Teaching English as a Second Language

Teaching a new language to non-native speakers may be one of the most challenging educational jobs out there, so ELL teachers can use all of the help they can get! Thankfully, many excellent resources for ELL and ESL exist online, from full-service websites to reference tools and communities, all designed to make the task of educating ELL students just a little bit easier and more effective.

We’ve scoured the Internet to share 50 of the best of these resources, and we hope you’ll find lots of valuable content and tools through these incredibly useful links for ELL educators.

These pages allow children to trace the letters of the English alphabet. Some ideas on how to use the pages are also provided.

Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL) 
This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers.

Free online English lessons & ESL / EFL resources

Helping you learn English or teach English. Everything from lessons for learners to jobs for teachers, including fun pages like games, videos, quizzes and chat

The English Repository is an online collaboratively built database of English language resources for researchers, teachers, and students. It aims to provide  easy access to available free resources for research, teaching, and learning of English by serving as a ‘jump-off point’ to those materials.

Study Guides is offered by the Birmingham City University's Center for Academic Success to help foreign students improve their writing and general English Language skills. Teachers and advanced learners of ESL in secondary edu would find extremely interesting material. 

Welcome to Fun English Games for Kids! Find a wide range of free teaching resources that are perfect for students learning English, ESL classes and teachers looking for ideas online.

Enjoy interactive games, classroom activities, printable worksheets and much more!

TES SPaG provides unlimited access to hundreds of exercises that take learners through literacy objectives mapped out in the National Curriculum.

Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links