| English Language Learners |
Finding good websites for English Language Learners can be challenging. Hopefully, these sites will engage this important population as they gain lifelong skills. Online quizzes and activities for the English learner. BBC: Learning English Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon, is a project developed by Dr. Michael Shaughnessy at Washington & Jefferson College. The purpose of CAPL is to provide images that demonstrate the true meaning and intention of the words in a language. CAPL currently has collections of images for teaching and learning English (North American), German, French, Chinese, and Spanish. CAPL also has images for Japanese, Russian, and Ukranian. All of the images in the collection are licensed under a Creative Commons license that allows for re-use and manipulation for non-commercial purposes. Digital Dialects has a large selection of educational games and activities for learning 55 different languages. Most of the games are designed to learn and practice the basics of each of the 55 languages listed on the Digital Dialects homepage. More online quizzes and activities for the English learner. Starting point for ESL learners who want to study English online. Even more quizzes and activities. Free online English learner lessons. This is a site that provides short video vocabulary lessons for beginning and advanced ESL students. For teachers, ESL Basics has a small collection of suggestions and ideas for teaching ESL. ESL Basics is adding new content on a regular basis. Larry is a high school English and Social Studies teacher in Sacramento who maintains thousands (yes, I do mean thousands) of links organized to assist EL learners and their parents. Ar good website for learning and practicing language basics is Literacy Center which offers games for learning and practicing French, Spanish, German, and English. A myriad of resources for the English learner including listening, speaking and reading activities. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab Contains listening quizzes, vocabulary lessons, learning and life tips and real video conversations. Online readings and texts for listening or reading. Online quizzes and activities. This is a free service designed to help you learn languages, mathematics, and history independently. At it's most basic, it provides a flashcard-like service for learning languages, learning formulas, and learning facts. You can hear the flashcards read to you, read the flashcards, and play games based upon the flashcards you're studying. Provides numerous free tools for learning Spanish, German, or English. Vocabulix can be used to create quizzes or take quizzes online. Vocabulix provides dozens of drills and activities designed to help students learn Spanish, German, or English. The verb conjugation chart can be used on the Vocabulix website. The verb conjugator code is freely available for use in third party blogs, wikis, or websites. As most new language learning websites do, Vocabulix has a social networking option that helps match native speakers with learners. This a resource for learning the vocabulary of your choice of nine languages. To start learning vocabulary with WordSteps select the language you are trying to learn then choose a set of vocabulary words in that language. WordSteps provides six types of practice activities for each set of vocabulary words. The sets of vocabulary words are called dictionaries by WordSteps. You can use the dictionaries made by other WordSteps users or create your own dictionary. WordSteps can be used without creating an account, but in order to create your own dictionary you must create an account.
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