TESOL CALL Interest Section Software List Deborah Healey, Editor Alphabetical Listing - T [0-9][A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] Talk Now Machine: Win/Mac Skill(s): vocabulary Publisher: EuroTalk See also World of Reading Clarity Approximate single-unit price: $35 Purchase options: lab, network, site Level: Beginning For: All Vocabulary building program with a record option that compares the learner and native speaker pronunciations. Nine topics: first words, food, colous, phrases, parts of the body, numbers, time, shopping and countries. Includes interactive games. Help is available in more than 100 languages. Audio can be downloaded to an iPod. Windows 2000/ME/XP/Vista; Mac OS X. TaskMagic Authoring Software Machine: Win Skill(s): Authoring Publisher: MDLSoft Approximate single-unit price: $185 Purchase options: site Level: Teacher For: Teacher Authoring tool. Input text, images and sounds into a template. Each template automatically generates a range of games and exercises based on your input. Templates include Text Match, Picture Match, Sound Match, Pic-Sound, Grid Match, Mix and Gap, Dialogues, and Multi-Choice, See the website for more information, screenshots and free a trial download. Taste for English, A Machine: Win Skill(s): vocabulary Publisher: Educational Software Products Approximate single-unit price: $74 Purchase options: £40; lab Level: Beginning, intermediate, advanced, teacher For: K-8 Learners help Fred the frog find nice tasty flies for him to eat, in the form of words that fit into a set, while avoiding words that don't fit. Authorable. British English in the words included. Teachers Value Pack Machine: Win Skill(s): t util Publisher: Centron Software Technologies Approximate single-unit price: $45 Purchase options: lab, site Level: Teacher For: T CD-ROM with Puzzle Power and Test Creator. Includes lots of puzzle types. Windows 95/98/ME/XP/Vista/7. Teachers' Voices 8 Machine: Win Skill(s): T util Publisher: NCELTR Approximate single-unit price: $28 Level: Teacher For: Teacher DVD to accompany a book by Anne Burns and Helen de Silva Joyce about teaching practice - latest in the series of publications on action research projects by teachers. Teaching Templates Quiz Maker Machine: Win Skill(s): T util Publisher: Tac-Soft Approximate single-unit price: $25 Level: Teacher For: Teacher 12 different quiz templates, including multiple choice, cloze, fill in the missing letters, flashcards, and mastermind. The program creates HTML files and can compile a set of quizzes into a web archive (.mht file) to keep images and sounds with the text, an .exe file, or an eBook. Quizzes can be encrypted, timed, and submitted to the teacher via email or PHP. Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4/2000/XP. A demo can be downloaded from the website. Telephoning in English CD-ROM Machine: Win Skill(s): listening, speaking Publisher: Cambridge University Press Approximate single-unit price: $40 Purchase options: UK£25 Level: Intermediate For: Adult, HE Special use: Business Listening and speaking practice in a business English context. Topics include Unit 1; Who's calling, please?; Unit 2; Would you hold on, please?; Unit 3; I'd like to know your prices; Unit 4; We're ready to order now; Unit 5; I'll have to change the booking; Unit 6; Let's fix another date; Unit 7; What seems to be the trouble?; Unit 8; I'm sure we can sort it out. British English. Tell Me More Kids ESL Machine: Win Skill(s): comprehensive Publisher: Auralog Approximate single-unit price: $130 Purchase options: age levels also separately Level: Beginning For: pre-K-6 Special use: elementary Specialized English course for children based on speech recognition. Offers progressive learning adventures based on age and proficiency level, including more than 1,000 activities, karaoke and cartoons. Also available as an online course. Windows 95/NT4/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7 Tense Buster Machine: Win Skill(s): Grammar Publisher: Clarity Language Consultants See also World of Reading Approximate single-unit price: $90 Purchase options: $365 for all 5 levels; lab, site packs Level: Beginning, intermediate, advanced For: All but K-6 Tense Buster upgrade. Covers selected grammar areas through presentations, practice exercises, rules, tests and learner training tips; has interactive feedback for right and wrong answers. Students can take notes, listen to the pronunciation of vocabulary items, hear many of the conversations and texts read out, do speaking activities, create tests from a test bank, and track their progress over different sessions. Teachers can choose North American English, International English, or Indian English. The five courses, Elementary through Advanced, are sold separately or as a bundle. Includes a free Authoring Kit and membership to TenseBuster.com website with downloadable materials to use with the authoring kit. Demos can be requested from info@clarity.com.hk. Test Mountain Machine: Win/Mac Skill(s): test prep Publisher: DynEd International Purchase options: Contact publisher for pricing Level: Advanced For: All but K-8 Special use: TOEIC Game-format practice for the TOEIC and other standardized