Thursday, January 28, 2010

Second Language Learners Stay Away!

http://eslbears.homestead.com/Contact_Info.html

In terms of "deep processing" i'm not sure anything on this website is helpful at all. These games look like they were probably created as a class assignment rather than in the interest of writing a useful tool for esl instruction. The first set of exercises is not so much a lesson as teaching by association/elimination. The "hangman" feature could be useful but not any more so than the original game. There is a series of homonym/synonym games and cloze exercises that strike me as being really trite and outdated. They are the equivalent of online flashcards.