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Machine: Win vocabulary
Publisher: The Language Solution
See also Wida, Learning Services, World of Reading
Approximate single-unit price: $150
Purchase options: lab, site
Level: Beginning, intermediate For: All
CD-ROM version of a text by the same name. Uses graphics, animation, and voice recording and playback to improve vocabulary. Includes student tracking software. Two levels, each sold separately. Level I is for beginners; Level II, for intermediate students.
Machine: Win/Mac T util
Publisher: ESL Pro Systems
Approximate single-unit price: $25
Level: Teacher For: Teacher
Dozens of lesson plans & activities in PDF format, most between 40 and 60 minutes in length. For a variety of skill areas and for three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. PDFs can be used on any platform.
Machine: Win, Mac comprehensive
Publisher: ESL Pro Systems
See also World of Reading
Approximate single-unit price: $45
Purchase options: lab, site
Level: Beginning For: K-8
Four CD-ROMs with workbooks. Students are taught basic grammar, reading, listening, and spelling skills in the Learn & Play workbooks, and these skills are then reinforced through interactive English games. The box set includes: Learn & Play Grammar Set, Learn & Play Listening and Spelling Set, Learn & Play Vocabulary Set, and English Practice Games Combo CD-ROMs.
Machine: Win, Mac reading
Publisher: Transparent Language
Approximate single-unit price: $70
Level: Beginning, intermediate, advanced For: All but K-6
Reading-based language study, with windows that open up to offer vocabulary, grammar, and usage help on the word, sentence, or text level in Spanish. The program includes video clips, a talking dictionary, extensive grammar reference, vocabulary games, and pronunciation help that offers voice recording with (modestly helpful) waveforms. Especially good for those who have some English and want to maintain a reading knowledge of the language. An Educator's Edition includes classroom management tools.
Machine: Mac/Win listening, reading
Publisher: EuroTalk
See also World of Reading
Approximate single-unit price: $50
Level: Intermediate For: All
CD-ROM based programs that use sound, graphics, and text starring the comic book characters of Asterix the Gaul and his son. Students can monitor their progress with an animated quiz. Voice recording. Several different stories are available.
Machine: Win comprehensive
Publisher: Learning Company, The
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Approximate single-unit price: $20
Purchase options: lab
Level: Beginning, intermediate For: All
A complete CD-ROM-based course that includes video and audio recordings, exercises, games, and a 350-page textbook to help learners improve listening comprehension, grammar, and writing skills. Each lesson begins with a setting and a dialog. The settings follow a visitor to the U.S. through customs, getting a hotel, exchanging money, to furnishing an apartment and shopping for food. The students can expand their study of the language presented in the settings and dialogs through the use of cultural notes, vocabulary study (hear the word, definitions, notes about usage), grammar notes, exercises (fill in the blank, sentence writing, scrambled sentences, listening dictation), pronunciation work (listen to the model pronunciation, record voice and play back), and a test of both grammatical and functional language knowledge. Version 10 is Windows only (XP/Vista). Version 8 is the latest Macintosh version, and may not run on OS X.
Machine: Win/Mac comprehensive
Publisher: ESL Pro Systems
Approximate single-unit price: $55
Level: Intermediate For: All
Series of Learning English workbooks covering intermediate grammar, reading, writing and listening. Each workbook includes instruction on the key concepts and practice exercises with answers provided. Each workbook is in PDF format so students can work with exercises directly on the computer or print a portable hardcopy. Individual skill area workbooks can be purchased separately. This can be purchased online and downloaded from http://www.esl-pro.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=195.
Machine: Mac, Win study skills, t util
Publisher: Educational Activities Software
Approximate single-unit price: $100
Purchase options: lab, network
Level: Intermediate, advanced, teacher For: All but K-3
Students go through this questionnaire to analyze their learning styles. The program offers suggestions to enhance studying based on the learner's profile. The profiles for whole class can be stored, so that comparisons of an individual to the teacher or to the class can be printed. Windows and Mac versions have a new interface. Includes spoken questions in both English and Spanish. Windows 98/NT/2000/XP: Mac OS 8 or OS 9.
Machine: Win comprehensive
Publisher: Abacus Communications
See also Wida
Purchase options: UK£100 per title
Level: Intermediate, advanced For: All but K-6
Special use: business
CD-ROMs for business English that make extensive use of video clips to demonstrate situations. Four different CD-ROMs are available: The Language of Negotiating, The Language of Telephoning, The Language of Meetings, and The Language of Presentations. A variety of exercises are available, including multiple choice, gap-filling, matching, and true-false. British and Australian English are prominent. Online versions of the courses are now available as well.
