Review of : http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
This site is a great resource! It has study guides for every grammar point! Great for teachers to quickly reference a grammar point because it is fairly comprehensive and well categorized and layed out. This site is interactive as well for the ESL learners and has many interesting features that greatly assists is acquiring English grammar. My favorite option is the extensive minimal pair list that gives definitions and audio files for the students to hear and read the difference in words that are similar! This site even covers punctuation in writing skills, information rarely found but necessary! The only negative feature of this site is that beyond reference materials it has no use because the test and quizzes are for paying members only. That puts this site at 3.5 nods out of 5 because of trying to be a money maker rather then strictly educational. I would recommend this site for ESL students of all levels to look up and read through for specific grammar points -the tutorials are fabulous-easy to understand and you can find very detailed topics.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Web Review
Website review of : The English Forum
http://www.englishforum.com/00
This website at first is extremely wordy- the homepage is full of information that is all over the page with many different highlighted links in no random order. If you click on a link it will take you quickly to whatever is suggested or highlighted. The site claims to be "A resource for students and teachers of English" This site is loaded with information, quizzes, exercises, self-study guides and links to concordances, dictionaries, links to newscasts and weather and even has a review by country of English schools! This site is not level specific and the quizzes and exercises vary, there is no specific level mentioned and sometimes will say "easy" or "difficult". I would say to navigate this site because it is so full of info. and advertisements, that the students would need to be at least a level 2 to navigate and actually find what a learner is looking for. For a teacher the quizzes /exercises would prove to be useful and are listed under several categories. The site overall once you find a selection is interactive and provides answers to the activities you choose. I would rate this site 3.5 out of five nods simply because of lack of level specific options as well as an info. overload layout- and TOO MANY ADVERTISEMENTS!
http://www.englishforum.com/00
This website at first is extremely wordy- the homepage is full of information that is all over the page with many different highlighted links in no random order. If you click on a link it will take you quickly to whatever is suggested or highlighted. The site claims to be "A resource for students and teachers of English" This site is loaded with information, quizzes, exercises, self-study guides and links to concordances, dictionaries, links to newscasts and weather and even has a review by country of English schools! This site is not level specific and the quizzes and exercises vary, there is no specific level mentioned and sometimes will say "easy" or "difficult". I would say to navigate this site because it is so full of info. and advertisements, that the students would need to be at least a level 2 to navigate and actually find what a learner is looking for. For a teacher the quizzes /exercises would prove to be useful and are listed under several categories. The site overall once you find a selection is interactive and provides answers to the activities you choose. I would rate this site 3.5 out of five nods simply because of lack of level specific options as well as an info. overload layout- and TOO MANY ADVERTISEMENTS!
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Rosetta Stone Review
I played the Demo for the Rosetta Stone Software, and briefly used the software to learn Italian. I was impressed that it covers reading, listening and provides visual demonstrations of the word or sentence. This program has a lot to offer! I did not even know it was possible for technology to analyze pronunciation and make corrections. Also the audio clips with the voice of a Native speaker is extremely helpful! I am very interested in seeing this software used in a ESL /EFL environment, I feel it would prove to be a valuable tool.
Web Review
Web Review Of:http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html
Self-Study English Grammar Quizes
Rating:4 nods
This site is chock -full of tests and quizes for the student to challenge themselves and learn Grammar interactively. There is a variety of topics and the site overall is VERY userfriendly, nothing complicated! For the visual learning this site is very "Plain Jane" but the advantage of no graphics is it is easier to view and also easier to print out, in-case a teacher might need a quiz on the fly (wink,wink). This site could bring it up a level and actually provide some simple explanations for answers otherwise it provides exactly what it says!
Self-Study English Grammar Quizes
Rating:4 nods
This site is chock -full of tests and quizes for the student to challenge themselves and learn Grammar interactively. There is a variety of topics and the site overall is VERY userfriendly, nothing complicated! For the visual learning this site is very "Plain Jane" but the advantage of no graphics is it is easier to view and also easier to print out, in-case a teacher might need a quiz on the fly (wink,wink). This site could bring it up a level and actually provide some simple explanations for answers otherwise it provides exactly what it says!
Monday, January 29, 2007
Web Review Of:http://www.esl-lab.com/
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Rating : 4.5 nods
This site is definately a gem for any TESL teacher for lisntening classes. Pre and post tests included! This site is very user-friendly and layed out well. The links work speedily and the instructions provided are more then adequate to complete the tasks! The topics are so practical- we could all use advice on how to deal with Telemarketers and how to listen to them! The only negative is that some of the audio samples are not authentic and tend to be scripted. This site is great for all levels particularily lower levels. Wohoo a site teachers can use on the fly even for lesson plan B, C, or D!
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Rating : 4.5 nods
This site is definately a gem for any TESL teacher for lisntening classes. Pre and post tests included! This site is very user-friendly and layed out well. The links work speedily and the instructions provided are more then adequate to complete the tasks! The topics are so practical- we could all use advice on how to deal with Telemarketers and how to listen to them! The only negative is that some of the audio samples are not authentic and tend to be scripted. This site is great for all levels particularily lower levels. Wohoo a site teachers can use on the fly even for lesson plan B, C, or D!
Web Review
Web Review of: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/8255/index.html
This site boasts being fabulous for bringing creative and interactive quizes to any environment, but has currently changed it's format. You can not access this site without a membership for starters. Because this site was supposedly so popular and FREE once upon a time, the server could not handle all of the traffic. Now they currently charge a yearly membership thanks to some inconsiderate entrepreneurs limiting access to the once famed quizes and causing problems to even accesses demo's! Unfortunately even though the TESL site rated this one five stars, their fame and usability has seriously gone down the tubes. So one nod for the effort minus 4 for becoming extinct in the "userfriendly" department.
ESL Quiz Zone
Jana's Rating (out of 5 nods of the head) 1-nodThis site boasts being fabulous for bringing creative and interactive quizes to any environment, but has currently changed it's format. You can not access this site without a membership for starters. Because this site was supposedly so popular and FREE once upon a time, the server could not handle all of the traffic. Now they currently charge a yearly membership thanks to some inconsiderate entrepreneurs limiting access to the once famed quizes and causing problems to even accesses demo's! Unfortunately even though the TESL site rated this one five stars, their fame and usability has seriously gone down the tubes. So one nod for the effort minus 4 for becoming extinct in the "userfriendly" department.
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