Vocabulary
- E-Vocabulary (free)
- Quizlet (free, with upgrade options)
- Macmillan Dictionary (free)
- Vocabulary Profiling
- English Profile (free, joint effort of many leading institutions, attributes vocabulary items to CEFR levels, different attributions for different semantic uses of a word, offers learner corpus examples for appropriate use on a particular level)
- The Oxford Text Checker (free, based on Oxford 3000 word list & academic word list)
- VocabKitchen (free, based on open source wordlists & open dictionary resources)
Grammar & Vocabulary
- BBC Grammar Challenge superseded by 6 Minute Grammar series
(podcasts & interactive exercises, free but no longer updated) - BBC 6 Minute Grammar series
(podcasts & worksheets, free) - MyGrammarLab
(Pearson-Longman, access keys included in textbooks) - www.oxfordenglishtesting.com
(Oxford University Press, access keys included in various textbooks, additional licenses can be bought online) - www.business-english-online.com
(commercial, Swiss-based exam preparation website with a limited number of free demo exercises and a reasonably priced writing correction service) - englisch-hilfen.de
(vastly improved layout, less advertisements, good exercises up to intermediate level, explanations in German and English) - linguapress.com
(concise grammar page, plenty of examples, free) - esl-lounge.com
(too many advertisements in free version but provides good materials for higher levels and Cambridge Exams preparation) - Grammar Profiling
- English Profile (free, joint effort of many leading institutions, attributes use of/knowledge about grammatical constructions to CEFR levels, offers learner corpus examples for appropriate use on a particular level)
Writing
- Tim Johns Kibbitzers (34 revision topics)
(corpus-informed, bite-sized chunks, focus: academic writing, free)
Classroom-friendly corpus-linguistic resources (lexico-grammatical patterns)
- ForBetterEnglish (online, free, superseded by SkELL)
- Just the word (online, free)
- Netspeak (online, free)
- SkELL – SketchEngine for English Language Learning (online, free, ad free for sketchengine subscribers)
Authoring Tools
- LanguageTool – style & grammar check (open source, free)
- LingleOnline – automated materials creation (€40.-/year – Summer 2014: service closed)
- VIEW – Visual Input Enhancement of the Web (free) – Screenshots
- English Profile (free, check CEFR level suitability of Vocabulary/Grammar, for other profiling tools see relevant sections above)
- e-tutorium.net – create interactive e-tutorials (free)