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EFL Classroom Blog and Directory (D Deubel)


WebHeads Worldwide: View & Collaborate here!

Collaborative Sharing for Teachers and Webheads using Tapped In


SearchCrystal

ManyThings.org Integrates VOA, Daily Proverbs, ESL Podcasts, Quizzes, L1 & L2 Dictionaries and Search Engines.

Kelly Ten-Dictionaries in One
Answers.com Online Encyclopedia
History, Cultural Literacy, Fine Arts, etc.

365 ESL Short Stories: Extensive Reading with full Dictionary and Listening Support! Listening and Reading Free Site for Intermediate ESL Learners

ThePaperboy.com delivers any online Newspaper in any language you'd like to read that has one!


'HERS News: Hear, Experience, Read, See'
Simultaneously do Extensive Reading, Listening, & Viewing of Online News (Chen's program using VOA, CNN, etc.)


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!

Please go here for Quick Start Guide to Snap Account

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My Happy Planet

Learn a language. Make friends. Have fun.

LingQ
A language learning community offering various services to improve your pronunciation, vocabulary, writing & listening.

"The Mixxer" Language-Exchanges.org
offers chances to teach your language in exchange for learning another.

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!
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InterCultural Insights Using the Internet: Links & Learning Ideas for Internet Intercultural Instruction & Exploring!

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Favorite CamSoft Collection of CALL Websites (Graham Davie's Great CALL Glossary)

A-Z Topical CALL Reference Bibliography of Print Media Regarding Technology in Education and Language Learning (Compiled by Vance Stevens)

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Maintained by The Internet TESL Journal.

I-Tools:
Excellent language, internet research and search tools.

Nations University
Free online Bible education


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Jones Avenue Adult Centre Computer Assisted ESL


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Emap out relationships between conceptual area, semantic field, thematic topics and word relations and associations.

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READING PROGRAMS, BEST FOR INTERMEDIATE LEVEL READERS

Best for Intermediate Readers

Into the Book

This is an absolutely incredible resource designed to help students learn reading strategies - visualize, predict, summarize, etc. Users are led through the process of learning each reading strategy with interactive exercises.

Reading Logs.com

Reading Logs gives students a better way to track reading, create vocabulary cards and practice spelling. Learning material is uploaded by teachers and is accessed online by students in their class. Once the material is online, it is brought to life with these learning tools: Electronic Reading Logs; Vocabulary Card Creator; and Listen and Spell practice system.


READING JOURNALS ONLINE

Reading in a Foreign Language Journal


BEST WEBSITES TO HELP BEGINNING READERS

Into the Book Reading Strategies

Interactively demonstrates 9 most important Strategies for Learning and Reading


EXTENSIVE READING MATERIALS AND INTENSIVE READING SKILL-BUILDERS

LibraryThing.com

LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhereeven on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.

Guide to Librarything

(Right click to download pdf.)

Guide to Librarything Students

(Right click to download pdf.)

Authors research articles on extensive and intensive reading are freely available to all supporting members of CALL4ALL.US. Just join at our Members Page.

Measuring and Improving Readability of any Online Text

Steps to help improve online reading.


PEOPLE IN EXTENSIVE READING

People in ER List

Rob Warings Reading and Vocabulary site

Moodle Reader

Sample graphic that shows a sample "stamp collection" along with a text-based student record. Tom Robbs submission to the JALTCALL proceedings that outlines the results for the Spring 2008 term with 200 students is available at http://moodlereader.org/ReaderQuizModule-JALTCALL.pdf.

Robbs YouTube Video

about using Graded Reader Tests Online.

MoodleReader Module for Extensive Reading

This Moodle Reader Module allows students to take quizzes on the graded readers and other books that they have read through an interface that controls the level of the books that they can read. It awards points for each successfully passed quiz so that you can set a target goal for their reading over the school term. Ready-made, randomized quizzes are available for over 400 books and more are being added regularly. Graded Reader Tests Online Moodle installation code and other materials are available here. You can log in as a guest to access the information.


Folktales and Legends

Folktales and legends embedded in a specific culture provide an opportunity to explore and teach rich and fascinating social lessons.

EducNet

Dossier (in French) on online collaborative learning.

Edulinks: telelernen und internet in der lehre

A non-commercial portal with articles, links, books, conferences as software related to online learning in tertiary contexts.

ELC Study Zone

Free Samples for Grammar, Vocab and Writing practice at many levels.

ELT.ac.uk: Embedding Learning Materials

A website devoted to embedding learning materials into ELT. This is a well laid out website for learning and teaching professionals, and for developers working to promote innovation and best practice in education, where you will find a wealth of practical materials to download, designed to help you. The site is designed for ELT, but has wide applicability to other languages. Some links may no longer be live.

The Ethnograph

Software for Social Scientists who work with Text Based Data. Tool for ethnographic research. The website has a page of very clear screen-shots, letting you see how easy the procedures are. The webpage on the demo version does not reveal the extent of the work that can be done, but asks you to fill in a form saying whether you wish to receive marketing information. Two chapters from its manual are available to download: Chapter 2: Overview and Chapter 4:Quick Tour.

TarheelReader.org

Books for Beginning Readers

Tar Heel Reader is a great collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible E-Books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech-enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. You may even write your own books using pictures from the huge collection at Flickr or from pictures you upload yourself.

Shmoop is sort of a Cliffs Notes but a whole lot better.

Literature Classics Section

CALL-IS Software Summary

(Deborah Healey's from Oregon State)

Comprehensive - Discussion - Grammar - Listening - Pronunciation - Reading - Reference - Speaking - Test Prep - Vocabulary - Writing - Authoring - Teacher Utilities

International Childrens Digital Library

Childrens Digital Library offers 10,000+ Free Kids Books Online!).

Childrens Stories in many languages. (Search by Country, Language, Age, Award-winning, Book Cover, etc.)


ONLINE READING LABS (FREE)

Awesome Stories

Awesome Stories has an incredible number of accessible high-interest stories. Schools and classes have to join, but you can do it in less than a minute, and its free. Much of the site is accessible even without registering. It, too, has recently begun providing audio of its text.

Audio Stories Collection from Awesome Stories.com

Use for combined Extensive Listening with Reading Practice.

