Friday, September 12, 2008

Wikipedia -- in simple English

One of the problems that your learners are going to have when they go online is that most of what is on the Internet was just not designed to be read by language learners.

If you take them to Wikipedia, for example (or just about any other site, for that matter), they are inevitably going to come across words that are unfamiliar to them. It is therefore going to be vital that you help your learners with reading comprehension skills -- particularly dealing with unfamiliar words in context.

But did you know that there is also a Simple English Wikipedia, which is one site you can find articles on; take your lower-level learners to during class; and recommend to them for their own use, outside class...

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