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On this page you'll find useful information to get you started using the internet to help you with your English, information about Austin and information about the computer lab.

Open lab hours

Note: Please don't install software and please do use a diskette. Thanks!

Discussion Forums On-Line:

• Business English for ESL Students: http://webct.cc.utexas.edu:8900/public/Smith/index.html

English listening - your textbooks:

Some of the tapes for your books are on the web at the UT Liberal Arts Media Center: http://www.lamc.utexas.edu/itsaud

Useful links:

• List of computer lab resources for our students

• How to make a PowerPoint presentation!

• See your classmates' projects.

• UT EID Information

• Improve your Mac skills! Take this quiz!

Websites for some textbooks: Talk it Up! Talk it Though! Talk it Over!

• Talk it Up!: http://www.college.hmco.com/esl/kozyrev/talk_it_up/2e/students/

• Talk it Through!: http://www.college.hmco.com/esl/kozyrev/talk_it_through/1e/students/

• Talk it Over!: http://www.college.hmco.com/esl/kozyrev/talk_it_over/2e/students/

Other English listening sites:

• Randall's Cyberlistening Lab: http://www.esl-lab.com/
• Hear an artificial person read the news: http://www.ananova.com
• National Public Radio: news and interviews; a good source for a variety of listening: http://www.npr.org/
• CNN: http://www.cnn.com/
• The Voice of America (there is a Special English Service for English learners): http://www.voa.gov/
• The British Broadcasting Corporation: the BBC World Service page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml
• UT's Audio News on the Internet Page: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/news/audio.html

Other English reading websites:

• New York Times (you have to register, but it's free): http://www.nytimes.com/
• Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
• Austin American Statesman: http://www.austin360.com/aas/index.html
• Austin Chronicle: http://www.auschron.com/
• Daily Texan: http://www.dailytexanonline.com/
• The UT library news page – MANY journalism sources: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/news/
• The UT scholarly electronic journals page: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ejour/
• Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/
• Barnes and Noble: http://www.bn.com/

Other English learning websites:

• Dave's ESL Cafe: http://www.eslcafe.com/
• ESL's Test Preparation Page: http://www.utexas.edu/student/esl/testprep
• ESL's page of links for English learning: http://www.utexas.edu/student/esl/links/

UT Links:

• The UT Libraries (PCL, UGL): http://www.lib.utexas.edu/
• The Oxford English Dictionary – a great source for vocabulary – UT Austin computers only: http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl
• Learn to use a search engine via the UT System. Go to the following link, pick "Tilt Lite" and log in as "guest": http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

Useful websites:

• Encyclopedia Britannica on the web: http://www.britannica.com
• Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/ (A search engine and e-mail site)

Weather information:

• The Weather Channel: http://www.weather.com/
• KVUE: http://www.kvue.com/

Some idioms: Hey! Do you suffer from mouselexia? Read any good webliographies lately? Know anyone with a bar-code haircut?

To learn these idioms, check the Chronicle of Higher Education's list of techno-jargon page: http://www.chronicle.com/free/it/jargon.htm

Visit some of our students' favorite UT places here!

See some Austin places through international students' eyes here!

Read our students' reviews of Winston Groom's Novel Forrest Gump here

Hear some of our students' thoughts on Sept. 11, "Friends," and more!

Learn more about Austin from ELP 5 Grammar

AEP 1 Fall 2001 Memory Book!

ELP Writing 2 Fall 2001 Memory Book!

Most recent update:

June 17, 2002
Comments to: esl@www.utexas.edu

The Lab page is maintained by John Madden, Computer Lab Coordinator.