ICT for language teachers: introduction

SOME INTERESTING PAGES:

We go to their page of BSCW: http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/bscw/bscw.cgi/31458492

We need a user name and a password (which we have been given) . Then we get into workspace

We will create a new folder: "find new folder "(up above) . This is similar to "moodle"

A page we should have in mind is: ICT4LT http://www.ict4lt.org/

Other pages: - Webquests http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
- Cybertrails: Whodunnit??
- Electric News Activity Electric News Activity

Cybertrail - WHODUNNIT??

On 1st April 2006, somebody secretly climbed up the Eiffel Tower and placed an enormous red balloon on top. Who did it?? In this cybertrail you are following a trail to see who committed this daring act!

You will follow links to different Web sites and pick up CLUES from each to find the name of the person! Type the answers to these questions:

Remember to use the Back button ^ on your browser each time, to return to this text.

ANSWERS
CLUE ONE: This site is for teachers wishing to teach in …?
http://www.eltnews.com/home.shtml___________

CLUE TWO: At this site you can search for song lyrics http://www.lyrics.com/
Your first option is to browse … ____________

CLUE THREE: Write the name of the AUSTRALIAN city where Cambridge
University Press Worldwide is located http://www.cambridge.org/____________

CLUE FOUR: This site is intended for WHICH types of students?
Write the 2 acronyms (abbreviations) http://iteslj.org/ESL.html ____________

CLUE FIVE: What is the SECOND LANGUAGE you can choose on this site? http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ ____________

CLUE SIX: Who runs this site (look on the left side of the screen!)
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/
____________

CLUE SEVEN: What colour is the background to this company logo?
http://www.clarity.com.hk/ ____________

CLUE EIGHT: There is a question (in red) at the top of this site
http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/infeng01.html what is the SIXTH (6TH) word? _________

CLUE NINE: What is the FIRST name of the person
who runs the site at http://www.eslcafe.com/ ____________

à To find the name of the person who placed the balloon on top of the Eiffel Tower, write the FIRST LETTER of each of your 9 answers in these boxes:

Electric News: On-line news comparison activity

Find and compare:
Online newspaper in English
The Irish Times http://www.irish-times.com/
The Examiner http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/
The Times http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/home.html

The Sun http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Online broadcasting in English:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml
http://www.rte.ie/
http://www.voanews.com/
http://www.cnn.com/

Technology for Language Teaching: General

Using technology for http://www.ict4lt.org/
Language teaching http://www.history-of-call.org/
CALL Bibliography http://www.eurocall-languages.org/resources/bibliography/books.html
UL Applied Languages Web site http://www.ul.ie/~appliedlanguages/LI4113_TELL_websites.htm

Portals for teaching & learning modern languages

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/websites.htm

CORPORA

Introduction to DDL (English) http://www.geocities.com/tonypgnews/units_index_pilot.htm
English corpora
Cobuild Bank of English (wordbanks online) http://www.cobuild.collins.co.uk/
British National Corpus (corpus demo) http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/
Hong Kong Virtual Language Centre (Various corpora) http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/default.htm
Voice of America Special English (simplified) http://www.manythings.org/voa/sentences.htm
Links to corpora in different languages: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/ http://visl.hum.sdu.dk/visl/corpus.html http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
German corpora
Online corpora at the Institute for the German Language (Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim) http://www.ids-mannheim.de/
(look under Service Einrichtungen for Textkorpora or Tonkorpora
Register freely as users of COSMAS II on http://www.ids-mannheim.de/cosmas2/install/
Mannheim Corpus: http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/~cosmas

French corpora
Corpus lexicaux québécois: http://www.spl.gouv.qc.ca/corpus/index.html
Corpus of works of Maupassant http://maupassant.free.fr/
Corpora of learner language http://www.flloc.soton.ac.uk/
Various corpora http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/default.htm

Japanese corpus
http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/default.htm

