Learning Assistance Center

Useful Links

The staff of the Learning Assistance Center believes you may find the following websites to be useful and informative:

ENGLISH

• Learn the finer points of English grammar with Grammar Girl
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Paradigm:  Online Writing Assistant
• The Nuts and Bolts Guide to College Writing
• Building a Better Vocabulary
• Free Rice: a very cool vocabulary quiz!
• Summarizing and Paraphrasing Successfully
• Helpful Writing Skills Information
• Exercises @ Grammar Bytes!
• Dependent and independent clauses
• Tips on Writing
• Analogy completion (good for SAT prep)

LAC Handouts for Improving English Writing Skills

• Four Steps to a Good Essay
• Find the Topic Sentence!
• Correct Word Choice
• Parallel Structure
• Writing Style

ESL Grammar, Vocabulary, and Reading

• Free Rice: a very cool vocabulary quiz! (you can also change the subject to grammar)
• Language Guide (Picture Dictionary with pronunciation)
• 100 Short ESL Stories
• Reader's Digest
• Idiom Connection
• Dictionary of English Idioms
• Toon in to Idioms
• Interactive Exercises
• Mini Grammar Tutorials
• Grammar Quizzes
• Adjective or Adverb?
• Voice of America grammar and vocabulary quizzes
• Common Mistakes
• English exercises (Levels 1-4)
• Punctuation Rules
• Reader's Digest

ESL Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation

• English lesson videos at EnglishMeeting
• Voice of America (VOA) News in Special English
• Recent VOA stories with clickable text (for vocabulary) / podcasts
• Hear anything pronounced with the Text-To-Speech (TTS) avatar!
• Randall's Cyber Listening Lab
• Pronunciation Dictionary of Names
• Practice English with Chat Robots!
• ESL video lessons and podcasts
• Real English (street interviews)

Spelling

• Spelling rules and game

ESL: General sites

• PCC's ESL Website
• Dave's ESL Cafe
• Ron Chang's ESL site
• English as a Second Language
• Handouts for ESL students
• ESL Resource Center
• Interesting Things for ESL Students
• Think in English with 20 Questions

TOEFL EXAM

• Free daily test questions

KEYBOARDING SKILLS

• Touch Typing
• TypeOnline
• Learn2Type

STUDY SKILLS

• Learning Styles Inventory
• Study Tips for Students
• How to Study
• Study skills information from Glendale College
• Study Guide & Strategies
• The Study Skills Resource Page
• The Cornell Method of Note Taking
• Free Cornell Note-taking Paper

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

• Free Rice: cool vocabulary quizzes in French, Spanish, Italian, and German - click "change subjects" to select language
• Tips for studying a foreign language
• Study Spanish
• Chinese Language Program
• Live Radio from France
• Business Spanish lessons
• Free online Japanese lessons
• Learn vocabulary in many languages! (with pictures and sound) * English * Spanish * French * Italian * Portuguese * German * Russian * Hebrew * Arabic * Japanese * Mandarin Chinese
• Think in another language with 20 Questions (German * Italian * Dutch * Swedish * Korean * Chinese * French * Spanish * Danish * Portuguese * Turkish * Polish * Czech * Japanese * Greek)
• Translate any text and hear correct pronunciation with the Text-To-Speech (TTS) Translator!
• Translate any text or web page with Babelfish
• Lanugage Guide (online picture dictionary)

MATH

• "Math for Morons Like Us"- Math Links
• Professor Freedman's Math Help (includes tutorials in Elementary Algebra)
• Lessons in Prealgebra, Algebra, and Geometry
• Online Graphing Calculator (click the GCALC3 button)
• Figure This!  Math Puzzles

SCIENCE

• Succeed in Physical Science
• DNA Interactive
• How Stuff Works

OTHER TOPICS

• Syvum GRE Preparation Practice Exercises
• Free Education on the Internet: catalog of free courses

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