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EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

Using Free Websites as Learning & Teaching Tools

About teaching, learning, reflecting and being a 21st century learner & teacher …

Experimenting with tech tools to enhance language learning

Links to a few sites that help students with vocabulary learning - mainly by sending the students daily links

Our mission is threefold: * to provide great material for educators (fairly priced and readily accessible) * to give a fair deal to authors (who sell and retain the copyright on their own work) * to be a learning environment (where we share expertise and ideas)

"These seminars encourage debate on areas of contemporary interest in the field of English language teaching and learning. "

Management training and leadership training. Includes things on creativity, emotional intelligence, team-building, learning styles, communication skills.

Amazing resource: interviews with footballers who speak English as a second language about language learning and their lives here. Lots of resources and suggestions for teachers too. (premier in the name refers to the Premier League - it's English football)

Includes flibbertigibbet! Nice fun learning tool

Lessons from real news: Easily create English Language learning material from an enormous pool of ever growing English Language news sources from around the world. LINGLE automatically identifies grammar, vocabulary, topic and complexity from international English Language news sources including The New York Times, The Guardian and China Daily. You can rapidly find authentic, interesting articles at the right level, with the vocabulary and grammar for your learners. Rapidly build and manage lesson plans with exercises, key-word glossaries and news stories automatically generated from any article. FREE TRIAL for only 2 weeks or 6 documents.

interesting and good idea, but not sure I'd want to pay for it (I don't like anything that uses teachers for an income stream)

http://wp.me/p1VP4o-K I made a GRAMMAR GAP FILL using Lingle - have a look and see what you think. It was very easy, the lesson you'll see on this link took me about 15 mins from start (working out how it all works) to finish.

Loads of lectures, often with transcripts

Easy AWL gapmaker - paste a text into the box and all the academic words appear. Click on the ones you want gapped. The site will produce a neat PDF version of the text (with gaps).

Test your text for Globish - put it in, the machine spits it out!

A refereed journal for second and foreign language scholars and educators.

The purpose of this website is to guide learners of English in effective and enjoyable ways of improving their language ability.

UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse our grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.

Links to vocabulary sites.

A refereed journal for second and foreign language scholars and educators

English Vocabulary Exercises .com Over 500 Exercises! Over 1500 words! Learn & Review GENERAL ENGLISH VOCABULARY in context.