Awesome Stories Complete A-Z List

Larry Ferlazzos Beginning Readers

BEST of Larry Ferlazzos most highly recommended websites to help Beginning Readers, whether non-natives in ESL and EFL classes or natives!

Larry Ferlazzos Adult or Older Beginning Readers

BEST of Larry Ferlazzos most highly recommended websites to help Adult or Older Beginning Readers, whether non-natives in ESL and EFL classes or natives!

Larry Ferlazzos Intermediate Readers

BEST of Larry Ferlazzos most highly recommended websites to help Intermediate Readers, whether non-natives in ESL and EFL classes or natives!

Into the Book

One of the very best websites for Intermediate readers is, without a doubt in my mind, Into The Book. This is an absolutely incredible resource designed to help students learn reading strategies visualize, predict, summarize, etc. For the past couple of years it had only been partially completed. In the course of examining sites for inclusion in this list, though, I found that all its exercises were finished. Users are led through the process of learning each reading strategy with interactive exercises.

Reading English

Reading English.net may be the best Online Reading Lab yet devised.

It provides excellent vocabulary analysis and re-encounters of most essential words, links learners to Voice of America readings, and offers pre-reading Vocab Quizzes, readings (with or without audio), which are followed up with a Writing Exercise. Seems to be the most well-designed Online Reading Lab (ORL) this researcher has found yet!

Same page dictionary translations are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Thai.

AES, Academic English Studies, Lewis & Clark College

Largest free collection of Online Reading Labs other than CALL4ALL.us

Reading Resources for English Language Learners

(John McVicker - Ohio University)

You will find links for Reading resources for everyone, Reading resources for English language learners, Activities and Quizzes, Stories, Songs, Poems, Interactive Fiction, Etc. See also World News Sources. The main categories are: Today's News, News Topic Search, News Directories, Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, Television and Sports. You can find the news you want on-line. Use this source for pleasure reading or research. Download RealAudio to hear stories read to you.

Online Reading Lab

William M. Balsamo's AMERICA -TODAY and TOMORROW

330 Easy Interactive Readings

L.E.A.R.N.

Language Education And Research Network, Inc. in Japan.

L.E.A.R.N. Mobile Devices

REAP

Reader-Specific Lexical Practice for Improved Reading Comprehension or REAP from Carnegie Mellon Computer Program:

Email to request access to REAP, telling which REAP interface you would like to receive access to, with a brief message describing your interests and intended use of REAP. The "Search Interface" is simpler and easier to use. It allows you to find readings to use based on reading level, length, topic, etc. The "Full Interface" also allows you to store a list of readings, set up access for students, review student use of the system, have the system select readings based on individual needs, and make use of other advanced features.

Online Reading Using Parallel Versions

WITH LONWEB PARALLEL TRANSLATIONS, the site owner says:

We strongly believe that anybody can learn a lot from our collection of Bilingual Texts. Some are public domain (documents, laws), some are copyrighted by us like the charming Daisy stories.They are currently available from English to 55 languages.

Tom Robb's

great powerpoint presentation about online reading labs.

Tom Robbs Moodle-based Reading Lab and Courses

(contact for access)

Tom Robb - Graded Reader Quizzes

Robb explains via YouTube how to use Graded Reader Quizzes at his Moodle site.

Robin Goods new video blog

Howard Chen Reading Lab

In Taiwan, ROC.

Asian and Pacific Speed Readings for ESL Learners

PDF file. Twenty passages written at the one thousand word level. Includes a discussion of the principles behind the course and methods of administration.

The Reading Matrix

Reading Matrix offers an extensive line of free Online Reading, Vocabulary and Short Stories, including:

Analyzing Text (12) new; Audio and Text (18); Proofreading (4); Reading Comprehension Advanced (10); Reading Comprehension Beginner (14); Reading Comprehension Intermediate (19); Short Stories (11); Vocabulary (51) practice pages.

Extensive reading through the Internet

Is it worth the while? Pino-Silva, J. (2006). The Reading Matrix, 6 (1), 85-96. The main focus of this article is to describe the 3-phase, gradual process that led to the current design of a web-based ER scheme. The paper begins with a brief discussion of ER, reading on line (RO) and self-directed learning as part of the rationale for the new scheme.

ER Foundation

Useful Reading Links

Extensive Reading Pages

This site is a comprehensive one-stop resource for all that is extensive reading. It includes an annotated bibliography of articles and research.

Extensive Reading Discussion List

Annotated Bibliography on works in Extensive Reading ib a Second Language

People in ER

(Warings List of People Using and Researching Extensive Reading)

TESOL Reading and Writing Forum

The ESL Reading and Writing Resources Forum was created for sharing ESL syllabi, lesson plans, handouts, teaching tips, and more. It is a place where you can share your ideas and find out what others are doing as well.

Reading in a Foreign Language

Mind Play

MindPlay.coms Reading Programs (Commercial Software Programs)

My Reading Coach (MRC), FLuent Reading Trainer (FLRT), and Reading Analysis & Prescription System (RAPS) are their three main programs, known for effectiveness.

ESL Reading.org

(Kieran McGovern)


ONLINE READING LABS (COMMERCIAL SITES REQUIRING FEES OR PART OF PUBLISHERS TEXTS OR SITES)

OUPs Project X

meant to help turn reluctant readers into enthusiastic ones!

University of Victoria, Canada, ESL Programs

(Just $30 to try all of them for 30 days!)


ENGLISH READING PROGRAMS DESIGNED FOR CHINESE STUDENTS

English Reading Online for Chinese students

Brings students pleasant and rewarding online reading experience, adding various bilingual tools and strategies to help Chinese students in particular

HongKong Virtual Language Centre

CANDLE Language Learning Center


CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS' READING PROGRAMS

BalancedReading.com

Are you an 'Out of Balance' or 'Well-Balanced' Reading Teacher? Find out here from Sebastian Wren, Ph.D.

Time 4 Learning

Teach Children to Learn to Read Online - Time4Learning is an online learning system for children, PreSchool through

Middle School teaching language arts, math & more. Online learning & fun.

Reading Books, Clubs and Activities

Free Reading and Language Arts Materials

Worksheets That Teach

Affordable Tailored Program Curriculum Has Helped 100,000's

Worksheets That Teach

Affordable Tailored Program Curriculum Has Helped 100,000's


PHONICS AND REMEDIAL READING CLINIC PROGRAMS

Remedial Reading Clinics

How to set up a Remedial Reading Clinic or Reading Lab; Odessa, Texas volunteer clinic by Don Potter.

