Miscellaneous sites recommended on TESLCA-L
Compiled by
Deborah Healey
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- Action mazes - Business Mazes -
http://www.celt.stir.ac.uk/staff/HIGDOX/VALLANCE/Diss/P1.HTM
- "The
activity takes the form of a decision maze based on business strategies,
inter-personal communication and structure appropriacy. I've designed the
pages for intermediate-level students but I'm sure advanced-level students
will appreciate the new medium in which to review business English."
Michael Vallance, mv06 @ STUDENTS.STIR.AC.UK
- Amal school network English Resource Center -
http://www.amalnet.k12.il/meida/english/
- Non-commercial
site with links
- Applied Linguistics Virtual Library -
http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/
- General site with conference, university, journal links. Alex Nunes,
alex @ venus.co.uk
- Atlas: Reading in English -
http://www.ace.fuhsd.org/atlasweb/default.htm
- Sites that relate to CASAS reading competencies for high school and
adult learners.
- Bangkok Post in English - http://www.bangkokpost.net/
- "We
use a variety of techniques and tend to shy away from testing activities
in favour of schema-building and reading strategy development." Terry
Fredrickson, terryfrd @ KSC.NET.TH
- California Email Projects page of resources - http://www.otan.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.html
- Susan
Gaer, SusanG2 @ aol.com
- CALL Bibliography - http://www.athel.com/athelbib.html
- Extensive bibliography.
Michael Barlow, barlow @ RUF.RICE.EDU
- CALL bibliography - http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/library/biblio/cai-bib.htm
- Kenji
Kitao, kkitao @ MAIL.DOSHISHA.AC.JP
- CALL lab installation issues -
http://www.bu.edu/celop/mll/call/install.html
- "resources
and issues to consider for those administrators or teachers who are
involved in some phase of the computer language lab installation or
setup." John de Szendeffy, johndesz @ BU.EDU
- Chat sites -
http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/chat/html/chat.htm
-
Family-friendly environment with a Code of Conduct ...
web-based and work with Java-capable browsers." Begum Ibrahim,
ahnees @ pl.jaring.my
- Concordancing - http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/;
http://www.uhb.fr/campus/joseph.rezeau/
- Michael Barlow at Rice
University has an extensive bibliography;
Joseph Rezeau has bits and
pieces about
concordance-based classroom teaching of languages, for English or French
or both (multiconcordancing). Joseph Rezeau, Joseph.Rezeau @
UHB.FR
- Crossword (using Java) - http://www.lapasserelle.com/lm/
- "I
created two exercises which I called "invisible sentences" using the
pulldown forms in Claris Home Page which make the exercises look
"interactive"." Michael A. Riccioli, riccioli @ CLUB-INTERNET.FR
- Crossword puzzles for ESL students - http://iteslj.org/cw/
- Part
of ITESLJ. The Internet TESL Journal, iteslj @ GE.AITECH.AC.JP
- Cyberpet Chat Room - http://www.cyberpet.com
- Choose a room and
start chatting. Sandy, Kuang.Y.Ting @ EXETER.AC.UK
- Writing DEN - http://www.actden.com
- Reading and writing
possibilities
- Desktop video conferencing - http://www.coe.missouri.edu/~cjw/video/index.htm
- Chi
James Wong, cjw @ COE.MISSOURI.EDU
- Distance education courses related to Applied Linguistics and Foreign
Languages- http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jcesar/
- Julio
Rodriguez, juliocr @ HOTMAIL.COM
- Distance learning info - http://ics.soe.umich.edu/
- From Waddah
Abdelsalam, waddah @ MAIL.PALNET.COM
- E-mail accounts for students - http://www.hotmail.com;
http://mail.lycos.com;
http://www.netaddress.com;
http://www.rocketmail.com - "All of them
are of great help." Lucimara C. Mello, lucimara
@ santos.ccbeunet.br
- Email Discourse References -
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/bmj/archive/7018ed.htm
http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html - From Neal Davis,
ndavis @ unocal.com
- Linguistic Funland
http://www.linguistic-funland.com/
- Englishtown - http://www.englishtown.com
- Daily joke,
quote, fun fact; monthly short article inviting students to respond;
grammar Q and A; culture Q and A; Pen Pal Club; Chat room; Online writing
course. Janet Raskin, janet_raskin @ ef.com
- ESL Monkey - http://members.aol.com/eslmonkey/
- "One
monthly link or topic for each category. ... The selected sites should
help ESL learners to study English by themselves; the selected sites could
be ESL or non-ESL sites as long as they teach various aspects of English;
viewing the selected sites should not require a high-powered computer or
special software programs unless otherwise specified." Mayuko Nakamura,
mn148 @ COLUMBIA.EDU
- E-Views: Interviews on the Net:
http://www.eviews.net/
- Audio and text files of interviews. One per week is free; for more
and access to the archives, subscriptions cost $25-$30.
