Lauren's Links

The annotated links are sorted into the following categories:

• Language Learning & CALL
• Technology Training
• Educational Technology
• Professional Organizations
• Other Faves & Sites of Interest

 Please note that I haven't checked them in a long while.

Language Learning & CALL

• Dave's ESL Cafe: A compendium of user- and browser-friendly resources for teacher and student alike. Grammar links, quotes and idioms, fun quizzes, discussion board, e-mail exchange and more. A great jumping-off point for teachers & students.
• For those new to the net, I recommend reading Carolyn Fidelman's article The Internet for Language Professionals (I'll make a link when I find it-sorry!). The main site of Agoralang has much information of interest. You can also get a monthly newsletter via email.
• Jim Duber's Chorus CALL page. Includes critical reviews of software (see mine, of TOEFL Mastery and Triple Play Plus Hebrew), CALL links (multilingual as well as ESL), "the cutting edge"--demos of what can be done with interactive ESL lessons and distance learning with Shockwave & Director.
• Kristina Pfaff's Linguistic Funland: "a stepping off point for TESL/TEFL people into the wonderful chaos available on the Internet" with links to "other search mechanisms (such as the Applied Linguistics Virtual Library) which contain an enormous amount of useful information, and many of the other sites...listed will connect you to still more..." An excellent resource. Also, explore ESOL on the web via the ESL Loop.
• Ex*Change, which bills itself as an "Electronic, Xross Cultural, Hypertextual Academy of Non-native Gatherings in English.", is maintained by the Division of English as an Int'l Language program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is intended primarily for their ESL students. Teachers will find it interesting as well; it's a good example of how the web can be harnessed for use by students. There is a scavenger hunt designed to give students practice in using the web; Grammar Safari exercises which give guided assignments and examples for using the Web to find real-life uses of grammar; a bibliography of technology resources for ESL/EFL student resources, etc.
• CELIA: Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archive, an archive of software for Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) of English as a SecondLanguage (ESL) maintained at Graduate School of Education, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. The FTP address is ftp://ftp.latrobe.edu.au/pub/CELIA/
• On-line Journals: electronic publications for teaching English as a second or foreign language, and technology
  • Language Learning & Technology
  • TESL-EJ
  • The Internet TESL Journal. A monthly web magazine. And, if you just can't get enough, go to the ESL/EFL/TESOL links page of the Internet TESL Journal. It is very organized, and useful for both students and teachers.
• Andrew Hess, NYU doctoral student and ESL teacher, has a great web site for teaching English with the Internet. Of special interest is his "cities" project.
• A good jumping-off place for ESOL and literacy is the Literacy Assistance Center. Be sure to read Emily Hacker's Techno-Teacher column in the LAC Update.
• Susan Gaer has done many on-line projects with her adult ESOL learners in the California Literacy Project.
• Lynda Rae Ben-Menashe (one of my partners-in-crime) recommends NCELTR ONLINE, produced by the National Centre for English Language Teaching & Research at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where she studied. It is an ELICOS/ESL/CALL/Teacher Training site where you can get the view from Oz.
  
