Open AccessJohn's ESL Community - English Interactive
Author(s) -
Rafael Séiz Ortiz
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
eurocall newsletter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1695-2618
DOI - 10.4995/eurocall.2004.16463
Subject(s) - computer science , javascript , class (philosophy) , multimedia , download , english as a second language , graphics , set (abstract data type) , plug in , community college , english language , world wide web , mathematics education , psychology , programming language , artificial intelligence , computer graphics (images) , medicine , medical education
John's ESL Community - English Interactive is an interactive website with a double portal for students and teachers. It offers a wide range of learning and teaching resources, with over 350 activities for students, including quizzes, games and exercises of many kinds, as well as plenty of class resources for ESL teachers. It is claimed to be updated almost daily. There is the possibility of obtaining a free e-mail account. Content is sorted by communicative skills and linguistic topics. It was set up in 1995 by John Erskin. It makes wide use of JavaScript interactive resources. Its overall objective is to provide general linguistic practice at different levels of general English and in different formats. English is also the vehicular language for the whole site. Multimedia includes audio and graphics, but no video. Plug- ins, software and files in general are easy to access and download.