16 Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI)
16 Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI)
Bilingualism Studies (BIL)
No suggested OER at this time.
English as a Second Language (ESL)
51 Bite-Size Lessons on Verbs∗
Lin Cui (Harper College)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The book addresses some of the most frequently occurring verb errors made by English as a Second Language (ESL) students.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Suggested as supplementary resource for:
ESL 0120 Academic Development in English as a Second Language
ESL 0130 Academic Development in English as a Second Language
ESL 1113 What’s the Rule? Grammar at the Beginner Level
ESL 2113 Honing the Rule: Grammar at the Intermediate Level
ESL 2371 Bending the Rule: Oral and Written Grammar at the Advanced Level
Advanced Academic Grammar for ESL Students∗
Rebecca Al Haider (Reedley College)
2021
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This textbook was created for an advanced academic grammar course for ESL students. By the end of the course, students will recognize and demonstrate the appropriate use of advanced grammar structures. To meet these outcomes, students will listen to aural language that includes the target structures, identify and edit grammar errors in written language, read and analyze texts that include the target grammar structures, and demonstrate the correct and appropriate use of target structures in written and spoken language.
Formats: Google Doc and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested as supplementary resource for:
ESL 0130 Academic Development in English as a Second Language
ESL 2371 Bending the Rule: Oral and Written Grammar at the Advanced Level
Advanced English∗
Allison Kilgannon (University of the Fraser Valley)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
This text introduces students to reading and writing at the college level and was designed to fulfill the requirements for the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Advanced English Course. This text included examples, exercises, and definitions for many reading- and writing-related topics encountered in college courses.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Suggested as supplementary resource for:
ESL 0130 Academic Development in English as a Second Language
ESL 2121 Creating Meaning: Reading to Improve Writing Skills
College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success
Barbara Hall and Elizabeth Wallace (Georgia State University)
2018
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success is designed as a comprehensive grammar and writing etext for high intermediate and advanced level non-native speakers of English. We open the text with a discussion on the sentence and then break it down into its elemental components, before reconstructing them into effective sentences with paragraphs and larger academic assignments. Following that, we provide instruction in paragraph and essay writing with several opportunities to both review the fundamentals as well as to demonstrate mastery and move on to more chall