Lingro Language Learner Enter any Website to make all words clickable, as WordChamp does on this site. Lingro remembers all the words you look up, so you can easily review and study them. So does WordChamp.com, once you have become a member!
Top Toolbox for Learning New Words! Cobbs LexTutor Offers English / French Dictionary / Concordancer; Text-to-Speech & Word Learning Tests & Tools.
Hypertext Builder (from LexTutor) Build resource-linked texts for online reading. Wire your own texts so Language Learners can use the support of: E Audio with Text-to-Speech (TTS) sound E Concordance + Dictionary/Dictionary only (Monolingual or Bilingual for Chinese, Japanese, Spanish or French (so far) E Reading-plus: Provides resources to understand every word in any text!
Mr. B's English Learning Links: Cool links for learning English in outline form! I. Reading Links II. Writing and Essay Advice III. Speeches IV. Listening/Speaking V. Intercultural Learning Links VI. Dictionary Sites (Learner- & Other) VII. TOEFL / TOEIC VIII. Technical English & Language Learning Technology IX. Email Keypals X. More English Learning Links
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Fotobabble, a neat application where people can post photos along with an audio description, has gotten even better. Now, users can grab images off the web by just using the photo's url address. Before, uploading images was the only option. It's one of the best Web 2.0 applications of the year for educators, and is on The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English list. It's a simple tool students can use to practice their speaking skills. It's very easy to use but, just in case, Russell Stannard at the great Teacher Training Videos has posted a good video tutorial on how to use the app.
Most Frequent English and French words including first 1k, 2k, and AWL with both Headword and Word Family Lists. Other Useful list links included here include the Brown Corpus list, Ogden's 'Basic Engish' (Express almost everything in just 850 words!), and word lists based on the British National Corpus from U. Lancaster and from Paul Nation. Finally there are Links to many more lists (from David Lee).
Worlds largest source for computerized translation products from many companies. Computerized dictionaries, with ability to point at a word on the screen and obtain possible translations in a balloon next to it.
ESL, TEFL and TESOL teaching overseas jobs. International ESL job classified positions from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, UAE and Europe. We will endeavour to be the best internet source to assist teachers and English language institutions globally.
The web's first vertical search portal for ESL/EFL job seekers. Our spider crawls job boards across the internet, indexing their postings and making them searchable. The result is a one-stop search that gives you access to thousands of vacancies posted on multiple job boards.
Free access to over 2,500 ESL job offers worldwide, 2,200 ESL resumes.
Free lessons written by teachers / professional writers, audio lessons, 50 articles, list of international ESL schools (1,090), ESL Java games / quizzes, ESL discussion forum, etc.
Vision Video and DVDs has quality products teaching positive moral values that endure. From Assisi to DaVinici to Heroes of Columbine, from Saint Patrick to Bonhoeffer, from Eric Liddel to Mother Teresa, good role models are always stressed. All levels available from Childrens Songs and Bible Stories to Creation vs. Evolution to Teen Issues. Great variety and prices. An Alphabetical Listing of all their Videos and DVDs is here.
offers free university level religious education via distance learning in 192 countries! Arabic, Creole, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Thai.
Areas covered are Bible backgrounds, biblical exegesis, church history, comparative religion, ministry and missions, spirituality, New Testament, Old Testament, and theology.
Extract basic Frequency Lists from user texts or corpora; download influential Frequency Lists including AWL and Franais Fondamental, for either English/French. Teachers can analyze any text by Keywords (text vs. general frequency) or Range (frequency across texts). Practice guessing the Frequency Level of words in any test using a Quiz Builder. Also you may Sort 10 - 20 headwords into 1-2k, 3-5k, 6-10k, 11-15k categories, and even DOWNLOAD Famous frequency lists for study or teaching!
Vocab Profiler will give you a color-coded representation for words in different Levels of Frequency within any inputted text. This helps you isolate more difficult words to simplify or study them.
Lang-8.com is a great place for free Language Exchange! Allows you to start your own Japanese Language Blog, which natives speakers will help correct for free! Corrections will be highlighted so you can easily learn from your own mistakes. Sample recommended Language Blogs include:
Edmodo is a site that is "a private micro-blogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other;" students do not need an email address, just a code obtained from the teacher.
www.geni.com is an online genealogy tool, and private place for families to build their family trees, preserve family history, share photos and videos, celebrate events, etc.
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).
Pipe Bytes is a great new site for file sharing. This is ideal when wanting to share something w/ another person because it is: private, no registration required, and sent directly to the recipient.
An online file hosting system that lets you store files and access them from any computer. After you sign-up for the service, you can upload any file, with a total size limitation of 1GB, and create a permalink for any file you add, so that anyone can access and download them. Openomy is completely free to use.
Flickr slide shows sure do make it easier to view all those images being shared on a given Flickr Flickr stream, and the ability to do so has even spurred a healthy-sized third market from developers that offer Flickr slide show tools as well.
By using simply a printer, a scanner, and this site, you can create a computer font from your own handwriting. Imagine students typing their documents using their own handwriting, or, in an art class, designing their own "wing-ding" font!
Looking for a cost effective, comprehensive online learning and communication environment that aligns to major funding streams?
Futurekids online is a comprehensive, customizable web-based solution that integrates best-of-breed educationally relevant solutions for your school or district. Futurekids online will deliver a complete online learning, training and communication environment for everyone in your school or district. The platform was developed to meet the specific funding requirement for several major U.S. funding programs including No Child Left Behind.
The Futurekids solution empowers educators, students, and administrators to be proficient with technology as a learning, instruction, administrative and communication tool resulting in better learning outcomes and improved return on investment.
Although not originally intended for language learning, D. Film Moviemaker is a Flash-based site which lets users create short movies. This is done by selecting the background, the sky, the characters, how the characters meet, their dialogue (which appears as text in cartoon bubbles), and finally background music. My experience with this site in the classroom has been extremely positive with students creating some original, creative short stories with this site. Excellent for task-based projects.
Languagecaster.com - learn English through soccer offers a free weekly podcast with worksheets, transcripts and vocabulary lists for learners of English who like football (Soccer). Other Language-learning links given.
FinAid through an article in the Wall Street Journal. It appears to be one of the most complete resources on the web for college financial assistance. See also The Best Sites For Encouraging ELLs To Attend College.
ESL Lounge Free ESL Lesson Materials for teachers. Grammar, worksheets, song lyrics, board games, pronunciation and more. All free and printable.
Online Conference/Classroom Nellies English Projects is an educational website for students and teachers whose aim is to motivate students for lifelong learning. It provides resources for teachers on how to integrate technology into the classroom by means of project based and experiential learning using WebQuests. The site provides many educational resources, articles, lesson plans, evaluation rubrics, reading practice and collaborative writing ideas.
IP2Phrase IP2Phrase allows you to insert dynamic customizable welcome messages to your web page with geographical information.You can either design your own phrase or use one of their defaults.
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