Phonics-First Reading Program.

Instructional Audio for Rudolf Flesch's 'Why Johnny Can't Read and what you can do about it'.

Advocate for Literacy: The Teacher Who Couldn't Read

Here is John Corcoran's web site. He was a teacher but could not read. His story is fascinating. He eventually learned to read and is now an advocate for teaching reading with phonics - the only method that really works.


PROGRAMS THAT AIM TO BUILD UP READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS

Comprehension Assessment

Measure and monitor reading fluency and comprehension with AIMSweb

Rational Speed Reading

Triple Your Reading Speed Improve Your Comprehension by 50%

Read WriteThink Webbing Tool

Use for students to map out relationships between words, ideas, people or things. Great for making Concept or Word Maps of various relationships, such as used in the Semantic Field Keyword Approach. Use for associating related word groups.

EduLang Websites

Kitaos Reading Links

Kitao's On-Line Resources and Journals

ELT, linguistics, and communication.



Roadmap to Improving Online SLVA, Powerpoint:


LANGUAGE LEARNING WEBSITES FOR READING VARIOUS LANGUAGES

Language Learning Websites

for German, French and Spanish

Language Learning Collected Sites to Search

ELT1108 English Improvement Strategies II CALL Workshop

National Network for Early Language Learning

EPL

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada's 25 Language Learning Websites and Links


MEASURING AND IMPROVING TEXT READABILITY: RECOMMENDED TESTING UTILITIES AND TEXTS

Readability Measure for any text

Quickly assess its Grade Level here!

Readability test

You can test readability (Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog, SMOG) with this handy tool:

developed by Mladen Adamovic.

Measuring Readability Level of Graded Readers

by various publishers: EPER (Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading, done by David Hill)

Proposed ER Scale for Graded Readers

by various publishers (from Rob Waring)

L2 Reading Comprehension Reference Bibliography List

(Brian Gills)


GRADED READERS

Graded readers in English

David R. Hill, ELT Journal 2008 62: 184-204, Full Text

Graded readers in English

David R. Hill, ELT Journal 2008 62: 184-204, PDF


GRADED READING SKILL-BUILDING STORIES

GROUP 1 - Levels Grades 1 to 4.5.

(Click on a story to read.)

GROUP 2 - Levels Grades 5.0 to 8.0

(Click on a story to read.)

ESL Reading

(for English Language Learners)


PROGRAMS FOR BEGINNING READERS

ELC Study Zone

Free Samples for Grammar, Vocab and Writing practice at many levels.

LearningUpgrade.com

(Free Demos)

Best Sites for Older Beginning Readers


103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading

View this for a HUGE collection of interactive activities that help kids become more involved in the stories that they read. By: Jim Burke (1998).


TEXT ANALYZERS

Text Analyzer from Lexicool

Smart Language

Readers, Readability, and the Grading of Text with Book Surge: Bill DuBay has just published a work very central to the concerns of ER.

AWL Highlighter

Use AWL highlighter as a core academic vocabulary evaluator (CAVE) to identify AWL at any of 10 levels in any text you submit up to 2400 characters.

Focus on learning how to use these highlighted core academic vocabulary, either by writing your own sentences, creative vocabulary stories, or better yet by using them actively in interview questions practiced with a partner.

Review highlighted words 1-3 days later by means of the AWL gapmaker, based on the text you read and studied before. Uses a section or summary of a text.

Compleat Lexical Vocab Profiler

Use Compleat Lexical Vocab Profiler to estimate readability of any text as follows:

Any text inputted will output a Color-Coded Analysis showing you all the words of your text by word frequency levels:

K1 words used (from lst most common 1,000 English words in blue); K2 words used (2nd most common 1,001-2000 words used in green); AWL words (Academic Word List terms) used in brown; and off-list words in red. This way you can focus on learning any academic or off-list words, once most common words have been mastered.

Lextutor Range

Range Programs tell you about the distribution of words or other lexical units across a set of two or more texts. The texts can be comparable corpora or subdivisions of a corpus, or a set of texts supplied by a user.

UsingEnglish.com text statistics

Analyze text content using this free text analysis tool which gives you statistics about a text including word count; unique words; number of sentences; average words per sentence; lexical density; and the Gunning Fog readability index. More detailed statistics are available to members. This analyzer will accept text up to 500 KB in size. Target texts can be typed or pasted in on this page for analysis.

The Compleat Lexical Tutor

for data-driven language learning on the web.

Renaissance Learning or Accelerated Reader

ATOS for Books formula is the first and only readability method based on analysis of actual student reading of entire books. They give comprehension statistics from 30,000 students reading almost a million books. Rennaisance Learning has the world's largest database of words used in actual books - over 30,000 books comprising nearly 500 million words!

Graded Readers Online

Explains how to use Graded Reading materials online to improve your English skills while using pleasure reading.

Rob Warings article

in The Language Teacher entitled Why Extensive Reading should be an indispensable part of all language programs.

Contexts for Engagement and Motivation in Reading

(Visual and Cognitive Model explained by John Guthrie)

Readability Level of any URL calculated quickly

Learn how READABILITY is calculated, various formulas and check on the level of any site here before you assign it to students. Includes Readability Tests, Test the Readability of a Website, Interpreting the Results, Readability Results, Gunning-Fog Index, Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid grade level, Reading Level Algorithms, etc.

Readability Calculations

Teachers often want to determine the reading level of a document or Web site. Several traditional tools and online information are gathered on this readability page to help you.


EXTENSIVE READING WORLD

Recommended links for online ER or web-reading

Extensive Reading

NEW SITE FOR EXTENSIVE READING HEADQUARTERS! Extensive Searchable Research Reference List with Abstracts.

New "Mother of ER Reference Lists" is located here, in these 3 forms:

Extensive Reading Research Bibliography.

Considered the "Mother" of ER Reference Lists.

Extensive Reading Research Bibliography (L2)

Annotated Bibliography of Works on Extensive Reading in a Second Language References with excellent abstracts are listed alphabetically by author's last name, compiled by Bamford, Chau, Jacobs, Renandya & Robb.

