Online Language Practice

For Beginning and Intermediate Learners:

Connect with English: A video story series with everyday language.
News for You: Read and listen to current news stories in easy-to-understand English. (Subscriber password now needed.)
USA Learns: Free, multi-media lessons to learn English, for Beginning, Low Intermediate and Intermediate Students. Produced by the US Department of Education. Directions in English or Spanish.
Spelling and Typing Practice
ELLLO: English Language Listening Lab Online.

Pronunciation: A website with videos of the sounds of English
Eyercize Pacing to increase your reading speed and move your eyes from left to right.
The Polyglot Project: Supported reading in English for speakers of Portuguese, Turkish, Spanish, French, German or Italian
Living on Earth
National Public Radio
Story Corps: Listening to ordinary people tell their interesting stories.
This American Life: A radio program with interesting and unusual stories about life in America.

Academic Word List
TED talks: Interesting talks on many subjects!
100 Wonderful Websites: Courses, tutorials, books, videos and more.
Academic Listening: A site for English Learners from the University of Hertfordshire.
Courses at Berkeley on YouTube: Audio and video lectures from the University of California, Berkeley.
MIT Open Courseware: Video and audio lectures from classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
UChannel: Authentic audio and video lectures and discussions from top-tier universities.
Video clip (3 minute run-time) about Avoiding Plagiarism More information on academic honesty
"You Quote It, You Note It" Plagiarism tutorial from Acadia University Library
Documentation-- citing sources (Diana Hacker, Research and Documentation online) Choose your field (Humanities -- MLA and Social Sciences--APA) and the click on "Documenting Sources." Look for two things:
In-text citations (in parentheses in your paper) and Works Cited or References page (list of sources at the end of your paper). The sample papers provided here can show you how to format your paper.

Learning Express Library, practice for the GMAT, GRE, TOEFL or improve math, writing & reading skills.