Web Resources on ELT

For teachers English teaching: 
   The following websites provide substantial information about English teaching, such as vocabulary, grammatical patterns,picture books teaching or some teacher-made worksheet for teachers to apply to their practical teaching situation. The websites constantly updates for providing the latest information. 
1. 詹麗馨的教學天地
2.  國中小英語教學資源網
3.  均鞠的繪本教學網
4.  小笨霖英語筆記本
5.  English Quotation
6.Discovery Education
7. ESL printable worksheet

For students English learning: 
   The following websites provide diversified information and genres about English learning, such as news English, storybooks, and online reading resource. Based on the sufficient online resource, I hope students, no matter on what English proficiency, could enjoys learning English and stimulated learning motivation. 
1. Children's Storybook: http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html

2. Student Post: 

http://www.studentpost.com.tw/

3. Mind Map 

4. MovieMistakes
5. BBC-CBeebies
6. Andersen Fairy Tales
7. New York Times
8. Time for Kids
9. IWiLL reading challenge
10. Studio Classroom
11. Taipei American School


Miscellanea: Lots of significant websites for any English learners to engage in English context anytime and anywhere.  

1. Englishcentral : http://www.englishcentral.com/videos

   There are different kinds of level of English proficiency. A language teacher depends on learners’ proficiency to choose one of the films. Then, after practicing, a teacher could design activities, such as dubbing, role play, or public speech, to check learners’ learning effects.

   While we are recording the lines in the movie, we can just know the correct pronunciation of each word.  However, it would be hard for some basic students to know what’s wrong with their pronunciation.

2. TED: Ideas worth spreading: http://www.ted.com/

    There are many talk shows, speeches, or academic courses which are presented by many celebrities. A teacher could choose one topic which corresponds to students’ English level. Then, ask students to practice and preview at home. Next, after lecturing what the speech talks about, students should have the same speech to show their speaking ability.

    However, the only drawback of the website is that the films in the website aren’t categorized into different English proficiency. Most of the films are just suitable for high-intermediate learners. It would be a hard work for teachers to find an appropriate film for high school students to enjoy. What’s more, not each film has subtitles with it. It would make students feel struggling when they are listening some advanced speeches.

3. Xtranormal: http://www.xtranormal.com/

   Students could create their own movies, including their own actors, actress, plot, or lines. After choosing their movie’s background and players, students have to record their own dialogues to create their own stories. Teachers could also have the learners have a role play activity based on the story or movie.  

However, there only problem is that students may encounter a technique problem. It may be too time-consuming for some basic language learners to make a movie just for practicing speaking English. 

4. English attack: http://tw.english-attack.com/

   It’s a website about movie making and picture material making. A teacher could make their own teaching material related to their topic, if there is no the best materials for the teacher. From the movie clip, or the picture vocabulary, teachers could integrate some grammar patterns and voabulary in the film. In the activity, students need to read out loud the vacabulary beased on the pictues they see. Then, about the movie film, students need to summarize what they see integrating the sentence patterns they learned. It would be a nice chance for them to train their speaking and listening proficiency.

   The drawbacks of the website is that it’s not free and time-consuming. The technique problem is worth to be solved. It would be not so practical for learners to make their own movies at home just because of learning English. Also, for some abstract words, it’s impossible to show students their meaning with pictures. Therefore, teachers just can teach some concrete vocabulary.

5. Learning English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

    It’s a news website includes the US and British news. The website offers audio reports for learners to listen. What’s more, the website offers vocabulary learning column, which contains English-English expanations. Language teacher could ask students to listen and practice at home, and at school, teachers could hold an activity. In the activity, students need to dub the news as the assessment.

     It’s a pity that the website doesn’t include every kind of news. Not each of the news has audio source to let students listen, either. What’s worse, for a language learner, learners just can listen to the pronunciation and sound. But, it would be a flaw for learners to correct their problems at home.