A Review of Online Reading Sites for ESL Students

Summary

In this article, the authors try to find suitable online sites for reading as supplementary material for ESL students. They choose their recommended site based on three criteria:user-friendliness, support and interactivity, and effects of media.The first category, user-friendliness, refers to the extent of usability of online reading materials.Support structure, such as dictionary, glossary, concordance and thesaurus, made available to users is the second category.The final category of evaluation criteriaincludes not only the quality of audio and video clips, but also our consideration of how well different forms of media integrate for effective learning, the reading speed of the audio clips and technical compatibility.

Among the eleven sites that they reviews, the top five sites recommended based on their students’ needs are as follows:

1. VOAnews.com
2. English Listening Lesson Library Online (elllo)
3. literacynet.org
4. Adult Learning Activities
5. onestopenglish
6. Unfortunately, onestopenglish(The Guardian Weekly )requires the students to subscribe, so the cost may be a deterrent.

How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months

Language learning need not be complicated.

Principles of cognitive neuroscience and time management can be applied to attain conversational fluency (here defined as 95%+ comprehension and 100% expressive abilities) in 1-3 months. Some background on my language obsession, from an earlier post on learning outside of classes:

From the academic environments of Princeton University (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian) and the Middlebury Language Schools (Japanese), to the disappointing results observed as a curriculum designer at Berlitz International (Japanese, English), I have sought for more than 10 years to answer a simple question: why do most language classes simply not work?

There are different ways for improving your English Skills                              برای بهبود مهارتهای زبانی روشهای مختلفی  موجود است 

1. Learning English Through Watching Television                                                          فراگیری از طریق تماشایی فیلم های

2. Practice Your English Skills by Reading Poems                                  مهارتهای زبانی خود را با خواندن شعرها تقویت کنید

3.Books and Audio Books                                                                                خواندن کتابهای الکترونیکی و کتابهای صوتی
   

4.Learning English Through Immersion                                                                       این روش بدین معناست که از انگلیسی

در مکالمات روز مره بهره ببرید

و خود را مجبور به استفاده از آن کنید .

                                                      برای دریافت متن کامل انگلیسی بروی گزینه ها کلیک کنید.

The best age to learn a second language

The best age to learn a foreign language is during infancy. At birth the human brain is wired to learn language, though not any particular language. A baby can just as easily learn English as Chinese, French as easily as Hopi. It is the baby's early experiences that modify the brain, influencing it to be able to learn one language as easily as another. This means the best time to learn a foreign language is during the first few weeks of the baby's life.......