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Live chat Software has helped retailers to organize their online customer service tasks in more professional and efficient way. Using this web-based chat application, the vendors can carry out their online customer service task in a sequence which could produce more productive results.

A collection of video interviews with native speakers from different countries, representing different dialects. Organized by task, and level (beginning, intermediate A & B, advanced A & B, and superior. Comes with transcripts too.

A collection of video interviews with native speakers from different countries, representing different dialects. Organized by task, and level (beginning, intermediate A & B, advanced A & B, and superior. Comes with transcripts.

Send a note to parents/someone with links to very short simple videos on a variety of common web tasks.

Send a note to parents/someone with links to very short simple videos on a variety of common web tasks.

"The ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL) is unlike any other assessment. AAPPL Measure addresses the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning and uses today's communication media in which test takers perform tasks such as participating in a virtual video chat, creating wikis, e-mailing, and using apps to demonstrate language ability."

Create short animated films with audio, text, backgrounds and a 3D avatar on an Apple device, then share the video online. Ideal for sharing ideas, tasks or homework. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gami/id572737805?ls=1&mt=8 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams

Reading task for B2 ESL learners.

Listening comprehension task for B2 ESL students

Reading comprehension task for B2 ESL students

A listening comprehension task for B2 ESL learners

Site contains hundreds of visual aids (illustrations) that can be used to support instructional tasks such as describing objects and people (i.e., teaching vocabulary) or describing entire events and situations (i.e., teaching grammar).

image manipulation program like Photoshop, only free! It tackles tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring

In fact, some of the greatest obstacles to world-language education are parents who recall their own miserable experiences. Many Americans were introduced to foreign languages in middle school or high school classes that emphasized conjugation of verbs and other dull grammatical tasks rather than relevant communication skills. "Language teaching in the U.S. has been ineffective," Stewart says. "We start it at the wrong age. Teacher skills are not great. There's a focus on grammar and translation." The result: "Adults who took three years of French don't speak a word," she states.\nBut the trend toward competency and away from conjugation is helping create a new generation of language learners, one that gains real-world skills with many practical applications.

the key here lies in the paragraph I clipped: the focus should be on competency rather than on conjugation.

Five Card Flickr "This quasi experimental web site is designed to foster visual thinking. It is based completely, or more loosely... copied, from the Five Card Nancy game devised by comics guru Scott McCloud and the nifty web version at 741.5 Comics. However, rather than drawing from a hand of randomly chosen panels of the nancy comic, my version draws upon collections of photos. You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selextion of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures. When you are done, you the option to save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom (she pay print it out and tape it to the fridge, or she may criticize your creativity, your mileage and mom may vary)."

In this blog post, Conti reiterated inadequacies in methods from previous posts about teaching listening to secondary-level additional (modern) language learners in the UK. He then outlined skills and conditions necessary for successful listening comprehension. As he enumerated practical implications of those skills for learning and teaching activities, he provided illustrative sequences of tasks that teachers could set for learners to help them develop their listening comprehension.