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Research Readings
Healey, D., & Johnson, M. (1997/98). A place to start in selecting software. CAELL Journal,8 (1). Retrieved September 18, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/cj_software_selection.html
Okolo, C. M., & Ferretti, R. P. (1998, Sept/Oct). Multimedia design projects in an inclusive social studies classroom. The Council for Exceptional Children, 50-57.
Warschauer, M. (1997). The Internet for English teaching: Guidelines for teachers. TESL Reporter, 30(1). Retrieved September 18, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Warschauer-Internet.html
Additional Readings
Egbert, J., & Hanson-Smith, E. (Eds.). (1999). CALL environments: Research, practice, and critical issues. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
Ryan, K. (Ed.). (2000). Recipes for wired teachers. Tokyo: Japan Association for Language Teaching.
Sites on the Web
Dave's ESL Café
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html
This popular site contains a wealth of resources for students and teachers, including: Hint-of-the-Day, Idea Cookbook, Idioms, Job Center, Phrasal Verbs, Quizzes, Quotes, Slang, and more. The site was created and is maintained by Dave Sperling.
Interactive Learning Resources
http://www.otan.dni.us/cdlp/education/
Current news stories, edited and outlined, are used as the basis for reading and vocabulary practice. They are created and maintained by the California Distance Learning Project and the Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.
Interactive Javascript Quizzes for ESL Students
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/js/
On this site, you will find a collection of short quizzes written by many teachers working throughout the world. It contains easy, medium, and difficult interactive quizzes covering a wide range of subject areas and grammar points. This is a feature of the "Internet TESL Journal," a free monthly web journal for teachers of English as a second language.
Randall's ESL Listening Lab
http://www.esl-lab.com/
Randall Davis created and maintains this wonderful site which includes dozens of short audio files, with interactive quizzes and scripts for listening practice. They are categorized as easy, medium, difficult, or very difficult!
TESOL - CALL Interest Section Software List
http://www.orst.edu/dept/eli/softlist/
This is a project of the Computer Assisted Language Learning Interest Section of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. It is compiled by Deborah Healey and Norm Johnson. Here, you will find a comprehensive, searchable, listing of ESL software. Each listing includes publisher and price information, the appropriate level and age range, as well as a description of the program.
TrackStar
http://trackstar.scrtec.org/
This is a free Internet tool, developed at the University of Kansas, which is used to create a collection of Internet sites, with annotations. Many of these annotated collections ("tracks") have been made by ESL teachers. It is also a useful tool for collaborative projects by students.
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