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APA and MLA Style Citations: Brief Guidelines
A Survey...
The Weblog is now fourteen-month old! I like to thank all friends and colleagues whose fruitful suggestions and comments benefited me during this period. In the upper-right side of the page, a survey is intended to be carried out. Since the year is coming to an end, I'd like to know which sections are most visited and probably favored by the visitors so that those sections could be hopefully improved and enriched in the future.
Thank You!
Directory of Open Access Journals
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
Click HERE to find journals.
Click HERE to search for articles.
How to Use ERIC?
This simple guide will assist you in searching in the ERIC database.
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The Basics of APA Style
This presentation assists you in preparing you academic essays based on the APA style sheet.
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Magic of English!
Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a
sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing
ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence: "I hit him in the
eye yesterday."
The Query: What is this word?
The Answer: The word is "ONLY".
The Message:
1. ONLY I hit him in the eye yesterday. (No one else did.)
2. I ONLY hit him in the eye yesterday. (Did not slap him.)
3. I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit others.)
4. I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside the eye.)
5. I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.)
6. I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have another eye.)
7. I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not today.)
8. I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for today.)
sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing
ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence: "I hit him in the
eye yesterday."
The Query: What is this word?
The Answer: The word is "ONLY".
The Message:
1. ONLY I hit him in the eye yesterday. (No one else did.)
2. I ONLY hit him in the eye yesterday. (Did not slap him.)
3. I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit others.)
4. I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside the eye.)
5. I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.)
6. I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have another eye.)
7. I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not today.)
8. I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for today.)
Sample Literature Reviews
Tran, T. H. (2009). The interaction hypothesis: A literature review. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED507194)
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Selami, A. (2009). Test anxiety among foreign language learners: A review of literature. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 5(1). 127-137. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED511092)
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Kim, M. (2002). The use of the computer in developing L2 reading comprehension: Literature review and its implications. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED472671)
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WriteCheck
WriteCheck (powered by Turnitin) was developed by the creators of Turnitin, the world's #1 most popular, most effective and most trusted solution for originality checking and plagiarism prevention. WriteCheck was developed at the urging of high school and college writing teachers and instructors from every discipline. They saw a large, unmet need for students to learn to check their own work for proper citations. WriteCheck can be seen as the essential "third check" for any paper - first: spelling check; second: grammar check; and, third: originality check.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism.org was founded in 1996. With increased interest, Plagarism.org became one of the Internet's predominant anti-plagiarism resources for educators and students alike. Plagiarism.org is the educational arm of iParadigms LLC.
Now in its 12 th year, Plagiarism.org has once again been redesigned with the goal of providing even more resources and information. The redesign has also focused on making the website more accessible and user-friendly so that everyone can benefit from the information on Plagiarism.org.
Livemocha
Livemocha is the world’s largest online language learning community, offering free and paid online language courses in 35 languages to more than 6 million members from over 200 countries around the world.
onestopenglish
Onestopenglish is a teacher’s resource site published by Macmillan English Campus, part of the Macmillan Education Group, one of the world’s leading publishers of English language teaching materials.
Onestopenglish is packed with resources for English teachers. All materials are written and edited by an expert team of teachers and authors and are organized into core subject areas such as Skills, Grammar and Vocabulary, Business and ESP, Exams and Young Learners, so you’ll always find what you’re looking for.
The Teacher's Pet
The Teacher's Pet toolbar is a unique add-on for your word processor that can transform any text into fun classroom activities. Created by a teacher, the toolbar can make crosswords, bingo cards, jumbles, word search puzzles, flashcards, cloze tests, pair-matching puzzles and much more.
Download the Teacher's Pet
Speaking in IELTS: Task Card
150 Speaking Task Cards (2010)
Download ( PowerPoint & Word Files)
Source: http://mehrdadjafari.wordpress.com
lingonet
With Lingonet Puzzle Editor, you can build multimedia vocabulary exercises in many different formats using, for example, thematic maps, picture labelling, form filling, cartoons, graphs etc. When using the Lingonet Puzzle Editor to build your own multimedia vocabulary exercises - either as a teacher or a student - your main task is to select target words or phrases to be remembered and design clues for prompting answers. Each word or phrase can have up to four clues to help you or your students to remember it.
Try the samples for free. These are only a few possible examples of the kind of vocabulary exercises you can build... when you use your imagination, the sky is the limit!
Included in the Puzzle Editor are 50 ready-to-use vocabulary exercises in English.
A fun way of creating your own interactive vocabulary exercises!
Sephonics - Learn The IPA Alphabet
Sephonics 1.0 is a Windows program that will teach you the English phonetic alphabet, which is a subset of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA, in short).
