Welcome to Holmes Community College Libraries: ESL Resources
Exploring the Library’s Multilingual Collection
Our online catalog has a filter feature, which allows the selection of a specific language. Use the Search our Resources link located on the Library web page. Type in your specific topic, then click enter. At the top of the page, click filter. Scroll down the list to find languages, place a check-mark by the language, then click update and apply.
Resources
Intuitive Language Construction™ builds the 6 critical skills necessary for true language learning. Vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, culture, comprehension and retention.
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Discusses literary movements, authors, literary themes, and artistic works; includes suggested essay topics and easy to navigate related articles and literary articles and literary analysis and 'how to write about' guides.
Streaming video titles from producers such as Films for the Humanities and Sciences, PBS, A&E, History, ABCNews, BBC, NBC News, Biography, National Geographic, and others. This curriculum-focused resource offers thousands of streaming videos in a broad range of subjects, from health and medicine to humanities and social sciences.
Updated weekly, with an extensive backfile, Issues & Controversies offers in-depth pro/con articles that present both sides of an issue clearly, coherently, and without bias made to inspire thought-provoking debates and improve critical-thinking skills.
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Learning Express provides online test prep resources that help improve core academic skills, earn a high school equivalency, prepare for college join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers and become a U.S. citizen.
These OWL resources will help multilingual students in second language writing. This section includes resources on writing across the curriculum, writing in the disciplines, and it contains links to OWL workshops and exercises useful for multilingual students. This section also includes links to multilingual resources on the Internet.
The characteristics of the original Masterplots that appealed to individuals and libraries in the early 1950's continue to make the multivolume reference works published by Salem Press popular with librarians and library patrons today. Each Magill Book is designed with a broad range of users in mind: the student approaching a subject for the first time, the reader trying to decide which book to read for pleasure, the teacher needing a quick reminder of a character's name in a book read many years ago, the graduate student reviewing for orals, the reference desk librarian needing to quickly answer a question for a patron.