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The 2005 issue of TELL@ELI presents teachers’ ideas about a variety of projects that support language learning with the involvement of new courseware, CALL tasks, activities, and resources.
You will also read about new computer applications that can support your classroom activities providing you with user-friendly environments for CALL.

If you are teaching (or have taught) a listening/speaking class, you know that designing homework and computer lab activities that would focus on the development of listening skills is greatly supported by a vast variety of resources on the Internet.
You also know that it is more difficult to design homework that would support students’ speaking skills development...More

Do you know that ….
the ELI is about to start using online software called Moodle? Moodle is an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. In layman’s terms, Moodle acts like an online classroom with all kinds of handy tools available to the learners. More

EduSpace: Be Careful What You Wish for...
Raymond Cepko

As some of you know, I used the Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA), Eduspace, which was bundled with the Ann Raimes’ book “Keys for Writers” this semester in my Research, Writing, and Grammar course for level V. Like many of you who use Nicenet yet are unhappy with its limited functionality, I was at final enthusiastic about using a new ICA that provided more functionality -- more bells and whistles if you wish. More

The Challenges of iBT
Barbara Smith-Palinkas, Scott Redfern, and Sunhwa Choi

The new TOEFL exam, the iBT (Internet-based TOEFL), presents challenges not only to ELI students, but also to ELI iBT instructors. This semester, as students struggle to adjust to the new format of the exam, the instructors have found ways to give students authentic practice during their weekly computer lab hour. More

Use of Typing Tutor in the Computer Lab for Strategies I
Aida Valentin

Part of the CALL Curriculum Objectives for Strategies I is to write paragraphs in the Computer Lab that include a title, margins, and indentation using Microsoft Word. When my Level I class started working on activities designed to meet this objective, some of the students asked if they could get some keyboarding practice to facilitate the process and help them become more proficient using the keyboard. More