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Open Educational Resources at MDC: Overview
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OER for EAP

Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology by Carl S. Blyth, Joshua J. Thoms
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781800411005
Publication Date: 3rd Feb 2021

MERLOT Open Textbook: ELL
Understanding and Using Grammar
English Grammar: B1 Level is a practical guide for learning English. Fully written in English, it serves as a base for the adaptation to different mother tongues. This book forms a part of the series My English Skills.
Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners
This textbook is designed for beginning-intermediate English language learners. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter includes listening and speaking components such as dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter also focuses on 10 target words from the New General Service List of English vocabulary. The textbook includes an audio component that consists of recorded conversations of native and non-native English speakers, as well as links to additional listening resources on the web.
Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Course Pack 5
This course pack is designed to meet the learning outcomes for Adult Literacy Fundamental English Level 5 (roughly equivalent to grades 6 to 7.5 in the K-12 system). Every chapter includes a level-appropriate, high-interest reading of between 500 and 800 words. The readings are freely available in a separate reader with convenient links to the readings in each chapter of this course pack. Font size and line spacing can be adjusted in the online view, and have been enhanced for the print and PDF versions for easier reading. This course pack has been reviewed by subject experts from colleges and universities.
Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Course Pack 6
This course pack is designed to meet the learning outcomes for Adult Literacy Fundamental English Level 6 (roughly equivalent to grades 7.5 to 9 in the K-12 system). Every chapter includes a level-appropriate, high-interest reading of between 500 and 1,000 words. The readings are freely available in a separate reader with convenient links to the readings in each chapter of this course pack. Font size and line spacing can be adjusted in the online view, and have been enhanced for the print and PDF versions for easier reading. This course pack has been reviewed by subject experts from colleges and universities.

Grammar Bytes!
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Read Theory
ReadTheory is an online reading comprehension assessment tool for students. It allows students to read narrative, informative, or informational literary passages and answer corresponding comprehension questions, while tracking student performance and reporting progress to teachers. It is free for all users.
English Express
Online Lessons; Download free eBook
Lesson Aims: Main aim: transactions (ordering food), Secondary aims: information text (menu), map, text message (social), numeracy (money), Main aim: transactions (phone enquiry), Secondary aims: information text (rental ad), written description, numeracy (money)
Daily Grammar
The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities—one for each day of the school year—practice language arts skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons—or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused.
Public Domain Works
In 2022, the public domain will welcome a lot of “firsts”: the first Winnie-the-Pooh book from A. A. Milne, the first published novels from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, the first books of poems from Langston Hughes and Dorothy Parker. Works from 1926 are open to all, as is a cornucopia of recorded music: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923!

BowValley College ESL Literacy Readers
These online books can be sorted by reading level. They all include both audio and text so that you can listen to the pronunciation of words as you read.

OverDrive Digital Media Library This link opens in a new window
“Collins Amazing People ELT Readers” NOW AVAILABLE!

Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
Overview: Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
Nature Reflections: Interactive Language Practice for English-Language Learners
Students whose first language is not English reflect on nature through readings, a visit to a green area, and bookmaking using the writing process and peer feedback.
Grammar Essentials
The Grammar Essentials area of the Excelsior OWL will provide you with a thorough overview of punctuation, grammar and usage, and some of the most common errors students in the United States struggle with.

ESL Jeopardy Games

Grammar Briefs
14 Videos
With this video series, you’ll learn more about correctly using your and you're, literally and figuratively, plural and possessive, it's and its, illusion and allusion, and much more.

Pronunciation Workshop
Sample video tutorials