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| Reviewed: |
Mar 20, 2006 by Teacher Education |
| Overview: |
For students there are over 75 interactive quizzes, 15 discussion forums,
interactive lessons on a variety of everyday topics, a chat room, and several
links. For teachers, there are lesson plans and reproducible materials to use in
class, discussion forums, ideas for communicative practice activities, a chat
room, a job board, and links.
The site offers numerous ideas for activities and online activities for daily
life settings; eating out, shopping, planning a meal, and dating.
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| Learning Goals: |
To help students whose 1st language is not English become proficient in
using English.
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| Target Student Population: |
Pre-service teachers and practicing teachers who work with students who have
ESL.
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| Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills: |
Basic internet navigation skills and evaluation of text presentation.
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| Type of Material: |
Lesson plans, ideas for classrom activites, references for teaching materials
that can be ordered, chat rooms, discussion forums, interactive online quizzes
and activities.
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| Recommended Uses: |
Resource for instructors teaching pre-service teachers, K-12, and for practicing
teachers working with students who have ESL.
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| Technical Requirements: |
High speed computers are required as many sites are heavy with graphics and
pop-up advertisement occurs from a variety of the links.
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| Strengths: |
The plethora of ideas, activities and reviewed teaching materials provides a
wide array of materialas for teachers and students. The site also offers
several ideas and activities that integrate learning English with everyday
social situations; ordering in a restaurant, shopping, cooking, dating, etc.
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| Concerns: |
While the site has been well planned in the development. Many of the chats rooms
on the student side of the site did not work. Throughout the site, many links
were broken. Without direct teacher instruction, an ELL student would be
extremely frustrated with this site.
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Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool |
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| Strengths: |
Great resource to provide pre-service teachers, K-12, and practicing teachers of
students who are ESL.
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| Concerns: |
The amount of reading may be a hindrance to persons who have ESL. Broken links
and lack of current discussions in the internet's www portion of
the student side.
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Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty |
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| Strengths: |
Easy to use; well organized, high visual clarity.
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| Concerns: |
The amount and level of reading appears too difficult for a student with ESL to
use independently.ELL students will need assistance to complete the activities
within the site. Teachers may spend more time looking at the site than finding
quality material for instruction.
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