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...

Plural Words, A Silent "B," and the History of English

English is a tricky language. Silent letters and quirky rules about plural and possessive words will trip up native speakers as well as ESL ...

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...

Try Word Hippo for Definitions, Antonyms, Translations, and More

Word Hippo is a nice little tool that students can use to find definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and translations for words. The service als...

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 ...

22 Frames - News Videos for ESL Students

Last week I published 5 Good Places for Students To Learn About the News . In response to that post I received a few emails from people look...

Get Help With Name Pronunciation from Hear Names

Hear Names provides guides for pronouncing names. On Hear Names you will find recordings of native speakers pronouncing given names and s...

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...

Verbling - Learn a New Language in a Google+ Hangout

Verbling is a language learning service that launched back in July. When it launched its purpose was to match native speakers of Spanish a...

Using SoundCloud in a Language Course

SoundCloud is a free tool for creating and sharing sound tracks. On Monday I included it in my list of alternatives to Aviary . Today, I sh...

Spin the Wheel of Irregular Verbs

The MacMillan Dictionary has a fun game that students can play to practice identifying the various forms of a verb. The Irregular Verb Wheel...

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...