Inspiring Websites for the Application of
CALL
Sites for Reading Comprehension
Aesop4s Fables: gopher://spinaltap.micro.umn.edu/11/Ebooks/By%Title/aesop
BookWeb : http://www.ambook.org/
Childrens Web Literature Guide: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html#books
Educational Tours: http://www.lacns.ac.uk/staff/kitao/et.htm
Fluency Through Fables: http://www.comenius.com/fable/index.html
Scottish Folktales: gopher://leapfrog.almac.co.uk/11/scotland/dalriadamyths/scottish
Tales of Wonder: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~darsie/tales.html
Sites for Listening Comprehension
ABC Radio News Broadcast: http://www.realaudio.com/contentp/abc.htm
ESL Listening Training on the Web: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EdPsy-387/Rongchang-li/eslproject/eslbeg.html
Interactive Listening Comprehension Practice with RealAudio: http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/LCRA/
Internet Talk Radio: http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/radio/radio.html
Talk Radio: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/radio/radio.html
Voice of America: http://gopher://gopher.VOA.GOV:70/11/audio
World Radio Network: http://www.wrn.org/audio.html
Weekly Idioms: http://www.comenius.com/idiom/index.html
Sites for Speaking (conversations)
Conversations for ESL Students: http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/book/
Sites for Writing
Cultural Topics-Advanced Reading and Writing: http://darkwing.woregon.edu/~leslieob/RW5projects.culture.html
Online Writing Centers: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/net-writing.html
Purdue University Online Writing Lab: http://owl.trc.purdue.edu/
Writing OWLs: http://www.umass.edu/english/resource.html/OWLS
Tests on the Web
ALTE(The Association of Language Testers in Europe): http://www.edunet.com/alte/
ILTA (International Language Testing Association:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ELl/ilta/ilta.html
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate:
http://vanlang.com/vli/vli/ucles.html
Sites for Grammar Teaching and Learning
Cutting Edge Grammar: http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/Duber/m004d.html
Daves ESL Quiz Page: http://www.pacific.net~sperling/quiz#grammar
HyperGrammar: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar
On-line English Grammar: http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/toc.html
SECC- Simplified English Grammar: http://www.ccl.kukeuven.ac.be/cgi-bin/seccdemo.cgi
Sites for Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
Acronym Dictionary: http://curia.ucc.ie/info/net/acron/acro.html
Dictionary of Technical and Natural English: http://crnvmc.cer/FIND/DICTIONARY
Rogets Thesaurus:
gopher://gopher.dlu.dr/7waissrc%25a/wais-Linguistic/roget-thesaurus
The Oxford English Dictionary Online: http://www.oed.com/
Encyclopaedia Britannica: http://www.-pf.eb.com:189/
Sites for Newspapers
BBC: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/index.html/
CNN: http://www.cnn.com/
Financial Times, The: http://www.ft.com/
New York Times, The: http://www.nytimes.com/
Times, The(U.K.): http://www.the-times.co.uk/
Weekend Independent, The (Brisbane, Australia): http://www.uq.oz.au/ern/twi/twi.html
