Computer-Assisted Learning Sites and ESL Specific sites

European association of computer-assisted language learning EuroCALL with databases, reviews, research on effectiveness and didactic practices, conferences and workshops in all European countries.
This page includes links to sites which are useful, helpful, interesting, or just plain fun for language learners and teachers, as well sections on MOO and on Computer Viruses and building homepages.

Checkout relevant sites on KennisNet (Dutch), Digitale School (with various specialisations per subject) and links to international teaching aids like National Grid for Learning in the Uk and European organisations of resources. Additional info is given on CALL sites collected more recently.
Useful ESL references for English language, dictionary and ESP are listed more extensively on a separate page as well as references to writing and academic skills.

For criteria on how to review software click here or see the Dutch list on Dutch articles on ICT implementation policies, resistance to ICT, and robots on the Net. An interesting 2002 article on the Dutch government policies towards language teaching (Nota 'Horizon - Taal') is also listed.

• Information about MOO (Multi-User Domain, Object Oriented--a real-time synchronous chat environment)
• HomePage of the coordinators of computer assisted language programmes in the Netherlands
• Online Journals, Magazines & Newsletters
• Articles & Research on Teaching (Including teaching with computers and/or Internet)
• Institutes & Organizations
• Researchers on computer-aided instruction
• USA Holidays
• Activities and Courses run via Internet
• Current Events or Topical Sites
• Search Engines & Strategies
• TOEFL & Testing Information
• Miscellaneous Resources
• Other Useful ESL Sites
• Web Page Authoring and Browsing
• Information and Help for Computer Viruses
• COO Coordinators in the Netherlands
• Some COO Publishers of software
• Link to more pages on interactive learning and instruction..., pages on ESL/EFL courses and resources and Writing in English
  

NL:
Dutch CALL / IT coordinators, their projects and their aims are found on the COO Homepage in Groningen.

UK:
EUROCALL, by the Centre for Modern Languages, hosts a newsletter as well as details on the TELL consortium programmes, such as Encounters and Tiger.

The UK Homepage for Teaching and Learning Programmes offers a range of information on computer-aided teaching.
EuroCALL Is also the site for links to COO, ICT elswhere......

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Roy Bowers: on HTML for editing stuent papers, resources for tachers of English for Science and Technology
http://www.tnis.net/rbowers/index.html

Claire Bradin: Language learning center
http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu

Ron Corio: On-line ESOL classroom, including lnks to ESL resources
http://www.vcu.edu/cspweb/ron.html

Bruce Duncan-Smith (Formavision Multimedia Training and Language Systems -- Paris, France):
http://www.wfi.fr/formavision

Carolyn G. Fidelman (Agora Language Marketplace):
http://agoralang.com/

Karla Frizler: FUNweb
http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb

Andrew Hess (American Language Institute, CUNY):
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/hess/

Kristina Harris: TESL
http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/tesl.html

Grae Lorimer
http://www.mclink.it/com/reporter

Christine Meloni:
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~meloni/

Suzan Moody:
http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/

Leslie Opp-Beckman:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/

Matthew Platts (Language Centre, University of Sussex):
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/welcome.html

J. David Rogers (The Comenius Group):
http://www.comenius.com/

Linda Thalman:
http://www.wfi.fr

John Trollope:
http://info.bris.ac.uk/~limdw/eflres.htm

Lonnie Turbee:
http://web.syr.edu/~lmturbee

Ruth Vilmi: e-mail projects
http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/email-project.html

Mark Warschauer: research papers
http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/markw

Keenan Wellar:
http://www.ingenia.com/team/kwellar.html

John Wong:
http://www.CityU.edu.hk/li/

Greg Younger:
http://spot.colorado.edu/~youngerg/home.html (Personal Homepage)
http://spot.colorado.edu/~youngerg/ei-stuff.html (The Economics Institute Resource Page

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• "http://.grid.let.rug.nl/~jager/coonl/" on Dutch ICT projects.

• Internet pages of "OCenW-plein, CFi-loket andBVEnet, the Dutch education department in the Netherlands.

• Lectures by Dr. Collis (collis@edte.utwente.nl) via internet in Twente

• Details of the European project (150 schools) on Internet via the Web for Schools programme.

• Lists of courses and resources on English as a second and foreign language on the net including special dictionaries and skills labs, collected by Tom Ammerlaan.

• dictionaries ,

• English classes on idiom en fluency (see also below) and on written skills,

• Dutch as an L2

• Talen Docenten Language teachers in the Netherlands

• The ESL Quiz Center at Dave's ESL Cafe http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/

• The ESL Email Connection for ESL/EFL Students at Dave Sperling's ESL Cafe http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/student.html

• Online Conversation Book, "Learning Oral English Online" by Rong-Chang Li http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/esl/

• PIZZAZ! Creative ESL Writing! http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html

  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/CALL3.html
  and http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/

  EFLweb:
  http://www.u-net.com/eflweb

  Volterre-Fr, a resource for English-language teachers, learners and lovers of English and French: http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/home.html .

