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I have compiled a fairly comprehensive list of Apps designed for Apple products (iPhone, iPod, and iPad). These Apps are helpful for both the learner and the educator. Many are free, some are under $5.00, and a few are major purchases (+$15.00). These lists will all update regularly with your input. Below are links to other experts in the mobile device technology area.
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"This site provides instructions for writing essays in English for a US academic audience. This site also contains academic essays by ESL and EFL students writing in English for university level classes."
Shona Whyte: Erlyn Baack, ESL writing instructor, ITESM, Quertaro Campus (Mexico) maintains the site http://eslbee.com on advanced composition for non-native speakers of English: advice, examples and exercises for academic writing for intermediate learners and beyond.
Here's a review by Jennifer Banton (University of Quebec, Montreal) "Advanced Composition is a clean looking unified site. It is well planned and easy to follow. There is no advertising to clutter the pages, and all images are directly related to the sites' content and purpose. The audience is specified, and the stated goals are achieved. The author takes great care to cite secondary information, and he includes useful links to related sites. All of this sets a very much appreciated formal and academic tone. In comparison to other Online Writing Labs, Advanced Composition stands out as one of the few which offers higher order writing instruction, including university level sample writing."
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Make grammatical trees with Language Garden: this video shows how to arrange and label words in sentences for teaching.
You can subscribe for free resources, and David Warr has a discussion of grammar mindmapping using this tool here http://www.edukwest.com/language-gardening-using-grammatical-mind-maps-in-language-learning/
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483 accents of English - audio files for the same text, male and female speakers from a variety of English-speaking countries plus non-natives.
Great for phonetics/phonology practice, or just demonstrating phonological variation to dispel the myth that there's one "standard" pronunciation. Delete the scoop?
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Shona Whyte: This site has animations with sound to help learners with sounds (diphthongs), stress (word and sentence stress), and intonation (rising and falling intonation). It also has phonemic charts for English vowels and consonants - click on the symbol to hear the sound.
Useful for even beginning learners, and a good resource for checking general rules (e.g., word stress) and the phonemic inventory of English. Teacher can supplement these basic rules with additional examples and more detailed rules for pronunciation. Via Renee Maufroid, Juergen Wagner, Teresa MacKinnon, Shona Whyte Delete the scoop?
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Nice short (2min 45sec) video, no speech, showing one man going about his day.
David Deubelbeiss suggests using it for speaking/writing about daily routines: "Ask students to describe (as you play) or write (during / after) what this guy does in his day. Nice, real context for practicing speaking about routines." But it could just as easily be using for describing what is happening at the present time, to practice present continuous or for fluency.
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Lots of apps, beautifully organised and presented.