Group items tagged

This website gives learners an interactive way to work on noticing and correcting spelling errors and other types of errors. For one activity I tried(there are three different types ), a sample writing is provided that learners must try and correct using editing symbols. This could be a good way to have learners develop their editing skills outside of class on their own. There are also different types of activities, including spelling and reading, spelling and writing and spelling and thinking. So it seems there is some integration of different skills into the interactive activities. Learners can also choose their level, so with some experimenting teachers could recommend an appropriate level based on learners' proficiency level.

I like this. It can be used to train students on how to comment on their peers' papers. Very interesting

This website is an interactive guide to the sounds of American English, German, and Spanish. It's American English guide is comprehensive, including a step by step guide on how to produce each sound. In addition, flash animation is used to demonstrate how to position one's mouth in order to produce the sounds of American English. This tool is useful for students who are curious about pronunciation or who are struggling with a particular sound that they would like to improve. Although the technical terms are defined, this tool can still be confusing for students and should not be taken as a guaranteed solution for improving pronunciation. It can, however, be used as supplementary material.

When you click the American English option, you can select consonants' manner, place, voice, or the vowels' monopthongs and diphthongs. Then, you can see an animation of the sound, or you can see a person using the sound in a word. The home page says it has libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, German, and Spanish.

English Daily is an interesting site for English learners because of its vast array of resources. For learners who have an interest in learning about English idioms, learners can discover the definitions of idioms and read examples of them in context. To learn about English language culture or for practicing reading fluency aloud, the Movie Lines section of the site contains portions of dialogue from popular movies. To practice comprehension questions, the comprehension section allows learners to read a passage and to answer questions about it. While the website has many advantages and may appeal to younger learners and business professionals alike, the presentation of the content is not very aesthetically pleasing, and the site is full of advertisements that may distract learners from the content they are attempting to learn. Additionally, the site is not very interactive beyond the news section that allows learner to listen to a news story and to complete cloze exercises. Furthermore, the answers to exercises are presented on the same page as the exercises themselves, so clearly a learner would need to be rather autonomous to use the site effectively. To fully incorporate the site into a classroom, a teacher would benefit from creating supplemental materials such as a learning log in order to track student learning.

Welcome to Fun English Games for Kids! Find a wide range of free teaching resources that are perfect for students learning English, ESL classes and teachers looking for ideas online. Enjoy interactive games, classroom activities, printable worksheets and much more!

Wiffiti is a way to create interactive boards for your class. You set up a "board" with a question or instructions and learners can submit their responses or comments either via an automatically generated URL or through Twitter (by using a hashtag you preselect).

This is a corpus of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The texts come from spoken interactions between nonnative speakers of English in ELF contexts (i.e., when speakers from different L1 backgrounds must use English in order to communicate).

Learn a Language with free online language lessons, interactive games, and fun lessons. Learn up to 8 foreign languages with Visual Link Languages. Pick a language and start learning.

This website is neat as it has a updating blog and a culture section for language learning.

A very cool free app! It's basically an interactive whiteboard and you can record as you draw/write. Designed to let you create video lessons. You can then either embed the lessons in your own web page or create a course where your students can view all your lessons. Students can also register and create their own lessons.

Virtual tourist allows you to plan trips all over the world. DuBravac chapter 5 discusses consensus activities on pages 92-93 and lists a trip-planning task as one example. After choosing a continent, learners could choose a particular country (or, the teacher could assign each group a country), and then the site offers pictures, pros and cons of traveling in this country, lists of attractions, reviews of hotels and restaurants, etc... The interactive maps, pictures, videos, and comments/reviews from other users make this site pretty engaging. I could see it being a bit overwhelming for some learners, though, since there is so much information. But if a teacher wants to use one website for a trip-planning task, this one looks good!

"A free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books." I used this site when I was teaching preschool. It could also be used to teach language learners. However, because of the content, it should be used with beginners who are young. When I used this site it was mainly with children between 4 and 5 years old, and they absolutely loved it. Not only were they using a "big person toy" by being on the computer, but they were truly learning valuable language skills.

This is a very intersting website. It is very interactive. Students can be asked/ encouraged to visit this website to gain more practice with the Eng;sih grammar. It can also help teachers with ideas on how to design effective grammar activities

This website is great for reading material. It's a compilation of original poetry and fiction (ranging from flash fiction to short stories to novels). There is also an essay section. Because much of it is unedited, you might need to read through a few to find good quality, but if you're teaching reading/writing, this could be a good resource to have students look at different pieces and compare them. There's also an option to review pieces, so there can be some level of interaction. Do note, however, that content is rated for maturity by the authors, so that can vary.

The British Council has an island for learners and teachers in the Second Life virtual environment! So you can virtually visit the UK for free :) Interactive activities and quests are available for all registered Second Life residents.

This innovative language learning video game will complement students' classroom English language instruction through interactive 3-D multimedia learning adventures. Trace Effects is geared for players aged 12-16.

An introductory video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxg-KTJY-RA&feature=youtu.be