  Kaplan Testing Center's Homepage:
  http://www.kaplan.com

• Information on for CALL in Australia

• Stephen Luscombe's Poetry for Language Learning (and other stuff) http://www.stir.ac.uk/epd/higdox/stephen/elt.htm

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  Other examples of "Places to Go and Things to Do":
  

• simply Internet in classrooms abroad and Internet in the Netherlands .

• Another overview on Internet courses you will find at http://lenti.med.umn.edu/%7Emwd/courses.html.

• Information on American Association of Communication

• General educational information on the Net

• Other courses are on mathematics , on
  
• history or
  
• URL of computer resources on courses

• Homepage of the Tasmanian center for university Learning and Teaching

• URL for CELIA (Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archive): http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/education/celia/celia.html

• The SL Student Lists: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/education/sl/sl.html in Australia

• Jeff Cooper's list of Educational MOO's (HTML-ized) http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/edmoolist.html

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  Topical & Current Events

  A Web supplement for 'Consider the Issues,' the A-W Longman collection of National Public Radio topical interviews:
  http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/book-CTI.html

  Life on the Internet - based on the PBS tv series.
  http://web-cr02.pbs.org/internet/

  Monolingual glossary of election terms. http://www.usia.gov/elections/glossary.htm

  A page with links to all the US presidential candidates' home pages (1996)
  http://spot.colorado.edu/~youngerg/ei-stuff.html

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  Other Places to Go

  Search Page on the ESL Cafe
  http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/search.html

  The American Studies Web in France:
  http:www.wfi.fr/usis

  A web site intended for Norwegian ESL teachers and learners but which can be used by anyone with an interest:
  http://www.sn.no/~andreasl/ "

  Special Needs Education Network
  http://schoolnet2.carleton.ca/sne/

  The Humanities Web Site
  http://human.www.sunet.se/

  Literature, Film & Video
  http://www.mcl.ucsb.edu/kiosk/Diversity_at_UCSB/Lit_Film_Video.html

  Visiting Writers Series
  http://gopher.american.edu/0/academic.depts/cas/lit/mfa-visit.html

  The California Email Project's Resource Library
  http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.html

  Fiction Online:
  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/RW5fiction.html

  Amy Tan / "Joy Luck Club",
  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/RW5projects.culture.html

  AIDS Education Page http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/CALL9.html

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  Information about MOO (Including NETEACH MOO sessions)

  Info about the Neteach MOO sessions (on the NETEACH homepage):
  http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb/neteach.htm

  MOO Client Information:
  http://lc.ust.hk/mooclien.htm

  For everything you ever wanted to know about MUD/MOO clients:
  http://www.math.okstate.edu/~jds/mudfaqs.html

  Information on MacMOOSE, a MOO client:
  http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/asb/MacMOOSE/< P> Get the newest version of TinyFugue (a MOO client):
  http://ftp.tcp.com/pub/mud/Clients/tinyfugue
  [13 Apr 1996, Jeff Cooper]

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  Search Engines & Strategies

  Digitals' web search engine, Alta Vista
  http://altavista.digital.com/

  Comenius' Gopher:
  gopher://gopher.comenius.com

  YAHOO! A search engine:
  http://www.yahoo.com

  Searching for Listserv lists:
  Send mail to listserv@listserv.net with the words LIST GLOBAL /SEARCH-TERM where 'SEARCH-TERM' is the keyword or list topic you're looking for. E.g: 'list global /distance learning'(Note: be sure to enter your full e-mail address in the "From" section of the mailer form.)

  Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists (organized by subjects):
  http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml/bysubj.html

  Search List of Discussion Groups, searchable by keyword:
  http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/lists

  Directory of Scholarly E-conferences, organized by categories and searchable by keyword
  http://www.austin.unimelb.edu.au:800/1s/acad

  USA Conferences :
  http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conferences.html

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  Online ESL Journals, Magazines, & Articles

  Contents of Duncan Baker's talk on Business English at the BESIG CALL conference, January 1996

  Review of Business English CD ROMs from Wida Publishing

  iT's On-Line, a new Net resource for teachers and students of English:
  http://www.encomix.es/~its

  "Internet Australasia," (Internet-related online magazine)
  http://www.interaus.net/

  Computer-Mediated Communication magazine:
  http://www.rpi.edu/~decemj/cmc/mag/current/toc.html (current issue);
  http://www.rpi.edu/~decemj/cmc/mag/archive.html (back issues)

  A Thematic web page designed for a specific K-4 curriculum:
  westy.jtwn.k12.pa.us/~sja/Thematic.html

