Websites for learners

English language learning

  • Log on and learn A Resource Manual for Adult Literacy Students and Instructors. This American-based resource site is designed for adults learning to use the computer and the instructors who are facilitating that learning process. The lessons are created for students and instructors to use together and for students to use to practice outside tutoring sessions or the classroom. The lessons are appropriate for both Basic Literacy and ESOL students.

  • Newspapers in Education (NEI) website. NEI produces a range of excellent theme-based resource and these can be ordered by clicking on the ‘How to Order' link. You can access past and upcoming topics and extra resources including a guide for students to get more value from reading the newspaper called "Cruising the News".

  • Password A magazine for ESOL learners and teachers in New Zealand. It contains easy-to-read articles and exercises about New Zealand life, written by experienced, practising teachers.

  • Academic word of the day A daily 15 minute programme which focuses on academic English at intermediate / high intermediate level. The podcast contains text, a 15 minute recording and a link to a web-based article from a newspaper or radio programme. About half of these articles are from NZ sources - there's also a linked academic English website for more practice of the vocabulary. Run by Martin McMorrow, Massey University, Auckland.

  • ESL News This website has NZ news, spoken slowly and clearly, using
    easy vocabulary. You can read and listen at the same time,  just listen or listen then read and listen again. 

  • Sounds of English English pronunciation site, tips and activities - links to other sites to practise. speaking English.

  • Your English Online
    A leading New Zealand-based English language online site. Practical work-related vocabulary quizzes in General English, Work English, Technical English, Hotel English, Business English, Job Search English and Academic English. 

  • English For All
    Video site with interactive oral and vocabulary activities.

  • Dictionary Dictionaries in many languages. Vocabulary, grammar, fun and games.

  • Cambridge Dictionary

  • Cambridge.org Learn English with world's bestsellers. Try our interactive tests and exercises.

  • Information on the IELTS test.

  • Maori.org
    Find out about Māori language, culture and customs.

  • Your English Mentor Improve your English. 

     

Community organisations

  • Citizens Advice Bureau offers help in many languages through their webiste and in local offices. CAB Language Link's 4 busiest languages, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic and Korean, are available from 9am to 4pm, Mon- Fri. All other languages are rostered. If a particular language line is busy or if people call outside office hours, a voicemail in the ethnic language followed by English asks them to leave a message.The email service is available in 8 languages; Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Vietnamese and Hindi.
  • The New Zealand Federation of Ethnic Councils Inc.
    The New Zealand Federation of Ethnic Councils Inc. was established in July 1989. It acts as an umbrella organisation for the ethnic communities of New Zealand. The Federation's primary role is to advocate, lobby, support and share information among New Zealand's ethnic communities.
  • RMS Refugee Resettlement 
    RMS is New Zealand's refugee resettlement agency. 
    The service began in 1976 and have helped more than 40,000 refugees to settle.
  • Shakti 
    Support for ethnic women - advocacy, domestic violence intervention programmes, refuge services, 24-hour domestic violence crisis call centre, counseling and legal services, mental health referral

New Zealand government and related sites

  •   For information in 21 languages: English, Maori, NZ Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Cook Islands Maori, Farsi - Persian, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Niuean, Punjabi, Samoan, Somalian, Thai, Tokelauan, Tongan and Vietamese.