Some Useful ESL/EFL Links
Compiled by Deborah Healey
Professional interest
Decide who will look at each site so that
everyone
does not check the same one. Look at two of these. Open Microsoft Word
and write your comments in a file. You will send your file to the group
at the end of the session.
Include the following information:
Name of the site
URL (location) http://
Best for what types of users?
Best for what purposes?
Share your finds and comments at the TOP site at Nicenet. Log into www.nicenet.org. The first time,
you'll need to join the class. After the first
time, just use your name and password to log in.
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TESOL online
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http://www.tesol.org/
- Internet TESL
Journal
-
http://iteslj.org
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CALL Interest Section
Software List
-
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/softlist/
- Macintosh
Software for ESOL on CELIA at La Trobe University.
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http://osu.orst.edu/Dept/eli/celia/maccelia.html
-
CELIA archive at
La Trobe University, including DOS, Mac, and Windows files
- ftp://ftp.latrobe.edu.au/pub/CELIA/english/
- Guide to
Arabic language learning links from Middlebury.
- http://cat.middlebury.edu/~lib/arabic.html
- Guide to
French language learning links from Middlebury.
- http://cat.middlebury.edu/~lib/french.html
- Macintosh
Free/Shareware
for English Language Learners and Teachers, compiled by Geoff Taylor
- homepage.mac.com/geofftaylor/FileSharing1.html
-
Directory
of educational software - mostly Mac
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ftp://ftp.amug.org/pub/amug/amug-files/educ/
- Creating
interactive websites -- ELI Tech Seminar '99
- http://osu.orst.edu/dept/eli/techsem99/creatinginternet2a.html
Teacher-oriented sites
Decide who will look at each site so that
everyone
does not check the same one. Look at three of these. Add your comments
to your Microsoft Word file. You will send your file to the group at the
end of the session.
Include the following information:
Name of the site
URL (location) http://
Best for what types of users?
Best for what purposes?
Share your finds and comments at the TOP site at Nicenet.
-
DEN - The Digital Education
Network
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http://www.edunet.com/
- Ed Web -
information
for teachers learning about the Web
- http://www.ibiblio.org/edweb/resource.cntnts.html
- Search the ERIC database
-
http://ericir.syr.edu/Eric/
- A Place to
Start
in Selecting Software - an article to help teachers and lab planners
get started with software
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http://oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/mar1998.html
- Keypals
for students from Kenji Kitao
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http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/keypal.htm
- Tech Tip of
the
Month - helpful hints for teachers who use technology
-
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/techtip.html
- Deborah's
K-12 Links - a work in progress
-
http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/ed596/k12_links.html
- Vance
Stevens' Web resource for CALL Lab managers and others - lots of
links.
-
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4631/esl_home.htm
- E.L.
Easton's material
for
teaching English - lots of good links for language teachers
-
http://eleaston.com/materials.html
Student Interest
Decide who will look at each site so that everyone
does
not check the same one. Look at three of these. Add your comments to your
Microsoft Word file. You will send your file to the group at the end of
the session.
Include the following information:
Name of the site
URL (location) http://
Best for what types of users?
Best for what purposes?
Share your finds and comments at the TOP site at Nicenet.
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Dave's ESL Cafe on the Web
-
http://www.eslcafe.com
- Magazine
Rack
-
http://www.magazine-rack.com/
- Learning Oral
English Online
- http://www.rong-chang.com/book/
- Pronunciation
practice - some student-oriented links.
-
http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/138/pronlinks.html
- ESL/Topic pages,
etc.
from Leslie Opp-Beckman
-
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/
- Internet TESL Journal
links
for students, with quizzes and crossword puzzles.
-
http://a4esl.org
- Writing Den
- part of the Digital Education Network
-
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/index.htm
- Online mysteries to
read and solve
- http://mysteries.mysterynet.com/
- Knock-knock jokes
and riddles
- http://www.lofthouse.com/humor/knockknock/
- Interactive
jokes and riddles - you need to be online to use these.
- http://www.azkidsnet.com/JSknockjoke.htm
- iTools,
a site with links to a dictionary, thesaurus, translating dictionary,
maps,
and many other resources.
-
http://www.itools.com/
-
Cobuild Word Watch page - this week's feature and a list of previous
words
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http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/wordwatch.html
- Cobuild
Concordancer demo
-
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/direct_demo.html
- The White
House
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/
- The Smithsonian
Institution
-
http://www.si.edu
- CNN Online
-
http://www.cnn.com
- Time magazine online
-
http://www.time.com
- NPR - National Public Radio- with
audio
files
-
http://www.npr.org
Plus
Miscellaneous
sites for EFL
http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/topefl.html
Updated 14 November 2003 by Deborah Healey, Deborah.Healey@orst.edu