Friday, October 3, 2014

Websites that teachers of ELLs might use to teach grammar:

Sponsor: The TESOL Internet Journal. This website offers activities, including grammar lessons, vocabulary practice, quizzes, and crossword puzzles, beginner, intermediate, and advanced ESL levels. I like this website because it is an open forum for TESOL instructors to share ideas, and lessons with each other. Its strength is that it offers entertaining, internet-based, assessments for multi-cultural ESOL students.  Its weakness, is, it is backed up by volunteer submissions, so it is not exactly up-to-date.

Talk about organized DML based ideas for TESOL. This website is sponsored by BrainPOP, all rights reserved. But when you go to the website, you will see so many grammar lessons, intended for school age students. However, I think the ESL section can transfer for adult ELL instruction, most likely beginning to intermediate courses. The strength is free movies, which include social stories, history, and entertaining lessons on cross-cultural exchange. The weakness is that some of the links are under maintenance, for instance, right now the lesson guide for teachers will not open.

This website, sponsored by Craig Shrives, is so organized. The links to what you need for your grammar lesson are straightforward and easy to navigate. It covers the eight parts of speech, confused words, and common mistakes. I like how clear they explain the grammar rules, students should know. There is not a specific age range for the information on the website. It could improve, by adding more interactive DML activities. Also, it is .com, so there are a lot of advertisements. 

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