Extensive Reading Articles

Chronological Reference List of articles about Extensive Reading and Language Learning. Annotated ER References by Subject first, then by Dates of Research.

Extensive Reading Main Page

This site is a repository for information on Extensive Reading.

Online Extensive Reading

Opportunities for Lower-Level Learners of EFL/ESL. References. Coady, J. (1997). L2 vocabulary acquisition through extensive reading.

Bell - Extensive Reading: Why? and How?

(I-TESL-J)

An extensive reading program was established for elementary level language learners at the British Council Language Center in Sanaa, Yemen.

What Is Extensive Reading?

Extensive Reading Materials

World Wide Readers

A Series of Readers for Adult Learners of English to Enjoy. Edited by Brian Tomlinson and Alan Maley. The books in this series are extensive readers aiming to provide enjoyable and engaging reading in English for non-native speakers anywhere in the world. The writers have not had to suffer linguistic grading or censorship of language or topics. Instead they have been encouraged and helped to write intuitively for older teenagers and adults at one of the following levels:

Level 1 (Elementary to Lower Intermediate)

Level 2 (Lower Intermediate to Upper Intermediate)

Level 3 (Upper Intermediate to Advanced)

The Reading Matrix

EXTENSIVE READING: SPEED AND COMPREHENSION by Timothy Bell.

This site provides extensive information on reading strategies and skills.

Reading Matrix

Vocabulary Category of the Reading Matrix.

Reading Matrix BLOG

The purpose of this Reading Matrix blog is to create a forum for an active conversation among graduate students, educators, researchers and anyone else involved in language, literacy and technology education. It is hoped that individuals who have an interest in these subjects will engage with each other to further contribute to these areas of discussion and offer personal and professional insights.

Ten Principles of Extensive Reading Posited by Richard Day

EFL Reading

Free graded reading materials for students and teachers of English

Interactive Reading Activities

The following database includes interactive online reading activities from around the Web. A fairly comprehensive listing of interactive reading activities for students around the world. Many of these categories have been suggested or submitted by site users. Check out the new story club added to the Short Story Category.

ER plus exercises building L2 reading skills

Rory Rosszells article on how ER Plus Exercises works better for building L2 reading skills. (login: stories / password: shared)

The Language Teacher Online 21.5

The Language Learning Benefits of Extensive Reading. Extensive reading by non-native speakers of texts written for young native speakers.

Extensive Reading Resources

Last updated Oct 2003. This site meant to supplement The Extensive Reading Pages.

Extensive / Graded Reading @ TFU

TFU Graded Reader Level System

TFU Graded Reader Level Color-Coded explanation, plus:

Why Easy, Extensive Reading (English, Japanese)

Extensive Reading Tips (English, Japanese)

Extensive Reading Contacts

Extensive reading gives students a chance to practise reading at a level of difficulty they can cope with.

How to Do Extensive Reading

Motivating Students to Do More ER: Often a key problem is encouraging students to read...

Use and abuse of dictionaries

Should our students be using dictionaries for extensive reading?

Langconcepts

Extensive Reading: information on extensive reading with an emphasis on its application to Second or Foreign Language Learning.

Reading Resources Discussion

Discussion board about online reading resources. Go here to discuss and share ideas about learning English by reading line comics, news, magazines, short stories or Graded Reading materials.

Reader's Choice

Printable online activities and quizzes.

Web site to accompany Silberstein, Dobson & Clarke's Reader's Choice (4th ed.) Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2002.

Basic Phonics

The Voice of America News Feeds

VOAs really simple syndication (RSS) feeds allow you to receive news and information in the categories you choose.

Rotten Tomatoes likewise

Rotten Tomatoes

A variety of RSS feeds highlighting the most recent and most popular films and videos/dvds as well as Certified Fresh picks. Individual listings include the movie title, the Tomatometer, and the Critical Consensus.

Short Stories (UK)

The short story section at east of the web. You can browse the library by genre or search it for a title, author or keyword. Clicking on an author's name lists all their stories along with further information and links. Stories can be read online, printed or downloaded for reading offline or on handheld devices.

Fluency through fables

BBC Learning English

An RSS feed from the BBC Learning English website. RSS feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest features you want from BBC Learning English.

Reading Links for all kinds of Literature

from Childrens thru Adults.

Kelly's Ten-Fold Miracle Dictionary:

Jump to Rikai for English, Chinese, Japanese or Spanish News and Study. Provides 7 Japanese Dictionaries, 3 English, and German-Japanese. 9 Levels of Fantastic Kanji Study--World's Premier Site for Japanese Study! 36 Kanji a Day - Put your mouse over the kanji you don't know, and/or click for more information.

Online Listening Sites

collected by Rob Waring

Short Stories for English Listening and Reading Practice

One hundred free short English stories for ESL learners with listening support, grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises.

Graded Readers from University of Victoria, BC

Read Faster Now

Speed Reading Made Easy With Read Faster Now.com upgrade your mind with new speed reading skills! Devour mountains of info in just minutes a day! Results guaranteed!

Reading Technology Tools

These are some of the online reading programs available, listed at above site. They are additional companies offering products for phonics instruction, reading comprehension, and fluency. (Achievement Technologies, AutoSkill International, BrightStar, Cognitive Concepts, CompassLearning, Crick Software, Don Johnston, Educational Insights, Failure Free Reading, Headsprout, HEC Software, IntelliTools, Istation.com, Kurzweil Educational Systems, Kutoka Interactive, LeapFrog SchoolHouse, OpenBook Learning, Pearson Digital Learning, PLATO Learning, Publications International, Reading A-Z, Renaissance Learning, Riverdeep, Scholastic, Scientific Learning, Siboney Learning Group, StepWare, Sunburst, Vivendi Universal/Knowledge Adventure.)

Lexile reading

Lexile Scores are an innovative way of measuring reading levels.

Lexile vocabulary

Free online vocabulary activities, lists and materials for various texts.

My Nihonbunka

Japanese culture blogger



Starfall Learn to Read

Online Reading Opportunities

LibraryThing.com

LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhereeven on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.


EXTENSIVE READING RATIONALE

Rob Warings brochure on the whys and hows of extensive reading--in English

Rob Warings brochure on the whys and hows of extensive reading--in Japanese


EXTENSIVE READING WITH LISTENING PROGRAMS

Spotlight Radio

Radio Programs in simplified, specialized English. Learners can read and listen at the same time. These programs use a simplified form of English to make listening to the radio easier for you.

