Dave's
ESL Café
This site is well known and frequently visited by ESL, EFL, and
multilingual students and teachers around the world. Stop by for Cafe
news, bookstore browsing, chat, discussion, frequently asked
questions, a graffiti wall, an idiom page, a photo gallery, a quiz
center, a web guide, and much more.
ESL at
Houghton Mifflin
Online activities, textbooks, and dictionaries provide students
with a wide array of innovative resources. XPRESLINK is an Internet
activity designed to help students develop language skills from
authentic web sites. Sites organized by topics--with questions at
beginner, intermediate, and advanced language levels--are provided to
stimulate student discussion and writing.
ESL on the
Net
Here's a wealth of connections to ESL Links and Guides, ESL Places
to Visit, Computer-Assisted language Learning Sites. Online
Publishing and Journal, Software, MUDS and MOOS, Usenet Newsgroups,
Discussion Lists, and a bibliography of Internet-related articles of
particular interest to ESL students and instructors.
Lingua MOO
A MOO is a
MUD (Multi-User Domain)
Object
Oriented environment, or virtual educational community, where
you can not only communicate in actual time but also add to a virtual
world by building new rooms and other objects. Lingua MOO, at
the University of Texas at Dallas, is a learning environment
for students and a broader community for research and collaboration.
Lingua MOO is a text-based virtual reality where you can create your
own spaces and interact with people from around the world in
synchronous time. Go to the Courtyard where you can easily get to all
the various resource centers in the MOO. These include "A Help
Kiosk," "Lingua House," "The Comoonity," and a library. When you
visit Lingua MOO you must connect as a guest. You are bound to have a
great experience.
SchMOOze
University
SchMOOze University has a diverse student population where people
studying English as a second or foreign language can practice English
with other learners. Visit this MOO for opportunities for one-on-one
conversations, group conversations, and access to language games, an
online dictionary, and more. SchMOOze University welcomes ESL and EFL
students and everyone else who is interested in cross-cultural
communication. You'll find abundant MOO reference documents and
articles as well as links to other ESL/EFL related pages.