tests of English. Best for students at TOEIC 600+. Includes questions, text for listening questions, and explanations for reading questions. Testmaster Machine: Mac, Win Skill(s): t util, authoring Publisher: Wida Software See also Athelstan Eurocentres Approximate single-unit price: $110 Purchase options: £75 for 1-5 users Level: Teacher For: Teacher The teacher types in a question or cue and the answer is programmed as a complete cloze with clues. You can also program up to around 21 variations for one answer. Also included in Wida's Authoring Suite. Windows 95, 98, NT; not verified for XP, Vista, or Windows 7. TexToys Machine: Win Skill(s): authoring Publisher: Creative Technology Approximate single-unit price: $30 Purchase options: lab, site licenses Level: Teacher For: Teacher A suite of two authoring programs, WebRhubarb and WebSequitur. The programs are used to create web pages (HTML documents) which contain interactive language-learning exercises. The exercises are based on the Rhubarb and Sequitur programs originally developed by John and Muriel Higgins. Purchase includes one year's free subscription to the hosting and results server at www.hotpotatoes.net. ThoughtOffice Machine: Mac, Win Skill(s): writing, t util Publisher: ThoughtOffice Systems Approximate single-unit price: $150 Purchase options: network, site license Level: Beginning, intermediate, advanced, teacher For: All but K-6 Now known as ThoughtOffice, this is an upgrade of the original IdeaFisher. An idea generator and outliner with a very large database of ideas and suggestions to link up with prompts. This includes words and associations and keyword-tagged image associations to help develop ideas. Also included are eXpertTopic Modules with set-ups, questions, images, links and references. Windows XP/Vista; Mac OS X. Tidy Up Machine: Win Skill(s): T util Publisher: Grey Olltwit Purchase options: $20 membership to download all pgms Level: Beginning, intermediate, advanced For: All Easy-to-use program to help computer beginners gain familiarity with moving, clicking, and double-clicking a mouse. Users click on various household articles to move them back where they belong (hence the title). Excellent for adult learners as well as for children. A website membership fee allows the download of about 100 different programs, at least 15 of them good for English language learners. Timescape Machine: Win Skill(s): grammar Publisher: Timescape Approximate single-unit price: $275 Purchase options: school license Level: Intermediate, advanced For: All but K-6 Different approach to verb tenses, focusing on changing the perception of time and how English represents it. As one element, students are asked to identify and select the correct message that needs to be sent from a selection of simple ideas. For example, students are asked whether an idea represents a finished action, a present action, or an unfinished action. The aim is for the user to understand exactly what they want to express in terms of a defining message which accompanies the idea. If the idea is LIVE - ENGLAND, the message can be Permanent - I live in England; Finished - I lived in England in 1995; or Unfinished - I have been living in England since 1995. Students can use other tools to practice their understanding of time and verb tense. Designed for speakers of German. TOEFL Grand Slam Machine: Win Skill(s): test prep Publisher: ESL Pro Systems Approximate single-unit price: $50 Level: Advanced For: HE, Adult Special use: TOEFL This six-CD-ROM set provides two computer-based practice tests and four workbooks for enhancing English reading, writing, structure, and listening skills. The practice tests are gauge skill level prior to writing the exam, while the workbooks provide instruction, tips, and practice. Test packs are also available separately, with customized versions available for speakers of French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, German, Chinese, Hindi, Portuguese, and Russian. TOEFL Mentor Machine: Mac/Win Skill(s): discontinued Publisher: Encomium Publications See also Wida Approximate single-unit price: $90 Purchase options: site, network Level: Advanced For: Adult, HE Special use: TOEFL TOEFL Mentor is a HyperCard-like program that runs off a CD-ROM and includes tutorials, practice tests and timed tests for all sections of the TOEFL test: Structure and Grammar, Listening Comprehension, and Reading Comprehension. In addition, test taking strategies and tips are available for both the TOEFL and the Test of Written English. Demos are available for downloading from the Encomium Publications web page at http://www.encomium.com. See Tom Robb's review of the program at http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/people/teacher/trobb/mentor/mr2.html. An online version is available by subscription; contact the publisher or see the website for details. Older Mac and Windows machines: OS System 7-9 and Windows 3.1/98 compatible. TOEIC Quick Start Machine: Win/Mac Skill(s): test prep Publisher: ESL Pro Systems Approximate single-unit price: $70 Level: Intermediate, advanced For: Adult, HE Special use: TOEIC This bundle includes three practice computer-based tests, two workbooks