Connect with English from Learner.org

A video instructional series in English as a second language for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 50 fifteen-minute video programs and coordinated books.


ENGLISH NEWS READING TO IMPROVE READING SKILLS

Phone English Links

Links to several British English newspapers and cultural websites at different levels.

Try reading real news online to improve your English reading skills!

Pure Directory Software

Software for Language Learning with free demos.


READING ACTIVITIES

A-Z Activities for Early Readers

These are Activities by the Letter Building Blocks to Reading. Extracted from "Building Blocks to Reading, Activities by the Letter, Book I. All material copyrighted 1995 Karen M. Potter.

Raz-Kids

Interactive Readers help beginning Englisn readers by giving them online audio support.

Childrens Short Stories on East of the Web

Literactive

The number-two-rated site on The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers, is designed to help early readers, and include bilingual Spanish E-Stories.


LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES RESEARCH

Language tests to determine learners' levels:

Riverside Publishing: a Houghton Mifflin Company

Standardized Reading Level Tests


INTENSIVE READING SKILL-BUILDING LINKS

Reading A-Z

More than 1,300 printable books, lesson plans and worksheets to teach guided reading, phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, and reading comprehension.

Reading Tutors

Over 400 tutor/mentor packets to help children being tutored reach their reading goals. Each packet targets specific reading skills for all types of tutor/mentor needs. They are great for educators and volunteers alike. Free samples, online books, lesson plans, worksheets, games, reading-tutor samples and teaching tips, assessments and more.

Just Download, Print, and Assemble--Anytime, Anywhere! TOPICS INCLUDE: Alphabet; Phonological Awareness; Phonics; High-Frequency Words; Fluency; Comprehension (Leveled Reading); Other Resources; Program Overview; Building a Tutor Program; Forms and Labels; Packet Assembly; and Assessments.

Reading Tutor Materials

Many children need extra help to become good readers, and all students benefit from individualized attention. Building a strong tutor/mentor program provides the infrastructure to help boost student reading scores across the board. Our resources give tutors the tools to help emergent readers gain key literacy skills. Reading-tutors is a low-cost, easy-to-use collection of research-based resource packets. Each packet contains everything tutors need for a successful tutor/mentor session.

Learning Page

Thousands of free professionally produced student worksheets to download and print.

School Discovery Reading

Introduces students to basic reading skills such as sight words, syllables and context clues so they can begin to explore new worlds and adventures inside books.


EASY ENGLISH READING, WRITING AND LEARNING SITES

BBC's English learners' site

East of the Web children's short stories

Reading Links

Simple English Wikipedia

The online encyclopedia made simple

SOON

a free easy-English magazine

University of Victoria British Columbia graded readers

Voice of America learner pages

news in easier English

Writing Den

Childrens Literature Online

Free and in the Public Domain.


READING COMPREHENSION

More of the worlds best English language learning links chosen by ESL All

Adapted with permission from ESL All December 2005 Issue - Vol. 1, no. 4

Reading comprehension resources accompanied by graded exercises that can truly help you improve your reading comprehension level are hard to come by. These favorite online English reading comprehension resources, selected by ESL All, can greatly help those who would like to sharpen their reading comprehension skills, but do not know what to do or where to turn. These resources will allow you to determine your current reading level as well as explore new topics, broaden your vocabulary, and also improve your overall understanding of English texts.

EnglishClub.com Reading Tests

Would you like to find out what your reading level is in English prior to trying reading comprehension exercises? Take the English Club test to find out how well you understand what you read in English. You have 15 minutes to do this test. You must stop after 15 minutes and press the "Your Score Is..." button. There are 20 questions.

LiteracyNet.org

Reading Comprehension Exercises: News stories accompanied by audio files. Stories in original, abridged or outline form. Many exercises to check reading comprehension (vocabulary, word selection, multiple choice, sequencing, and conclusions).

5MinuteEnglish.com Reading

An interesting series of short ESL intermediate reading lessons focusing on vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension.

VLC Edict Reading

Reading Comprehension Texts with Questions: All the passages are adapted from South China Morning Post. These texts are Active Dictionary pages, that is, you can see the dictionary entry for any word in the text by placing your cursor above it and double-clicking on it with your mouse. The texts are accompanied by multiple-choice comprehension questions. For upper intermediate and advanced levels.

Gallaudet University English Works

Traditional Reading Practice (main idea, details, and inference) with vocabulary and content comprehension questions. Texts are adapted from Interesting Deaf Americans. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University. For intermediate level students.

Linguarama Reading Comprehension

Language Training for Business: A collection of 26 business-related reading comprehension texts dealing with topics such as: business communication, insurance, finance, technology, quality control, legal English, technology, banking, management and retailing. Vocabulary and reading comprehension questions for intermediate level students.

Rocket Reader.

Rocket Reader has fun programs for Kids or Adults to build up their reading comprehension, speed and vocabulary skills. Online or PC Stand-alone versions. Free Sample Downloads.

ESL.About.com Reading Skills

Beginning English Reading Comprehension: English reading comprehension skills and multiple-choice quizzes for beginning level learners, classes and teachers.

The Internet TESL Journal's Reading Comprehension

An impressive collection of reading comprehension resources for second language learners.

Magda's Reading Links

Reading Resource List: A list of interactive Web reading exercises and sources for easy, intermediate and advanced ESL students.

ELC Study Zone

University of Victoria English Language Center Study Zone: An interesting selection of free grammar explanations and interactive reading exercises for beginner to advanced students.

ELC Study Zone beginner level

ELC Study Zone intermediate level

ELC Study Zone advanced level

ELC Study Index Zone for All Levels

R Reader

Tom Cobbs Reading Tutor for Jack Londons Call of the Wild.

Read, listen to the recording, pause to click any word once for individual pronunciation twice for examples + definition. Quick look-ups in Word-Net.


READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES TRAINING AND PRACTICE SITES

Think-Alouds to Improve Reading Comprehension

Reading strategies teachers say they use

from Barry, A.L. (2002, October). Reading strategies teachers say they use. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 46(2), 132141


NEWS READING PRACTICE

Yahoo Headlines

Use for speed-reading or practice in getting the gist of news stories quickly.