  A collection of Internet support for NCTM maths standards in K-12 classrooms:
  westy.jtwn.k12.pa.us/~sja/Math.html

  Technology in TESOL at The Centre for Language Teaching and Research, in Brisbane, Australia:
  http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/

  Robert Godwin-Jones on the Internet in language learning:
  http://www.fln.vcu.edu/cgi/effect.html
  

  "The Online Report on Pedagogical Techniques for Computer-Mediated Communication." By Morten Flate Paulsen: (151K)
  http://www.hs.nki.no/~morten/cmcped.htm

  Suzan Moody's review and comments on Online Writing Labs (OWL's) in the journal Kairos
  http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/index.html

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  Articles & Research on Teaching with Computers/Internet

  Doug Mills' table presenting his developing view of the roles of computers in language learning:
  http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/resources/possible.roles.html

  The TESOL Pre-Conference Institute: "Getting Started: The WWW for TESL":
  http://www.tnis.net/rbowers/pci.html

  The materials for Doug Mills' Colloquium "World Wide Web Activities that Work (and Why!)":
  http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/resources/TESOL/www_activities.html

  Presentation on "Using the Internet as a Professional Development Tool", including a PowerPoint presentation and handouts:
  http://www.uis.edu/~reynolds/tesol96.htm "

  An on-line basic how-to syllabus for teaching the fundamentals of the internet.
  http://www.nsula.edu/departments/telecommunications/jour4520.htm
  (this is the first page which includes links to all the lecture notes.)
  The actual syllabus is at:
  http://www.nsula.edu/departments/telecommunications/4520.htm
  and the course outline is at:
  http://www.nsula.edu/departments/telecommunications/4520_ol.htm

  Mark Warschauer's article "Computer-Mediated Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice".
  http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/markw/comp.html

  Douglas Eyman's Master's Thesis: "Hypertextual Collaboration in the Computer-Assisted Composition"
  http://localsonly.wilmington.net/~eymand/thesis.html

  Mark Warschauer's "essay talking about two students' experiences, one of whom describes how her email activities gave her greater confidence in oral communication."
  http://www.sai.com/adjunct/bksfeat.html

  Suzanne Lepeintre's papers comparing the oral, written and e-mail performance of two non-native speakers.
  http://weber.u.washington.edu/~trans/da.html

  John Trollope's thesis for the M.Ed. TEFL (Bristol University, England): "A comparison of reading strategies in a computerised reading situation and in a non-computerised reading situation"
  http://www.team17.com/~jtrollope/on_off/

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  Other Miscellaneous Resources

  Free consultation of the ERIC database is available through the Canadian university network.
  A hotlist of great interactive ESL Websites:
  http://weber.u.washington.edu/~frederic/esl.html

  Learning Resources site for Prof. Lev Gonick:
  http://www.public.asu.edu/~lgonick/resources_wkshp.html

  Greg Ritter's site with resources for teaching and learning writing:
  http://www.urich.edu/~ritter/CompLink.html

  Wida Sofware's website (Makers of Storyboard, Choicemaster, Testmaster, etc.):
  http://www.wida.co.uk/wida/

  Test your knowledge of the WWW with this crossword puzzle. (Will not work with Lynx):
  http://www.tnis.net/rbowers/crosswd.html

  MundoHispano page (Contains useful links for teachers using MOO with their students)
  http://web.syr.edu/~lmturbee/mundo.html

  Version 1.1 of the Interclass Projects presentation by Ron Corio
  http://www.vcu.edu/cspweb/,epi/ipi.html

  A page with several Asia-related mailing lists
  http://www.nectec.or.th/nectec-list.html

  OCC-L: On-Line College Classroom (listserv list)
  Mail to LISTPROC@HAWAII.EDU with the message SUBSCRIBE OCC-L yourfirstname yourlastname. For example, SUBSCRIBE OCC-L JOHN SMITH.

  Mark Warschauer's Virtual Connections page
  http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/markw/vircon.html

  The Mankato Internet Skill Rubrics:
  http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/dougwri/internet.rub.html

  The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file for the TESL/TEFL/TESOL newsgroup misc.education.language.english:
  http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/mele.faq.html
  FTP: ftp://ftp.math.unr.edu/users/kristina/mele.faq.txt

  _Links for Autonomous Foreign Language Learning_,
  http://info.bris.ac.uk/~limdw/fl_auto.htm

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  Institutes & Organizations

  WorldCall conference Melbourne 1997 WorldCall details and organisations

  CALICO

  NCET

  EDSI Super Highways

  Schools On Line

  MFL CITS

  Lingu@Net

  Tel*Lingua

  Fremont Jr. High Homepage, Oxnard, CA
  http://www.oxnardsd.org/campus/frem

  Formavision Multimedia Training and Language Systems web site:
  http://www.wfi.fr/formavision

  The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC):
  http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/announce.html

  The Language Centre at the University of Sussex, England and Virtual CALL Library:
  http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/welcome.html

  Alliance for Computers and Writing Homepage
  http://english.ttu.edu/acw/

  California EMail projects:
  http://www.otan.dni.us

  Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center's homepage:
  http://lingnet.army.mil

  Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center's Telnet site:
  Telnet to lingnet.army.mil

  Language Institute, City University of Hong Kong Homepage
  http://www.CityU.edu.hk/li/

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  TOEFL and Testing Information!

