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Research
Tools: Subject Guides
ESL (English
as a Second Language) Research Guide
ESL Instructional
Support Materials:
Books for ESL
Instructors
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Medium
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Landmark
essays on basic writing V.18
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E-book
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E-book
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Second
Language Writer's Text Linguistic And Rhetorical Features
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E-Book
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Book
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Literacy
and bilingualism: a handbook for all teachers
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LC3731.B684
2000
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Book
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Bilingual
and ESL classrooms: teaching in multicultural contexts
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LC3731.O96
1985
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Book
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Assessing
vocabulary
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P305.R43
2000
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Book
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New
perspectives on grammar teaching in second language classrooms
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P53.412.N48
2002
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Book
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Analysing
English in a global context: a reader
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PE1128.A2A534
2001
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Book
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ESL
Students In The Public Speaking Classroom: A Guide For Teachers
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PE1128.A2C694
2000
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Book
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101
bright ideas: ESL activities for all ages
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PE1128.A2F66
1997
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Book
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Fifty
strategies for teaching English language learners
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PE1128.A2H467
2000
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Book
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PE1128.A2L293
2001
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Book
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101
word games for students of English as a second or foreign
language
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PE1128.A2M253
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Book
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Reading,
writing, & learning in ESL: a resource book for K-12
teachers
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PE1128.A2P393
2001
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Book
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Recipes
for tired teachers: well-seasoned activities for the ESOL
classroom
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PE1128.A2R479
1985
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Book
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ESL
Smart! : A Ready-To-Use Life Skills & Academic Activities
For Grades K-8
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PE1128.B64
2001
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Book
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Speaking
of business
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PE1128.H47E54
1995
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Book
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Learning
and not learning English: Latino students in American schools
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PE1129.S8V26
2001
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Book
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| Websites
for ESL Instructors |
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| Dave's
ESL Café
An interactive site for both teachers and students. It has chat
rooms, discussion forums, and places to ask questions of all
kinds. You play games, take quizzes, and learn about both
academic English and slang.
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| Pizzaz!
A Resource for Scribblers and Teachers of English as a Second
Language Creator
Leslie Opp-Beckman, an ESL instructor, explains this site's
purpose: "PIZZAZ! is dedicated to providing creative
writing activities and make printouts and copies of handouts for
use in the classroom.
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Internet TESL Journal
A
site
designed for teachers, but has useful information for students,
too. It is updated monthly, and has lesson plans, handouts,
articles, activities, quizzes, links, and more.
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News For You Reading
the Newspaper. Using Real World Materials. Like “News for
You”. For Instruction. Why Use a Newspaper? Adult topics.
Current content. Practical vocabulary.
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Online Databases are available to current EPCC students, faculty
and staff from computers located on campus or off-campus by
selecting the "Off-campus access" link.
For more instructions on how access databases
off campus please go to: Instructions
for Off-campus access to Databases
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| eLibrary
Formerly
called Electric Library. Full text of television and radio
transcripts, magazines, journals and newspapers. Also includes
maps, pictures and excerpts from books. Off-campus
access
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EBSCO
Middle
Search Plus Middle
Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular
magazines as far back as 1990. All full text articles included
in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Also contains biographies and an Image Collection of photos,
maps and flags.
Off-campus
access
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EBSCO
Searchasaurus
Primary
Search Lexiles 200 – 1030. Includes dictionary, encyclopedia,
pictures and magazines.
Off-campus
access
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Funk
and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Provides
over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or
keywords within the entry.
Off-campus
access
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Galenet
- Discovering
Collection Includes
Discovering Authors, biography, Multicultural America, Science,
U.S. and World History; EXPLORING Novels, Poetry, Shakespeare,
Short Stories, Newsmakers; and various Worldmark Encyclopedias.
Off-campus
access
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| Galenet
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Student
Resource Center - Gold Contains
thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies,
topical essays, background information, critical analyses,
timelines, maps, graphics and full-text coverage of over 1,000
magazines and newspapers.
Off-campus
access
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Newsbank
Databases
America's
Newspapers (Texas newspapers), Newsbank Newsfile (2000-) and
Noticias en Español (1992-). Americas's newspapers includes the
El Paso Times (1999-). Newsbank Newsfile contains articles from
over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada, all with full-text.
Noticias en Español is totally in Spanish. Off-campus
access
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Language
& Practice | Reference Sources |
Citizenship &
Immigration Information | TOEFL
& GED
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Dave's
ESL Café
An interactive site for both teachers and students. It has chat
rooms, discussion forums, and places to ask questions of all
kinds. You play games, take quizzes, and learn about both
academic English and slang.
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ESL
Pronunciation
A site that has video files to practice your spelling and
listening as well.
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Online
Resources for Writers
Technical
Writing A completely online textbook prepared by David A.
McMurrey, at Austin Community College (ACC) in ... ESL Home Page
Resources for students.
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Selected
Links for Students of English as a Second Language
A
meta-list of links to other ESL Web sites is hosted by the
Internet TESL Journal and is Intended for ESL students. Links
are organized under such categories as "Some of the Best
Sites", "Games", "Grammar",
"Communicating with Others", "Listening",
"Writing" and "Reading.
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The
Book of Clichés
A great source, all about clichés, how to use them and when to
use them. It has extensive lists on different clichés for the
same thought. This source has an introduction, lists of clichés,
awards the site has won, about the author, links to other sites,
and contact information.
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The
Phrase Finder
"The Phrase Finder is a phrases thesaurus and searchable
database of a large collection of English phrases and
sayings." This site can be used to find phrases related to
a particular word, learn the meaning of a phrase, or determine
the origin of a phrase. Also includes a book list of
dictionaries, thesauri, and word phrase and origin books.
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The
Key The
Key is a newspaper written for new readers and adults with
limited reading skills. All material in The Key and on-line is
free of copyright for nonprofit, education purposes only. The
Key New Readers Newspaper has been published monthly since 1988.
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Online Free Sources
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Britannica
Online
Britannica Online is a free online encyclopedia, explore
art, history, science, and other topics with Encyclopedia
Britannica's subject browse or search by keyword its 32 volumes.
In addition, you can search the Merriam-Webster online thesaurus
and dictionary for definitions, pronunciation guides, world
histories, synonyms, and antonyms.
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Microsoft
Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
A free concise encyclopedia that includes 16,000 articles and
more than 2,200 photos, illustrations, maps, charts, and tables.
(Paying subscribers can access the more complete MSN Learning
& Research Plus with Encarta, for which a free trial is also
available.)
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Your
Dictionary
A site with links to an unbelievable number of on-line
dictionaries, in a wide variety of languages. It includes
bilingual dictionaries, and grammar and vocabulary guides.
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The
Internet Picture Dictionary
The Internet Picture Dictionary lets you learn
simple vocabulary by matching pictures with words and offers
exercises to practice them.
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Immigration
Resource Site This
site is an extensive collection of immigration self-help
resources and references. It lists on-line services,
organizations, and immigration lawyers and consultants. This is
not a general site for learning about immigration issues; it is
a useful resource for those who have particular immigration
questions or problems.
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The
Immigration Portal
The Immigration Portal has a directory of
lawyers. You can download free immigration forms and subscribe
to a free daily or weekly immigration update. There are links to
information about various parts of the immigration process.
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U.S.
Citizenship Info
USCitizenship.info
provides you with what you need to prepare, complete and file
your application for U.S. citizenship.
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GED
Test
The official web site of the GED
Testing Service has useful information about the
test.
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The
Official TOEFL Homepage
Published by ETS, this page has information on test dates,
registration and sample questions.
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