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Learning Resources

This page contains links to websites to help you with your studies. You can find information on EAP resources divided into sections for each module of the course, online dictionaries, and academic writing examples

EAP Resources

General

Effective Learning / SLDC - Study materials provided by the university to help with writing, reading, making the most of lectures and preparing for exams.

Using English for Academic Purposes - A guide for students in higher education

Dave's ESL Café - One of the most popular webpages among ESL teachers all around the world. Also lots of stuff for students, too!

Edufind - Good online grammar site with clear explanation and examples

Activities for ESL students - Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English

Interesting things for ESL students - Word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more

BBC World Service, Learning English - You can learn news English, business English, grammar and vocabulary and even test your English!

Differences between British English & American English - Find out differences between British English and American words, vocabulary, spellings.

Study Skills on Mondofacto - helpful advice and activities on essays writing and studying in general. There is also a specialized dictionary on the site that can be useful.

Writing

General - Purdue University's Online Writing Lab.

Referencing - APA guide to referencing electronic sources.

Reading

How to read at university - helpful advice on effective reading strategies from mondofacto.com.

Listening

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - Listening activities and exercises ranging from easy to difficult.

Speaking

Presentations from the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.

Useful video-clips about seminar discussion and presentation techniques.

Online Dictionaries

Here is a list of online dictionary sites, and also to other sites with links to online dictionaries.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Including links to American English, Idioms, Phrasal verbs dictionaries and more.

Oxford English Dictionary - Usueful learning resources, why don't you sign up for 'word of the day by email'? (You need to be a member to use this dictionary.)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - One of the most popular dictionaries for English learners.

Merriam-Webster Online - Online dictionary and thesaurus together, and have fun with the word game.

Dictionary.com - You can not only look up for a word, but also try the thesaurus, translator.

ETYM Online - An online dictionary on the origin of words.

Academic Writing

Please beware of plagiarism! Copying all or part of another person's work without proper referencing is an extremely serious academic offence and will not be tolerated. Records are kept of who has which essays from the essay bank.