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You can search on your own, but free services of having your English corrected have a catch and there are very few of such services on the Internet, in particular paragraph or essay writing. Watch out for such catches. It is your responsibility, now. Most of them would charge for correcting your writings.
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Linda.
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Criterion is a Web-based service developed by ETS to evaluate a student's writing skill and provide instant score reporting and diagnostic feedback to both the instructor and student. Combining expertise in research, writing assessment, and technological innovation, the Criterion service expands opportunities for learners to practice writing and receive reliable feedback based on widely accepted standards.
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Welcome back everyone. This month we complete our look at sites that can be used to develop the four skills of English: listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
Some of the sites listed in last month¡Çs column on speaking can also be used for writing assignments. The web is a great place to turn to find things to write about and the sites I introduced last month can help with that. But the Internet also offers new options for the teaching of writing, options that can make writing more interactive, meaningful, and much more exciting.
The Capital Guide to Grammar and Writing is a wonderful site maintained by Charles Darling who teaches writing and literature courses at Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut, in the US. This is a large and very user-friendly site that contains just about everything connected to writing. As it is intended for native speakers sometimes the level is a little high, but the large selection of activities and interactive quizzes make it a very nice resource. I especially liked the sentence combining activities and other activities that are more than simple fill-in-the-blank exercises. http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Activities for ESL Students
The Internet TESL Journal people have a collection of interactive quizzes for students to take to build grammar and vocabulary skills. They are made by teachers (mostly in Japan) and so are appropriate for students here. They are also organized by level. http://a4esl.org/
Many writing teachers use journals to get students to practice writing. I have an ongoing debate with a fellow teacher about whether we should ask students to type their journals or write them by hand. In this age of computer literacy, typing is a skill students need to have. For that reason, my colleague prefers to have students type journals. Maybe I¡Çm old-fashioned, but I feel there is something special that happens when a student puts a pencil to a sheet of paper. Certainly, though, through typing, new possibilities for sharing writing come about and any writing course should try to make use of some of these. Blogs, forums and e-mail exchanges with keypals (penfriends) are things that can be easily used with classes.
Blogs (a word created from web logs or journals) are personalized web sites that allow users to post their writing (and images) and write c-o-m-m-e-n-t-s about postings. Making a class blog or individual blogs for students is an interesting way to have students practice writing and read each other¡Çs writing. http://www.blogger.com/start is a part of the Google group and a place where anyone can set up their own blog for free.
Dave¡Çs ESL Cafe( http://www.eslcafe.com/ ) has been an online resource for years. It has a place where students can participate in writing forums on various topics. This can be a great opportunity for students to practice writing with students from other countries. One of the forums is called Making Friends. It is a place where students can go to find keypals (from the main page select ¡ÈForums¡É from the menu for students and then select ¡ÈMaking Friends¡É from the dropdown menu).
This week¡Çs Treasure Hunt.
This week¡Çs site is Dave¡Çs ESL Cafe. It has a lot of interesting features and I thought we could use the treasure hunt to get to know some of them. Happy hunting!
Here¡Çs the site: http://www.eslcafe.com/
Here are the questions:
1. Which of the following is not a forum topic? Health, Computers, Nature, or Music?
2. What does the idiom ¡Ècatch some Zs¡É mean? What does the slang phrase ¡Èget plastered¡É mean?
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