Library Guide for International Students and Scholars

Here you can find out more about ELI's resources and schedule consultations to help you select ELI courses and access other language learning resources.

This is a library research guide that compiles a lot of ELI resources. It might help looking at their quick links in addition to the full website.

In-person speaking and writing help for international undergraduate students

Free service open to all members of the U-M community, including international students, faculty, staff, and scholars. In Writing Clinic sessions, you will get help identifying your writing strengths and weaknesses, as well as guided self-help designed to help you become a critical, independent writer.

This online dictionary allows you to draw Chinese characters with your mouse!

A German-English/English-German dictionary with comprehensive coverage of the general vocabulary of contemporary German and English (both British and American English, and the German of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).

Combined access to 18 concise and pocket sized bilingual dictionaries. Provides translations between English and seven other languages: French, German, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Modern Welsh. Includes specialized dictionaries for business related terms in French and Spanish.

Comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics. It is interdisciplinary in scope and represents different schools and approaches to be as objective and versatile as possible.

An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages.

Academic English language self-study website, hosted by Monash University in Australia, with vast breadth and depth in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and grammar. The challenge may be in deciding where to start. If you’d like an overview of everything offered, the site map may be helpful. The site is indexed not just by skill area. If you check out one of the guides on the left frame of the page, you can find resources organized by academic discipline (e.g. Medicine or Sociology) and by level (e.g. undergraduate or PhD).

Andy Gillett’s UEFAP site, Using English for Academic Purposes, supported by BALEAP (the British Association of Lecturers in EAP) offers a deep set of resources for academic communication in all skill areas. The best segments of the site offer an introduction, strategic advice and practice exercises, and sample phrases for very specific communicative purposes. The advice given is solid, well-researched, and clearly explained.

L’Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon, France has a prominent “Applied Linguistics” program. Part of the way this program shares its expertise on language learning with the world is to host “English Online France”, a website with dozens of free interactive games, exercises, and tips for learning English independently. Most of the instructions and menus are in English, which enables advanced English learners from any language background to use the site.

Purdue University offers one of the oldest Online Writing Labs where users can find dozens of tips for different kinds of writing, sample formats for academic and professional genres of writing, lots of detail on how to use various citation styles, and more recently, instructional videos on the Purdue OWL YouTube channel.