• The Ohio University CALL Lab has many useful ideas, materials, and links for teachers and learners of many languages.
• The TESOL CALL Interest Section has a site (see below, in organizations, for the main TESOL site). It is maintained by Leslie Opp-Beckam, who has prepared many excellent web-based lessons.
• John Higgin's home page at Stirling University. John Higgins is a CALL pioneer. Here he shares his many writings, ideas, and even software.
• Two of my favorite mail-order resources are Athelstan, an American-based CALL distributor, and WIDA, Tony Williams' wonderful CALL company. Agora Language Marketplace is another resource, with news and information as well as links to software publishers & non-profits.
• The CTI Centre for Modern Languages (CTI=Computers in Teaching Initiative)....the site for RECALL and ONCALL as well...
• The CALL Cookbook, a project of Rice University students who heard the "CALLing".
• This will take you to an interesting site with on-line foreign language lessons for travelers. Their home page has lots of travel-related info.
• For testing and assessment-related links, please see the class page of my course, Language Assessment and Evaluation.
• Fun with words:
  • To build your vocabulary and word power, go to WordsRUs.
  • Another place to hone your word skills is Richard Lederer's Verbivore page. Choose 'language links' for everything from grammar to etymology. [Speaking of etymology: "carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words."]
  • Advanced learners & native speakers should take a look at Word Focus, for "word activities based mostly on Latin and Greek elements...and the etymological meanings and histories of thousands of words that have merged with our vast English vocabulary."
  • And if your appetite for words has not yet been sated, check out Wordplay for more links to "sites that feature fun with words."
• For students and teachers who want web resources focused on Grammar should visit this page, which provides links to on-line ESL grammar reference and activity sites.
• A couple of commercial language learning company sites include:
  • Berlitz for general language learning (my friend Andee Yonah is in charge of the web site--write to her!).
  • Kaplan and Princeton Review for TOEFL information.
  • For TOEFL information, you can also go direct to the source, the Educational Testing Service's TOEFL site. Check out a new site for TOEFL prep--Shockwave isn't necessary but the Shockwaved part of the site is great.
• ESL/EFL Publishers and materials distributors on the web:
  • Longman Publishers now have a Dictionary web site with exercises for students and lesson plans for teachers. It's supposed to be updated every couple of weeks, so check it out.
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Delta Systems-ESL and foreign language learning
  • Booklink
  • Alta ESL Book Center's site seemed to be under construction when I visited in February of 1998.
  • Heinle & Heinle
• The "English for Internet" site: a FREE English School On The Net. Volunteer teachers for online ESL courses of all sorts. Founded and coordinated by Dave Winet.
• iT's On-Line - "The e-zine for teachers & students of English".
• The English Language Institute at the University of Surrey has tons of good links, both academic and professional.
• CUNY's SchMOOzeU page
• FUN University, an on-line place for ESL/EFL students.
  
• Information about NETEACH-L, the discussion list devoted to ESL/EFL teachers using the internet.
• Part One & Part Two of William Eubank's Collection of CALL Software
• Universal Survey of Languages
• University of Arizona Computer Aided Language Instruction Group
• Virtual CALL Library
• Volterre-Fr, English and French Language Resources
• WWW Foreign Language Resources
  
• Greg Younger's home page
  
• Jon Berman's web page has useful, well-organized links (but be warned, there are a lot of graphics so it may take a while to load unless you have a fast modem).
• A list of Language Conferences
• Georgetown's On-line Linguistics information; includes a list of virtual linguistics classes.

TECHNOLOGY TRAINING

• Several places to start; choose the one that's most appropriate for your knowledge level and interests:
• Mary Beth McCartin, the instructional services librarian at Bobst Library at New York University, updates the online tutorials resources page periodically. You can find links for web basics and introductions to the web, how to's for searching, evaluating web information, citing electronic sources, creating a web page, etc. The main instructional services page, while geared toward NYU students and faculty, is worth a visit because of its links to the NYU Subject Area Librarians' pages and Information Literacy links, including more detailed information on evaluating information.
• Carolyn Fidelman's CALICO Journal article, A Language Professional's Guide to the Web, is a must.
• Go to SurfSchool to learn more about the basics of navigating the web. Sub-sections include lessons about communicating on the web (e-mail, IRC, and newsgroups), viewing pictures, and hearing sound.
• The very, very basic are presented in a series of lessons called "Walking the Web".
• Read an introduction to searching the net.
• The University of Vermont runs a workshop for faculty who want to put courseware online, called Online Tools for Teaching.
• Listserv resources: Listserv, a list of listserv lists, and Liszt, a site to find all kinds of mailing list.
• Some information about making your own web page and HTML: HTML Quick Reference, from the University of Kansas; The Bare Bones Guide to HTML, more like a cheat sheet that assumes you know something about HTML already; a Beginner's Guide to HTML from the people who made Mosaic, the precursor to Netscape; and an HTML Reference Manual (good background info, but it is not updated for HTML 3.2).
• Two excellent sites for tips, lesson plans, etc: Oregon State's English Language Institute Tech Tips of the Month and the LAC Update's Literacy & Technology Network articles.
• For free and low-cost software that you can download from the net, go to www.shareware.com.

