Review #6

Website:http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
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Level & Skill: Skill is grammar, and you can find something for any level. It has basic noun, verb type grammar lessons and goes to essay writing and beyond.

Interactive: Affirmative.

ESL/NON-ESL: ESL

What makes it good: The fact that you can find very specific grammar points helps out a lot. It provides teachers with lesson plans, activities explanations and even has power point lessons teacher can use in the class. There are online activities that the students can do. These range from crossword puzzles to quizzes. This would be a nice source for new teachers or teachers who need to save some time and need a quick lesson. However, I am sure a teacher who has been teaching grammar may not find much use for this site.

REVIEW #5

Website:http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/

Level & Skill: Skill is pronunciation and listening. However, I think a learner from any level could use this website. It might be to much for an early beginner, who doesn't have an ear for the language yet, but for anyone who wants some extra practice could use this site.

Interactive: Affirmative.

ESL/NON-ESL: ESL

What makes it good: It is the variety of activities available. There are minimal pairs activities, sentence listening activities. and the site provides complete lessons from their workbook in MP3 audio , as well as the PDF version. If the learner has a microphone even more activities are available. All the activities are geared towards visual and auditory learners, so they can hears the sounds, and see the phrases at the same time. There are also video clips of mouths making different sounds that morph into animated Sammy Diagrams that highlight positioning of the tongue and lips. Of course nothing could teach pronunciation as well as interacting with native speakers, and there is no way that the computer can correct the learner or interact with them, but this could still help the learners practice. And since the learners can practice in the comfort of their own home they might be more willing to let themselves go and speak aloud, taking risks. I highly suggest anyone who reads this to check out the site and play around with it.

PRONUNCIATION WEBSITES

PRONUNCIATION WEBSITES:

http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm (Talking Dictionary)

http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/

http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/index.htm

http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.html

http://www.manythings.org/pp/

http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/sites/pron.htm

http://www.e-pron.com/

http://www.fonetiks.org/

http://www.elfs.com/MMz.html

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html

http://www.eslmania.com/students/accent_reduction/Tongue_twister_with_audio.htm

http://www.ugoeigo.com/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/vowels/index.htm

http://pbskids.org/lions/songs/

http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/contents.html

http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/newstart.html

http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/consframe2.html

http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/teflindex.htm

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/pronunciation/sounds.htm

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml