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Web CALL Links to pages devoted to teaching of foreign languages with web tools: e-mail, www, etc.

Two parts are available for now:	Email (which you will find down below
and	Web CALL (which follows)

Email how to use email and discussion groups in teaching

Would you like to use email lists and discussion groups as a tool in teaching a language? Go and visit the sites!

Name / link	Description / Details
IECC http://www.iecc.org	IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) is a free service to help teachers link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships. At last count, more than 7650 teachers in 82 countries were participating in one or more of the IECC lists
http://www.oup.com/ elt/internet.english/ keypals.html	There are also links organized by topics, such as Famous People, Web Cards, Study Abroad, Eating Out, Shopping Spree, Watching Movies, Vacation Abroad, Cyber C@fes ... and many others.
http://www.yazigi.com.br/	The team in Florianopolis, Brazil, developed a nice project with (!)teenagers learning English. There are many pages on their server your young students might wish to visit.
http://www.egroups.com	Would you like to start an email mailing list? This is as easy as abc. Just visit the site. All you have to do is give some basic information, as your e-mail, address of the group, group name, the password, short description, maybe initial members. And that's it! You can use the emailing list for your educational purposes: in your school/university, city district, etc. Or you may start a cooperation project between students of different schools.

Web CALL Teaching of English on the web

Name / link	Description / Details
LANGUAGE INTERACTIVE http://www.fln.vcu.edu/ cgi/interact.html	An excellent site for those who are at a starting point of teaching with the web. Both theory and practice of using the web for educational purposes are presented and discussed there. Here are the main issuse (chapters): ~ Language Learning and the Web, ~ Linked Programs and Plug-ins, ~ JavaScript: Local Interactivity, ~ CGI: Server-based Interactivity, ~ Java: Local & Remote Programming, ~ Web Scripts: Examples for Language Learning. You will also find lots of guides, examples and ready-made routines.
TEACHING WITH THE WEB http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/ lss/lang/teach.html	Teaching with the Web is a compilation of ideas for using WWW resources as a language teaching tool. It also offers links to sites that have pedagogical information. The list complies (among others): ~ web activities, ~ language specific activities, ~ teaching resources, ~ collaborative learning module, ~ list of publications, ~ list of learning centers and associations.
http://balrog.sdsu.edu/~wstrombe/ test_authoring_systems.htm	WebPractestC was designed by Gary A. Smith to help developers of instructional materials create self-correcting exercises or tests for distribution on the Internet. It has been recently upgraded and works now with both Netscape and Internet Explorer.
PENN Language Center http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu /plc/larrc/webauthor.html	Page where you can develop your own exercises and tests. You just choose a type of exercise and fill data. Your exercise will be generated automatically and you can save it on your own hd in html format! Isn't it a helpful tool?

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