EFL/ESL Web Links > Software to download
EFL/ESL sites:
comp.speech
<http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/index.html>
Links to software produced for recording, playing, analysing, processing, displaying and storing speech. Huge archive of software for various purposes.
Annotated Inventory of ESL Computer Resources
<http://207.236.117.20/orlac/>
Ended development in 1998. (Mac/PC/Web) An annotated inventory of software resources and websites rated according to the Canadian Language Benchmarks, and appropriate for use with adult ESL and LINC students. Searchable database. The review process includes field testing on ESL learners and a Canadian Language Benchmarks rating. Compiled by a team at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board for the Government of Canada. Very thorough in analysis and comments.
CALL-IS Software List Home Page
<http://oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/softlist/>
TESOL-CALL Interest Section Software List (Deborah Healey and Norman Johnson, Editors)
Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archive (CELIA)
<ftp://ftp.latrobe.edu.au/pub/CELIA/english/>
(Mac/PC/Web) CELIA is an archive of software for Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) of English as a Second Language (ESL) maintained at Graduate School of Education, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. CELIA can be accessed by anonymous FTP (ftp://ftp.latrobe.edu.au/pub/CELIA/english/)
There are 3 useful directories of software:
- dos (last modified November 1996)
- mac (last modified Febuary 1997)
- win (last modified July 1995)
- Also see: CELIA Mac Listings
<http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/eli/celia/maccelia.html>
(Mac) Deborah Healey's descriptions and download links for Mac programs for English language learners/teachers in the CELIA ftp archive.
Half-Baked Software's Hot Potatoes
<http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/>
(Mac/PC/Web) Free and easy-to-use JavaScript authoring software suite from Martin Holmes et al, in Windows and Mac flavours, enables you to make web-based interactive teaching materials (Stewart Arneil, Martin Holmes, Hilary Street).
The Virtual CALL Library: English
<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/1-6-6-2.html>
(PC) at the Brighton Language Centre, University of Sussex, has links for EFL software, both commercial and shareware, for Windows/DOS PC users.
Non-EFL sites:
C-net's download.com
<http://www.download.com>
(Mac/PC/Web) Searcheable, vast catalogue of shareware links for Mac, PC and other platforms.
C-net's shareware.com
<http://www.shareware.com>
(Mac/PC/Web) Searcheable, vast catalogue of shareware links for Mac, PC and other platforms.
MIT's HyperArchive: Education folder (USA)
<http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Abstracts/edu/lang/HyperArchive.html>
(Mac) MIT's Info-Mac mirror (US-based). Very useful "abstracts" feature allows you to read a summary of what it is before you download.
MIT's HyperArchive: Search/Browse options
<http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html>
(Mac) Use MIT's key-word search engine, or browse by subject.
tucows.com
<http://www.tucows.com>
(Mac/PC/Web) Searcheable, vast catalogue of shareware links for Mac, PC and other platforms. Useful (cow icon!) ranking system.
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