Multilingual Students

The Writing Center and other academic resources at the College are here to support you. Writing Center associates honor all languages and dialectal variations. We seek to engage with writers and speakers in ways that promote linguistic justice and nurture diversity. Please schedule a consultation with any Writing Center associate; we are available in-person, as well as remotely and for email consultations. If you have any questions, reach out to Emily Merriman, Advisor for Multilingual Students, emerriman@amherst.edu

• ESL Resources for Students (Purdue OWL) "includes resources on writing across the curriculum, writing in the disciplines, and it contains links to OWL workshops and exercises useful for ESL students. This section also includes links to ESL resources on the Internet."
• Duke University's DukeWrites Enrichment Suite includes video guides for international and intercultural students. "Cultural, linguistic, and geographic contexts are deeply connected to conventions and expectations surrounding academic writing, academic integrity, and class participation," they write in the About Us section, so the guide was designed as an aid to "supporting those who are newer to the context of U.S. academic writing, academic integrity, and class participation practices."
• TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links (Internet TESL Journal)

These links will take you to the resource page in the Frost Library catalogue. Scroll down and click "online access."

• Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language by Anne Lobeck and Kristin Denham. 
• English Grammar Essentials by Wendy M. Anderson, Geraldine Woods, Lesley J. Ward.

Online grammar websites are limited in what they can offer.

• Hypergrammar (electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa's Writing Centre)

• Merriam-Webster (U.S. American Dictionary)
• Oxford English Dictionary (definitive historical dictionary of the English language, with quotations illustrating usage across time)
• Corpus of Contemporary American English (resource of words as used in many contemporary contexts)

• Linguistic Phonetics Guide (Sounds of Speech guide to the sounds of American English)

• Pronunciation Guides (practice lessons in American English pronunciation)

• Speech Accent Archive (speech samples that enable comparison of different English accents)

• UCLA Phonetics (online course in phonetics: English consonants)