ESL_Home
A Web Resource for CALL Lab Managers

and for Teachers and Learners of Languages Online

prepared by

Vance Stevens
Consultant in Computer Assisted Language Learning / Instructional Technology /
eLearning / Independent Learning / Teacher Training and Coordination

This site's url: http://www.vancestevens.com/esl_home.htm
Index: http://www.vancestevens.com/eslindex.htm

Projects and Interests: Vance's papers and conference handouts here: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/ Establishing and maintaining 'Web presence'	Webheads in Action and	Text Chat: http://www.tappedin.org Voice Chat: http://www.tinyurl.com/y3eh http://www.alado.net/webheads
Webcast recording: CALL IS Academic Session at TESOL 2005, San Antonio		Visit The virtual learning resource center or get a Second Life
Follow my blog: AdVANCEducation and podcast GeekSpeek	This May 2007: Webheads in Action Online Convergence	Guest-access my Moodle course: Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments

Purpose: This site has been prepared from the point of view of one responsible for implementing computer-based learning for ESL NNS language learners. Because this entails many perspectives on the topic from the point of view of all its stakeholders, this site can conceivably be used by learners, teachers, developers, lab managers ...

Click here for a site Index

Contents

Getting information

• Literature on CALL and language learning
  Graham Davies has preserved Philippe Delcloque's lapsed History of CALL website as a PDF document here: http://www.ict4lt.org/en/History_of_CALL.pdf. Graham is now recording new developments in the History of CALL as Editor of the ICT4LT website systematically in Section 2 (History of CALL) of Module 1.4 at the ICT4LT website: http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod1-4.htm (March 2007)
• Online journals
• Professional organizations
• Conference websites and synchronous Online Events
• Technical information: e.g fonts and phonetic symbols
• Joining listservs

Setting up

• Information on setting up and running CALL labs
• Lab furniture
• Computers
• Other hardware
• ESL Commercial Software Vendors List ; CALL software list; software reviews
• Shareware

Training

• Introducing technology e.g. Word Processing, CALL basics
• Introducing the web e.g. email, web browsing, and beyond, into cyber s p aa aa c e !
• TESL graduate and certificate programs offered online
• ESL Certificate Programs
• Webheads in Action
• Worldbridges: e.g. WebcastAcademy, CMSAcademy ...

ESL activities and CALL applications

• Addressing ESL skill areas (See also the following subject areas)
  Business English | ESL for Engineering
  Collaboration on the web to foster genuine communication
• Ezines
  Games: a list of resources for basic level students contributed largely by Ed Moore, MLI, Abu Dhabi
  Grammar
  Idioms and Proverbs (not much here at the moment)
  Listening activities and speech recognition
  Pronunciation
  Reading, vocabulary, and cloze
  Simulations
  TOEFL Preparation with a contribution from Ahmad Qendil, MLI, Abu Dhabi
  Word Processing, Language learning techniques implemented through ...
  Writing and Composition (see also Collaboration)
• Text Analysis  and Concordancing
• Authoring
• Testing Resources and assessment
• Foreign Languages (other than English)
• MLI Teacher Websites - Pages with teaching focus placed on the web by some of the wired teachers at Vance's ex-workplace

Using the Web

• Center for Applied Linguistics: CAL Resource Guides Online - Creating Web-Based Language Learning Activities maintained by Sally Morrison, ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics: https://www.cal.org/resources/archive/rgos/webcall.html
• The US Government has redesigned the Federal Resources for Education Excellence website with over 1,500 resources for teachers, students and education professionals. Adapt and apply: http://free.ed.gov/
• Outasite sites: Entry points to the "ESL-loop"
• Browsers
• Selecting a search engine
• Fun stuff for expanding knowledge interactively
• Capturing Web Sites for use offline
• Online reference materials
• T.H.E. Journal list of sites useful in classroom and research
• Working with HTML: Learning how (free email and web space)
• Working with HTML: Finding the tools (HTML editors, utilities, clip art, PowerPoint)
• Learn (about) Java Script and CGI and how you can combine these to make forms on the web
• Action Mazes, a nifty HTML application
• Audio
• Video
• Language courses online such as EFI; Writing for Webheads
• Communities of Practice: e.g.Webheads in Action
• RSS

Virtual Spaces for Web-based Encounters

• Community formation online
• Free email and web space (e.g. Hotmail, Geocities)
• How to set up your own web site at Geocities
• Send greeting cards (a fun beginning level activity)
• Education-oriented MOOing (e.g. SchMOOze)
• Chatting online (historical perspective) and what we do in 2007
• Setting up classes using LMS's and templates (e.g. Nicenet)
• Podcasting, Webcasting
• Web 2.0

Other Web-based issues

Internet Society at http://www.isoc.org/internet/issues/ treats Internet issues such as Access, Censorship, Children and the Internet, Copyright, Digital Divide, Domain Name Systems, E-Commerce, Encryption, Privacy, Public Policy, Security, Societal, Spamming, Women and the Internet, Y2K

• Cleaning out dead links
• Copyright
• Evaluating what's on the web
• Hoaxes on the web
• Tech Jokes
• Figuring out time zones
• Viruses, worms, and trojans
• Y2K

Some other sites with a similar organization and focus to this one:

• The ESL Program of the Division of Adult and Career Education produced a "Technology Guide" with software reviews written by teachers who used each program with their students and evaluated the software. The entire guide is available on-line as a .pdf file at http://adultinstruction.org/administrators/handbooks/index.htm (from TESLCA-L posting May 2004)
• Jack Treuhaft's at Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology, Using Technology in Education: http://www.algonquinc.on.ca/edtech/index.html#main1
• Ohio University ESL Dept.'s Technology for Language Teaching: http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/technology/index.html

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This site was featured at the Seattle TESOL '98 Web Faire, March 18, 1998, CALL-IS Electronic Village, and was one of the invited "classics" at the CALL-IS Internet Fair at the TESOL 2002 conference in Salt Lake City:

• http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/wf98presenters.html
• http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~call/ev2002/ifclassic2002.html

Guest Book (started June, 2001)

• "Super webpage. Thank you so much." - Mavis Harper 03 Jun 2001
• "p.s. your web site is a treasure island!" - Carol March, Taiwan, 15 Aug 2001
• "Just to let you know I've made a link on my web page to yours. What a great site you have!" - Gregory Hadley, Niigata University of International and Information Studies, 07 Jan 2002 (Greg's site isn't so bad either: http://www.nuis.ac.jp/~hadley/main/) though his page that links to mine is not found as per LinkSleuth, Aug, 2007)

Copyright 2007 by Vance Stevens
under Creative Commons License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

August 13, 2007

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