EAP links

(All open in a new window. Close the new window to return to Using English for Academic Purposes)

Academic Grammar for students of the Arts and Social Sciences (a Web-based resource to help students with their academic assignments.)
Cybergrammar (designed to support and develop knowledge of grammar)
English Grammar Movies (from the British Council's learn English site)
Grammar Safari (hunt for and collect examples of language use)
Guide to Grammar and Writing (from Capital Community College, Hartford, Connecticut)
Internet Grammar of English (a complete online English grammar from University College, London)
WebCorp: The web as corpus (use the web to find out how words and phrases are used )

Academic Vocabulary (Expand your academic vocabulary using the Academic Word List, by Sandra Haywood)
Academic Keyword List (The Academic Keyword List from Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Academic Word List (A list of useful academic words and advice on how to learn them, by Averil Coxhead)
A Word a Day (Learn a new word every day)
British National Corpus (Find typical contexts in which words occur)
English Prefixes (Expand your vocabulary by learning more about English prefixes.)
HE Glossary (Glossary of terms used in Higher Education in UK)
Interesting things for ESL students (Quizzes, puzzles, proverbs, anagrams, slang and more by Charles Kelly and Larry Kelly)
Language Guide (Everyday vocabulary in many languages)
The Compleat Lexical Tutor (For data-driven language learning on the web)
The Sketch Engine (On-line language analysis)
Ultimate Vocabulary (Build your vocabulary through interactive ways and a personal computer tutor which will guide you every step of the way)
Vocabulary Exercises for the Academic Word List (Gap-fill to practise the general word families within the AWL)
Web Concordancer (For vocabulary and grammar study.)
Word Games (Games and activities based on Merriam Webster's dictionaries)
Wordle (Generates “word clouds” from your texts, emphasising frequent words)
Words in the News (Words used in recent BBC news reports)
Wordwizard (Your first port of call for anything concerning words and the English language)