Irish corpora
Tobar na Gaedhilge http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/tobar/
An inaccessible corpus of 15 million words?: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/gaeilge.html#corpas

Email Networks
International Email Tandem Network
http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/infeng01.html

Intercultural email classroom connections (IECC)

http://www.iecc.org/

Discussion Lists
English-l http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~english/index.html


Online Quiz Authoring
Reading matrix http://www.readingmatrix.com/scripto/index.html
Hot Potatoes and Quandary (quzzes etc) http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
Quia (quizzes, crosswords, games etc) http://www.quia.com/web
Puzzlemaker http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Online Journals
The Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/
Language Learning and Technology Journal
http://llt.msu.edu/
Science Direct – System http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0346251X
Mark Warschauer homepage (for research) http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/

Online dictionaries & grammars
Dictionary links page http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Grammar links page http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html

CALL Software Companies
TenseBuster: Clarity Language Consultants Ltd http://www.clarity.com.hk/
Camsoft: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/index.htm
Speech in action http://www.speechinaction.com/
Abacus, Dublin http://www.abacus-communications.com/
Authentik (magazine) http://www.authentik.com/

Chat
Hosting good conversations online
www.rheingold.com/texts/artonlinehost.html

Tips for using chat rooms
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/edu/chat.htm

Chat and text language http://www.transl8it.com/

Some chat sites for language learning
www.eslcafe.com/chat/chatpro.cgi
http://www.1-language.com/
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/
yahoo chat

Private chat room: http://www.unique-voice.com/

Websites for Language Teaching: by language
French
‘About French’ (resources for students, teachers, and lovers of French: lessons, quizzes, dictionaries, software, linguistics, chatroom etc.) http://french.about.com/

Tourism
http://www.franceway.com/

Language
http://www.francophonie.org/

Bibliothèque National de Paris
http://www.bnp.fr/

Bibliothèque Publique d’Information:
http://www.bpi.fr/

Working in France
http://www.apec.assoc.fr/

Le Monde Newspaper
http://www.lemonde.fr/

Voltaire
http://history.hanover.edu/early/voltaire.html

Tennessee Bob’s Famous French Links
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html

Colonel Craig’s French Links
http://www.isu.edu/~nickcrai/frenchlinx.html

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/youth/hello/french.html

Branchez-vous
http://www.branchez-vous.com/

Le Monde Diplomatique
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/

Yahoo
http://fr.yahoo.com/

French Vocabulary
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/vocab.html

French Grammar
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/gramm.html

Other Useful Sites
http://www.lafontaine.com/
http://www.momes.net/
http://www.tv5.org/
www.bonjourdefrance.com/

German
‘About German’ (resources for students, teachers, and lovers of German: lessons, quizzes, dictionaries, software, linguistics, chatroom etc.) http://german.about.com/

Germalingua
http://www.germalingua.com/

Goethe Institut
http://www.goethe.de/dublin

University of Hull Links
http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/GR_Web/info_d.html

Duke University German Links
http://aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/languages/german/links/

Colonel Craig’s WWW links for German
http://www.isu.edu/~nickcrai/german.html

News Online
http://www.tagesschau.de/
http://www.welt.de/

Dictionary
http://www.lhs-lt-de/
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
http://www.pressroom.com/~communipaw/diction.htm

Grammar
http://www.wm.edu/CAS/modlang/grasmit/grammar
http://www.extension.ualberta.ca/language/german.htm
Site with links to German grammar exercises, cultural sites and fun activities through German.

Tourism
http://entry.de/
http://germanfortravellers.com/


General
http://www.elok.com/
Lets you subscribe, free of charge, to vocabulary listings and helps you to find e-mail partners in your chosen language.

http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/infen.html
Connects you to the Tandem E-Mail Network.