Rikai News Stories

Easy News Stories with full bilingual Support in Japanese, Chinese or Spanish.

Crayon

Students design their own newspapers and can write their own stories.


BASIC ENGLISH WORDLIST AND STORIES USING IT

(only an 850 word vocabulary)

Basic English wordlist

(850 words: Click on WordList or go to page 4).

Basic English is an attempt to give to everyone a second, or international language, which will take as little of the learner's time as possible. It is a system in which everything may be said for all the purposes of everyday existence: the common interests of men and women, general talk, news, trade, and science.

A basic phonetic reader

(Using Basic Englishs 850 word vocabulary only)

Basic English Reading Books and Sources

Bibliography of about 200 books

written using only 850 words of Basic English


RECOMMENDED FREE ONLINE READERS

SOON Educational Publications

Free easy-English material with a moral lesson.

Sinorama

Sinorama magazine (recently renamed as Taiwan Panorama) for Online Reading practice.

The Sinorama articles are mainly about issues in Taiwan in such areas as politics, economics, arts, society, culture, and ecology. An electronic corpus consisting of 10,000+ texts!


READING LITERATURE, SHORT STORIES AND COMICS ONLINE

Classic Authors

Great literature online. Literature listed by author.

Short Stories

Authors Bibliography included.

Classic Short Stories

Collection for pleasure reading.

Daily Comics

Comics to learn English having fun!

Comics

How to use Online Comics to improve your English reading skills.

Read Print

A free online library offering thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. Start by looking through the author index to find an interesting author or book.


READING ONLINE MAGAZINES

Extensive Reading - Online Magazines

How to read Online Magazines to improve your English reading skills.

Magatopia

An affiliate portal that gives you access to many Online Magazines (OMs).


SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE ARTICLES FOR AUTHENTIC READING

(Read critically. Everything you read may not be scientifically correct or true!)

Discover.com

A scientific magazine covering these kinds of issues: mind and brain, medicine, space, technology, ancient life, environment.

Scientific American

Articles in these fields: astronomy, technology and business, nanothechnology, health, environment, biotechnology.


READING MATERIALS

TESL-EJ Online Journal

One of the very best for language learning issues and articles online.

Reading Online

Reading Online (ROL) is a peer-reviewed journal of the International Reading Association (IRA). Since its launch in May 1997 it has become a leading online source of information for the worldwide literacy-education community, with tens of thousands of accesses to the site each month.

Unfortunately, it is not longer publishing any new issues after 2005. However, previous issues of the journal focus on literacy practice and research in classrooms serving students aged 5 to 18. "Literacy" is broadly defined by IRA to include traditional print literacy, as well as visual literacy, critical literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, and so on. A special mission of the journal was to support professionals as they integrate technology into the classroom, preparing students for a future in which literacy's meaning will continue to evolve and expand.

Questia and The Internet Public Library

Reading Book Reviews

When reading a book, you may also want to find out what others think of books. The internet is a great way to do this. You can look at sites such as www.findarticles.com, www.questia.com and The Internet Public Library in order to find critiques and book reviews. In general, though, you will not want to just type the title of the book into a search engine - this will probably only take you to web sites selling the book. You also want to avoid simply typing a set of words into a search engine. You will get lots of hits but many of these will be personal pages that may contain old information or unreliable facts.

If you want to know what other people like you thought of the book, a great way to do this is through online forums. Many book lovers gather on online forums in order to share experiences and ideas about books. Forums such as the speedreading.com forums allow you to select the genre you are interested in and ask other forum users about the book you are reading. You may find that the book is already being discussed or you may need to post a thread that asks others what they thought of the book you are reading. Someone who has read the book may then respond to your question and offer their own opinions and observations. This can be useful if you are forming your own opinions of the book and want a fresh perspective.

Of course, if you want to research a specific subject online, you can also do so. If you read about penguins, you may want to find out more about them. A great way to do this is to read more books online. Web sites such as freeonlinebooks.org list free books online by subject so that you can get free information. Online libraries and resources can also help. For example, findarticles.com is a useful site that lists all manner of articles about every subject. Online libraries such as www.questia.com and The Internet Public Library will provide you with reliable information as well and will take you to reliable links that offer useful information. Most university web sites also have lots of resources about every topic imaginable.

Planet CD ROM

Planetcdrom.com is about the cheapest source in the world for Educational Software, Movie DVDs, and Music CDs.

Christian Book Distributors

Cheapest prices online or off for inspiring faith-building books, music, and software.


ELECTRONIC BOOKS ONLINE READING LITERATURE FOR FREE

Page by Page Books

Classics and Speeches. Choose what youd like to read online by clicking on either Author or Title List below:

Author List of ELECTRONIC BOOKS ONLINE READING FOR FREE!

Title List of ELECTRONIC BOOKS ONLINE READING FOR FREE!

Reading for all children. Centers of US AID for Teacher Training. Searchable Database.

Here you will find free novels in Romance, adventures, westerns, historical, mysteries, science fiction and even classic novels. All for Free-Reading!

Short Stories

Short Stories Love Stories Short Stories Collection Books Child Books Romance Books


READING SOFTWARE RECOMMENDATIONS

CALL4ALL recommended language learning programs

All programs are hybrid CDs, for use on either Mac or Windows computers. All of these Language Learning Software Programs have been tested and approved by CALL4ALL.US for their effectiveness in helping with language learning.


READING AND SPELLING

Spelling

AVKO Educational Research Foundation - improving spelling and word decoding.


READING HABITS

Amazon

Use this or any other online bookshop to discuss reading habits and preferences.


TASK-BASED TEACHING

TBLT 2007 - Task-Based Language Teaching Online Proceedings

Designing Online Reading & Writing Courses & Tasks to Maximize L2 Learning (John Paul Loucky)

Flash Presentation Loucky

Designing Online Tasks to Maximize L2 Learning

Handout Loucky

Designing Online Reading & Writing Courses & Tasks to Maximize L2 Learning


CHAT ROBOTS, CHATBOTS OR CHATTERBOTS, ALSO SIMPLY KNOWN AS BOTS

These are computer programs on online sites that simulate human communication patterns. They can mimic human conversation or chatting by using artificial intelligence (AI). Eliza was the first chatbot, made in 1966 by Weizenbaum.

