EAL+Resources

September 2013 Update
New Resources: [|5 Useful iPad Apps For ESL Students] Contribute your resources to the TodaysMeet [|site]

[|Library Press Display] [|Repeat After Us] - Free texts and audio clips to help students around the world with their language skills [|Read the Words] - is a web-based text to speech site. You can input several different kinds of documents for speech conversion, including Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, HTML, RSS feeds, even entire websites. It will then read to you in English, Spanish or French using one of the fifteen different readers (voices). It’s very fast, reportedly capable of generating an hour’s worth of reading in under a minute. Once you have the file, you can listen to it online or download it to an MP3 player or your hard drive, or even embed it into your website or blog.

ICT Magic: English as an Additional Language - a number of annotated links to support EAL teachers (British focus)

[|Howjsay] - A free online taking dictionary of English Pronunciation

[|The Best Sixteen Basic Sites For Beginning English Language Learners (Revised)]

[|Links on Error Correction in EFL/ESL/EAL]

[|Best Translation Apps for Travelers]

LESSONS
[|Wordle + VoiceThread + Ipad]
 * [|Wordle] - build world clouds
 * [|Voicethread App]
 * [|Voicethread Online] - conversations in the cloud

[|Easiest Speaking Game in the World]

[|10 Speaking English Activities Using TED.com] (Video)
 * [|Discovery Education]

[|Speed Dating as Language Review]

Translation Tools
[|Google Translate] media type="youtube" key="wxDRburxwz8" height="315" width="560" [|GoAnimate] - cartoon animator