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| Title | Author | Call# | Book Cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Oxford ESL Dictionary | Oxford University Press | PE 1628 .O8685 2004 |  |
| Webster’s English Thesaurus | AM Productions | PE 1591 .W43 2004 |  |
| Writing Academic English | Oshima, Alice | PE 1408 .H6644 2006 |  |
| Writing | Faigley, Lester | PE 1408 .F35 2011 |  |
| Basic English Grammar | Azar, Betty Schrampfer | PE 1128 .A96 2005 |  |
| The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation | Straus, Jane | PE 1112 .S773 2014 |  |
| Common Errors in English Usage | Brians, Paul | PE 1464 .B75 2009 |  |
| Writing Better English for ESL Learners | Swick, Edward | PE 1128 .S978 2009 |  |
| Learning English for Academic Purposes | Williams, Julia | PE 1129 .F7W555 2005 |  |
| Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills | Engelhardt, Diane | PE 1128 .E57 2013 |  |
| Perfect Phrases for ESL: Everyday Situations | Gast, Natalie | PE 1131 .G27 2013 |  |
| Barron’s IELTS | Lougheed, Lin | E 1128 .L6436 2010 |  |
| Vancouver Handbook for ESL Students | Keith, John | PE 1128 .K44 2010 |  |
* Want to reserve one of these titles? Email library@alexandercollege.ca with your student # and the book title.
These e-Books are available in the online library collection. Click the title to access the resource.
Goals for Academic Writing: ESL Students and Their Instructors
Cumming, Alister H. 2006
Tang, Ramona 2012
English for Professional and Academic Purposes
Fortanet, Inmaculada 2010
Hudson, Richard A. 2003
The International Student’s Guide: Studying in English at University
Lowes, Ricky 2004
Pre-TOEFL Guide: Academic English Practice
Stirling, Bruce 2017
When looking for resources related to EAP, try some of these keywords in your searching :
e.g., electric vehicles AND climate change
* Interested in learning more about using keywords for research? Check out our videos on how to create and search using keywords on our Research Skills page.
Open access resources are resources that are available to everyone for free online. Links here will lead to sites where you can download textbooks or access journals related to English for Academic Purposes
Communication Beginnings is a textbook designed for English language learners in an academic English program. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities.
In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook by NorQuest College
In the Community is an English language skills textbook to help English Language Learning students acquire communication skills needed to communicate with those around them. It focuses on listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Business English for Success by Scott McLean
Business English for Success provides instruction on building writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. It focuses on clear oral and written communication in the workplace.
College Skills: Intermediate English by Tania Pattison
College Skills is a textbook designed to help students develop skills in reading, writing, language use, and studying. Within each chapter, students encounter two reading passages; these are followed by questions designed to improve comprehension skills, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills.
Purdue provides ESL-specific exercises, as well as grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence style and structure, and writing resources.
UVic’s English Language Center (ELC)
The ELC is a free site of English language lessons and practice exercises. The site is designed for adult English learners and contains resources for students of different levels.
The Canadian Encyclopedia provides Canadians and others with accurate, updated information about Canada’s people and country.
Canadian Immigrant is a free online magazine made to “inform, educate and motivate” immigrants to Canada and assist them in their immigration journey.
The Westcoast Reader is a magazine created to help English language learners develop reading and language skills through newsworthy articles about living in British Columbia and Canada. It also serves as an introduction to Canadian daily newspapers.
CBC provides free English lessons through weekly newscasts and monthly stories to help students learn about their community and workplace.
BBC’s Learning English website provides free news articles, videos, courses, and exercises all made for English language learners. Click here for access.
AC Library has a wide range of books written for students learning English. These books are categorized by reading level. Please visit either campus and ask a Librarian to help you find our English-language reader’s and to explain the reading levels.
Writing Help at Alexander College
AC’s Writing and Learning Center provides EAP students with resources designed to help students start their essays. Please note that the WLC also provides one-on-one tutoring for all courses offered at the College and personalized feedback on written assignments through WriteAway.
There is no one citation style used in EAP. Online WLC citation guides can be found here You can also book an appointment with the Writing and Learning Center for workshops and one-on-one learning help.
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Alexander College acknowledges that the land on which we usually gather is the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work in this territory.
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