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Additional Resources


There are also two online journals: Calico Journal (see below) and Language
Learning and Technology (see below). They can be helpful in keeping up-to-date with
language learning and technology.


Websites


http://www.eslcafe.com/


http://www.facebook.com


http://www.youtube.com


http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk


http://www.wikipedia.org


http://www.skype.com


http://www.calico.org


http://llt.msu.edu


(^1) For reference to one of the best-known and long-standing websites for teaching English, see page 218.
(^2) See Heift and Schulz (2003) for an example of a CALL program with this capacity, designed to teach German.
(^3) Comments from people not in the class are possible only if the blog is set up that way at the beginning. This is a
choice teachers have to make—public or private blogs.

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