English as a Second Language Slide Show highlighting the best online websites for computer aided language learning sites.

1. Copyright © Douglas Baumwoll, May 2015. Use for educational purposes permitted.

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3. Preliminaries:
Where Are You at? (2 minutes)
• Where do you teach?
• How old are your students?
• Are classes divided by level? Gender?
• Class size?
• Do you have access to a computer lab?
• Does each student get one computer or share?
• Do your students do homework?

4. Short Intro:
• Why learn English?
• Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations

7. Lingua Franca:
a language that is widely to communicate among speakers of another language

8. Cosmopolitanism:
free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices,
or attachments; at home all over the world.

9. International Stuff

10. English Speakers in the World
- English is a main language in more
than 55 countries
- When traveling, you can speak English in
almost every country on Earth
- Speaking with other ESL speakers: China,
Japan, Phillipines (Korean will speak English)

11. On Wikipedia:
- 5,000,000 articles written in English
- 300,000 articles written in Korean

12. Public School ESL Education - Korea

13. What Middle- and High-School Public
School Teachers Teach (in order)
• Reading
• Grammar
• Vocabulary
• Listening
• Speaking
• Pronunciation
• Writing

14. Reflective Practice (4 minutes)
• What can you reasonably expect Korean Ss to learn
from the age of 8 to 10 years old? 11-15?
• In, high school language learning essentially stops
and transitions to prep for the CSAT.
• How important is accuracy vs. fluency now for your
Ss (e.g., articles)? later in their student life?
• What about the notion of “fun” English classes in
the Korean public school context?
• How do games relate to augmenting language skills?
• Do you believe a student experiences “pleasure”
upon completing a task? Does “pleasure” = “fun”?

16. The Best ESL Websites by Language Skill

17. Applicability for You
• I really need to give 8 or 10 presentations:
• Public vs. private school
• Elementary vs. middle vs. high vs.
university
• Hakwon vs. non-Hakwon students
Please adapt: reflect, create, refine

18. Excellent Sites that Review Other Sites
• English Club - Reviewed Websites
• Busy Teacher – Top 10
Great overall site:
• About.com
• Norwalk Community College - Sites

19. Speaking
• English Central(not free)
• English Class 101
• Talk English
• Real English

21. Teach a “tolerance for ambiguity”

22. Reading (and Listening -bimodal)
• Rong-Chang (China)
• Free Rice (United Nations)
• Wordsearches
• “eslgamesplus” - Concentration
• ITESLJ.org - Written Conversation Questions
• ESL Bits - Short stories and scripts -
• High-level
– TED (bimodal with subtitles in English)
– YouTube (with cc turned on)

24. Listening
• Voice of America (VOA)
• Arlyn Freed - Listening Websites Review
– ELLLO.org
• Dictations
– English Club - Listen and Type
– About.com - Write in notebooks (by topic)
– Breaking News English - Typing with Slow
Speech
• Use small whiteboards if no computers

25. Grammar
• Parts of speech – online games
• "arcademics.com" ,
"grammaropolis.com" and "abcya.com"
• "englishforeveryone" – Verb Tenses
• Google Sites - Online Games -
"easygrammar4kids“ – all grammar

26. Word-Level and
Sentence-level Writing

27. http://tools.atozteacherstuff.com/prin
table-word-shapes-worksheets/

28. John's ESL - Sentence Scramble Generator

29. Eclipse – Crossword Maker
Computer Vocabulary– Intermediate/Advanced
1 2
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4 5 6
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EclipseCrossword.com
ACROSS:
5. The people who design or make computer software.
7. A place on the internet where someone posts information about
a subject.
8. On the internet: Enter a word and look for information about it.

30. More Sentence Building Sites
• primarygames.com – games
• autoenglish.org – more word order
• worksheetgenius.com - Sentence
building with teacher input!

31. Sentence Building

32. Sentence Building