Writing and Grammar Books
Swick, Edward. Writing Better English for ESL Learners 2nd ed. Chicago, Ill: McGraw-Hill, 2009.
Random House Webster’s Student Notebook Grammar, Usage & Punctuation Guide. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 2002.
Raimes, Ann. Grammar Troublespots: An Editing Guide for Students 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
Online Visual Dictionaries
Ultimate Visual Dictionary
Discover the definitions you need with this small dictionary that uses pictures, diagrams, and detailed annotations. Ultimate Visual Dictionary has been designed to give you easy access to the vocabulary you need. It contains more than 33,000 terms that are grouped into 14 sections that cover a wide range of topics, such as The Universe, Prehistoric Earth, Modern World, and Architecture.
French English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
This is the perfect pocket reference for those learning French, and you'll want to make sure it's packed when you next go on your travels. With over 6,000 fully illustrated terms arranged by theme, getting to grips with the French language has never been easier.
Hindi-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
With more than 6,500 fully illustrated words and phrases in Hindi and English, along with a free bilingual audio app, Hindi language learning has never been easier. Perfect for tourists and business travelers alike,
Polish-English visual bilingual dictionary
Polish-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary makes language-learning accessible by using photographs to put the everyday vocabulary of the modern world into context.
Spanish-English bilingual visual dictionary
This illustrated dictionary of Spanish terms arranged by theme is intended for tourist and business travelers. Updated to reflect recent changes in technology and clothing, it will help you learn and retain all the key phrases you need to know for ordering and buying food, talking about work, discussing health, and studying language.
German-English visual bilingual dictionary
The German-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary introduces a range of useful current vocabulary in thematic order, using full-color photographs and artworks to display and label all the elements of everyday life — from the home and office to sport, music, nature, and the countries of the world — with panel features on key nouns, verbs, and useful phrases.
Dictionaries
Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com
Online dictionary, thesaurus, grammar, usage & style, and writing resource
Internet Picture Dictionary
http://www.pdictionary.com
Free, online multilingual picture dictionary with interactive activities for English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and ESL learners
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com
Provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources
Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary
http://www.visualdictionaryonline.com/
Provides a free online visual dictionary containing over 20,000 terms, more than 6,000 illustrations, and audio pronunciations
Helpful Websites
Activities for ESL Students
http://www.chompchomp.com/
This site, created by a community college instructor, includes terms, interactive exercises (with answers/explanations), handouts and guidelines for quickly improving grammar ability. Appropriate for both GED students and instructors
Dave's ESL Café
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar
Includes grammar topics, example sentences, and exercises
Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar
Video tutorials including parts of speech, punctuation, syntax, usage and style.
OWL: ESL Exercises
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl_exercises/
The exercises in this category cover a wide range of topics, but have been designed for second language writers of a variety of proficiency levels. Includes paraphrase and summary exercises; nominalizations and subject position.
OWL: Grammar
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/index.html
These OWL resources will help you use correct grammar in your writing. This area includes resources on grammar topics, such as count and noncount nouns, articles (a versus an), subject-verb agreement, and prepositions.
YouTube Resources
English with Jennifer
The host of this channel is an ideal ESL teacher for those who need more guidance than simply reading from websites. The user’s videos are separated into playlists covering vocabulary, verb tenses, pronunciation, and more.
Teacher Phil
This page offers lessons in basic English, business English, idioms, and more with Teacher Phil. You will learn how to speak with an American accent and use proper English, and even tackle some of the more complex and challenging language rules.