Japanese
General sites dealing with materials and other resources:
http://momiji.jpf.go.jp/kyozai/
This is the Japan Foundation site dealing with teaching materials

http://www.jpf.go.jp/j/index.html
The general Japan Foundation site. Lots of information to be found here if you can wade through the site.

http://www.jlgweb.org.uk/btj/
A huge resource on teaching and culture

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html
Jim Breen's page from Monash University

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/fll/Japanese/jlink.html
Purdue University's Japanese site

http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj/
Purdue's teaching resources

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/1-6-6-6.html
General site at Sussex University

Sites dealing with Kanji and other writing systems:
http://www.kanjiclinic.com/
http://www.kanjistep.com/en/online/weeklytest/intro.html

http://www.kanjistep.com/en/online/weeklytest/intro.html
This one gives placement tests

http://www.kanjiclinic.com/
This is based on a weekly column in the Japan Times and has good tips

http://www.fll.purdue.edu/ultimate/
A brilliant computer game learners can play clicking off hiragana or katakana characters against the clock. Quite addictive!

Online dictionaries
http://www.alc.co.jp/
Has the Eijiro dictionary on the home page.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C
Part of Jim Breen's monumental set of resources

Reading
http://language.tiu.ac.jp/
Reading Tutor - allows you to make up reading exercises easily.

Spanish
Grammar
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/index.html
Website with detailed and easy to understand explanations of all aspects of Spanish grammar. Also contains excellent interactive exercises and quizzes.

http://www.studyspanish.com/
Site that caters to learners of all levels, from beginner to advanced, with grammar and vocabulary exercises. Also includes explanations of grammatical forms and gives many examples

http://academics.vmi.edu/modlan_kbb/kbb/vmispanishdrills.htm
Very comprehensive grammar site with brief explanations in English and interactive exercises.

http://www.indiana.edu/~call/ejercicios.html
Site with a range of grammar exercises (catering for beginners – intermediate), not all of which are interactive.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/spanish_portuguese/spa220/gramatica.html
Site offering a very extensive range of interactive grammar exercises, but is short of explanations.

http://www.spaleon.com/
Very useful verb conjugation site, allows students to practise conjugating both regular and irregular verbs in all tenses. Also includes a verb conjugator.

http://www.quia.com/dir/spanish/
Site with dozens of quizzes, games and activities on vocabulary, grammar and culture

http://www.econ.jhu.edu/people/tchaidze/SPANGRAM/
Website in the style of a grammar reference book – no interactive exercises.

http://www.trentu.ca/spanish/masarriba/
Spanish grammar and vocabulary activities

Vocabulary
http://www.vokabel.com/spanish.html
Vocabulary site, featuring quizzes and activities designed to test knowledge of vocab in various fields. Also includes a grammar section.

http://www.languageguide.org/espanol/index.jsp
Site allowing students to learn vocabulary through pictures and sound files. Also available in French, German and Japanese.

Other
http://www.arcom.net/belca/del_dicho/indice%20dichos.html
Site, completely in Spanish, that lists idiomatic expressions and sayings, explains them, and gives their origins

http://www.elcastellano.org/
Advanced site dedicated to the Spanish language, would perhaps be of use from a socio-linguistic point of view.

http://globegate.utm.edu/spanish/span.html
Links to dozens of Spanish-language resources – though there are quite a few dead links.

http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/etandem/etindex-en.html
eTandem network site, helps learners of Spanish to find an e-mail language exchange partner - also provides instructions on how to get the most from your exchange partnership.

http://www.sgci.mec.es/uk/Pub/Tecla/2003/
Spanish government website dedicated to comprehension activities for foreign learners. Contains dozens of authentic articles catering to a variety of levels, each with an extensive set of questions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
Site with very useful material for beginners, as well as a monthly magazine for intermediate learners. Students can listen to the audio clips on the LRA computers.

http://www.littleexplorers.com/spanish/
Children’s Spanish-English dictionary

Media
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news/
All the major international and Latin American news stories in Spanish.

http://www.abc.es/
http://www.elmundo.es/
http://www.elpais.es/
http://www.larazon.com/ (Argentina)
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/ (Argentina)
http://www.larepublica.com.pe/ (Peru)