for enhancing English listening and reading skills, and TOEIC® Tips, Traps & Strategies. The practice tests gauge skill level prior to writing the exam, while the workbooks and Tips, Traps, & Strategies provide instruction, tips, and practice. The workbooks are in Adobe PDF format, allowing the student to work directly on screen, or print a portable paper copy. Toolbox Machine: Win Skill(s): authoring Publisher: Discovery Educational Software Approximate single-unit price: $28 Purchase options: site license Level: Beginning, intermediate, advanced, teacher For: Teacher Makes a variety of printed puzzle worksheets from words or text you type or paste - crosswords, wordsearches, scrambled words and text, text mazes and coded text. Download a 15-day free trial from the website: http://www.discoveryeducationalsoftware.co.uk/toolbox_e.htm. Top Score (also Mindstorm TOEIC) Machine: Mac, Win Skill(s): test prep Publisher: Mindstorm Purchase options: contact publisher Level: Intermediate, advanced For: HE This CD-ROM prepares students for the TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication), a test with a focus on English for Business. The CD contains not only practice with the multiple-choice test but also test-taking hints, listening practice with famous speeches, and a multimedia game called Maze where learners have to answer grammar and vocabulary questions to escape. Help sections are in French, Spanish, English, Korean, Japanese, and Indonesian. A site from the Japanese education ministry contains usefull shockwave-based vocabulary learning activities: http://mindstorm.org.uk/EW. Reviews by Mac People, LeMonde, Yomiuri Shimbun and others can be found at http://www.iac.co.jp/~minds/art.html; a review of the older version is at http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/Duber/toeic.html.. The program seems to run on older Windows machines; not tested on XP or later. Tortoise and the Hare Machine: Mac, Win Skill(s): listening, vocabulary, reading Publisher: Learning Company, The See also World of Reading Approximate single-unit price: $15 Level: Beginning, intermediate For: All Special use: bilingual, elementary Colorful and interactive storybook. Students can hear the story read in both English and Spanish. Each page is filled with surprises to entertain and motivate new readers. Requires a CD-ROM drive. If this program is used on an IBM or compatible, it requires an MPC-compliant machine. Total Recorder Machine: Win Skill(s): T util Publisher: High Criteria Approximate single-unit price: $20 Level: Teacher For: T Convert audio to digital form - records streaming audio, microphone and line-in input, CDs, and DVDs and saves the files to the hard drive. The program also converts various digital audio file formats. The Professional version offers more features. A demo version can be downloaded from the website. TotalDeletion Machine: Mac, Win Skill(s): vocabulary Publisher: PerLingua Software Purchase options: freeware Level: Teacher For: Teacher Students reconstruct a text. They are guided by lines where the letters used to be. They type a word and if it is in the answer, it will appear in the proper place. Authorable. Freeware. Windows XP/Vista; Mac OS 9/X. Trudy's Time and Place House Machine: Win/Mac Skill(s): reading Publisher: Edmark Corporation/Riverdeep Approximate single-unit price: $10 Purchase options: school version avail. Level: Literacy, beginning For: pre-K - 3 Special use: Elementary, literacy Time and geography instruction with different activities. Designed for native speakers. CD-ROM. Runs on older platforms - Windows 95/98 and Mac OS 7-8. Not verified on later systems. Twisted Tails Machine: Win Skill(s): reading Publisher: AHA! Software Approximate single-unit price: $10 Level: Beginning, intermediate For: K-6 Special use: elementary Popular fairy tales with an optional mad-libs style twist - the stories are not quite as they used to be. When the stories are 'twisted,' the computer slots randomly selected names, words and phrases into the framework of the traditional stories. You can even select the names of the hero/heroine in each story or let the computer pick for you. Words can be added to the computer's vocabulary. The freeware version includes a few stories, and the shareware version includes several more. Type to Learn Machine: Win/Mac Skill(s): writing Publisher: Sunburst Technology See also online/mail order Approximate single-unit price: $30 Purchase options: lab, network, school Level: Beginning, intermediate For: All A typing program recommended for beginning typists, used at the University of Kansas. Complete keyboarding course that includes spelling, grammar, composition, and punctuation work. Two reading levels. Designed for native speakers. Available on CD-ROM or download. Read about a specific title: [1-9] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] Go to the Publisher List Go to the Software List home page Go to the Elementary Education List Add a title or comment about a title to the List Add publisher information to the List or change publisher information https://eltexpert.com/softlist/listt.html Last updated 10 June 2010 by Deborah Healey, dhealey at uoregon dot edu .