4 interesting sites for language teaching and learning

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1/ Advanced English lessons :
A good site for students and teachers. It contains dictionaries.It is good for advanced learners
http://www.englishpage.com/

2/ Learn English Grammar :
A site for students from Beginners up. From this site SS can get link to Epals. It contains Cultures and Customs notes about Britain.
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammarpage.htm

3/ ESL Teacher :
A collection of resources for English of all levels including hundreds of printable ESL handouts, PDF lesson plans, online quizzes and other teaching resources. Especially a forum for discussion.
http://www.usingenglish.com/teachers.html

4/ The ESL Play house :
A collections of educational games, songs, fingerplays, action rhymes, craft ideas, printable materials, tongue twisters, and more for teacher of Young English Leaner
http://www.esl4kids.net/

EVALUATION OF A WEBQUEST

Here are our opinions about the site http://pw.vsb.bc.ca/library/eslexp.html#task

GET TO KNOW WEBQUEST

GET TO KNOW WEBQUEST

QUESTION 1:
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing. (from this )

QUESTION 2:
There are six essential components: (from this site)
i) Introduction
ii) Tasks
iii) Process
iv) Resourses
v) Evaluation
vi) Conclusion

QUESTION 3:

The focus of short-term and long-term Webquest
Short Term WebQuests: The instructional goal of a short term WebQuest is knowledge acquisition and integration. At the end of a short term WebQuest, a learner will have grappled with a significant amount of new information and made sense of it.
Longer Term WebQuest: The instructional goal of a longer term WebQuest is extending and refining knowledge. After completing a longer term WebQuest, a learner would have analyzed a body of knowledge deeply, transformed it in some way, and demonstrated an understanding of the material by creating something that others can respond to, on-line or off-. (from this site)

QUESTION 4:

Benefits of the Webquest
• Tomorrow's workers will need to be able to work in teams.
• Individuals will move through several careers in the course of a lifetime.
• The issues facing citizens will become more and more complex, and societal problems will resist easy fixes or black-and-white categorization.
• The amount of information available to everyone will grow at an accelerating pace; much of it will come directly from a growing number of sources without filtering or verification. (from this site)

10 criteria for evaluating websites and software

10 CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING SITES

1. Lg- learning potential
2. Learner fit
3. Meaningful and contextualized presentation
4. Content is cultuarally appropriate
5. Technical ability
6. Text quality
7. Interface
8. Interactivity
9. Authenticity
10. Navigation

This is a good example : Click here

Introduction

Hi everybody! Here we are , 4 members from "TNBTcohort12" group

1/ Nguyễn Hiệp Thanh Nga ID : 3023632

2/ Lê Hùng Bảo ID : 3023573

3/ Nguyễn Thị Cẩm Tú ID : 3023721

4/ Trần Thủy Tiên ID : 3023659

Our students' level is intermediate and we focus on Readding and Writing Skill.