- Global Schoolnet: http://www.gsn.org/
- Lots of teacher resources, geared toward K-12.
- Grammar and vocabulary both - Dave's ESL Cafe - http://www.eslcafe.com;
Verbivore -
http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/index.htm
- Meg
Messner, mrmessner @ gallua.gallaudet.edu
- Grammar safari - ttp://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html
- Interesting
ideas for using search engines. Lauren B Goldenberg,
lbg2909 @ IS5.NYU.EDU
- Grammar site -
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~kpokoy1/grammar1.htm
- "eye
pleasing interface with multiple links including interactive exercises."
Meg Messner, mrmessner @ gallua.gallaudet.edu
- HTML help - http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/lynx_help/HTML_quick.html
- "A quick reference to the "most commonly used elements" of HTML
Version 1 and 2 by Michael Grobe."
- HTML REFERENCE MANUAL http://www.sandia.gov/sci_compute/html_ref.html
- as
good as it gets and links to _everywhere_ that has something important to
say about HTML. Bill Hogue, 76507.3536 @ COMPUSERVE.COM
- IALL - http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/IALL/
- International
Association for Learning Laboratories
- Internet phone - http://www.vocaltec.com
- Internet TESL Journal links for students- http://iteslj.org/ESL.html
- Mostly interactive sites, including crossword puzzles and
quizzes.
- JALT CALLEJ -
http://www.clec.ritsumei.ac.jp/english/callejonline/
- Refereed electronic journal from JALT. Kazunori Nozawa,
nozawa @ NEWS00.LC.TUT.AC.JP
- Journals web page - http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/journal.htm
- Kenji
Kitao, kkitao @ mail.doshisha.ac.jp
- Keypal Opportunities for Students - http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/keypal.htm
- Kenji
Kitao, kkitao @ mail.doshisha.ac.jp
- Language Learning and Technology Journal - http://llt.msu.edu/
- Academic
refereed journal online.
- Teacher Mankato Skills Rubric- http://www.bham.wednet.edu/tcomp.htm
- a
self-evaluation for basic computer use. Diana Turner,
umturne5 @ CC.UMANITOBA.CA
- Mystery Net (The Case) - http://www.mysterynet.com"
- Deborah Healey, Deborah.Healey @ orst.edu
- National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) -
http://www.nabe.org/
- Features information on the organization's instructional technology
special interest group and the NABE Technology Consortium (NABETC). Ana
Bishop, abishop @ INTERPORT.NET
- Newbury House Online Dictionary - http://nhd.heinle.com
- contains over 40,000
entries, with simple and clear definitions. provides sample sentences,
idioms, graphics, and cultural facts and figures. Ken Pratt,
Ken_Pratt @ Swpco.com
- Paperless classroom article - http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/people/teacher/trobb/paperless.html
- Thomas
Robb, trobb @ CC.KYOTO-SU.AC.JP
- Persuasive writing with Slate Magazine - http://slate.msn.com
- "A section called
DIALOGUES, that presents pro/con exchanges by articulate and
well-positioned writers on current issues." David Kosofsky,
kosofsky @ MAINCC.HUFS.AC.KR
- Phonology project -
http://www.celt.stir.ac.uk/staff/HIGDOX/STEPHEN/PHONO/PHONOG.HTM
- Teach
yourself phonology course, created as part of a dissertation. S.D.
Luscombe, sdl04 @ STUDENTS.STIR.AC.UK
- PICS website - http://www.uiowa.edu/~pics/
- recent
video products in French, German and Spanish, monthly tips on teaching
with video, special highlighted videos. pics @ uiowa.edu (Becky
Bohde)
- Places to Go, Things to Do in ESL -
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/togotodo.html
- "Contains select, high-quality sites that target assorted
skills/categories (grammar, reading, interactive...) in a task-based
format." Leslie Opp-Beckman, leslieob @ oregon.uoregon.edu
- RealAudio Encoder - http://www.real.com
- Encode any
audio file format into a RealAudio file for a 5 to 15 times reduction in
file size. Free program. John de Szendeffy, johndesz @ BU.EDU
- School Sucks - http://www.SchoolSucks.Com
- College
term papers online, a site to watch out for. Margaret E Sokolik,
msokolik @ UCLINK.BERKELEY.EDU
- Second language acquisition article -
www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/directions/04.htm
- "The full text of Virginia Collier's monograph, "Acquiring a Second
Language for School" (containing most of her findings) published through
the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, is available for
free." Chris Montone, chris @ CAL.ORG
- Shareware and freeware
for ESL -
http://www.cict.co.uk/software/teaching.htm
- Creative Technology site with a lot of work by Martin Holmes,
mholmes @ UVIC.CA (for Windows machines)
- Shockwave ESL Activities -
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/cuttingedge.html
- These require the
Shockwave plug-in.
