Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i35I4Jm04806; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <FB65502B-872A-11D8-8849-00039381D39E@comcast.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: David Rosen <djrosen@comcast.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10201] Re: Website Search Request X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2133 Lines: 60 Barbara and Others. The ESOL page on The Literacy List has ESL/ESOL Websites for adult learners (those which are marked with the apple & books icon.) You will find it at: http://www.alri.org/litlist/esolwebsites.html Please let me know of ESL/ESOL Websites which you think I should consider adding to this list. David J. Rosen djrosen@comcast.net On Monday, April 5, 2004, at 07:57 AM, Barbara Dorsett wrote: > Hello, colleagues! > I'm passing on a request for help with a website search from our ESOL > staff > at our adult learning center. Here's the situation: our center has a > computer lab in a separate building from where our ESOL classes are > held. > There are anywhere from 10-16 students in our classes, and the lab can > only > accomodate 6. We are NOT looking for lesson plan ideas or teacher-led > activities. We are looking for sites that students can use > independently to > improve their English skills. There are computer proctors available to > assist the students with computer skills. We would like to find some > sites > where, after an intial introduction, the students can work on their > skills > outside of class time, and at their own pace. > One of our teachers found a site that was almost ideal. It had a > dictation > to listen to and you could type in what you heard. The program would > then > give feedback, telling you which words had mistakes in them. This > program > was interactive, self-correcting, with good audio, but had one > problem. In > creating sentences that gave practice in distinguishing T and TH, the > program would come up with sentences that would be confusing for > beginning > students, such as: "Ether either makes Thor sink or swim," and "Thad > sadly > thinks about free trees." > If you have discovered a better interactive, self-correcting site that > students use independently, after an intial introduction, please let > us know > by posting on this listserv. Thank you very much in advance for your > help! > > Barbara Dorsett, ESOL Coordinator/Instructor > Dover Adult Learning Center > 22 Atkinson Street > Dover, NH 03820 >
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