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WEBSITES FOR STUDENTS
In this section you can find different websites that you can use to improve your skills as a learner. There is the link of each website so you can go and check it out , there is also and a brief description of what you can find there.
Level: All levels
Target audience: Young adults and adult learners
Type of activities: Writing tips
Whether you are an attorney, manager or student, writing skills are essential to your success. The rise of the information age – with the proliferation of emails, blogs and social networks – makes the ability to write clear and correct English more important than ever.
Daily Writing Tips is about that. Every day they publish a new article, with topics ranging from grammar to punctuation, from spelling to usage and vocabulary.
Level: All levels
Target audience: Young adults and adult learners
Type of activities: Writing practice
Addressed to ESL and EFL learners of all levels, this website provides a numerous set of links wherein students can improve their writing skills not only through reading countless pieces of advice, but also with rather useful and accessible free practice. Exercises on sentence structure, vocabulary and punctuation are some examples on what one can have access by surfing on this site. What is more, several links with concern to guides for academic writing and styles are offered here as well, each one of them with its respective short and straight description for you to know what is ahead in your search.
Level: From intermediate to advanced
Target audience: Young adults and adult learners
Type of activities: listening, grammar, vocabulary and writing practice, exercises…
Gallaudet is an excellent site to visit if you are looking forward to improving your skills; you can find here tips in order to achieve that. It is well-organized and provides the majority of the content you need to practice and improve your English by yourself. It is designed for young learners and adults who are interested in topics such as global warming, job hunting, etc. The purpose of each section is clearly explained. It promotes learning English through compelling information to keep motivated learners, as opportunities for practicing the skills in different subjects. The font is ideal and the site is not very colorful, it is perfect for the purpose for which the site was created. Moreover, this site includes information about the University itself.
Level: From intermediate to advanced
Target audience: Young adults and adult learners
Type of activities: Academic writing
Online Writing Lab (OWL) will help you with the writing process: pre-writing, developing research questions and outlines, composing thesis statements, and editing. Moreover, OWL will assist you with the developing of your academic writing skills as well as the understanding and completion of specific types of writing assignments, such as annotated bibliographies, book reports, and research papers. Not being enough, this website counts on a direct practice for its users in spelling, numbering, sentence style, sentence structure, grammar and punctuation through which your writing skill may gain quite a significant enhancement.
Level: From intermediate to advanced
Target audience: Young learners, students and teachers
Type of activities: video creator
PowToon is a tool to design and create content that is visually engaging, captivating and fun to make.
Level: From intermediate to advanced
Target audience: Young adults and adult learners
Type of activities: Writing activities, spelling practice and sentence construction.
RMIT's Learning Lab is a useful Australian website addresses to English-speaking people in general. It is designed specifically to improve your general academic study, wherein the paramount writing skill is included indeed. Through the usage of interactive tutorials and accessible and printable handouts, RMIT users can have access to the essential writing skills needed in tertiary study. Just by using the navigation bar on the left, you can have at hand different types of tasks including the practice of spelling, sentence construction, paragraphs writing and academic style among others.
Level: Upper Intermediate
Target audience: Teenager and adult students
Type of activities: Vocabulary activities
Utilizing slang is an essential skill needed to function in today’s society. Not only does slang occur in everyday social interactions, it is also used in classrooms by peers and professors. By teaching slang in the classroom, we can prepare our students for real world situations. If you are a teacher and you want to work on how to teach American Slangs, this web page is for you.
Level: From intermediate to advanced
Target audience: Young adults and adult learners
Type of activities: Books to read
The Gutenberg Project is a web page specially design to find a variety of books that includes a range of categories such as music, education, plays, languages and so on. If you are a fan of reading a lot of books, this web page is for you!
Level: From intermediate to advanced
Target audience: Young adults and adult learners
Type of activities: Academic writing.
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER’S webpage counts on a section where you will find a set of advice on what you can do to develop your writing through focusing on the needs of your readers and thinking about how your thesis ought to communicate what it is really meant to. Guidance and instruction from the most basic information to take on board to detailed instruction on how to write appropriately can be obtained here.
Level: Pre-intermediate to advance.
Target audience: Young adults and adult learners
Type of activities: Talkgroups
http://www.voxopop.com/
Voxopop talkgroups are a fun, engaging and easy-to-use way to help students develop their speaking skills. They're a bit like message boards, but use voice rather than text and a have a specialised user interface. No longer confined to a physical classroom, teachers and students of oral skills can interact from home, or even from opposite sides of the planet!
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