A Place to Start in Selecting Software

Table 2: List of software primarily for teens and adults

Software is for Windows unless otherwise noted

Title	Skill(s)	User	Setting	Teacher role	Approx. cost
Alphabet, The Protea Textware	Vocabulary	Teen, adult EFL/ESL	Class or individual	Set tasks	$
Connected Speech Protea Textware	Pronunciation	Teen, adult ESL/EFL	Individual	Limited	$
Decisions, Decisions Tom Snyder	Discussion	Teen, adult EFL/ESL	Group	In control	$$
Dynamic Business English DynEd	Listening, speaking	Adult ESL	Self-directed learning-review	Limited	$$$- $$$$
ELLIS Academic Pearson Education	Comprehensive	Teen, adult EFL	Self-directed learning	Limited	$$$-$$$$
First English DynEd	Comprehensive	Pre-teen, teen	Self-directed learning	Limited	$1$
Focus on Grammar Exceller	Grammar	Adult ESL	Self-directed learning-review	Limited	$$
Hollywood Tom Snyder Productions	Discussion, writing	Any	Group, class	Limited	$
Hot Potatoes Half-Baked Software	Authoring	Any	Class, self-directed learning-review	Full	Free with conditions
Issues in English Protea Textware	Comprehensive	Teen, adult ESL	Group, class	Set tasks	$$
Learn to Speak English (Mac, Win) Learning Company	Comprehensive	Adult EFL	Self-directed learning	Limited	$
Live Action English Interactive (Mac, Win) Command Performance Language Institute	Comprehensive	Adult ESL	Class, self-directed learning	Set tasks	$
MonoConc Pro (concordancer) Athelstan	Vocabulary, reading	Teen, adult ESL/EFL	Class, group, self-directed learning-discovery	Set tasks	$
New Dynamic English DynEd	Comprehensive	Teen, adult EFL	Self-directed learning-review	Limited	$$$ - $$$$
Odyssey ELL Secondary/Adult CompassLearning	Comprehensive	Teen, adult	Class, self-directed learning-review	Set tasks	contact publisher
One-Pick Pack (Ace Detective, Ace Reporter, others) Mindplay	Reading, writing, vocabulary	Teen	Group, self-directed learning-review	In control,set tasks	$
Oregon Trail Learning Company	Discussion	Teen, adult EFL/ESL	Group	In control, set tasks	$
Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive Oxford University Press	Vocabulary	Any	Self-directed learning-review	Set tasks	$$
Active Reading Clarity Language Consultants	Reading, listening	Teen, adult ESL/EFL	Class, self-directed learning	Set tasks	$$
Rosetta Stone Fairfield Language Technologies	Listening	Child, teen, adult EFL	Self-directed learning-review	Limited	$$-$$$
Storybook Weaver Riverdeep	Writing	Teen, adult ESL	Group, class	Set tasks	$
TOEFL Mentor Encomium	TOEFL	Adult ESL	Self-directed learning-review	Limited	$
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (Mac, Windows) Broderbund	Discussion, reading	Teen, adult EFL	Group, self-directed learning-review	Set tasks	$
Wida Authoring Suite Wida	Text manipulation	Adult ESL	Class, self-directed learning-review	Set tasks	$$$

Table 1: List of children's software

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