PALS - Pre-Arrival Library Support: Useful websites

As part of the BBC World Service, BBC Learning English has been teaching English to global audiences since 1943, offering free audio, video and text materials to learners around the world.

Critical Thinking Web contains online tutorials to develop thinking skills.

The home of free learning from The Open University since 2006

Prepare for Success is an interactive web learning tool for international students who are getting ready to come to the UK for study in further or higher education. It contains learning resources which are activity-based to help you find out about different aspects of academic life in the UK and the skills needed for effective study.

iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalogue of language-related Internet resources. More than 2400 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs.

This site is dedicated to breaking down of language barriers and assisting the users who have the desire to learn a language, a need to communicate between languages, and for those who work with languages as a profession.