LibGuides: ESL & Language Learning: ESL

ESL Classes at the Library

Basic English as a Second Language (ESL) Classes

Atlantic City Free Public Library Learning Center

Students will listen, read, practice conversation, and learn writing techniques, vocabulary, pronunciation and proper grammar. This is a 13-week course.Registration is required for this class. Visit the Help Desk or call (609)345-2269 to register and for the the class schedule.

Walk-in English as a Second Language (ESL) Lab

Atlantic City Free Public Library Learning Center

This is a self-directed learning session where students can access the language-learning software program Rosetta Stone, as well as ESL CDs, DVDs, and audiobooks. This lab does not have an instructor, but a staff member will be available to provide assistance and answer questions. This ESL lab will be open from 10 a.m. to noon on Mondays.

Learning Languages Online

Rosetta Stone

Improve your English or learn one of thirty other languages with Rosetta Stone Library Solution. This is an effective, easy-to-use program that allows you to learn a new language on your own time. Use this resource on your home computer, using a computer at the library, or on a mobile phone or tablet Click on the blue link above to set up your account. Library staff will assist you with this process.

Websites to Learn a Language

Activities for ESL/EFL Students
Offers 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.
BBC Learning English
Designed to help teach British English as a second language using current events, British life and history, and extracts from literature. Words in the News presents current news stories using text and audio files, with vocabulary and pronunciation highlighted.
Breaking News English
This site features lessons based on current news stories. Lessons include the text of the story, along with reading, writing and listening exercises. The Lessons and news stories can also be downloaded in MP3 format.
ESL Cafe
Dave's ESL Cafe is one of the leading ESL/EFL sites in the world, for both students and teachers. Students have their own help center, idioms, insight into useful slang, and forums. Teachers get web links, job listings, activity ideas, forums, and more.
Meriam Webster's Learner's Dictionary
Provides a list of 3,000 of the most commonly spoken words in English that should be known by anyone learning English as a second language. Once registered you can check off words from the list and place them directly into your My Learner’s Dictionary word list. Also offers a Learner's Word of the Day by e-mail feature.
Purdue OWL English As A Second Language
Provides ESL resources, especially related to writing, for both students and teachers
U.S.A. Learns
Listen & read lessons online. Some instruction also offered in Spanish.
Using English
UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse the grammar glossary and references on irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, teacher handouts, and find useful links and information on English.