EnglishClub.com is not only a site we use for reference but also one we encourage our learners to use. There are clear and precise language explanations, interactive lessons for learners and lots of other resources for teachers and learners. Check it out here.
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL is a collection of links to some of best the resources out there for teaching English language learners. We've found some great stuff on there that we use in our own classrooms. Check it out here.
As working teachers, we at ESL Kingdom are always looking for new websites and resources that can assist us in our classrooms as well as in our professional development. So, every Monday, we’ll be sharing a link to a website that we use and think you may find useful. This week, it’s the turn of TeachAde.com. We mentioned this site a while back but think it’s worth mentioning again. TeachAde.com is the “first social networking website designed specifically for educators”. Check it out here.
Wordsift is a fun tool - designed by Gregory Wientjes, a doctoral student at Stanford University - to help both educators and learners visualise language. According to their website, they hope users see Wordsift "as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language!" Check it out here.
According to their website, the “Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balanced corpus of American English” which helps educators track “current, ongoing changes in the language.” Check it out at: http://www.americancorpus.org. They also have a British National Corpus which tracks 100 million words between 1970s-1993: http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/.
The Puzzle Workshop has been designed to help young learners with letter, word and image recognition as well spelling. Currently, there are two puzzles per level; one word search and one crossword. The word searches focus on letter and word recognition while the crosswords focus on image recognition and spelling.
We stumbled upon this version of Wikipedia the other day and love it. All the entries use simple words and grammar, which make them highly accessible to learners whether they are kids or adults. Check it out here.
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