Sephonics includes seven different exercises for practising English pronounciation and the phonetic alphabet, including a phonetic memory game to relax between the lessons! There are also exercises where you learn to match a sound to a phonetic sign, transcribe from phonetic text to ordinary text, and much more! Sephonics is freeware.
Sephonics requires Windows 95 / 98 / NT / 2000 / XP or better.
Download Sephonics 1.0 (2903 kb)
English for Little Ones
This project, "English for Little Ones", is an experiment in using new technology to present traditional educational materials. Verdant House Publishing is making this material available to anyone who wishes to use it, in a formal educational setting such as a classroom, or for use privately.
The English language forms in this material are based on British English, not on American English.
The material contained here was reproduced for electronic re-distribution by creating images of each page that could be transmitted over the Internet via the World Wide Web . This material is intended to be viewed using a World Wide Web browser. This material is mounted on a computer connected to the Internet and can be viewed in this way. This material is also made available as a package that can be saved to your local computer and used without being connected to the Internet.
You can download this material to your computer in the Windows .zip format by following this procedure:
WordWeb
WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Features of the free version include:
Definitions and synonyms Related words 5000 audio pronunciations 65 000 text pronunciations | 150 000 root words 120 000 synonym sets Look up words in almost any program |
Millions of people from all over the world use this top-rated software.
NEW: Get WordWeb Pro 6.2 -full audio pronunciations and more
+ add optional Oxford and Chambers dictionaries.
+ add optional Oxford and Chambers dictionaries.
Free*. No SpyWare. No AdWare. No viruses. Works off-line.
The software has a full dictionary and thesaurus for American, British, Canadian, Australian, Indian, and global English.
ESL Galaxy
ESL Galaxy offers over 2368 free printable worksheets for ESL lesson plans and ESL Activities; and there are more additions every other day.
ESL Gold
ESL Gold provides over a thousand pages of free information and resources for both teachers and students. All materials are organized by skill and level for quick and easy access.
ESL go
ESL Go is a free English community of ESL students and ESL teachers. It helps ESL students learning English as a second language through free ESL classesand free English practice message boards. ESL go.com also provides free teaching ESL activities for TESOL, TESL, and TEFL. Read about how to use this free ESL web site for learning English or teaching ESL + EFL.
Lantern Fish
Jobs, Worksheets, and Flashcards for the ESL and TEFL Teacher
Lanternfish ESL is maintained by a group of ESL teachers in Asia and North America. The aim is to bring printable quality resources to teachers and parents.
Computer Assisted Assessment (CAA)
The Bluepaper series was developed to focus upon a CAA related issue in more depth than previously allowed. Each paper is available for free download but should not be stored or distributed electronically as outlined within the copyright statments.
2010 TESOL Asia Convention: Cebu Convention Centre & Cebu Doctors University
12th-13th August 2010
SUBMIT Abstracts
asianefl@gmail.com (250 words + 50 word bio)
Deadline July 14th
some applicants need to obtain a Visa to visit Philippines.
You may need to have your abstract in before June 25 to have enough time to process the paper work
Information for non presenters on accommodation - registration
SUBMIT Abstracts
asianefl@gmail.com (250 words + 50 word bio)
Deadline July 14th
some applicants need to obtain a Visa to visit Philippines.
You may need to have your abstract in before June 25 to have enough time to process the paper work
Information for non presenters on accommodation - registration
Conference Information
The Conference book contains all abstracts; all papers are published
in a Hard Cover Volume in February 2011.
The Conference book contains all abstracts; all papers are published
in a Hard Cover Volume in February 2011.
Melbourne Papers in Language Testing (MPLT)
Melbourne Papers in Language Testing (MPLT) are a set of peer-reviewed papers published annually by the LTRC (or biennially depending on the number of submissions). MPLT is one of only four journals dedicated exclusively to language testing and assessment and offers an opportunity for both new and more experienced researchers to publish papers, commentaries or reviews of tests or books on language testing and assessment issues. As of 2006, MPLT is published exclusively online and papers are freely downloadable as pdf files.
WELL Language Exercises
The WELL Language Testing System enables students to take objective language tests on the web, with immediate feedback. The tests are created from a central database of questions by tutors at participating institutions. After a student has taken a test, tutors can access the results to read off marks or to get detailed reports on answers given.
The CAA Center Website (Computer-Assisted Assessment)
This site was designed to provide information and guidance on the use of computer-assisted assessment (CAA) in higher education.
