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WebCALIS is an experimental Java version of WinCALIS for PC, Mac, Linux/UNIX platforms. It supports over half the features of WinCALIS, and also includes numerous additional features, support for the World Wide Web as a browser applet; multiple hardware and software platforms; and HTML pages. The current version can be downloaded from http://www.humancomp.org/webcal.htm.
Allows online lookup of Spanish to English or vice-versa. Replaces Key Into Spanish. Definitions give examples of usage. Reference tables in Spanish and English include commonly used phrases, irregular verbs, signs, weights and measures, and currency tables. CD-ROM.
This CD-ROM is designed for workplace readiness training. Learners are guided through inquiry-based tasks to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes. Information pages contain useful information, presented in a colourful, easy-to-read format, for adult learners who are thinking about their future. Work on it activities allow learners to interact with texts onscreen, while developing reading, writing and computer skills. Australian English.
Previously entitled Sequitur/GoOn. Students practice arranging sentences of a paragraph in correct order. The computer presents the first line of a text and three possible continuations. Authorable. Teachers can enter texts into the program that students have worked with in class for students to practice on in computer mode.
Detective mystery/ adventure. Students need to use travel and geographic clues to solve the mystery. From Gary Towne: I first used an older version of Carman on a HD-less AT. I highly recommend having an atlas and an international almanac that includes color pictures of the flags of the world on just a few pages to facilitate easy scanning. If your class has a variety of ethnicities represented, the class-room corporate knowledge of the world should be fairly diverse, but there are often some real stumpers in Carmen that maybe no one would know. I asked for volunteers to take turns on the keyboard, to handle the atlas and almanac, as well as to record the clues and progress on the board for all to see. This makes the progress more logical. Also, I had the students take turns reading the text on the screen. They loved it. Some of us ended up staying after school to try to catch Carmen, because too much class time would be used to finish the whole game. This is where having a computer lab of some sort would be useful. Enjoy!
CD-ROM interactive mystery. Versions are available in a variety of languages, so students could try it in their language first, then again in English.
Children learn reading, writing, speaking and listening skills with this set of materials, including books, other print material, and CD-ROMs. Titles include Pizza, Kites, Raindrops, What Lila Loves, The Ball Game, The Tree House, What's Inside, and several others.
Family of programs for authoring; interfaces with audio, video, and videodisc; Windows version of CALIS (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction System). Full range of multimedia presentation. Differs from other authoring environments by supporting complex string matching with author use of wild cards; automatic "SpellMarking" of student answers; observing Unicode conventions, i.e., all languages of the world (including IPA) uniquely identified and distinctively encoded. Contact the publisher or see the website for detailed price and ordering information.
CD-ROM multimedia dictionary with video, graphics, sound. 700 words can be accessed alphabetically by language or through the eight categories. Includes four games. Mac and Windows CD-ROMs sold separately.
See Ultimate Word Attack.
Multimedia, thematically-organized vocabulary for native speakers. Very easy to use. Only available outside the US through a Prentice Hall Regents international distributor. CD-ROM.
Graphic guide to English pronunciation and spelling of one-syllable words. Free demo available.
Teaches 1500 words using 40 different interactive games and puzzles.
Students direct a mouse making its way through a maze, avoiding the cat and trying to reach the dog house, where they are asked questions about vocabulary. At the beginning level, learners are asked to match a picture/word combination with one of two below. Learners progress to more difficult matching questions as they work their way through the game. All instructions are spoken. Learners get more points with each correct answer. Learners can listen to instructions in English or Spanish. Available on CD-ROM or disks. A separate Spanish version is also available. A demo version is on the TESOL/CELIA CD-ROM. Now part of One-Pick Pack (English only) or Language Pack (Spanish or French), which includes Ace Detective, Ace Explorer, Ace Inquirer, Ace Reporter, Easy Street, Race the Clock Language Arts, Word Hound, and some math titles.
Free text files from Elizabeth Hanson-Smith. Pre-freshman English course syllabus, assignments, and templates for writing assignments to learn word processor skills as well as composition.
'Discussions' describe each word's synonyms, antonyms and derivations. Audio available in word lists and discussions. Five types of exercises: flashcards, column matching, laser review, and multiple choice involve synonym matching, while sentence completion requires typing in the best word from the set being studied. Sound, graphics, exercise variety, and a high level of user control make this one popular. Created for 4th grade-PhD native speakers, so the lowest 5 levels are most useful for ESL. Requires a CD-ROM drive. Individual volumes are approximately $40 each; sets range from $160-$400, depending on the number of volumes. (Seaver)
Part of the Amazing English series, the CD-ROM teaches reading skills appropriate to novels plus some essay writing. Hard-bound teacher's manual. Separate CDs for pre-K-3 (Word Stuff = $85), 3-6 (Word Attack = $90).
Comprehensive vocabulary practice with tutorial, practice, and test (including authoring) modules. Text and audio. With teacher's manual in notebook form. CD-ROM.
This CD-ROM lets students select the words they want to learn and then throughout the day, AutoLearn displays a custom mix of reminders. Frequent exposure to new words; pop quizzes; an entertaining and instructing screen saver; in-depth information about each word; spoken pronunciations; Info Cards displaying over 5,000 tips, examples, definitions, synonyms, and antonyms; flash cards; and quick reference printouts are features.
