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SECOND LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION
"This site includes over 1,000 quizzes, exercises, and puzzles to help students for whom English is a second language. The activities are posted by teachers and include grammar and vocabulary. The quizzes are grouped by level of difficulty."
Internet TESL Journal For Teachers of English as a Second Language
This e-journal contains articles, research papers, lesson plans, activities for students, and ideas for teachers.
Lesson Plans and Resources for ESL, Bilingual and Foreign Language Teachers
Levine, Marty.A professor-emeritus of California State University-Northridge, has created links to English as a second language lesson plans and resources.
PIZZAZ: People Interested in Zippy and Zany Zcribbling
This fun website "is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages. Permission is given to use these resources for in-class, non-profit use only."
This website provides interesting ways to speak English, including the authors favorite links, "English pronunciation pages - pictures, sounds, and videos to help you with English pronunciation, cctivities and exercises for English pronunciation and listening and tips for teachers."
TESL-EJ [Teaching English as a Second Language, eJournal]
This is an electronic, refereed journals for educators in English as a second language.
Using a Foreign Film to Improve Second Language Proficiency
Cardillo, Darlene S..This study conducted during the mid 1990's showed that a multimedia interactive program for a film was more effective in improving language proficiency than watching an English-subtitled film.
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