COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING

Theories & Practice

• Language Learning & Technology. A refereed journal for language educators who are interested in using computers.

• The History of CALL. A PDF file of an introduction to the development of the Computer-Assisted Language Learning.

Programs

• Web Teacher. A JavaScript Tutorial for the TOTAL non-programmar.

• Hot Potatoes. An excellent free Web authoring tool for language teachers.

• JavaScript QuizMaker. Typing in your quiz data. copy and paste the script for your use.

• Cloze Generator. You can make blanks for every n-th word automatically, or make blanks of specific words manually.

• The AWL Gapmaker. Creating a gapfill exercise, using the Academic Word List.

• Lesson Preparation Tools. Some free programs to help you create some exercises for your class.

• Sussex Centre for Language Studies. A lot of great language technology links.

• Educational Freeware. Downloading the best free learning games and software.

• World CALL Language Links Library. Computer-Assisted Language Learning to help students, teachers and researchers to improve their language learning or teaching.

Research Tools

• Web Frequency Indexer. Cut and paste an article, you will get a list of words used in the article with frequency numbers.

• Web Concordancer. You can search an online corpus for a word and display all the sentences in which the word occurs.

• Corpus of Contemporary American English. The largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balanced corpus of American English with over 400 million words, 1990-2010.

• Corpus of Historical American English. COHA is the largest structured corpus of historical English created by Mark Davies of Brigham Young University.

• British National Corpus. This website allows you to quickly and easily search the 100 million word British National Corpus (1970s-1993).

• lexical Tutor. A complete website for learning and learning about English words.

• Video Demo about How to Use Corpus. Learn how to use corpus to teach ESL writing.

Organizations

• TESOL Interest Section - CALL. TESOL CALL-IS Computer-Assisted Language Learning interest section.

• CALICO. The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, a professional organization involved in both education and technology.

• APACALL. Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language learning.