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Machine: Win comprehensive
Publisher: Intechnica International
Approximate single-unit price: $360
Purchase options: site, network
Level: Beginning For: K-Adult
Voice-interactive comprehensive programs for low beginning, high beginning, low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced students (each level sold separately). Offers reading, writing, listening, and speaking practice in a self-paced curriculum with hundreds of lessons. A teacher's manual is included. Bilingual support is available in Spanish and Haitian-Kreol for beginners and for other languages for beginners and intermediate levels, priced separately. An unlimited site license for each program is also available.
Machine: Win reading
Publisher: Intechnica International
Approximate single-unit price: $360
Purchase options: site, network
Level: Advanced For: 9-Adult
Special use: TOEFL
A multimedia CD-ROM with a focus on reading skills in academic areas, including science, history, literature, government, and poetry. Readings were designed to support TOEFL practice. Skills include previewing, main ideas using the context, scanning for details, making inferences, and phrasing. Audio is also provided.
Machine: Win vocabulary
Publisher: IdioMagic
Approximate single-unit price: $30
Purchase options: volume, student, download discounts
Level: Intermediate, advanced For: All
Teaches American idioms and slang through lessons with examples and multiple-choice quizzes. A demo is available at the website. A discount is available when the program is downloaded rather than purchased on a CD-ROM. Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP.
Machine: Win testing
Publisher: Educational Software Products
Approximate single-unit price: $85
Purchase options: £40; lab
Level: Advanced For: All but K-8
Preparation, practice and feedback for students studying for the IELTS examination. Every part of the exam analysed. Tips and tactics designed to help them get the best result possible. Timed tests for the reading, writing and listening papers. Notes on their answers. Written by IELTS examiners and teachers.
Machine: Mac/Win reading, listening, speaking
Publisher: Sunburst Technology
Approximate single-unit price: $60
Purchase options: $60 each title; lab, network avail.
Level: Beginning, intermediate For: All
Excellent software for making interactive storybooks. For ESL purposes, it is even better if projected onto a large screen for whole class oral language activities. Choose from a variety of scenes: school, home, playground, mall, etc. Place people and objects into this setting. These 'smart stickers' can be positioned inside, beside, behind, in front of, etc and change their size according to where they are placed on the screen. Narration can be added. CD-ROMs in the series: Castle; Neighborhoods; Rain Forest; Ocean; Pyramids; and Time Trip USA. For ESL, Neighborhoods and Oceans are probably most helpful. Sheltered English classes might be able to use others depending on subject.
Machine: Win comprehensive
Publisher: Imagine Learning
Purchase options: contact publisher
Level: Beginning, intermediate, advanced For: K-12
English language development for K-12 students; designed for school-wide adoption.
Machine: Win T util
Publisher: Divace Oy
Purchase options: contact publisher
Level: Teacher For: Teacher
Software that lets teachers control multiple PCs from their own PC. Works as part of a Tandberg lab.
Machine: Mac, Win writing
Publisher: Inspiration Software
Approximate single-unit price: $70
Purchase options: $195 site license
Level: Advanced For: All but K-6
A pre-writing program that allows students to organize and arrange ideas in outline or diagram form. Useful for making flow charts to show the logical progression of ideas. Most frequently used for concept mapping and story webbing. Educational discounts available. Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0, ME or XP (including Tablet PC Edition), Vista; Mac OS X.
Machine: Win spelling, vocabulary
Publisher: Protea Textware
See also Wida
Approximate single-unit price: $120
Purchase options: home version (cheaper); lab, site
Level: Beginning, intermediate For: All
This CD-ROM-based program teaches and tests spelling and vocabulary comprehension. The teacher can customise by adding own key words, context sentences and number of syllables per word. Windows 95/98, NT, 2000, ME, XP, Vista
Machine: Win/Mac test prep
Publisher: Encomium Publications
Approximate single-unit price: $35
Level: Intermediate, advanced For: Adult, HE
Special use: TOEFL
490 exercises that for the grammar, reading, and listening sections of the institutional (paper-based) TOEFL.
Machine: Win comprehensive
Publisher: Protea Textware
See also Wida
Approximate single-unit price: $135
Purchase options: home version (cheaper); lab, site
Level: Beginning, intermediate, advanced For: All
Two CD-ROMs, each with eight issues (Smoking, Gambling, Discrimination, Growing Old, etc.), each covered at four levels of complexity from Beginner to Advanced. Each issue has a video clip of someone presenting the issue, with the language activities (approx. 18 per issues per level) based on the video clip. CD-ROMs sold separately. Windows Me, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista.
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Last updated 05/15/2009 by Deborah Healey.