Ten Tips to Keep Learners Motivated:  Tips to Become a Successful Language Learner

Practical Ways for Learners to Practice English Independently: Ideas for Learner Self-Directed Learning

A Tool to Help Guide Future Tutoring Sessions:  Language Proficiency Self-Assessment

Resources from the California Library Literacy Services:

Goals for increasing community involvement

Become a Volunteer

Get a Drivers License

Get Involved to Support An Issue

Obtain U.S. Citizenship

Vote

Encourage Others to Learn English Too

Resource from the California Library Literacy Services:

Information to Share with learners on the experiences of families in the U.S.

How to Interact with Your Child’s Teachers

Meal Planning

Reading Medicine Labels

Reading to Your Child

Visiting the Library

Banking in the U.S.

Resource from the California Library Literacy Services:

Information to Share with learners to build job search skills

Complete a Job Application

Write a Resume

Search For a Job Online

The Interview

Create a Resume

learnamericanenglishonline.com

audience: learners

level: all levels

Information: This website is divided into seven levels of instruction that each contain grammar video lessons and grammar quizzes. There are also lists of idioms, slang, and popular expressions for students to learn. The “Chat” section allows students to chat with other ESL students in the same level as them through “meebo rooms”, which is embedded in the page. The “Stuff for Teachers” tab includes sample conversation questions about topics such as crime, creativity, and housing, grammar worksheets, and the link to the learnenglishonline YouTube channel for access to all grammar instructional videos.

www.english-online.at

audience: learners

level: intermediate

Information: English-Online provides “articles in easy, understandable English for [ESL] learners” on a truly wide variety of topics, including but not limited to: entertainment, health/medicine, education, government/politics, technology, sports, and travel. Each article contains bolded vocabulary words that are defined at the bottom of the page so students can expand their vocabulary while developing their reading skills simultaneously. For some topics, students can watch a news broadcast on the issue rather than reading an article, but the video still contains a list of vocabulary words from the broadcast that readers may be unfamiliar with that are defined at the bottom of the page.

www.proliteracyednet.org

audience: tutors and learners

level: all levels

Information: This website offers innovative and research-based techniques and strategies for teaching English as a second language. It not only offers interactive resources for learners, but it also provides constructive lesson plans, conversation topics, and other activities for tutors. Topics range from a focus on citizenship and passing the citizenship test to how to read a newspaper and a more specific focus on American culture. The material for learners covers a broad range of vocabulary and comprehension levels with various games to help reinforce key terms.

www.gcflearnfree.org/everydaylife

audience: learners

level: all levels

Information: The EDL project uses interactive, situation-based lessons to teach functional literacy skills. Each activity provides learners with the opportunity to test their knowledge of real-world situations and to develop the confidence and skills necessary to be successful in everyday life. Each learning scenario is comprised of prose, document, or quantitative literacy tasks, as defined by the NAAL, with an emphasis on task-based applications of literacy. Each lesson has specific educational objectives and is classified as one of the literacy task categories that the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) measures (i.e., Document, Prose, and Quantitative), when applicable.