This free online book includes many strategies useful for English learners who are new to Canadian academic environments. Topics include oral presentations, group work, strategies for multiple-choice exams, strategies for written exams, active listening, active reading, reading at an academic level and more. An excellent resource for ESL for Academic Purposes instructors and learners.
"The Conversation" is a Canadian newsletter and website that provides daily articles written by researchers on a number of topical themes. Its tagline is "Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair" and it prides itself on presenting academic research in a very reader-friendly style for the general public. It is both a source of professional reading, and also research articles for an advanced or EAP class. It includes the following sections: Arts, Business+Economy, Culture+Society, Education, Environment+Energy, Health, Politics, and Science+Tech. The Education section is particularly relevant. A key word search (learning English, English language etc.) in the search bar will return a significant number of articles of great interest including this one which provides sound tracks of various non-native speakers with accompanying rankings (how difficult to understand they are) by ESL teachers.
Written by a high school English teacher (with an interest in English Language Acquisition), this blog contains numerous posts on a wide variety of topics such as Digital Citizenship, Writing Prompts, Novel Studies, Growth Mindset and more. She has created many resources that she makes available as free downloads, and readers can sign up for weekly activities sent to their mailboxes.
