5 Good Apps for ESL / ELL Students

There are plenty of flashcard services on the web that students can use for rote practice of vocabulary words. The following five apps offer...

English Monstruo - Apps & Games for Learning Verb Conjugation

English Monstruo is a free app ( iPad and Android versions available) containing eight games designed to help students learn verb conjugat...

Phrasalstein - A Fun App for Learning Phrasal Verbs

Phrasalstein, developed at Cambridge University, is a great iPad app and Android app designed to help students learn the meanings of phras...

Turn-O-Phrase Helps Students Learn About Colloquial Phrases

Turn-O-Phrase is a simple game of identifying colloquial phrases from a set of two pictures. Depending upon which level you try there may o...

Kids Wordsmyth - An Illustrated Dictionary for Kids

Kids Wordsmyth is a great visual dictionary that I learned about through Kelly Tenkely's excellent blog, iLearnTechnology . On Kids Wor...

The Playground of Mathematics - Math Practice in 13 Languages

There is certainly no shortage of mathematics practice sites available on the web. The Playground of Mathematics is one of those sites that...

Listen Edition and Socrative Combine to Offer Audio-based Lessons

Listen Edition is a service that organizes lessons around public radio stories. The stories are made available through recordings on Listen...

Lingualy Helps You Learn a Language While Browsing the Web

Lingualy is a free Google Chrome extension designed to help you learn a new language while browsing the web. With Lingualy installed anytim...

engVid - 500+ Free English Video Lessons

engVid is a free service that has produced more than 500 video lessons to help viewers learn to speak and write English. Eight instructors ...

10 Good Sites & Apps for Learning a New Language

Last summer I took a short trip to Iceland. Before I went I tried to learn a couple of phrases (I wasn't terribly successful, my mouth j...

Vocabla - Learn English and Spanish

Vocabla is a service for learning English, Spanish, and Polish vocabulary. The service can be used online or with the free iPhone and Andro...

Five Good Feeds for ELA and ELL Teachers

Earlier this week I shared five good feeds for mathematics teachers and five good feeds for history teachers . These lists were born out of...

Road to Grammar - Hundreds of Grammar Practice Quizzes

Road to Grammar is a free resource featuring quizzes, games, and lessons for English language learners. Visitors to Road to Grammar will f...

Study Stream - Language Learning Videos and Exercises

Study Stream is a new service for learning to read and speak Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese. Study Stream takes an interesting ...

11 Foreign Language Resources to Try in 2011

Yesterday's list of 11 good resources to try in 2011 featured health and physical education resources . Last week I featured 55 other go...

iMendi - A Simple Language Learning App

iMendi is a new site, parts of it are still in development, for learning the basic vocabulary of English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Czech. T...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - Immersion

This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is Immersion . Immersion is a short film (12 minutes) that illustrates the challenges ESL/EL...

Repeat After Us - Online Language Lab

Repeat After Us is an online library of copyright-free English texts and audio recordings. The purpose of Repeat After Us is to provide ESL...

Road to Grammar - 365 Grammar Quizzes

Road to Grammar is a free resource featuring quizzes, games, and lessons for English language learners. Visitors to Road to Grammar will f...

Voxy - Learn a Language from Life

Voxy is an interesting approach to helping ESL students learn English. Voxy uses current articles from world news, pop culture, and sports...