Name: Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
http://www.esl-lab.com/
Level and Skill: This site offers material that is useful for all levels. As the name implies, Listening is the skill that this website focuses upon.
Interactive: Slightly. There are some multiple choice questions that can be be completed with every listening sample.
ESL/Non-ESL: ESL
What makes it good?
There is a large selection of sound clips (some better than others) on this website all designed around specific contexts that make it great content for an ESL listening class. However, the value of the content in this website is primarily what the individual ESL teacher can do with it. The Pre- and Post- Listening activities suggested are ok but not comprehensive or necesarily valuable. In addition to the negligable interactivity, the onus is completely upon the instructor to form a lesson and activites around the individual sound clips, which is not a bad thing. This web site is what it is, a collection of material for ESL teachers.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Review #1
Name: Learning Resources
http://literacyworks.org/learningresources/4_networked_indiv/lr_networked_indiv_home.html
Level and Skill: I think this website would be most useful for Adult Learners levels 4-5. While this site emphasizes vocabulary understanding and use, the actual material could be applied in as wide a range as the teacher could imagine.
Interactive: Yes, There are evaluation exercises available upon reading, viewing and listening to the various articles that practice vocabulary, word order, word choice, and comprehension of article. There is also an open forum that allows all participants to review the article.
ESL/Non-ESL: Learning Resources is specifically designed to "help adults improve basic skills like reading and spelling using real-life stories on topics of interest to adults."
What makes it good?
This website uses current, interesting material with a higher level vocabulary that make it very useful for an advanced, adult class. The site is very easy to use and the stories make use of authentic language and provides it in a full version, abridged, and outline format. The applications of this material for an instructor to use in the classroom are manifold. The interactive activities included within the website are useful in practicing and testing vocabulary, reading and listening comprehension. The added feature which allows the users to comment on the article also provides a useful writing component. Overall, I would rate this website highly for the learner/teacher group it targets.
http://literacyworks.org/learningresources/4_networked_indiv/lr_networked_indiv_home.html
Level and Skill: I think this website would be most useful for Adult Learners levels 4-5. While this site emphasizes vocabulary understanding and use, the actual material could be applied in as wide a range as the teacher could imagine.
Interactive: Yes, There are evaluation exercises available upon reading, viewing and listening to the various articles that practice vocabulary, word order, word choice, and comprehension of article. There is also an open forum that allows all participants to review the article.
ESL/Non-ESL: Learning Resources is specifically designed to "help adults improve basic skills like reading and spelling using real-life stories on topics of interest to adults."
What makes it good?
This website uses current, interesting material with a higher level vocabulary that make it very useful for an advanced, adult class. The site is very easy to use and the stories make use of authentic language and provides it in a full version, abridged, and outline format. The applications of this material for an instructor to use in the classroom are manifold. The interactive activities included within the website are useful in practicing and testing vocabulary, reading and listening comprehension. The added feature which allows the users to comment on the article also provides a useful writing component. Overall, I would rate this website highly for the learner/teacher group it targets.
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