(teach) Best sites

[dk-5]

What is the best English teaching website you have seen?

I am going to be making a website for my students. This is the second time I
am doing it. The first time was a learning experience and I saw that it is
quite a challenge to make something interesting and engaging for students,
something they enjoy.

Have you found a website your students love?

Dave Kees

[karenstanleyma-3]

Dave asked, as he prepares to create a website for his students:
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> What is the best English teaching website you have seen?
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Rather than talk *just* about English teaching websites, I am also going to talk about language websites or other software/computer options that have appealed to me as a language learner.

I like a site that is not necessarily a language teaching site, but which can be used as such for advanced learners
http://www.euronews.net
It has brief news videos in a number of languages, with text below which is close to being a transcript.  That means that I can:
(a) listen to the news in the foreign language
(b) check the text to see what expressions I hadn't caught, and use my dictionary for new vocabulary
One problem for me is that the Spanish is European Spanish, and I'm not as interested in acquiring those varieties.

I like the FORUMS on the Word Reference website because they allow me to ask questions about expressions that are unclear to me or structures that I'd like to understand more fully and get real people answering in real time.  I think a website that provides feedback of this type is very useful.  
http://forum.wordreference.com/

Both my students and I like dictation-type exercises with answers available to check afterward (I have some of these on an intranet within our campus system).  It's useful if the answers also have the original oral component available, so that you can hear it again as you check your answers.  A variation on this that my students like is my "listening for grammar" exercises, which are longer dictations in which only some portions (the grammar element that is being focused on - say articles, where blanks are left for a, an, the and even when there may NOT be an article there at all - and then the reading is read aloud at conversational speed).

I really liked Kanji Gold computer flashcards for learning kanji (written Japanese that uses Chinese characters; I've forgotten what I once knew).  I am currently working with an IT support person to create computer flashcards based on English grammar points that include (a) an incomplete sentence(s)/conversation that the student completes (b) an option to click that will then display the correct answer on the same page, and (c) anpther option for hearing the correct, completed sentence(s)/conversation (either before or after *seeing* the correct answer).
Kanji Gold:
http://web.uvic.ca/kanji-gold/

I know only some of these are things you could produce on your own website, but others could be useful links from your website.

Karen

[nate jarvis]

more an ESL resource than an ESL site

www.acronymfinder.com


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