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John's ESL Community

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Overview:: This website provides practice in all the language skills: vocabulary, reading,
writing, listening, grammar, and idioms. The learning outcomes are to have
students improve their skills and gain understanding of topics and aims to
increase student production in the various language skills. Students are also
learning culture associated with the English language found in the U.S. An
excellent way of teaching a language and culture is by teaching idioms, this
site has a specific section and encourages students to learn an idiom each day.
The overall feel of this website is a very positive learning environment,
students have lots of quizzes and games to test their skills. There are also
exercises which compare British and US English, this is an important skill for
ESL learners. There is not much multimedia and animation associated with this
site, but there is a separate section for teachers
Identify Major Learning Goals:: ESL teaching and learning
Target Student Population:: Mid-beginning to advanced learners of ESL

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Strengths:: This website is very in depth and offers a lot of learning opportunities for
students. The site is very well organized with the lay out. Students can work on
a specific language feature, or work on all different features of language.
This site does a good job integrating language and culture. The external links
are generally for teachers: resources, lesson plans, and links to materials that
can be used to enhance lessons.

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Strengths:: This site is a very good resource for teachers and students. The materials can
be integrated in general lessons or used for enrichment. Enrichment activities
can be found in the games section. The teaching and learning goals are easily
understood: students can use this site to enhance all of their language skills.
Students can also asses their progress in the learning activities and can email
their results to themselves or to their teacher.

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Strengths:: The website is easy to navigate, and has very descriptive toolbars. The index
page has a section for teachers and students, a nice gateway into the site. The
material is very well organized, an important aspect as there is such a large
amount of material on the site.
Concerns:: The website is not very multimedia enhanced. It does have a lot of links, but
lacks pictures and animation which can be important for beginning learners who
may have problems with reading comprehension. Some of the links do not work.