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WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH ONLINE
Visit our Computer Assisted Learning Lab (CALL) located in the Academic Support Center to start improving your English skills today.
Learning Express
Reading Writing Math Nursing more...
Learning Express Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
Try the ACT Writing Practice. Type an essay and have it scored immediately, or take a reading test in the Reading Skills Improvement section. Among the many other programs available are Math Skills Improvement and Nursing.
Just click on the words Learning Express above. Sign in as a new user the first time; you can use your name if you like. Create a password. After that, sign in as a returning user.
ACCUPLACER READING PRACTICE WEBSITES
Compiled by Professor L. Schrank
1. http://college.hmco.com/devenglish/resources/reading_ace/students
2. www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/AssessCtr/studyguide.htm
3. www.lee.edu/counseling/accuplacer_test.pdf
4. http://wcb.neit.edu/asc/prctctst.htm
5. www.oso-okmulgee.edu/academics/forms/pretest_reading.pdf
6. www.brookdalecc.edu/fac/reading/mhurley/questions/Instructions.htm
7. http://wcb.neit.edu/asc/readprc1.htm
8. www.testpreview.com/modules/readingvocabulary.htm
9. http://wcb.neit.edu/asc/readprc2.htm
10. www.testpreview.com/modules/reading1.htm
11. www.testprepreview.com/modules/readingmainidea.htm
12. www.testpreview.com/modules/readingtest2.htm
13. Manatee Community College Reading Form B
14. Manatee Community College Reading Form C
ESL GRAMMAR LINKS
compiled by C. Davis and C. Williams
Interactive Grammar Exercises
http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/grammar/grammar.htm
Verb Tense Practice
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html
http://www.everydayenglish.com/navpage.htm
English Interactive Quizzes
http://www.englishquizzes.prv.pl
http://www.eslcafe.com/students
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
ESL READING PRACTICE
compiled by C. Williams
Practice your English and have fun with these interactive animated quizzes. Answer the questions and then scroll back to the top to see how many you got right.
http://home.nordnet.fr/~rmaufroid/pupitre/houses/inthekitchen.htm
Reconstruct the paragraphs by putting the lines in proper order and then read the completed paragraph at the bottom of the screen.
http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/reading/voa/index.htm
ESL WEBSITE
This website has songs, quizzes, stories, games and more to help you practice reading, speaking, and understanding English.
CITATION STYLES
compiled by C. Williams
Color Coded Citation - Long Island University
http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citation.htm
The Landmark Project's Citation Machine
Harvard Reference Generator
http://www.neilstoolbox.com/bibliography-creator/index.htm
READ THE NEWS
It is advisable that all college students read the news everyday. For students taking English Skills or ESL classes, reading the news will not only help to improve your reading, but help you with your writing as well. Indeed, an important aspect of being a good reader and writer is knowledge of developments locally, in the U.S. and around the world.
Rockland County News: The Journal News
New York Metro Area News: WNBC.com
National News: USA Today
The BBC site also has wonderful tools for ESL students. Click on Learning English on the site's left navigational box.
IMPROVE YOUR LISTENING SKILLS
Compiled by C. Davis and C. Williams
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Indian Proverb
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
Listening Activities for ESL Students
Interactive Listening Exercises - Listen and then type what you hear.
http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/precoce/stories/storiesindex.htm
http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/herethere/index.htm
English Dictations - Listen and then write what you hear. Check your work when you finish the passage.
http://www.fonetiks.org/dictations
Audio Concentration Games
American English Pronunciation Practice - Quizzes, Songs, Poems, and more
Listening - Phrases for Conversation
http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/phrases.html
Listen and Read Along - Famous Speeches
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
English as a Second Language Podcast
Phonetics: The Sounds of American English
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/english_main.html
TYPING TUTORIALS
IMPROVE YOUR MOUSE SKILLS
http://departments.oxy.edu/ITS/help/software/computing_basics/mouse.html
http://tech.tln.lib.mi.us/tutor/welcome.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/computertutor/computertutorone
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