Language Links

 

 

ICT for ELT - practical things that teachers and students can do with word processors and other ICT software and facilities.

English for Academic Purposes: E A P is a small but growing website of annotated links for foreign users of English, including those involved in English for Academic Purposes.

A variety of activities for studying and practising various aspects of English. Most activities are created in Hot Potatoes.

A set of links to online activities, created in Hot Potatoes, for studying Czech.

Some exercises and activities for the Academic Wordlist, (AWL) still in a fledgling state, is part of the Help Yourself site above.

Online Concordancers is a page of links not only to online concordancers, but to sites which also pre-process concordance findings. Each site is briefly annotated.

A Ten-step Introduction to Concordancing through the Collins Cobuild Corpus Concordance Sampler is an online introduction to concordancing I wrote for students, teachers and translators. It was saved "conveniently" as a MS Word document and needed to be reworked into a proper site. 

A classroom procedure for teaching Collocation: for the students, it involves fun activities as well as worksheets. This website shows teachers' a variety of techniques for creating the activities. It was written for teaching Czech students of English, and it is likely that some of the Czech diacriticals will not appear in your browser.

Extending Vocabulary Knowledge with Computers an article in Teaching English with Technology, A Journal for Teachers of English

TALC - my poster presentation at the Teaching and Language Corpora conference in Bertinoro, July 2002. 

A Handbook for Students Preparing a Dissertation in English Language Teaching was written during my years at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University. All the art work has mysteriously disappeared - I'll get back to it in September and rework the whole thing into a proper site.

Using Computers when Correcting Written Work: notes to the seminar of the same name. Includes various examples, links to software.

Teaching Idioms through Dialogues a website containing 60 dialogues, many of them made into printable worksheets, interactive exercises (e.g., word order, gap fill) and hypertext activities.

Names of Keyboard Characters An interactive exercise

Some Keyboard Shortcuts An interactive exercise