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"... The project described in this digest was designed with the belief that teacher professional growth can best be fostered through sustained collaborative inquiry between teachers and researchers. It has set out to incorporate what is known about quality professional development with the special features necessary for meeting the needs of English language learners. The project has defined a model of sheltered instruction based on the research of best practices, as well as on the experiences of the participating teachers and researchers..." (¶1).
in list: Teacher Education, Educational Measurement
"Grammar-Quizzes.com is an open educational resource for understanding, learning and practicing English grammar usage. These materials present simple grammar concepts and are most appropriate for non-native speakers, but also include practices that could be used for K–12 native speakers" (Mission, ¶1, 2012.01.05).
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"Robert Bruce Scott is the owner and editor of the ESL MiniConference Online newsletter and Web site. This project is a labor of love, hoping to make a positive difference in the field of ESL. Mr. Scott is advised by an all-volunteer editorial board of ESL teachers, language-learning specialists and educational technology experts" (About us, Keeping the conference spirit going..., ¶4, retrieved 2011.09.07).
in list: Teacher Education
Resources in this directory include:
+ How to use graphic organizers,
+ How to write an essay, and
+ How to summarize.
in list: Writing
"Though Crusan (2010), Ericsson and Haswell (2006), and Shermis and Burstein (2003) offered a more thorough treatment of machine scoring in general, in this article, I concentrate on one program―MY Access! (Vantage Learning, 2007)―briefly describing it and discussing a small study conducted in a graduate writing assessment seminar at a midsize Midwestern university in which graduate students examined second language writers’ attitudes about using the program as a feedback and assessment tool for their writing in a sheltered ESL writing class" (¶2).
in list: Writing
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several problems are inherent in machine scoring.
First, though Ferris (2003) claimed that students will improve over time if they are given appropriate error correction and that students use teacher-generated feedback to revise things other than surface errors, students rarely use programs like MY Access! to revise anything other than surface errors (Warschauer & Grimes, 2008); paragraph elements, information structure, and register-specific stylistics are largely ignored. Second, although teachers can create their own prompts for use with the program (more than 900 prompts are built into MY Access! to which students can write and receive instantaneous feedback.), MY Access! will score only those prompts included in the program. Third, regarding essay length, in many cases, MY Access! seems to reward longer essays with higher scores; consequently, it appears that MY Access! assumes that length is a proxy for fluency.
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Overall, students’ opinions regarding MY Access! were mixed; students found useful aspects as well as aspects they termed less helpful.
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links to Friesen's pres. at the Open Ed conference
"This tutorial shows you how simple it is to edit the wiki (2008.05.29), and suggests ways of using wikis with students.
Nik Peachey previews ReadTheWords.com (beta) online text-to-speech converter, prior to suggesting ways for EAL learners to use it for help "with their listening, reading and pronunciation" (¶2)
CBC Ottawa present "various exercises developed with Carlton University" for learners of English as an additional language
Exam English - free practice for all the important international English language exams
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