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The LRC is proud to announce the release of a new video describing the advantages of learning a second language.  Funded by Alberta Education and produced by the Teaching and Learning Centre at the University of Calgary, Advantage for Life provides an accessible overview of the cognitive, economic and social advantages that come with learning another language.

The LRC is proud to announce the release of a new video describing the advantages of learning a second language.  Funded by Alberta Education and produced by the Teaching and Learning Centre at the University of Calgary, Advantage for Life provides an accessible overview of the cognitive, economic and social advantages that come with learning another language.

This site claims that it will gauge a students' knowledge of vocabulary and provide materials (readings, videos) at the appropriate level, to make comprehension easy enough for learning to be fun, but at the same time slightly challenging for new learning to happen (Krashen's idea of i+1). I have tried it at beginner's level for Italian and was not terribly impressed, but the idea is good. Would love to hear what other people think about this.

video interview with Ellen Bialystok on learning languages as adults and children

An interesting article that outlines the importance of the classroom environment, how to provide a supportive learning environment and how motivation s key to successful language learning.

Tech (but accessible) article

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots and learn more about Decide Now! on the App Store. Download Decide Now! and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Essentially a spin the wheel game. Used as fun small group revision. For example, the teacher can create a wheel for noun revision and students need to give the correct definite article for that noun.

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots and learn more about YAKiT Kids on the App Store. Download YAKiT Kids and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This enables students to create stories using real life objects as the speaker ie a cup, a tree. It is a bit of fun and allows.

This site contains hundreds of pre-recorded monologues and discussions on an enormous variety of topics, geared to English speakers at six distinct levels of skill from beginner to advanced. ELLLO recruits speakers from more than 60 countries, helping you introduce your students to a variety of different English accents, and some exercises contain comprehension games as learning aids. The lessons come in video as well as audio formats and can be sorted by topic, skill level or speaker's home country. This site provides students of English language with free listening, reading, and vocabulary practice.

takes an innovative approach to educational technology and turns something students probably do already into an ESL/EFL learning experience. Users register for an account, choose a YouTube video and then create quizzes based on the video content, which learners can then watch, answer and rate. Quizzes are ranked by recommended level of skill at English and contain a comment section for students to practice their written English. The diverse content on the site has been created by over 1,400 registered teachers, and registration for the site is free.

Good resource to highlight what communicative language teaching and learning is all about with some good suggestions as well as including an examination of text based and competency based instruction.

Video clips with the option for pausing, slowing audio, turning off either or both English/French transcript, flashcards with definition, audio and use in context with translation. Comes in a range of languages but costs to subscribe.

online dictionary that returns examples of texts containing the searched word, rather than just a definition. Actually a corpus more than a dictionary. Very useful to learn vocabulary in context and special clusters of words (idiomatic expressions, collocations)