program to get your eyes used to moving at a faster speed and therefore to improve your reading speed.

Natural reader: Will read your text out loud at changeable speeds for learners who are struggling with English reading and pronunciation.

Shaks.ws: Another interesting site to practise your speed reading

ESL bits: Excellent general reading resources with different question types

Google News Timeline: Allows you to read news connected stories related to a topic of your choice

BBC Learning English – Words in the News: A superb selection of news stories with vocabulary explained and audio script

Vocabulary

Academic Word List from Nottingham University: The academic word list is a compiled from an analysis of the most common words used across a range of academic subjects. This site gives an excellent introduction to it and has a good range of exercises too. The first place to look when studying academic vocabulary.

UEFAP Vocabulary: This links to the General service list, the academic word list and subject specific lists of useful vocabulary. It offers word families and links to the Cambridge dictionary. Choose 'selection' to go straight to the word lists.

Academic Word List exercises: This is another excellent AWL site with several interactive exercises.

Flo Joe Word Bank: A set of daily activities to improve vocabulary (comes in 3 levels)

Verbalearn: Vocabulary learning website where you can build your own wordlist

Just The Word: This is an excellent tool for improving your vocabulary: it shows you good word combinations – vital.

Dictionaries

Wordnik:  Interesting new concept dictionary that offers a range of information, check it out.

Macmillan Online Dictionary:   A good on-line dictionary. The benefit of this dictionary is that all the words in the definitions are hyper-linked.


Collins on-line dictionary: Offers an on-line dictionary and thesaurus as well as a cobuild dictionary offering definitions suitable for ESL learners. 


Cambridge Online Dictionary: Another truly excellent and wholly free online dictionary. The benefit of this dictionary is that it has both an advanced and a learners’ dictionary. Also offers the British pronunciation of new words.

Visuwords: If you are a visual thinker, this dictionary/thesaurus will be great for you.

Answers.com: A great resource for finding out answers to questions, as well as vocabulary synonyms, thesaurus, pronunciation and the word in your language. Also links to a visual thesaurus

Speaking

Passport to English: Here you can find a high quality series of 3 sample speaking videos with transcripts to download.

Academic Listening

BBC learning English Academic listening: Excellent listening practice based on learning skills for foreign students in the UK. 

Pronunciation

English Central: Here you can practice by listening to videos and recording yourself.

Cambridge animated pronunciation: If you are familiar with the phonemic chart , this is a very useful site that gives you practice on making the correct sounds in English.

Grammar

ESL about: If you are looking for a site to help you with grammar, this might be the first stop.

Cloze test creator: This could be filed under vocabulary or reading as well. It is a fantastic resource for checking your vocabulary/grammar/reading.

Referencing  


Anglis Ruskin University Harvard Referencing Guide: A very useful guide to Harvard referencing with hyper linked examples for every kind of source material imaginable.

Reading critically 

Reading Univeristy advice on reading critically: This site goes over the questions you should ask yourself when using sources, and links to some tutorials and sources of information on Reading Critically, and judging internet sources.


Presentations

BBC learning English Presentations: This site gives some very useful language for presentations, and offers dialogues as well as listening. Excellent for developing natural intonation for the different parts of the presentation.

Academic presentations Video: This is a video that shows the basic structure of an academic presentation. I use it to give an overview in all of my EAP courses. I recommend watching it at the beginning of a course at the end of a course, and before you give a presentation!


(This site is a work in Progress, feel free to contribute useful sites for Studying English at University by emailing me, or by leaving a URL in the comment boxes provided )

Study Skills


Cornell University study skills: Useful downloads on time management, speed reading, note taking and management.

Dartmouth College study skills videos: Excellent videos on time management and note taking, also features how to improve reading, and stress management.

English for academic purposes University of South Hampton: Some useful links to skills for academic purposes.

Eap links: A site with a range of useful links to EAP websites around the world. Covers most of the skills. Mainly focused on EAP skills.

New directions in education


New Horizons for learning Website dedicated to new techniques in teaching and learning now supported by John Hopkins University school of Education

John Hopkins school of education New Horizons



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