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If you want to learn how to learn English vocabulary, you need to know which words to learn.\nIf you are a teacher, you also need to know which words your students need to learn.\nCambridge English Lexicon was first published in 1980, and the fifth printing was in 1991. There might have been further printings, but it seems to be out of print now.\nTHE GOOD NEWS is that amazon does have a few second hand copies available at very cheap prices, so get in quick if you want to buy one of these rare gems!

I work with adult migrants and they live with their non-English speaking families. Therefore, unlike children of native English speaking families, these adults are not surrounded by rich English words that are full of meaning. We might say to a child "put your toys away" and they won't understand, so we do it for them. However, we started doing it when they were 8 months old, and after a few more months, they understand what it means.

MegaZine3 is an open source, Flash driven pageflip engine. a pageflip engine is a tool which recreates the look and feel of actual books or magazines on the screen.

Make Your Own Motivational Poster and save it a as a jpg or to your flickr account. Great for circumlocution. Just like the ones in BigHugeLabs. Does not work with non-roman character sets.

English Unlimited is a new series with thoughtful topics, layout and presentation. This is a book review of the Starter books

A scholArly reseArch Article on 4 fActors thAt hAve A significAnt impAct on the success of lAnguAge teAching progrAms

Voice Chat for Everyone. Very basic. No sign in required. Can get up to 200 people in a single voice chat. Doesn't seem to offer a way to record the chat from what I have seen.

"Introduction In recent years, the world has witnessed a growing wave of local initiatives in support of public schools. Teachers, cultural associations and civil society have been playing an active part in grassroots experiments aimed at helping schools in the creative elaboration of new educational methods, also exploiting information technologies. Here answers are coming from those directly faced with educational issues, in contrast with the more common top-down reforms, where experts' committees draw up didactic experimentation plans to be put forward to willing teachers. Experiments like that are often very effective but, unfortunately, they rarely get known beyond the immediate sphere of their promoters. Moreover, they tend to be short-lived because promoters don't have the strength to sustain them and a suitable supporting network is lacking. They are like drops in the ocean: they apparently cannot change the entire educational system. But the ocean of whole human community could be flooded by many such contained experiments that would transform it, if the most meaningful of them could be fostered, spread and developed. ..."

Tonguetide is a social networking site for people looking to improve their foreign language skills. Find a language partner or use the site's learning tools to help you. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages,+Culture+&+International+Projects

As A rule of thumb you wAnt to hAve A lesson thAt's the Bee's knees. Psych yourself up with is idiom dictionAry with over 5,000 entries. http://ictmAgic.wikispAces.com/English

A greAt site for teAchers/leArner of English As A second lAnguAge to find resources. http://ictmAgic.wikispAces.com/English+As+An+AdditionAl+LAnguAge

Scary how new popular words finds its way into the dictionary... Or is this a rip-off, better go check it out! I feel like such a muggle

Whether you are a designer working for Japanese clients or if you just want to impress your Japanese girlfriend (or boyfriend) with your Photoshop skills, you've certainly became bored with the very limited set of Japanese fonts that comes with your operating system. Here's a collection of some of my favorite j-fonts categorized by shōtai.

Learn Japanese in a new way! a fun Japanese reviewing tool for foreign learners and native speakers alike.

The mission of the Skype an author Network is to provide K-12 teachers and librarians a way to connect authors, books, and young readers through virtual visits. Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after reading their books? We are growing a list of authors who want to make that connection with you via Skype. Visit our Skype Overview page to learn more about Skype.

The Chain Stories project will create a language friendly environment in which students, in their first year of language learning, can enjoy creative writing in their mother tongue. They then pass on their story to other schools, within a chain, for completion.

In most if not all 1:1 student laptop initiatives, "instant messaging" is a hot topic for both students and teachers. Typically and predictably, students want access to instant messaging, while many teachers and administrators see IM as a distraction comparable to video games. Both IM and video games are often regarded as "problems" for the classroom teaching and learning environment, rather than powerful tools that can be leveraged for transformative educational experiences.