- Simulations: Financial role-play - uses Sallie Mae site - http://www.salliemae.com
- "Students
interview each other ahead of time, one being the "college counselor" and
one the prospective "college student". The counselor has to find out the
"student's" financial and college needs (which can be fictitious, of
course). Then the "counselor" has to get to http://www.salliemae.com ...
The "counselor" can input the information he or she gathered from the
"student" and then write a report to give the "student" for detertmining
the cost of college and monthly loan repayments." List Editor,
tslhc @ cunyvm.bitnet
- Simulations: Role play links - http://www.rpg.net/larp/
- "The site is
particularly devoted to role playing. In the scenarios section, there are
examples of hobbyist games created by native speaker of English for their
hobby and there is a section of EFL games created by non-native speakers
(see the NCCU Scenarios section)." Brian David Phillips,
phillips @ cc.nccu.edu.tw
- Sounds English Web site -
http://users.netmatters.co.uk//gjtaylor/
- Macintosh shareware for English language learners and teachers, with
reviews and download links. Geoff Taylor,
gjtaylor @ netmatters.co.uk
- Speech recog software - write to Forrest Lunn at flunn @
sympatico.ca
- Free. "It requires a
PowerMac equipped with the Speech Recognition extension 1.5.1 (this can be
downloaded free from Apple's PlainTalk page.) (http://www.apple.com/macos/speech/)."
Forrest Lunn, flunn @ SYMPATICO.CA
- TEFL News - http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/teflnews/v1/n2.htm
- Kenji
Kitao, kkitao @ mail.doshisha.ac.jp
- Web magazine: "Every month I and my contributors will be covering all
aspects of TEFL with the emphasis on fun, fascination and everything
that's intriguing about this wonderful language we teach."
- Video Cassettes and the Internet - http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/videoweb.html
- "A snapshot of Internet resources for using video in the EFL/ESL/ELT
classroom and teaching with the Internet." Linda Thalman,
thalman @ wfi.fr
- Virtual classrooms article - http://news.com.com/?legacy=cnet
- "statistics class students who were learning on-line had test scores
that were 20% higher than students taking the same class (with essentially
the same materials) in a traditional classroom." James Wong,
cjw @ COE.MISSOURI.EDU
- Virtual University's 'E-mail Communication for ESL Students' free
online course - http://www.vu.org/calendar.html
- "E-mail
writing from the perspective of a person who does not have a comfortable
command of the English language." Paolo Rossetti,
prossett @ DIRECT.CA
- Virus hoaxes site - http://www.surveillance-video.com/ma1320inho.html
- Find out which viruses are for real and which are hoaxes. Eileen Lynch
- Vocabulary for travelers - http://www.travlang.com/languages/
- "quite a variety of links including an interactive link for learning
words and phrases through bilingual translations between numerous
languages" Meg Messner, mrmessner @ gallua.gallaudet.edu
- Vocabulary - Word focus - http://www.wordfocus.com
- "an
interesting and informative page on English words for intermediate to
advanced students and even us native users." Meg Messner,
mrmessner @ gallua.gallaudet.edu
- Volterre-Fr Newsletter - http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/
- Resources
for teaching English and French. Linda Thalman, thalman @ wfi.fr
- Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/
- "It
tends to be simple, unpretentious site, with lots of good reading matter
and not much flash." Anthea Tillyer, ABTHC @ CUNYVM.BITNET
- Washington Post international page - ttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/front.htm
- includes
current stories from around the world and has a fabulous (yes!) collection
of regional pages (e.g., Africa, Asia/Pacific) and national pages for what
they bill as "more than 220 countries." John McVicker,
mcvicker @ ohiou.edu
- Web Course in a Box (W.C.B.)- http://www.madduck.com.
- "Free to
educational organizations. It can produce a whole course easily on the Web
or an intranet with interactive exercises and quizzes. A very impressive
software. It has versions for Unix, Windows NT, and Mac." Jeff Williamson
via Chen Hong, chenhong @ mailhost.cnu.edu.cn
- A Web Resource for CALL Lab Managers and for Teachers and Learners of
Languages Online (Vance Stevens): - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4631/esl_home.htm
- Links
and commentary useful for those setting up labs, plus a lot of other
links.
- Web-based training resources-
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/webTraining.html
- John McVicker, mcvicker @ ohiou.edu
- Webster's hypertext dictionary - http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
- Leslie Opp-Beckman, leslieob @ oregon.uoregon.edu
- Writing links for teachers and students
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/writing.html
- John
McVicker, mcvicker @ ohiou.edu
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Compiled by Deborah Healey, Deborah.Healey @ orst.edu. Last
updated 5 July 2004.