ALICE

Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity

ALICE downloads

Google Directory Chatterbots

Great list of Chatterbots from Googles Directory.

Geocities Botlist

Chatterbots waiting to simulate chatting with you at Geocities.com.

Basic Bot site for Artificial Intelligence Projects


TEXT TO SPEECH ENGINES

ReadPlease

A free TTS or Text-to-Speech Engine. Developer of award-winning text-to-speech software for Windows based operating systems. Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software.

ReadingBar 2 for Internet Explorer reads any web page, makes mp3/wav files, zooms any page, text-only version web pages, translates and much more!

ReadPlease ReadingBar

Explains ReadingBar Supported Control Codes for Volume, Speed, Pronunciation, Spelling, Silence and Choice of Voices.


ELECTRONIC READERS / TEXT-TO-SPEECH PROGRAMS

(See Page TTS on T Page)



JP Louckys Online Zoho Presentation on IMPROVING-ONLINE-READABILITY
(view it free here!)



RELIGION

Religion Watch

Learn to distinguish between cults and true faith. Abandoning atheism, Counterfeit Code: Answering The Da Vinci Code Heresies, etc. Excellent resources for scientific and religious debate.

The Truth about Da Vinci

Was he really hiding anything?


OTHER

110 Classic/Required Reading Books with vocabulary lists

Recommended reading vocabulary from 110 texts. Novels chosen from junior high and high school book lists. Examples: To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, The Crucible, etc.

Vocabulary.com

Use our vocabulary lists Teachers: submit new books from your classes

Root Word Study. Root-a-Week and SAT/ACT-type words in puzzles.

U.S. State standards require the study of Latin/Greek roots. Root-of-the Week, a product similar to word-of-the-day, is very helpful for word study in middle schools and as preparation for SAT/ACT. There are 24 weeks of Root-a-Week. Each week has12 words derived from three roots. Access this feature at: http://www.vocabulary.com/weeklyroots.html

Learn 144 words using interactive puzzles, crosswords & word finds.

Merpy.com

Many interesting Learning Games and Activities, Stories and Holiday Episodes. Read Short Flash Stories!

CALL4ALLs Extensive Reading Database

Go here for a quick survey of CALL4ALLs Extensive Reading Database.

English Learning Resources

Click on "Online Resources for English Learning" to access pages with many annotated links for... Reading Opportunities; Listening Opportunities; Vocabulary & Grammar; Test Your English; Keypals; & Chat Link Sites. These sites a) have a history of consistent service; b) offer quality materials; c) feature regularly updated materials and/or a large enough collection of materials so that students can benefit from visiting the site again and again.

Ken Schmidts English Learning Resources

Preparing ESL/EFL Students for Reading Comprehension Tests

Reducing anxiety and improving reading strategy training.

BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Online

In all of these languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, Russian

BBNBI News Inspirational Radio English

BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Espanol

BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Portuguese

BBNBI News Inspirational Radio German

BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Russian

BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Chinese Simplified

BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Chinese Traditional

BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Japanese

BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Korean

Rikai means 'understanding' in Japanese and is very similar to PopJisyo

In fact, they share many of the same functions. While PopJisyo used to be inferior to Rikai, over the past few years Rikai has become inferior and very distracting with dating ads, but it still remains an effective glossing tool between English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish.

Gutenberg Project

There are 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Our collection was produced by thousands of volunteers.

Audio Books: Both Human- and Computer-Read

Audio Books: Human-Read

Audio Books: Computer-Read

Graded Readers or Book Reports by Doshisha University Students

These are 225 book reports written by Doshisha University students to help you decide what books you would like to read. Choose either Low or High Intermediate Levels

Low Intermediate Level

(1001--2000 words) > 195 books

High Intermediate Level

(2001--3000 words) > 30 books

Book Report Evaluation Form

Book Report Format

Graded reader project format and writing procedure.

Extensive or Freereading

= Reading for Pleasure!

Graded Readers List

(at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan)

Word Counts and Reading Levels for 12,000 Graded Readers

Lit2Go

from Florida States Educational Technology Clearinghouse.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in mp3 (audiobook) format. It's a growing collection of public domain content graded for K-12, including MP3 audio files, text files, permission to make "books", and at least one post-reading activity sheet for each.

E-hon

Children`s Story and Picture Books; World Folktales Translated by Digital EHON Site

Design Dictionary

Design Search Engine

Design Taxonomy

DESIGN is an ever-growing, all-encompassing field that accommodates a plethora of different disciplines. How would a contemporary hierarchical tree of Design look like? The proposed challenge is simply to visualize the contemporary Design landscape.

Robin Goods Vista Points

Society for the Scientific Study of Reading and Scientific Studies of Reading Journal

ESL Reading

ESL Reading.org (Kieran McGovern) posts PDF versions of longer stories popular with learners (including 'The Signalman', 'The Prisoner of Zenda,' 'The Body Snatcher,' the 'The Marble Finger' etc. Also a series of 400 word quirky stories: 'Did that Really Happen?' originally published in Hong Kongs Ming Pao paper.

CALL resources portfolio overview

Web-based Portfolio of CALL Resources: Online Review (Great Resources and Skwrl from Andy Johnson)

CALL4ALL resources portfolio overview

ESL Reading

Free graded reading materials for English language learners

URBAN MYTHS vs. REALITY

'Did That Really Happen?': a series of 400 word quirky stories written for Ming Pao Daily in Hong Kong. Combining urban myths with elaborated versions of real event 'Did that Really Happen?' challenges reader to distinguish real events from invented ones.


REFERENCE MANAGEMENT ONLINE

Connotea

RosettaProject.org

The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages.

Mobile Me

Your email, contacts, and calendars in sync.

MobileMe stores all your email, contacts, and calendars in the cloud and keeps them all up to date and in sync across your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. When you make a change on one device, MobileMe sends the new information up to the cloud, then updates all of your other devices. Your iPhone or iPod touch is updated in real time. And on your Mac or PC, it happens automatically every 15 minutes

Google Scholar

Features of Google Scholar: Learn about key papers in any area of research; Search diverse sources from one convenient place; Find papers, abstracts and citations; and Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Connotea

A free online reference management system.