Machine: Win, Mac comprehensive
Publisher: DynEd International
See also Oxford Univ. Press
Purchase options: 1 level for $130; site and lab
Level: Literacy, beginning For: Pre-K -4
Special use: Elementary; bilingual (Sp, Port., Jap.); literacy
A six-level, 12 CD-ROM series designed for children ages 4-10 (pre-readers and early readers), adapted from the American English textbook series by Oxford University Press. Songs and music by Carolyn Graham. Animated cats provide guidance throughout. Each lesson builds on the previous ones. Each level contains 8 units with conversation, vocabulary, grammar, and phonics lessons plus songs and a game, following a grammatical syllabus. A teacher's book, other classroom aids, and some bilingual versions are also available. Pricing options include per-student-use cost. Contact the publisher for details. Windows 95/98/NT/XP; not verified on Vista. Mac OS 9; not verified on OS X.
Machine: Win, Mac reading
Publisher: Edmark Corporation/Riverdeep
Approximate single-unit price: $10
Purchase options: school version avail.
Level: Literacy, beginning For: Pre-K - 1
Special use: Elementary, literacy
Reading skills in an adventure format. Hybrid Win/Mac CD-ROM or on disks by platform. Designed for native speakers. Mac OS 9 and below / X, Macintosh, Windows 2000 / 98 / Vista / XP - look carefully to be sure you are getting a version that runs on your equipment. Mail order/online only.
Machine: Mac, Win reading
Publisher: Lexia Learning
Purchase options: see publisher for details
Level: Literacy, beginning, intermediate For: K-12, AE
Special use: Elementary
Three sepsarate programs: Lexia Early Reading for ages 3-5 phonemic awareness; Lexia Primary Reading for ages 5 to 8 basic reading skills; and Lexia Strategies for Older Students for ages 9 to adult reading skill practice. Has explicit practice in phonemic awareness and phonics; also works on vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Leveled activities brance in response to student performance. Includes student record-keeping system. Records are stored online, at Lexia's server. Optional web-based component for self-study. The whole series is also available as a fully online program.
Machine: Win/Mac comprehensive
Publisher: Command Performance Language Institute
Approximate single-unit price: $70
Purchase options: contact publisher
Level: Beginning For: Adult
Based on the classic TPR text, "Live Action English" by Elizabeth Kuizenga Romijn and Contee Seely, this program teaches practical vocabulary in context with video and still photos in 12 sequences of commands. It provides ample verb form practice in 4 essential tenses in context. Innovative interactive TPR exercises include dictations, picture glossary, help, and more. Requires a fairly fast computer of 120 MHz or better.
Machine: Win comprehensive
Publisher: Pearson Education
Approximate single-unit price: $400
Purchase options: each level sold separately
Level: Beginning, intermediate For: All
Video based, integrated-skills program on CD-ROM. Students work with video, audio, animations, and practice activities to develop essential skills. Includes culture notes and native language support for Instructions, The Orientation, Culture Notes, video and audio transcripts, and online Help in nine languages. Each level offers 100 hours of instruction, and is available in both American and British English. Four levels, each sold separately: Beginning to High Intermediate. Now also available as an online course. See more information at http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/multimedia/programs/lei.htm.
Machine: Win reference
Publisher: Pearson Education
Approximate single-unit price: $45
Level: Intermediate, advanced For: All
This CD-ROM-based multimedia dictionary includes sound, graphic images, and video with text. Has grammar and pronunciation components as searchable indexes as well as built into the dictionary. Since it runs under Windows on the PC, it is possible to have the dictionary and a word-processor open at the same time, but only on computers with a lot of memory. Windows 98; not verified on XP or Vista.
Machine: Win, Mac listening, speaking, reading
Publisher: DynEd International
Purchase options: contact publisher
Level: Intermediate, advanced For: All but K-8
Special use: Bilingual (Jap, Fr)
BBC English's mystery is presented on CD-ROM in MPEG video, supported by a variety of practice exercises. The focus is on listening comprehension for basic level students. Students may interrupt at any time to repeat a sentence, record their voices, hear a spoken translation, see written text, or consult a glossary. Provides 80-100 hours of home or classroom study. A textbook, student workbook, and teacher's guide are available. Requires online access for record-keeping and verification. Contact publisher for details. Windows 95/98/ME/XP; Mac OS 9 and X.
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Last updated 05/15/2009 by Deborah Healey.