  New (Feb. 96contact info for CITO-TOEFL:
  http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/test.html
  TOEFL Gopher Service
  gopher://gopher.ets.org
  TOEFL email address:
  TOEFL@ETS.ORG

  Download a TOEFL Test and Take the TOEFL:
  http://www.toefl.com

  The Linguistic Funland TESL Pages.

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  Publishers of Software

  
  Low cost Business English teaching resourses are available on http://www.infohaus.com/access/by-seller/Elite.
  STOAC: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/tltp for course catalogues
  DynEd: DynEd catalogues on, among others, Interactive Business English, Executive English and Functioning in Business.
  TELESTE: Teleste publishing and hardware
  RECALL Software
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  Web Page Authoring

  An example of a HyperNews forum:
  http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ecb/infohighway/roster.html
  [30 Apr 1996, Ron Corio]

  An HTML Tutorial:
  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/lessons.html
  [17 Apr 1996, Daniel C. Kubilos]

  The Copyright Website (Information on copyright issues on the Web):
  http://www.benedict.com/
  [6 Apr 1996, Nick Noakes]

  Project Cool's Developer Site:
  http://www.projectcool.com/developer/
  [17 Apr 1996, Nick Noakes]

  More information about the Web from the W3 Consortium:
  http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW
  [17 Apr 1996, Keenan Wellar]

  A collection of links to everything HTML-related:
  http://www.halcyon.com/mooncrow/html.htm
  [7 Mar 1996, Karla Frizler]

  HTML-related sites at Clay Bond's IU-free page:
  http://www.intersource.com/~bondc/
  [8 Mar 1996, Clay Bond]

  HTMLIB; a free, Windows help file you can download. It includes HTML versions 2.0, 3.0. and proprietary tags, and is a handy reference tool for web authors.
  http://hjs.geol.uib.no/html/news/htmlib/htmlib.htm

  SlipKnot: A program which lets Lynx users view the web with graphics
  http://plaza.interport.net/slipknot/slipknot.html

  Main Help Page for Lynx browsers
  http://kufacts.cc.ukans.edu/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html

  Homepage for the PowWow personal communicator software.
  http://www.tribal.com/powwow/

  A nice clip art server:
  http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/sjl/clipart.html

  One of the "ruler" collections (or graphics):
  http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~rkinion/lines/lines.html
  (02 Nov 1995, Suzan Moody)

  HTML guide http://snowwhite.it.brighton.ac.uk/~mas/mas/courses/html/html.html#LOGIC
  

  Different colors with http://www.missouri.edu/~c588349/colormaker-tutorial.html

  Examples of graphics (a page advertising a trip for students)
  
  http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/rodeotrip

  Yves Magat's self-publishing Newsletter: Web Virtual Newsletter -- see example at:
  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/RW5WebNewsletter1.html

  Webmonitor: A public domain CGI script that a grad student (Carlos Pero) at UIUC wrote:
  http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/webmonitor/module-mail.html

  Fountain: a VRML authoring/browsing tool:
  http://www.caligari.com

  "rtftohtml": Converts WordPerfect and MS Word to HTML:
  ftp://ftp.cray.com/src/WWWstuff/RTF/Users_Guide_ToC.html

  "Web-Lint": a tool for checking your HTML code:
  http://www.unipress.com/web-lint

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  Information and Help for Computer Viruses

  Microsoft Word Macro Virus help and information:
  (1) general information:
  http://www.microsoft.com/kb/deskapps/word/q134727.htm
  (2) to download a software solution for the mac:
  http://www.microsoft.com/kb/deskapps/word/q133895.htm
  (3) specific information for Windows:
  http://www.microsoft.com/support/products/office/macrovirus/

  McAfee VirusScan:
  http://www.mcafee.com

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  USA Holi-days

  Suzan Moody's Holiday Pages include Passover, Easter, St. Patrick's Day (below) and many more: http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/holidays
  St. Patrick's Day Page:
  http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/holidays
  Thanksgiving Page:
  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/RW5Thanksgiving.html
  Martin Luther King Jr. Day Page
  http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/holidays or
  http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/kingday.html
  Valentine's Day page
  http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/holidays
  Groundhog Day page which links to sites related to Punxsutawney Phil and some that tell the history of the holiday.
  http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/holidays
  

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