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CELSE: Centre for
English Language Studies in Education, University of
Manchester.
ELS Cafe: On the Web for ESL/EFL Students
and Teachers from Arc the World English as a Foreign Language
Magazine.
Purdue University's On line Writing Lab
(OWL) offers composition advice, grammar help and a wide range
of writing topics. It also includes information on Internet
search tools, resources for teachers, information about online
writing labs and a list of other Purdue resources Purdue Online
Writing Lab.
There are workshops available online for
those who would like to learn how to use the internet and how
to use it for teaching-learning purposes. By the end of the
workshop participants would have had experience of different
online courseware, examined the techniques used in distance
education and online tutorial courses including self-assessment
tools and had an opportunity to discuss the issues involved in
Internet-based teaching. They need no special technical skills
and no prior knowledge of the Internet.
Apart from these
courses, there is provision for practising real communication
in English for those who learn English as a second or foreign
language.
Real Communication in English
Bulletin Board/Conference (BBS) Users post
asynchronous messages to be read and responded to by a larger
group of people. Responses are connected by subject matter, and
can be read one after the other. Can be public (open to any
internet user) or private (open only to members of a particular
group, e.g. a class)
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