Internet ESL Teacher Resources
Literature Sites
1. Cyberguide: Teacher Guides and Student Activitieshttp://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
This is a fantastic site for those interesting in including literature in their classes. Multiple activities including Internet activities to accompany reading assignments have already been developed for a variety of popular plays, novels, and short stories. Visit the K9-12 link for cyberguides for higher level reading, writing, or literature courses.
Reference Sites
1. National Geographic World, Country, and State Maps
http://nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/atlas/index.html
Where better to look for a map than at National Geographic?
Testing Tools and Programs
1. The Cloze Test
http://drott.cis.drexel.edu/clozeproze.htm
Visit this site to download a free program to help you create cloze readings.
Using Video and Television Clips in ESL
1. Volterre - Fr / Video Cassettes and the Internet by Linda Thalman
This file in Volterre-Fr started in June 1997 as a snapshot of Internet resources for using video in the EFL/ESL/ELT classroom and teaching with the Internet. It was published in an expanded article in the Tesol-France publication The Journal in the fall of 1997. I update this page with further references and make any needed changes to URL's to keep up with the changing Internet world.
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/videoweb.html
Writing Sites
1. TOEFL Writing Prompts
ftp://etsis1.ets.org/pub/toefl/275137wt.pdf
Here's a list of writing topics that could be good prompts for midterms, finals, etc.
2. Plagiarism
(From Charlie Honnold): Someone told me about a website to detect plagiarism. I found a couple that sell software for doing the job and a few sites that talk about it and how to avoid it that might be nice for students to see--especially in ESL 5.
This was what my search on Altavista revealed to me. It has some interesting sites.
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=plagiarism&search.x=29&search.y=9&kl=XX&pg=q
University of Northern British Columbia checklist for avoiding plagiarism:
http://quarles.unbc.edu/lsc/rpplagia.html
Glatt Plagiarism software: http://www.plagiarism.com/index.htm
Along with a program that searches for the sources of plagiarism, they have a nice program that converts the suspected plagiarizing student's paper into a cloze test and then have the student fill in the blanks. Their stuff is very expensive. Each program costs $200.
EVE (Essay verification Engine) http://www.canexus.com/eve/index3.shtml
This program for detecting plagiarism costs $34.95
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Michael Larsen, Adjunct ESL Professor at American River College, Sacramento, CA
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