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

• Cog Sci Class Plan. This web site has the course syllabus as well as a multitude of learning links from CogSci Celebrities to the Cognitive Science Virtual Library. Also relevant...a link to Word Focus, for "word activities based mostly on Latin and Greek elements...and the etymological meanings and histories of thousands of words that have merged with our vast English vocabulary."
• And if your appetite for words has not yet been sated, check out Wordplay for more links to "sites that feature fun with words."

TECHNOLOGY TRAINING

• Several places to start; choose the one that's most appropriate for your knowledge level and interests:
• Mary Beth McCartin, the instructional services librarian at Bobst Library at New York University, updates the online tutorials resources page periodically. You can find links for web basics and introductions to the web, how to's for searching, evaluating web information, citing electronic sources, creating a web page, etc. The main instructional services page, while geared toward NYU students and faculty, is worth a visit because of its links to the NYU Subject Area Librarians' pages and Information Literacy links, including more detailed information on evaluating information.
• Carolyn Fidelman's CALICO Journal article, A Language Professional's Guide to the Web, is a must.
• Go to SurfSchool to learn more about the basics of navigating the web. Sub-sections include lessons about communicating on the web (e-mail, IRC, and newsgroups), viewing pictures, and hearing sound.
• The very, very basic are presented in a series of lessons called "Walking the Web".
• Read an introduction to searching the net.
• The University of Vermont runs a workshop for faculty who want to put courseware online, called Online Tools for Teaching.
• Listserv resources: Listserv, a list of listserv lists, and Liszt, a site to find all kinds of mailing list.
• Some information about making your own web page and HTML: HTML Quick Reference, from the University of Kansas; The Bare Bones Guide to HTML, more like a cheat sheet that assumes you know something about HTML already; a Beginner's Guide to HTML from the people who made Mosaic, the precursor to Netscape; and an HTML Reference Manual (good background info, but it is not updated for HTML 3.2).
• Two excellent sites for tips, lesson plans, etc: Oregon State's English Language Institute Tech Tips of the Month and the LAC Update's Literacy & Technology Network articles.
• For free and low-cost software that you can download from the net, go to www.shareware.com.

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

• Cog Sci Class Plan. This web site has the course syllabus as well as a multitude of learning links from CogSci Celebrities to the Cognitive Science Virtual Library. Also relevant...a link to Professor Payne's home page...and World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology
  Bootstrap Institute,mostly a business site, with some interesting ideas about using technology to support new organizational strategies
  Titled Learning with Software, and subtitled "pedagogies and practice", this site gives an overview of computer aided learning and summarizes the theoretical constructs involved.
• Mike Callery's Place, and some web-building related sites: Ten Ways to Identify a Sucky Web Site, The Pixel Foundry, Lynda's Homegurrrl Page: a compendium of web site design information.
• A project at Carnegie Mellon called Project Listen which uses a computer to coach reading.
• Technology & Learning Magazine in on-line format.
• LeNeL, the Science and Technology Education Center, at the Tel Aviv University School of Education, Learning Networks Lab
• The Language Technology Group at Edinburgh's Human Communication Research Centre is running a helpdesk for natural language engineeri ng software. They have compiled a list of frequently asked questions.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• IAFTEL: International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Their "links" page includes the BBC, Heinemann, the British Coucil, JALT, and Yahoo's ESL page.
• TESOL, and NYSTESOL.
• IALL: the International Association for Learning Laboratories. The IALL has excellent materials on setting up and managing technology-intensive language laboratories. Also, the archives of the LLTI--Language Learning Technology International--listserv are archived here. LLTI is one means of information exchange between those interested in language learning technology.
• The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium --CALICO--focuses on language teaching and learning, and technology. A page is also maintained at Duke University (CALIC O) where the organization is based. The theme of this year's annual symposium was "Distance Learning." Also of interest is their SLA & Technology SIG.
• ISTE: International Society for Technology in Education--a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to the improvement of education through computer-based technology.
• AECT: Association of Educational Communications and Technology

PERSONAL

Send mail to: lauren.goldenberg@nyu.edu
Last updated Mar-27-98