The aim of this site is to help international students improve their English for academic study at the University of Nottingham. Good for independent learning.
Oxford University is providing OER podcasts under a Creative Commons licence, free for reuse and redistribution in education and research. The OpenSpires project focuses on what makes Oxford unique: world-class academics presenting research-led content.
Universed is an internet resource designed to promote modern language learning and celebrate international culture for secondary school pupils and for any other inquisitive person.
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.
The advice files listed here by category answer the kinds of questions that University of Toronto students ask about their written assignments. Most were created by writing instructors here-people who are familiar with U of T expectations. But you will also find links to good advice from other institutions under Further Resources.
Fun classroom activities, How to use Audacity, how to use Voxopop, ideas for songs for teaching. Also a call for articles from teachers! This is a new webzine for language teachers worldwide. It
has an emphasis on practical teaching ideas with a global/
universal appeal. The aim is to provide an counterbalance to
the largely Eurocentric cultural bias of many the materials
available today.
These are based on Paul Nation's Vocabulary Profiler, developed at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and adapted by Tom Cobb at UQAM Canada. This section contains a Frequency Analyser and a Vocabulary Profiler.