This page contains links to sources of information and activities of interest to students of the English language. They were selected mainly to meet the needs of those learning or teaching English as a second language. Can you recommend an appropriate site to add to the list? If so, please send in its URL.
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Charles Kelly's Home Page

Charles Kelly of Aichi Institute of Technology maintains this page of activities, information, and links. There's a lot of fun to be had while learning English here.

Common Errors in English by Paul Brians

Professor Brians writes, "The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak". The site consists of a list of grammatical errors with commentary, and is really intended for American university students. Bear in mind that rules and taboos are often subject to contradiction, and in any case may become outdated. When millions of people keep making a grammatical error, the error tends to become standard usage.

Corpus Linguistics

Michael Barlow, a well-known writer and publisher in the field of corpus linguistics and the author of MonoConc, one of the most popular concordancing software programs, maintains this comprehensive page of links.

E. L. Easton

"Materials for teaching and learning". This site is for both ESL teachers and learners. You'll find information about various subjects including holidays and geography, as well as English and many other languages. It includes a collection of quizzes that you can use to test yourself. To go directly to that page, follow this link: http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html

Internet TESL Journal

Here, the emphasis is on teaching ESL. Advanced learners may find it interesting as a means of understanding what teachers are trying to accomplish!

Learn English 4 Free Online

This site is based in Russia. The proprietor writes, "Visit our English Learner Forum and Chat to improve your English. Try a test, laugh at the jokes, read the news, sign up for our newsletter. Visit it today!"

Linguistic Funland

"The Linguistic Funland was created in 1994 as a list of various linguistics links on a personal homepage. Then a graduate student in linguistics, the author began to accumulate a list of resources that soon grew out of a single page and into this directory."

Rikai: Read English!

Todd David Rudick's amazing site applies an English-Japanese dictionary to your browser screen. When the mouse pointer comes to rest on a word, Rikai displays a pop-up translation. For example, for the English word trail it displays a list of sixteen Japanese equivalents. Within the Rikai site you can view any other site on the Internet and have the Rikai dictionary at your service. This will never eliminate the need for language learning (we hope!), but it's a terrific Internet tool and really makes a fascinating language-learning tool as well.

schMOOze University

At this site you can practice English in a virtual world where you actually communicate with other people. Unfortunately, it's a very confusing site. It does not give clear guidance to new visitors, and the links may behave strangely when you use the Back button in your browser. If you go there, you're on your own! We can't help you learn how to use it. However, it does contain some introductory notes in several languages, including Japanese. SchMOOze U. is maintained by Julie Falsetti, an instructor at Hunter College in New York City, who writes, "It was established in July, 1994 as a place where people studying English as a second or foreign language could practice English while sharing ideas and experiences with other learners and practicers of English. Students have opportunities for one-on-one and group conversations as well as access to language games, an on-line dictionary, virtual stockbroker and many language games. Although schMOOze U. was founded with the ESL/EFL students in mind, it welcomes all people interested in cross-cultural communication".

Web Concordancer

An online concordancer that can be used with several languages, including Japanese. This page is a part of the www.edict.com.hk Virtual Language Centre.

Word Frequencies

Lists of the most frequent words and word families in English, from the Brown Corpus and the listings of Paul Nation. This page is a part of the www.edict.com.hk Virtual Language Centre, but it's hard to find from the VLC homepage.

Fukuoka Jo Gakuin

Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University

Fukuoka Jo Gakuin is a women's institution established in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1885. It comprises a university, secondary schools, a kindergarten, and a lifelong-learning program. The university includes two separate undergraduate departments for the study of English: one in the two-year Junior College, and another in the four-year Faculty of Humanities. The above link will take you to a Website published in Japanese.

Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University Junior College

The Junior College faculty of Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University is the home of Mission CALL, the computer-assisted language learning site from which The Today Page was adapted (for details, see "About The Today Page"). Mission CALL is not accessible via the Internet. The above link will take you to a Website published in Japanese.