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LiveABC English Learning Resource Access in the TNUA Campus
It includes four learning resources:
1. LiveABC English Learning Resource:
It arises student’s learning interesting by interactive method. The TNUA has purchased 220 units by December, 2005, which includes Vocabulary, Dialog, Theater, Business English, 3D Virtual Dialog, Interactive Movie.

2. CNN English Learning Resource
Offering CNN news programs, which have been produced into interactive learning materials.

3. GETP Imitative Test
It covers basic, medium, high-intermediate levels imitative test. Students can use these to practice.

4. LiveABC Self-Learning Resource
It includes several basic self-learning materials, such as restaurant English, MRT English, and learning games.

    

Websites for Instruction

 
TNUA English Corner TNUA's first cyber corner to feature the best resources in English learning. You can visit the corner on the web or at R315 from 10 am to 9 pm every weekday.
NCU English Learning Database Providing rich resource for students to learn English, such as songs, news, movies, literature, listening, etc.
The Language Training & Testing Center
 
Visitors can find the latest news of GEPT. Nevertheless, there are valuable information about English teaching and learning, like pronunciation, listening ability, vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, translation, etc.

Multiple Learning Information

 
Activities for ESL Students Free Online English Learning: Study English with Quizzes, Tests, Crossword Puzzles, Exercises and other activities for students of English as a second language.
Hong Kong Virtual Language Centre Edict Virtual Language Centre is a Resource-Assisted e-Learning website for studying English which composed by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The VLC is an e-Learning system that integrates several strategies for using computers to support language learning and study, including dictionary reference, concordance and multimedia.
Dave's ESL Cafe A famous website for learning English. As an internet's meeting place for teachers and students from around the World.
English Club English Club provides lessons, games, quizzes, forums, chat, lesson plans, jobs & more for English-as-Second-Language learners & teachers.
BBC World Service Learning English Comprehensive materials for intermediate to advanced ESL learners from the BBC World Service. Uses simplified news stories to present English in context along with extensive audio and video clips. Teachers can use “For Teachers” to make their classes more creative.
The New York Times Learning Network An online current and special events news site for grades 3-12; updated weekdays during the school year.
CNN SF Learning Resources The Learning Resources site offers web-delivered instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau and CBS 5 - KPIX (CBS Broadcasting) news stories. Western/Pacific LINCS (part of the National Institute for Literacy's LINCS Project), and literacy works has partnered with news agencies to develop an online literacy site that benefits all learners and instructors. This material is intended for adult literacy and educational purposes. Though the intended audience is adults, instructors and learners (of all ages) are encouraged to use this material to promote better literacy.

Listening

 
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab This ESL language Web site created by Randall Davis helps ESL/EFL students improve their listening comprehension skills through practice with self-grading quiz pages.
ICRT An online radio station at Taipei, Taiwan. Students can hear and read the news. The station also provides email alert function.

Writing

 
The Chinese Online Writing Lab Set up by an foreign English teacher Mr. Ted Knoy, this site gives Chinese students assistant on writing. Especially on theses and technology articles.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab The Purdue University Online Writing Lab serves writers from around the world and the Purdue University Writing Lab helps writers on Purdue's campus. The site is separated into 2 topics: MLA, APA format instruction and online English writing lab. You can get assistance about writing, discuss room, and oral practice.
English Plus - Letter Writing Rules It provides key point when writing business letters. There are kinds of examples for your reference.
Key pal
 
Set up by MIGHTY Media. You can find English pen pale on it. The service is charge free, but you have to register an account first.

Reading

 
ELLSA --Electronic literature and language ELLSA (Electronic Literature and Language in South East Asia) is a web-based resource for teaching and learning English through literature. It provides on-line and downloadable lesson plans for working with classic and contemporary short stories.

Grammar

 
Englishpage.com Grammar and vocabulary is the main topic of this site. Students can learn how the words are used correctly with its interactive exercises.

English News

 
SINO Set up by Sinorama Magazine, it is a window of Taiwan to introduce the place to foreigners. The news articles are useful tools for reading. Also the resources are good references for translators.
CHINA POST Taiwan's leading English-language newspaper since 1952. The China Post Online is the leading online provider of news and business and entertainment information on Taiwan.
Bilingual Student Post The Bilingual Student Post features the most up-to-date news and entertainment topics among bilingual weekly publications. Audio is also available online including weekly comment, news, translation practice.
TIME.com
 
It has abundant content. Articles are more difficult which benefit to higher grade students.

Magazine

 
EZ Talk You can learn English in an easy way on this site with some popular materials. Students can improve their listening and speaking abilities when using the online audio lessons.
Live ABC An important component of LiveABC’s publications is its interactive multimedia teaching tools. These interactive multimedia teaching tools are innovative and highly effective aides for language learners.

Dictionary

 
English-English English-Chinese Dictionary by Prof. Yen Including the dictionary edited by Prof. Yen and other unites such as idioms, FAQ, quiz, etc.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online Free online dictionary from Cambridge University Press. Provides 5 online dictionaries for searching.
Merriam-Webster OnLine
 
Provides online resources as Online Dictionary、Online Thesaurus、Word of the Day、Word Games、Word for the Wise. Compared with Cambridge Dictionaries Online, Merriam-Webster OnLine gives much more information about vocabulary. Students can also hear the pronunciation from real person online.
Encarta World English Dictionary Online dictionary composed by MSN with over 100,000 entries, definitions, and pronunciations.
Collins Cobuild Concordance and Collocations Sampler This site is composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text. To get a flavour of the type of linguistic data that a corpus like this can provide, you can type in some simple queries here and get a display of concordance lines from the corpus. The query syntax allows you to specify word combinations, wildcards, part-of-speech tags, and so on.
Common Errors in English This is a personal website of Prof. Paul Brians at the English Department of Washington State University. It gives an explanation of common English usage errors and how to avoid making them. Also it is a good resources when teachers have to compose exam questions.

Quiz and Practice

 
G-TELP G-TELP Taiwan provides online tests of G-TELP. These tests have 5 degrees, each of them has parts of grammar, listening reading and vocabulary.
Kaplan Educational Centers Offers undergraduate and graduate college degrees online as well as in classrooms at affiliated college campuses. Also provides test preparation services for college admissions like TOFEL, GMAT, and SAT, etc.

For Teachers

 
TEFL Professional Site A site for ESL/EFL teachers in the world. Providing employment opportunity globally and personal training program. You can assign the e-paper concerning English teaching.
 

 

   

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