Material de referencia en inglés

Englishpage.com

This site offers a variety of free online English lessons and English as a second language (ESL) resources. The content is sorted into different sections, including a verb tense tutorial, advanced vocabulary lessons, a preposition and phrasal verb section, a grammar book, and a weekly lesson section. The site also hosts some English discussion forums.

ESL Tower

This is a free ESL/EFL site that offers useful printable and interactive English grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation exercises for teachers and students. Resources for teachers include worksheets and printable material for their classes; resources for students include self-study guides with online exercises on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

esl-lounge

This site gives free access to hundreds of ESL lesson plans and materials that can be used for communicative English lessons in the classroom. It focuses on communication and the majority of its resources are geared towards getting students talking. The site offers printable grammar worksheets, surveys, flashcards, reading comprehension and communication activities for each level, as well as board games, song lyrics and a section devoted to phonetics and the improvement of pronunciation.

Exam English

This website offers free online practice tests for the most important international ESL exams: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, and the Cambridge English exams such as CAE, FCE, KET and PET. There are different levels to practice your grammar, use of English, writing, reading, or listening.

GCFLearnFree.org

This site of the Goodwill Community Foundation (GCF) helps users around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, and more, it offers over 180 topics, including more than 2,000 lessons, videos, and interactives and games, completely free.

Google Dictionary (by Google)

This is a free extension for Google Chrome that enables users to read definitions while browsing the Web. The main advantage of this add-on is that you can view the definition of a word by simply double-clicking it, without switching tabs. It can be downloaded here.

howjsay.com

This website offers a free online talking dictionary of English pronunciation. When your submitted entry appears in pink, just mouse over to hear it pronounced.

IDEA — International Dialects of English Archive

This site hosts an online archive of primary-source recordings of English dialects and accents as heard around the world. The recordings are principally in English, are of native speakers, and include both English-language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages — many include brief demonstrations of the speaker’s native language, too. Even though its main purpose is not educational, it is a useful tool for those who are interested in the study of dialects or just trying to improve their listening comprehension.

Journal of Academic Writing

This is the site of the Journal of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the teaching, tutoring, researching administration and development of academic writing in higher education in Europe.

Lang-8

This free language-exchange social network is a language learning platform where native speakers correct what users write. When users write an entry in any language they are learning, it appears to native speakers of that language, who correct it and leave useful comments and feedback.