" * About Russell Stannard
* ELT/ESL Videos
* Web 2.0/ICT Videos
* Russell's Research
Videos
* 9 Great Spelling Sites for ELT
* Free on-line screen capture tool
* Zimmer Twins-Brilliant Cartoon/Dialogue Tool for Kids
* Word Magnets-Great vocabulary/Grammar Tool
* How to use Survey Monkey
* My favourite Website on the Web
* 5 Simple but brilliant ELT tools
* Great Text Tool called WordSift
* Wolfram Alpha Great Question Making Tool
* Fun Viral Marketing Tools
* Amazing 3D dialogue builder
* 2 amazing presentation tools
* Best Pronunciation Sites
* Best ELT sites 2008
* Great dictation site
* Wordle-Great Vocab Site
* My favourite Listening Site
* 10 vocab sites for kids
* ELT Videos with subtitles
* Brilliant Comic Site
* 7 Great Fun sites for ELT
* Unusual Vocabulary Site
* Really Fun Dialogue Building Tool
* A site for drawing&Recording
* 11 great sites for teaching English
* Recording & Searching Podcasts with Podamatic
* Good sites for ELT Video content
* Review of the best ELT podcasts
* Voicethread- Presentation tool
* Fun drawing tool
Humanising Language Teaching
The Blogs I use most for ELT
* Larry Ferlazzo's blog
* Nik Peachey's blog
* Blog at IH Barcelona
* Ozge's Blog
* Carl's Blog
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For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
Some students in public schools are no longer being taught grammar, she believes.
Emoticons, happy faces, sad faces, cuz, are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, say professors and administrators at Simon Fraser."Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani.
The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an email to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work.
"These folks are going to short-change themselves, and right or wrong, they're looked down upon in traditional corporations," notes Postman.
Listening and Speaking Tip: Class presentations with a rubric; allow class to complete rubric of their peers too and use video or text-to-speech based web 2.0 animation programs for shy students
all students need access to a wide range of materials on a variety of topics and genres
hese responses can vary in length based on the questions asked and tasks performed, from answering brief questions to crafting multiparagraph responses in upper grades.
two standards progression charts for each grade level
Writing
peaking and Listening
Graham, S., and M. A. Hebert. 2010. Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading. A Carnegie Corporation Time to Act Report. Washington, D.C.: Alliance for Excellent Education.
suggests both the number and types
Students
offer one way of organizing the standards
quarterly modules
reflects the integrated nature
four sections
to express an opinion/make an argument or to inform/explain
A very interesting assessment tool for English grammar and composition using knowledge analytics / artificial intelligence to plot skill development over time. Start up company looking for users to provide data.