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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.
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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)
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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.
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.
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+ add optional Oxford and Chambers dictionaries.
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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.
