• Pre-sessional Students
• By and For G.U. EFL Unit Students
• On-line language exercises and quizzes
• Grammar and Spelling
• Reading
• Writing
• Tests and Scores Required for Academic Study
• Dictionaries
• Chat/Discussion
• Useful Information
• IT tasks for students

Writing

• The On-line Writing Lab at Purdue University (USA). This site includes links to many useful writing resources for EFL students.
• Paragraphs and Topic Sentences: An excellent reference from Writing Tutorial Services at Indiana University Bloomington.
• The Topic Sentence: on-line handout from The University Writing Center at Texas Tech University.
• An Academic Writing Module: Paragraphs from the Language Learning Centre at the University of Victoria, Wellington, NZ. Please email the authors to let them know what you think of this 'beta' version.
• SignPosts:  Making an essay clear for the reader: words and phrases to clarify the stages of your essay (your arguments) (available only from within Glasgow University campus).
• Essays:Getting started, understanding the title, writing an outline, sample essays (available only within Glasgow University campus).
• Writing an Assignment:outlines, taking notes, referencing, sentences, giving opinions, tables and graphs, reporting verbs, summary and quotation, introductions and conclusions, bibliographies.
• Writing a Technical Essay:  Analysing the title, gathering information, organising information, FAQs on writing.

All Academic Skills & Language
Highly recommended materials on a range of academic skills and language:

• Using English for Academic Purposes: A Guide for International Students,
  http://www.uefap.co.uk, by Andy Gillet at the University of Hertfordshire: a complete course on Accuracy, Listening, Reading, Speaking, Vocabulary & Writing.
• Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Centre for Independent Language Learning,
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/: a range of tasks across the different skills (for a complete list of all exercises, go to: http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/exercises/)

Writing Assignments
Highly recommended for all aspects of academic assignment writing:

• English as a Foreign Language Unit, http://www.efl.arts.gla.ac.uk/Links.htm#writing, University of Glasgow: our own writing pages include:
  • SignPosts: Making an essay clear for the reader: words and phrases to clarify the stages of your essay (your arguments) (available only from within Glasgow University campus).
  • Essays: Getting started, understanding the title, writing an outline, sample essays (available only within Glasgow University campus).
  • Writing an Assignment: Outlines, taking notes, referencing, sentences, giving opinions, tables and graphs, reporting verbs, summary and quotation, introductions and conclusions, bibliographies.
  • Writing a Technical Essay: Analysing the title, gathering information, organising information, FAQs on writing
• Learning Lab at the Learning Skills Unit, RMIT University in Melbourne, http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/index.htm, on-line tutorials and printable summaries; excellent detailed material and practice activities for:
  • summarising, plagiarism, referencing & quotation - see under Study Skills and Writing
  • specific Assessment Tasks including reports, case studies & literature reviews
• Hong Kong University's English Centre contains very useful material particularly for writing:
  • Academic Grammar, http://ec.hku.hk/acadgrammar: detailed guidance and exercises on writing academic essays
  • Plagiarism and How to Avoid It, http://ec.hku.hk/plagiarism: the title speaks for itself!

Academic Listening & Presentations

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's English Language Centre's EAP pages have recordings of
  • student seminars and presentations; see under Audio-visual Materials, http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/eap/Audio-visual/default.htm
  • short lectures with transcripts; see Listening under Resources, http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/LanguageLearningResources/default.htm
• Using English for Academic Purposes: A Guide for International Students: Listening, http://www.uefap.co.uk/listen/listfram.htm (recommended above): a range of speeches, lectures and other listening texts with tasks.
• Conversations with History, at the University of California Berkeley's Institute of International Studies, http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/: recordings of interviews and lectures with a range of famous politicians, scholars, writers etc. from around the world (i.e. a range of different accents); includes tapescripts.

Dictionaries & Vocabulary

• Cambridge Dictionaries, http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=dictionary*1%2B0: searches in the dictionaries for Learners, Advanced Learners, Phrasal Verbs, Idioms and American English
• Longman Web Dictionary, http://www.longmanwebdict.com/: includes British and American English; the dictionary stays in the background even if you close the main site.
• iTools, http://www.itools.com/lang/: a collection of dictionaries and other language tools
• Academic Phrasebank, http://www.phrasebank.man.ac.uk/, by John Morley, University of Manchester: phrases for various functions in an academic text (e.g. describing methods).

Guides to Other Web Resources for Academic Study

• Central European University's Self-Access links: http://www.ceu.hu/writing/sfaccess.html
• RDN Virtual Training Suite, http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/: tutorials guiding you through resources for particular academic subjects.

Other Sites

• BBC Learning English, http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/, has a range of activities based around the BBC World Service news (the home BBC site at www.bbc.co.uk is also a huge source of information)
• Internet Grammar of English,
  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm: detailed explanations and exercises
• General activities on Grammar, Vocabulary etc.
  • E.L.Easton's English On-line: http://eleaston.com/materials.html
  • Internet TESL Journal's list of exercises: http://a4esl.org/
  • Flo-Joe practice exercises for the Cambridge Exams: http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/
• IELTS Exam: http://www.ielts.org/ and http://www.cambridgeesol.org/teach/ielts/index.cfm
  

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