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English Language Teaching Sites Recommended by Propell Participants

It’s amazing how many free, useful sites there are for teachers and learners of English. Or maybe not—successful teachers by nature love both to learn and to share their knowledge.

Throughout the two days of Propell, as participants discussed how to teach various skills, new URLs kept popping into their minds. And since we love to share too, we wanted to provide a list of these from our notes. Explanation is provided where the site’s focus seems likely to be unclear out of context.
 
www.usalearns.org (adult English language learning)
www.brainpop.com (K-12 educator section on varied subjects, including English)
www.quia.com (for creating and sharing activities and quizzes)
www.rubistar.org (create rubrics)
http://www.elllo.org/english/ (English language listening lab online; over 1,000 free listening activities)
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/ (animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English and as well as Spanish and German)
www.manythings.org (“interesting things for ESL students”)
www.ja.org (Junior Achievement volunteers teaching programs in areas including career readiness)
http://www.agclassroom.org/teacher/index.htm (U.S. Department of Agriculture—lesson plans, CDs and games with agriculture focus)
 
It’s a long list to be built in two days of semi-random inspirations, in a workshop that didn’t even involve looking for new Web sites. (Propell participants, let us know if we missed any!)

Yet we all know these suggestions just begin to skim the surface. Can you add a great site for language teaching (or learning)? Please share with a comment below and help us all out.

 

Amber Anthony and Lia Nigro, TOEIC USA Team

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23 June 2011 - 12:48am — Emily Jacobs (not verified)

Propell

Hey Amber, Seeing the list of websites reminds me of how productive the Princeton workshops were:) Thanks again to AmidEast for providing the opportunity for such a valuable "Think Tank"!! - Emily
24 June 2011 - 8:48am — testing (not verified)

Thanks!

Hi Emily, So glad you found the workshops useful. It was great meeting you and the others there. By the way, we are looking for teachers to write short articles to appear here. Let us know if you might be interested. (Sorry your comment didn't show up right away. We are working out blog bugs....) Amber

7 July 2011 - 7:25am — Brian (not verified)

Free resources for students

You might want to add our site to your list. We are a group of teachers in the Milan area of Italy, but we have a wide selection (growing weekly) of free language quizzes, both for grammar and vocabulary. The address for the quiz page is: http://www.insegnanti-inglese.com/quiz/index.html I hope this is useful for your readers. Brian

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