Repository of Materials and Resources for English-Medium Instruction
Repositorio conjunto de las aportaciones de los proyectos REMARE- EMI (2019-2021) y INEMICEF (2021-2023) dirigidos por Esther Nieto Moreno de Diezmas y financiados por el Vicerrectorado de Estudios, Calidad y Acreditación de la UCLM.
Author: Wordy.com
Recommended by: Lucas Baeyens Morata
“Section inside Wordy.com (a website which provides online proofreading services) which
includes different sub-sections with tips and ideas on how to improve your writing techniques,
including paragraph writing, composition, basic English communication skills, and a specific
section regarding English writing techniques.”
Author: CambridgeEnglish.org
Recommended by: Lucas Baeyens Morata
“Write & Improve is a free online service provided by Cambridge English which helps you
improve your writing skills as an English student. You can select different writing tasks and
submit your writings in order to get appropriate feedback. This web resource can definitely be
helpful for non-native teachers who wish to further develop their English writing skills.”
Author: Mark Davies / BYU
Recommended by: Lucas Baeyens Morata
“Based on data from over 120 million words from academic texts in the Corpus of
Contemporary American English (COCA), this webpage analyses your written texts in order to
obtain useful information about the words and phrases in it, regarding their technicality, whether
they have been commonly used in academic texts, etc.”
Corpus ofContemporary American English (COCA):
Author: Dictionary.com
Recommended by: Lucas Baeyens Morata
“Thesaurus is not only one of the most powerful synonym and antonym online dictionaries, but
also provides tips and suggestions for avoidable expressions and vocabulary, words of the day,
etc. A great tool to expand your vocabulary while developing your writing skills.”
Author: Readable.com (part of the Added Bytes family)
Recommended by: Lucas Baeyens Morata
“Readable is a website that helps you to improve the ‘readability’ of your written texts. It
indicates whether there are too many long words or long sentences, for example, that can
make your written texts harder to understand (especially for non-native English speakers). It
could be a great tool for proficient EMI teachers that have difficulties when adjusting the
written texts, instructions, activities, etc. to their students’ level.”
Author: Grammar Monster
Recommended by: Lucas Baeyens Morata
“Entirely free website where you can improve your writing skills in English. It includes a
grammar glossary, lots of free test and resources in commas, prepositions, adjectives,
punctuation, etc. A great tool for a non-native English speaker to develop their writing skills.”
Author: Grammarly, Inc.
Recommended by: Lucas Baeyens Morata
“Grammarly is an online word processor which can not only help develop your English writing
skills but also expand your vocabulary. Submit a written text and it will detect over 250
different kinds of mistakes plus suggest synonyms.”
Author: Mignon Fogarty & Macmillan Publishers
Recommended by: Lucas Baeyens Morata
“This blog, written by Mignon Fogarty, is a great tool to develop your English writing skills
online. It covers a wide range of language and writing-related topics, from grammar,
vocabulary or punctuation to writing style.”
Author: Forvo Media SL
Recommended by: Lucas Baeyens Morata
“Forvo is a website which claims to be ‘the largest pronunciation dictionary in the world’. It
provides not only a large bank of pronunciations from native speakers all around the globe, but
also the possibility of asking for the pronunciation of a given word so native speakers can
pronounce it for you. At the same time, you can also provide pronunciations of words from
your native language which have been asked from people all over the world. Every
pronunciation for a given world comes with specific labels, such as speaker gender or country
of origin, which can help you understand or master specific accents, for example.
It could be really interesting for a teacher interested in EMI methodology, since it could help
improve his/her pronunciation and intelligibility, which is a key feature in clear instruction.”
Author: Aztekera
Recommended by: Lucas Baeyens Morata
“Sometimes, especially native or very proficient English speakers use the passive voice
excessively in their writings, particulary in an academic context or environment. Aztekera
identifies how many passive voice verbs you have used in a text so you can check if you’d
prefer to adapt the text to active voice choices.”