Irish
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/foghlaim/ Many links to learning Irish on the net.
http://www.ite.ie/nua/gaellink.htm ITE website: links for learning Irish
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/gaeilge.html links to all Irish sites on internet, a good starting point for pupils and teachers
http://www.clubsult.com/english/language/index.htm probably one of the best sites as it gives links to learning aids, internet as a resource etc. Click on link to see options. Links fall into your categories below. Sult is a company set up in Dublin a few years ago, they arrange extensive language courses all over the city and their Thurs nite club is well known. All info on site.
http://www.clubsult.com/english/language/irish_orgs.htm Sult gives good links to Irish lang organisations / cultural material etc and is updated regularly
http://www.muintearas.com/ <http://www.muintearas.com/> support teaching of Irish in the Gaeltacht at both prmary and sec. level, have developed some good resources, phonetic prog partic., involved in pre-school support alos

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/gaeilge.html#scoil schools using Irish.
http://www.beo.ie/ <http://www.beo.ie/> excellent resource for teacher and student, monthly e-mag. See section for teachers (some sample material) and section for learners "Rannóg na bhFoghlaimeoirí" targeted elem and interm learners. It has many words underlined which translate as the cursor moves to them.

http://www.muscrai.com/pinocchio Language cultural info, excellent new version of Pinocchio as Gaeilge

http://www.rte.ie/rnag/ Raidío na Gaeltachta, free RealOne Player by following instructions.
http://www.acmhainn.ie/ <http://www.acmhainn.ie/> a must for anyone involved in translation ..
www.may.ie/language/ <http://www.may.ie/language/> organise Vifax na Gaeilge
http://www.aingilin.com/ <http://www.aingilin.com/> Irish drama site, trendy layout etc for sec school pupils
http://www.gael-linn.ie/ <http://www.gael-linn.ie/> organise competitions for schools, debates etc
http://www.oideas-gael.com/ <http://www.oideas-gael.com/> excellent site targeting adult learners mainly, see options of courses available thru irish, hillwalking, art etc
http://www.focloir.ie/ the first major lexicographic initiative to be undertaken by Foras na Gaeilge. Includes the UL Foclóir Beag: http://www.csis.ul.ie/focloir/

http://www.ite.ie/gf/gloss.htm new resource material for adult learners
http://www.comhdhail.ie/ http://www.gaelport.com/ newsletter, update on all events, new services etc as Gaeilge. sign up to receive it by email
http://www.ruatelecom.netfirms.com/ phone company offering irish lang service
http://www.irishforlife.com/ new software

http://www.drama-gaeilge.com/ all things Irish drama, links etc

http://www.merriman.ie/ <http://www.merriman.ie/ link to Summer school and winter school, will be updated by 25th of month, Winter school biggest Irish language conference anually, always held w-end of end Jan / beg of Feb

http://www.udaras.ie/ <http://www.udaras.ie/> re: funding, see also section on culture
http://www.ucd.ie/bnag/lamh.htm UCD Irish language office some useful links re: organisations etc.
www.ul.ie/aonadnagaeilge UL Aonad na Gaeilge, comprehensive site on all things Irish at UL and in the region
http://www.uisce.com/ <http://www.uisce.com/> water sports through Irish, excellent for TY teachers of Irish, useful for projects / trips etc.
homepage.eircom.net/~comhluadar <http://homepage.eircom.net/~comhluadar> support parents raising kids thru irish
http://www.spailpin.com/ <http://www.spailpin.com/> siopadóireacht

Trends in education through Irish over past 3 decades? http://www.gaelscoileanna.ie/default.asp


English as a foreign/second language

Links pages for teachers:
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL3a.html
http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/
http://www.world-english.org/
http://www.developingteachers.com/
http://www.englishnetlinks.com/
http://www.englishforum.com/
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/index.shtml
http://searchenglish.britishcouncil.org/
http://www.tesol.net/neteach.html
http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/links.html
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/websites.htm
http://www.tesol.edu/pubs/profpapers/techclass2.html
http://esl.about.com/education/esl/blgrammar.htm
http://www.comenius.com/

