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List of links to resources online for teaching pronunciation, phonetics or phonology. Emphasis on ESOL.

Database of freely available interactive online exercises for studying English grammar. Can search for grammar activities by grammar point, difficulty level or activity type. Useful for ESL/EFL study as well as for native speaking writing students. Can sign up for free log in to track your use, or just use the VGL without signing in.

A collection of lesson plans and materials for teaching speech acts/pragmatics. Focuses on English, but ideas could be applied to other languages.

The International Corpus of Learner English (Version 2) is a corpus of writing by higher intermediate to advanced learners of English. It contains 3.7 million words of EFL writing from learners representing 16 different mother tongue backgrounds (Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Tswana). It differs from the first version published in 2002 not only by its increased size and range of learner populations, but also by its interface, which contains two new functionalities: built-in concordancer allowing users to search for word forms, lemmas and/or part-of-speech tags and breakdown of the query results according to the learner profile information.

This web journal is dedicated to publishing research in the fields of TESOL and Applied Linguistics. We encourage readers to sign up for the publishing notification service for this journal.

This site provides access to a corpus of over 900 text samples gathered from test subjects at Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, in 2006 and 2007. Twenty-one subjects provide a completely correlated corpus in which each subject provided their opinion in each of six predetermined topics in each of six genres: blog, chat, discussion, email, essay, and interview. We hope this corpus will be useful to researchers in the fields of natural language processing and computational linguistics.

Gives widgets to add to your website with a word of the day in various languages, including audio, translation in English, example sentences and additional info about the word.

The Generation 1.5 project was launched in 2006 by a small group of researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) English Language Institute (ELI). We are collecting texts from writers who are just starting their academic careers at the university, specifically 1st and 2nd year undergraduates, who speak a variety of Korean or Chinese at home. Ultimately, the aim of this data collection is to provide an empirical basis for developing recommendations for writing/language instruction specialized for the Generation 1.5 group.

The Text Machine is an application that allows instructors to correct, mark up, comment on, and grade electronic writing assignments. The TM generates rich, detailed, error-specific feedback on essays, compositions, term papers and other written work, all with the click of a mouse. At the same time, your software manages crucial data on students' writing abilities, making the Text Machine an indispensable tool for the assessment of learning objectives.

Improve your listening skills and hear about the news. Listen-and-write.com is free listening practice. Users can create and use dictation exercises and track their scores