Grammar & Vocabulary

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  • BBC Grammar Challenge superseded by 6 Minute Grammar series
    (podcasts & interactive exercises, free but no longer updated)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)

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)