CORPORA: 45-450 million words each: free online access. 7 Social Networks Designed to Help You Learn A New Language. In the past few years, a series of language learning social networks have popped up, and they make learning more fun, efficient, interactive and interesting than usual.
The average language student can now turn an arduous task like studying into something enjoyable by meeting and interacting with native language speakers from around the world through these language education social networks. Here are 7 truly impressive social networks for you to use if you’re trying to learn a new language. Live Mocha LiveMocha.com is a complete social network at its core. The site boasts over 6 million users and was named as one of Time magazine’s top 50 websites of 2010. Earning points gives a huge incentive for learning as well. Busuu Bussuu is a language community that functions like a cool interactive game. Italki Italki.com, pronounced I-talk-I, offers an enormous community of speakers of over 100 languages from over 200 countries. Palabea Lang-8 VoxSwap My Happy Planet.
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VOCABULARY. :. Desire2learn .:. Online Courses .: :. Desire2learn .:. Online Courses .: Chen - The Use of Corpora in the Vocabulary Classroom. The Internet TESL Journal Yu Hua Chen yhstella2004 [at] yahoo.com.au University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia) Introduction Lexical competence recently has been identified to be the most significant predictor to general language ability (Carter&McCarthy, 1988:97); however, it is also identified by most learners to be one of the biggest challenges of language learning (Coady&Huckin, 1997:1;Cobb, 1999).
Fortunately, with the advent of technology, a new view of language learning and teaching has emerged; attempts to integrate computers as tools in language classrooms and facilitate the learning have been made. This paper suggests language corpora can enhance the quality of vocabulary teaching and learning in second or foreign language classrooms. By presenting benefits of language corpora to the pedagogy, it is hoped that this paper can be helpful to both teachers and learners who are struggling to search for an efficient way of teaching and learning vocabulary. What are Corpora? :. Desire2learn .:. Online Courses .: Constantinescu - Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension. The Internet TESL Journal Andreea I.
Constantinescuanconst {a t} u.washington.eduUniversity of Washington, (Seattle, Washington, USA) Vocabulary plays an important part in second language acquisition and academic achievement. This paper will present several possibilities to enhance vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension with the help of technology. Introduction The role that vocabulary knowledge plays in second and foreign language acquisition has long been neglected. A Guide to K-12 Open Source LMS Options. Learning Tools | Special Feature A Guide to K-12 Open Source LMS Options Which open source learning management systems are right for K-12?
Which districts are using them? And what has the experience been compared with commercial alternatives? THE Journal offers this overview of both popular and emerging LMS options for K-12 technology decision makers. By Natasha Wanchek07/27/11 The key decision when selecting a Learning Management System (LMS) for a K-12 school district is no longer whether to use a commercial option or the open source Moodle.
When conducting needs assessments for LMSes, administrators are looking at a variety of options and coming to different conclusions. Moodle In Maryland, educators conducted a full needs analysis and comparison of open source LMS options with funding from an EETT partnership grant. "The commercial products were getting more and more expensive, and a lot of restrictions were placed on what you could do with them," she said. THE Journal: Technological Horizons in Education.
Reading and Writing for Internet Teaching. Reading Comprehension Strategies. Global rating average: 0.0 out of 50.00.00.00.00.0 These sites offer various strategies to improve reading comprehension for students at all grade levels.
Includes many online stories and questions to test reading comprehension. There is a reading comprehension inventory and research articles on this topic. Many pages can be printed out and used in the classroom. Some of the tips include KWL charts, story maps, word maps, and story pyramids. Grades Links. Scaffolding ESL Students' Reading Comprehension. Learning to speak a second language is a complex task.
Learning to read and comprehend fiction and non-fiction texts in the new language is even more complicated. Teachers can scaffold – provide needed support or accommodations for – the comprehension skills that will help English language learners to better understand what they are reading. Help ESL Students Build Schema/Background Knowledge Building schema means to think about and record what students already know about the topic they are about to read. The students will then add to that growing database the new knowledge they are gaining. Students can list or make a graphic organizer, such as a web, to illustrate their growing knowledge base. One way to scaffold for ESL students who can read in their native language is to provide access to the text in their own language prior to reading in English. Reading Online.