Expert and Novice Teachers Talking Technology: Precepts, Concepts, & Misconcepts: C. Meskill, J. Mossop, S. DiAngelo, & R. K. Pasquale
When new teachers, teacher trainers, and administrators consider the ways in which technologies can best serve practice, they are wise to turn to experienced teachers and veteran technology users. It is the voices and experiences of these professionals who have worked through the complex processes of adapting curricula, classroom design, dynamics, and teaching approaches that can best inform those new to teaching and learning in general, and teaching with technologies in particular. This study compares and contrasts the "technology talk" of novice and expert teachers of K-8 language and literacy (ESOL). Interview data with eight teachers - two expert (experienced teachers and technologies users), five novice (limited experience in teaching and teaching with computers) and one transitional expert (experienced teacher and non-technology user) serve to illustrate the conceptual and practical differences between those who have adapted technologies as powerful teaching and learning tools and teachers who, in spite of specific formal training in instructional technology, speak about it and its application in starkly contrasting ways. These contrasts are presented as a set of four conceptual continua that can help in explicating novice starting points, transitional issues, and the expertise of computer-using language professionals.
Blogging for ELT
This article takes a look at blogging, which is becoming increasingly popular as a language learning tool. It gives an overview of blogging websites, suggests why you might want to use them, and gives some practical advice on setting up blogs for use with your own classes.
Pics4Learning
This resource can help teachers and students create print, multimedia or video productions. All material on Pics4Learing is copyright-free. Images have been donated by teachers, students and amateur photographers with the goal of enhancing student learning.
Copyright Issues on the Web: Kristina Pfaff-Harris
The WorldWide Web is filled with resources for teaching and learning English, as well as for finding those resources. Much of this information is in the Public Domain, and may be copied freely. Unfortunately, the line between Copyright and Plagiarism issues is often loosely defined, and many teachers and students are unsure of the limits. This article discusses some of those issues so that teachers can keep themselves and their students from unethical use of web resources.
Everything you need to know about Podcasting!
Podcasting is the process of creating an audio show of some sort available in MP3 format via an RSS 2.0 feed that supports enclosures. Podcasts are designed to include talk shows, tutorials, music, or other audio content. Users select the podcasts (audio feeds) they wish to subscribe. Click on the post title, please!
Conference on Translation and Interpretation in a Multilingual Context
The Chalermprakiat Centre of Translation and Interpretation (CCTI), Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok is pleased to announce its first international conference on translation and interpretation, to be held at the Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel on 1-3 November, 2010. The conference aims to promote translation and interpretation as an emerging field in Thailand, and to encourage an exchange of ideas among translation and interpretation scholars as well as practitioners from across the world. Papers are invited on all aspects of translation and interpretation.
Critical Thinking in Education
Integrating Critical Thinking
Into Learning Activities Across the Curriculum
Into Learning Activities Across the Curriculum
Eric Rusten & Susan Schuman – USAID/PAEM & MoE
Click HERE to download the Powerpoint presentation.
Canadian English Language Assessment (CAEL)
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TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) & TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication)
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IELTS
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GLoCALL 2010: International Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Globalization and Localization in CALL 2010
1 – 3 December 2010, Le Meridian Hotel, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
The Globalization and Localization in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (GLoCALL) Conference aims to share knowledge, research and experience on how to use computer technology to make language learning more effective and pleasant; to explore how the technology can be adapted to better meet the local needs of students and teachers, while at the same time providing global perspectives on computer-assisted language learning (CALL); and to bring the technology within the reach of local teachers who wish to develop their professionalism in CALL. GLoCALL is jointly organised by APACALL (Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning), PacCALL.(Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning) and a local host.
GLoCALL 2010 is the fourth in the series of GLoCaLL Conferences held. The inaugural GLoCALL 2007 Conference was first held in Vietnam, followed by GLoCALL 2008 Conference in Indonesia and GLoCALL 2009 Conference in Thailand. This year GLoCALL 2010 is held in Malaysia. Working collaboratively with The School of Education & Social Development, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, we are proud to welcome you to GLoCALL 2010 Malaysia.
The GLoCALL 2010 organising committee cordially invites proposals for presentations that are related to computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Paper Presenters or Participants from Malaysia should submit proposals (abstract) for ‘Papers’, ‘Workshops’, ‘Symposia’ and ‘Posters’ sessions via the online submissions form at http://glocall2010ums.my by 15th June 2010.
Idioms-Today
Hundreds of free English idioms, idiomatic expressions, proverbs and sayings
used in everyday conversation, with their meaning and an example.
Every day a new idiom is added.
learn-english-today
This is a website set up by Kathleen, an experienced EFL teacher living and working in France. The website was set up in 2003 and includes some exercises and word games, a list of phrasal verbs, vocabulary pages, a page of useful links, a Business English section and, last but not least, an idiom section.
Major Proficieny Examinations
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