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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING LINKS

Rong Chang Li's
http://www.rong-chang.com/main.htm
STUDENTS: For ESL learners who want to study English through the Web. Li is a grad of Suzhon Univ China, and a Ph.D. candidate at Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research area is computer-assisted language learning.
English Language Guide
http://www.languageguide.org/
STUDENTS: Click link for learning English. Has categories for learning vocabulary such as Body, Food, etc. Pictures with callouts appear. Point to a callout, such as an eye, and AUDIO plus written vocabulary occurs, such as "pupil", "eyelash", etc.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
http://ww.esl-lab.com
STUDENTS: By ESL level, MANY listening scripts with audio.
Train Your Accent
http://ww.trainyouraccent.com
STUDENTS: Exercises and scripts for accent improvement.
English For All
http://www.myefa.org/
STUDENTS: Listen to vocabulary spoken, listen and read a story, answer questions about a story.
Many Things
http://www.manythings.org/
STUDENTS: Listen to a sentence, choose correct answer for word used. Listen & read-along activities. MANY other activities.
Breaking News English
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
STUDENTS: English for Current Events, includes lesson plans, podcasts.
Internet English Resources
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/student_internet_res.html
BOTH: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  •   Links to web sites with activities and information written for students.
  •   Resources where you can practice reading or listening to texts intended for native speakers.
  • Dave's ESL Cafe
    http://www.eslcafe.com/
    BOTH: Ideas and forums. For Students: Help, Grammar, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs,Pronunciation, Quizzes, Slang, Student Forums.
    About.com - ESL
    http://esl.about.com
    BOTH: By ESL level, lesson plans, phrasal verb activities, vocabulary, quizzes, conversation and pronunciation lesson plans. Links that include audio & video for phonics.
    Using English
    http://www.usingenglish.com
    BOTH: Idioms, phrasal verbs, irregular verbs, ESL tests, articles, Teacher Resources, discussion forums.
    City Family
    http://www.cityfamily.org/
    BOTH: online magazine with articles on family, jobs, money, and home.
    Georgia Southern Univ Writing Center
    http://class.gerogiasouthern.edu/writingc/handouts/englishverbtenses.htm
    BOTH: Lists of English verbs & tenses, with sentence examples. "I walk to school," "I am walking," "I walked," etc.
    Adult ESOL Lesson Plans
    http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/adultesol/high.html
    BOTH: Adult ESOL Lesson Plans, vocabulary, on a variety of topics.
    mes-english
    http://www.mes-english.com
    TUTORS & STUDENTS: printable flash cards, listening tapes, and more.
    Wikipedia
    http://wikipedia.org/wiki/english_alphabet
    Great for alphabet pronunciation, and upper and lower case letters.
    Sounds of English
    http://www.soundsofenglish.org
    TUTORS: Initial part of the web site has tips for teaching the mechanics of phonics. Click on the link for Handouts, the first link gets you to "Start Spining Webs." More games, exercises, links.
    Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
    http://www.tefl.net
    TUTORS: Many resources here.
    Center For Applied Linguistics
    http://www.cal.org/
    TUTORS: A nonprofit org. to improve communication through understanding of lang. and culture. Biling. ed. and options for ELL. CREDE (Cntr for Research on Ed, Diversity, and Excellence) is useful site for ESL teachers. See CREDE's pubs page (http://www.cal.org/crede/pubs/ )
    Pearson Publishing
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    TUTORS: Publishes materials for teaching ESL students.
    New Readers Press
    http://www.newreaderspress.com
    TUTORS: The publishing arm of ProLiteracy, this is where we obtain most of our study materials. You can order directly from the web site, but if you order through our Council Coordinator (Donna) you will get a 20% discount.
    ProLiteracy
    http://www.proliteracy.org
    TUTORS: A worldwide organization that we are affiliated with. Information on recent trends in literacy.
    Verizon Foundation ThinkFinity
    http://www.thinkfinity.org
    TUTORS: Affiliated with ProLiteracy, Verizon has provided tutor learning tools and lessons.

     

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