Ready-made lessons http://www.free-english.com/
http://www.english-to-go.com/
http://www.englishclub.net/handouts/index.html
http://www.handoutsonline.com/
http://www.onestopenglish.com/

Blogs for LT: intro
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml

Links for children/ http://www.starfall.com/
about teaching children http://www.isabelperez.com/
BBC cbeebies http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/
BBC cbeebies children’s videos http://www.bbcshop.com/icat/1
BBC educational videos http://www.bbcschoolshop.com/
http://www.mrshurleysesl.com/
http://esl.about.com/cs/childrensesl/
http://www.childrenonlyesl-efl.com/index.asp
http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/links.html
http://www.kididdles.com/
http://www.genkienglish.net/curriculum.htm
http://www.educalia.org/
British Council for kids http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/

Links page for learners:
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL.html
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
http://www.edunet.com/
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm
e-zine for students/teachers http://its-online.com/

Skills
Reading and writing skills http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
Speaking skills http://www.eslflow.com/ http://www.homestead.com/eslfloweslflow/speakingtalktopics.html
Listening skills http://www.esl-lab.com/
http://www.englishlistening.com/
http://www.otan.dni.us/cdlp/lllo/home.html
Internet Basics for http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/s/ib/
ESL Students

On-Line Dictionaries
Dictionary links page http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Merriam Webster http://www.m-w.com./netdict.htm
Wordsmythe http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt/
Cambridge http://www.cambridge.org/
Nonverbal Dictionary http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm
Illustrated/Interactive Dicts http://www.illustratedvocabulary.ip-providence.net/
http://www.pdictionary.com/
Voycabulary (links a webpage directly to dictionary)
http://www.voycabulary.com/
On-Line Grammars
Grammar links page http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/fr_gram.html
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/grammar.htm
http://webnz.com/checkers/grammar2.html

TOEFL Homepage (inc. practice questions) http://web1.toefl.org/
Phonetics & Phonology
For EFL http://www.oupchina.com.hk/dict/phonetic/home.html
IPA all sounds with descriptions http://ds.unil.ch/ling/english/phonetique/api2-eng.html
International Phonetics Association (IPA) Website http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
Consonant articulation http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html
Online phonetics & phonology courses
http://www.celt.stir.ac.uk/staff/HIGDOX/STEPHEN/PHONO/PHONOLG.HTM
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/course.htm
See especially class notes:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/notes.htm
Speech accent archive (comparisons of accents) (click English on menu on left) http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/

Authentic On-Line Material
News
Broadcasting
RTÉ http://www.rte.ie/
BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/
CNN http://www.cnn.com/

BBC Languages Pages http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

Newspapers
The Irish Times http://www.irish-times.com/
The Times http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/home.html
The Sunday Times http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/
The Week http://www.the-week.com/
The Limerick Post http://www.limerickpost.ie/

Media directories http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml
http://www.mediainfo.com/emedia/
http://www.newslink.org/
http://www.newsd.com/
Books
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
http://www.bibliomania.com/
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/search.html
Fairy tales http://members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/index.htm
Songs
Pop http://www.lyrics.com/
Children’s songs http://www.theteachersguide.com/ChildrensSongs.htm
http://www.gigglepotz.com/eslsongs.htm
International Folk songs http://ingeb.org/

Poetry
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
Movie scripts
http://www.script-o-rama.com/table.shtml
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/database/super.htm
http://www.dailyscript.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9371/script.htm

Jokes Pages
Jokes: http://www.jokes.com/
Cartoons: http://www.cagle.com/main.asp
Puzzles: http://thinks.com/

Spoof newpapers: http://www.theonion.com/
http://www.bobsfridge.com/
Irish culture
http://www.irelandseye.com/
http://home.iol.ie/
Irish government site http://www.irlgov.ie/