WordFill is an extended cloze testing engine. It displays a text with some words replaced by dashes and the student must complete the text. The teacher can decide which words are removed, so a Beginners text can have only a few words removed while an Advanced text has all but, say, proper nouns removed. It also has a timed display option so students can see the complete text for several seconds -useful for speed reading practice. (The number and duration of this display can be set by the teacher.) The program has a built-in word processor, on-line interactive tutorial and over 60 pre-loaded texts (half in business English). Texts can be added or edited freely. Very easy to use. Works with all main European languages (including support for accented characters). Runs on Win 3.1 or later (including Win 95). Mouse recommended. A demo of the program can be downloaded or an order placed over the Internet from: http://www.classicweb.com/usr/jseng/sean/ls_home.htm
You provide the sentences and Word Order 2 does the rest. A great feature is that you can easily choose how the sentences are broken up. Students click on words in buttons to make a sentence. Feedback is instant; both visually (the word is added to the screen) and aurally (there are sounds for correct and incorrect choices). Free demo is limited to 5 sentences; $5 shareware for full version.
Creates three types of word search puzzles: standard wordsearch (target words are hidden in a grid of letters), clues puzzles where students see clues to the hidden words, and fill-in-the-blank puzzles where students see a paragraph with the missing words found in the puzzle. Can be solved on screen, printed out, or exported to a word-processor.
Integrated suite of programs for looking at how words behave in texts. WordList shows a list of all the words in a text, set out in alphabetical or frequency order. Concordancer shows any word or phrase in context, and KeyWords finds the key words in a text. Various smaller tools and extensive on-line help also included. Distributed exclusively over the World Wide Web at http://www.oup.co.uk/elt/software/wsmith/.
Players choose one of four modules, Make Words, Master Words, Mixed Words, Match Words, and accumulate points in any module toward the Hall of Fame. Make Words allows players to create as many small words as possible from a longer word orphrase of up to 30 characters. Long words can be selected from a pre-selected list or entered individually per round. Master Words challenges players to decipher a four-letter word by receiving clues as to what letters are correct and in the right place or correct but in the wrong location in the word, MasterMind-style. Mixed Words scrambles long words or phrases from the same lists as the Make Words. Players have an assignable amount of time to decipher the word and enter it in the appropriate field. Match Words asks players to match words or short phrases to the given clue according to criteria set for each game. The time to find each match is also assignable. Information about up to 100 players can be stored in the Player's List. Students and teachers can easily create word lists for play. Teacher editable parameters are protected by password.
Everyday vocabulary. Uses graphics, voice recording, human quality speech, and quiz, presentation and print-out options. Create a word list for each student, save it and add new words anytime. Six programs: People, community, house, outdoor, actions, adjectives with 80 words apiece. Has IntelliKeys overlays for students with limited manual dexterity. CD-ROM.
This CD-ROM-based world atlas offers extensive information on countries of the world, including demographic as well as geographic data. Learners can search for specific information about a country. While it is possible to print the information about a country, the program is not selective about what to print, resulting in about 10-15 pages of output.
World geography game on CD-ROM.
English vocabulary through pictures program. Point to the image to see the word, click to hear it. Listen to sentences about the pictures. Self-tests in comprehension and reproduction of vocabulary, with progress reports available. Part 1 "Home and Family": house, garden, rooms, furniture and household objects, family relationships, occupations and pets. Part 2 "Education and Leisure": classroom objects, school subjects, numbers, shape and colour, seasons, months, days and dates, time, weather, geography, parts of the body, music, free time and sports. Part 3 "Out and About": town, shops, clothes, food and drink, transport, railway station, on the road, directions, the farm and the zoo. Help is available in English, French, Spanish, or German. Each CD-ROM sold separately or all three as a set.
CD-ROM based writing activities in both Spanish and English versions. Topics include English for You; My First Sentences; Class Journals; Chant, Chant, Chant; Poetry for Young Poets; The Me Disk I, Sentence Writing I, Sentence Combining with Aesop; Sentences to Paragraphs I.
Designed for native speakers, this CD-ROM offers expert advice, step by step instructions, and sample sentences for writing business and personal letters on more than 500 topics. Includes 2000 sample letters. A demo can be downloaded from http://www.WriteExpress.com/download.html
Playing with words. Designed for native speakers. CD-ROM. An online demo is available at http://www.WriteExpress.com/rhymer.html.
Renamed and updated as Report Writer for Science and Engineering Reports.
The program offers drills, learning hints, examples, automatic grading, performance graphs and summary reports. $250 per level, from grade 6-12. Can be installed on a network.
This writing program works with Microsoft Word, Word Perfect and Ami Pro. Learners can start by brainstorming with the concept database, something like an idea thesaurus. This three-level hierarchy starts with a list of concept categories related to the learner's query word. Writers can then move to Section Titles from the selected concept category, then to a list of ideas, words, and phrases linked thematically to the section title. It also works well as a regular thesaurus. Available for Macintosh and Windows.
Topics include Sentences & Paragraphs, Capitalization & Punctuation, Writing Letters, Writing for Fun, Writing to Explain, Writing Process, Writing Descriptively, Expository Writing, Newswriting, and A Writer's Basic Tools. Split screen has topics on one half, word-processor on the other.
Pre-writing, writing, and post-writing activities and skills. Two-disk set to accompany Aaron's The Little, Brown Compact Handbook.
A prompted writing program with pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading exercises. The four domains: persuasive writing, report on information/observation, autobiography, and evaluation can be purchased separately or as a complete series. Separate domains are $70 each. CD-ROM.
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