Welcome to Ling 420 This is the website for students of Ling 420 and for their partners in grade 11 You need to be a wikidot member in order to access this site, and you need to be a member of this site in order to use it. When you sign up, please invent an "online name" and then let your teacher know what your "online name" is (so we don't partner you with someone in your own class!) What we hope to do is to set up journal partners… let's see how this is gonna work! Louise aka greenwriting//

Voice of America Special English This is a great site with good resources for English Language Learners BBC Learning English Another good site to find great things for English Language Learners to read Dave's ESL cafe for students This is a fun site for English Language Learners to write to other English students and to also get answers to their grammar and vocabulary questions. click on site home for more things to do. ESL Reading.org This site has free downloads of ESL books. There are some pre-reading helps and glossaries Ted Power's site Powers has graded readers for ESL learners CBS This is the CBS site for ESL learners. Lots of great resources CBC Learning English site Here is the Canadian CBC radio/TV site with materials for ESL learners

If you are into web design or just a little into wiki sites, go ahead and create your new page on this site. You can upload files, photos, quotes, and tell us a bit about yourself…. There is help in the wiki documentation site. You are now a wikidot member and can make up to 20 of your own wiki sites! How cool is that! If you do create your own page on this site, send me a message in the comments box with the EXACT NAME of your new page, including capitals and spaces so I can link you page to the site (wiki pages can get lost in cyberspace very easily). As for us, we will do our dialogue journals on the paired journal pages. Once these are set up, you will be able to upload a small profile picture of yourself, your favourite quotation, your hobbies and a bit of a biography. Thanks for signing up. Once I have all the students signed in, I'll work on putting you into Journal Pairs and setting up privacy settings. See my other site: greenwiting.wikidot.com

English Teaching Forum Magazine The US Dept of State for some reasons publishes a terrific FREE magazine with great teaching tips for ESL/EFL teachers. Go ahead and read some of their past issues online. Lots to learn. And Easy to READ! Starfall ESL Reading Resources for Children Starfall has phonics resources, stories, poetry and other reading texts for children and/or adult ESL learners Time for Kids Time Magazine has online resources for K-6. Articles, home work help, interactive materials.

The Westcoast Reader The Westcoast Reader is a great magazines for newcomers to Canada. The Best Articles from the Westcoast Reader This site has full length articles available online from the Westcoast Reader

The Canadian Immigrant Magazine Here is a great online resource for immigrants to Canada and for ESL teachers. Works well with ELSA level five and up. You can read online or pick up paper copies to use in your classrooms. 365 ESL/EFL Stories This site has an ESL story for every day of the year.

The Internet TESL Journal A very helpful FREE journal for ESL teachers The Language Teacher The JALT Journal, The Language Teacher is published by EFL teachers in Japan. A great source of ideas, techniques, and theory. You'll love it! Dave's ESL Cafe This page is a "grab bag" of teaching techniques. There is a whole page just for ideas of teaching reading and one for ideas for teaching writing. Reading in a Foreign Language This is an interesting journals for reading teachers. Find some articles by some of the big names in ESL reading! Journal of Second Language Writing This is a more academic journal, but has some terrific articles if you aspire to be a writing teacher! BUT, you need to sign into the TWU library to access this journal. Go for it! ELSA programs in BC Special thanks to Rob and James (members of the wikidot community) for helping set this site up!

Leave a comment here for your teachers! Young story Fir 15 Oct 2011 15:20 Everyone in the world would be old and lose youth gradually. I know an elder and his puberty had gone. He is my grandfather. Nowadays, his face is seamed with wrinkles and his behaviour becomes dull, but when he recalls something which occurred in the past, he would become very excited about that. He told me many interesting stories at that time. When he was young, he used to help our country to develop its ceonomy. At that time, our country just was established for several years. My grandfather as a volunteer went to Nanjing and helped the local government to build the first huge bridge in China. He told me that he got the most worthy time when he worked with other volunteers together in a harsh situation. He is proud of helping own country to develop. It is still not an easy work to build a bridge by using instruments today, so consider this kind of things occurred in near sixty years ago, and you must can feel how extreme difficult it was. about posts greenwriting 02 Mar 2011 01:28 Hi Ming Laoshi, we still need 4 more of your students to sign up… see my gmail…. greenwriting