Zotero

Zotero runs in your Firefox web browser, which must be open in order for you to access your research collection. You do not have to be online, however to use Zotero; features such as notes, search, organization will work perfectly well offline, although obviously you will not be able to view some online items in your collection or to acquire other online materials. The Zotero window contains your entire collection: bibliographic references and whole documents and files, your notes, and other items like images and snapshots of web pages.

Radio Programs in 18 Languages from NHK Japan

LIVE NEWS in 18 languages by rotation: The service provides broadcast in 18 languages, including English and Japanese.

Howtogeek.com

Remotely Control Somebody's Desktop the Easy Way

Topics Online Magazine

Online Magazine for Learners of English

TOPICS offers learners of English an opportunity to express and publish their ideas in English to an online audience.

theRADIO.com

Not that I am condoning the streaming of music at school, but this site allows a fun exploration of your favorite music genres using Internet radio selections.


RESEARCH ETHICS

Navigating Research Ethics

Roger (2007). An open-access document by the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University about ethics and power in educational research. Covers how to avoid any problems in the areas of Conflict of Interest, Consent, Coercion and Confidentiality that could arise as part of a research project involving human participants.

Open University (UK) Research Ethics guidelines

Galanet

This European-funded Romance Languages Project (in French, Italian, Castilian Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese) aims to study mutual comprehension among speakers of the Romance languages. The site reports on interactive sessions between these speakers, and lists research articles by project staff.


RESEARCH AND CITATION PROGRAMS

The Best Resources For Learning Research & Citation Skills

Among the Best Resources For Learning Research And Citation Skills (from Ferlazzos list) are:

LEARNING RESEARCH SKILLS:

Heres the one resource thats probably accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners. Its called How To Do Research, and its from the Kentucky Virtual Library. Its designed to look like an interactive board game.

The Information Literacy Game

The Information Literacy Game comes from the University of North Carolina. Its an online game designed to help students develop research and citation skills.

Adventures In Library Research

Adventures In Library Research comes from Lycoming College. It was created to teach students how to navigate successfully around library resources.

Students learn some Internet research skills through playing The Gold Rush Game. The group that created this game, 21st Century Information Fluency, has also developed quite a few other interactives designed to help students learn about using the Web for research, including The Internet Search Challenge, the Keyword Challenge, and even more challenges. All of these are accessible to Intermediate ELLs.

Carnegie Mellon has two games related to research and libraries Ill Get It and Within Range. The St. Joseph School Library has a large number of surprising accessible games related to research. This site might be accessible to high Intermediate English Language Learners.

Boolify

Boolify is a search engine designed for elementary and middle school students that is accessible to English Language Learners. I think there are others that are more accessible, but this is a good one to help teach basic search strategies. Its on The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners 2008 list. The City University of New York has an excellent series of exercises on actually writing a research paper.

CITATIONS:

EnglishClub.com is a great Citation Builder. Fairfield University has a good tutorial on Using Citations. Its followed by a quiz. Eastern Washington University also has a good tutorial on Citing Your Sources. Here are several sites that correctly format citations once you input the necessary information: Ottobib; Citation Machine; Bibme; EasyBib; MLA Citation Generator; OSLIS Citation Maker; Knight Cite; worldcat.org; and http://www.noodletools.com/.

Noodletools.com






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ESL Lounge

Free ESL Lesson Materials for teachers. Grammar, worksheets, song lyrics, board games, pronunciation and more. All free and printable.




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www.dicts.infos index page shows Flags and Links to free Web Dictionaries in about 80 languages.

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Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

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Multi-Lingual Online Translator with Sound and Avatar!

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ESLGold.com explained in 15 languages!

ESL Point
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A treasure trove of material for teaching and learning English

TOP CHILDRENS ENGLISH LEARNING SITES

Mingoville is the world's most creative and comprehensive English language course online for kids of all ages.

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Enchanted Learning
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Encyclopedia for Kids

List of A-Z Links to various language Encyclopedias and their Histories

Top 20 Web-based language learning activities/tasks - Andy Johnsons annotated list of most useful CALL sites

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Free Language Translation Bar for 10 Languages.

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Vocabulary.com offers DAILY WORD PUZZLES, Root Word Study, etc to enhance vocabulary mastery and written/verbal skills with Latin & Greek roots.

Google Language Translation Tools
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Google Multiple Language Search Engines & Translation Tools
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Free Test of your vocabulary in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish or Turkish. Test Preparation free for GRE, SAT, TOEFL Tests. Speed-Reading Practice and Word Games.

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Free Test of your vocabulary in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish or Turkish. Test Preparation free for GRE, SAT, TOEFL Tests. Speed-Reading Practice and Word Games.

Vocaboly.com offers many FREE Vocabulary Tests online.


Click on the V to check how many words you know in English.

V-Check or WordSmart.com can freely test your level!

Easy Dolch Word List Crossword Puzzles

fun with vocabulary

Computer Adaptive Test of Vocabulary Size & Strength


Take this free Vocabulary Size Test!

WordSmart: Test Your Vocab Level!

Free Vocabulary Levels Tests at LexTutor
Includes Receptive/Recognition and Interactive Productive Vocabulary Tests; Word Association and Yes/No Tests


PROGRAMS MEASURING READABILITY

Readability.info provides Readability Scores for any Web pages and MS Word files in a flash!

OKAPI!
The Internet Application for Creating Curriculum-Based Assessment Reading Probes

Improving Online Text Readability

Analyze text content using this free text analysis tool.





Discovery School
"The Thrill of Discovery in Your Classroom"


English Learning Resources
Ken Schmidts Short-List


the Language Resource Room

Word Surfing vocabulary learning strategies



Top ESL & Teacher Sites

TESOLMAX Top Sites

Primary.Games.com Top Sites

Gotop100.com
The Top Sites for English Learners

ESL Web Guide: Your Guide to the Best ESL/EFL Websites! Recommendations from Daves ESL Cafe.

SEO - create one way text link ads to your website for top search engine listings.

I Love Languages

Interesting Things for ESL / EFL Students

ITESLJ's Interesting Things for ESL / EFL Teachers


MES English games and other ESL / EFL resources for teachers


Foreign Word
translation wizard with free simultaneous access to over 265 dictionaries for 73 languages


Perceptia Press
EConversation, Excel, Music, PowerPoint and Word textbooks. Great texts for personal or class use.
Click here to order



Itzalist Webring
Bilingual Webring





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