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Thomas N. Robb
Professor, Department of English
Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kyoto Sangyo University
Kamigamo-Motoyama, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8555 JAPAN

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Personal Information

Course Information   [Top]

• English Department Homepage
• Business English (3-C)
• Seminar-1 Homepage
• Seminar-2 Homepage
• Extensive Reading on the Web
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Websites for ELT   [Top]

• Pacific CALL (PacCALL) homepage
• TESOL's CALL Interest Section Homepage
• The Extensive Reading Pages with loads of information on the extensive approach to reading instruction
• The Extensive Reading Foundation -- THE foundation for promoting Extensive Reading for language learning
• Passport Online designed for Oxford University Press. A free site with 40 pages of interactive learning activities to complement OUP's Passport textbook.
• TESL-EJ (Teaching English as a Second Language Electronic Journal)

Main Server (tesl-ej.org)
Kyoto Sangyo University Server

Material for Student Online Reading    [Top]

• Links to Reading Material
  
• One Click Readings
  
• Kierran McGovern's "EFL Reading" site
  

Tools & Tips for Using the Internet in Language Education    [Top]

• TECHtalk Column (ETJ Journal)

• Free Web-based E-mail Providers
  
• Google -- King of search engines
  
• Virus Protection -- Or, How to embarrass yourself and lose friends without really trying
  
• Keypals, are they worth it?
  
• Internet Self-Access, Hit or Myth?
  
• Web Projects for the Computerless Class
  
• Google as Corpus Tool?
  
• Building Your Own Course Management System
  

• Some Good Sites for Content-based Material
• Things to Do with Content-based Material
• Student Projects on the Web
• The Web as a Tool for Language Learning
• School Calendars Around the World
• E-Mail Keypals for Language Fluency
• The Paperless Classroom? published in TESL-EJ, Volume 3.1.
• Word Processor/E-mail Text Conversion Help

Some Interactive Activities   [Top]

• The Name Game for learning common English given names.
• The Nickname Game for learning common English nicknames.
• Passport Online designed for Oxford University Press. A free site with 40 pages of interactive learning activities to complement OUP's Passport textbook.

Student-made Websites   [Top]

• Famous Personages in Japan Project  New Wiki format!
• Arashiyama Project
• Kyoto Restaurant Project
• Japanese Recipes Project (in English and Japanese)
• Kyoto Liquor Story (in English and Japanese)
• Tips for Using Nisuswriter (Project)
• The Sounds of Japan
• Japanese Logo Collection

The Student List (SL-List) Project   [Top]

Visit the new web-based Student List Project at http://sl-lists.net!
Contact Tom for the "enrollment key" stating whether you are a student or teacher, your location and affiliation.

• Frequently Asked Questions about the web-based Student List Project
• A brief history of the project

  The information below pertains to the old Listserv-based project

• Preliminary Information for Teachers
• Detailed Information for Teachers
• Netiquette for the Student List Project
• Information for San-Dai Students
• Information for Individual Students
• Reflections on the SL Lists (survey)
• Graphical demonstration of Listserv

Presentation Screen Shots & Outlines   [Top]

• Podcasting for ELT--What, Why and How? -- Why "podcasting" doesn't need and iPod, why the full podcasting technology might be too much, and what we can do with sound files for language study.
• Computers and the English Classroom: Hit or Myth? -- a keynote lecture delievered to the "Mid-Year Seminar" for Assistant Language Teachers in Osaka Prefecture, November 25, 2002. (482kb)
• Examining Self-access -- a plenary lecture delievered to the "Second National Conference on the Curriculum, Testing and New Technologies," Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, March 28, 2002. (387kb)
• Computer Technology: A Magic Bullet for Language Education? -- a plenary lecture delivered to "English Language Teaching and Learning at the Tertiary Level: From Past to Present and Future Trends", Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, November 29, 2001. (487kb)
• LET 2001 Symposium -- Making More Effective Use of Technology in Foreign Language Teaching -- Using Material from the World Wide Web in the Classroom --
• Click & Read -- More than Meets the Eye! -- Keynote lecture at the Conference on Technology in Language Education, Hong Kong and Nanjing, China, June 26-30, 2001 (Powerpoint download, 653kb)
• Using the Internet in Classes without a Computer Presentation for the JALT Kyoto Chapter, 15 June 2001
• On-line Reading For EFL Classes Presentation at the 35th Annual TESOL Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Feb. 27 - March 3, 2001
• Reading Online Presentation at the IATEFL SIG Symposium, Madrid, 9 September 2000
• Presentation at the Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education Mid-Year Seminar, Jan. 20, 2000
• Kansai University Professional Development Seminar, Feb. 12, 2000
• Presentation for LET (Language Education & Technology) Kansai Chaper, May 27, 2000
• CALL-IS Academic Session at TESOL 2000 (Vancouver) with links

Some of Tom's publications   [Top]

• Internet Resources for Professional Development published in TESOL Journal, Autumn 2000.
• A Study of the Effect of Direct Test Preparation on the TOEIC Scores of Japanese University Students published in TESL-EJ.
• A review of the TOEFL Mentor CD-ROM published in TESL-EJ.
• Extensive Reading vs Skills Building in an EFL Context published in Reading in a Foreign Language Vol. 5, No. 2
• EFL Extensive Reading Instruction: Research and Procedure published in the JALT Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2
• Moodle: A Virtual Learning Environment for the Rest of Us published in TESL-EJ.

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