Welcome
to Cyber English Learning Resource Center
When I created this web page, I imagined an English language learning
center where people find language learning resources and other information
related to language learning. Thus, it is a cyber language
center that exists virtually, not really.
Here you can find useful information to improve your English and to
use the Internet skillfully. This home page is produced by Byungmin
Lee, Ph.D. at Sookmyung Women's University. Please send him
traditional email 
or voice mail 
***For free email account, contact Han Mail, Netaddress,
or Hotmail. You can get a free
email address and use the address to communicate with people around the
world.
On-Line English Learning
Do you need an English teacher? Otherwise, even if you'd like
to enjoy the Internet, everywhere on the Internet is written in English.
Well, there exist sites for you. Does it sound great? Yes,
that is the Internet itself. Anything that you can imagine is on
the Internet. Please stop by one of them depending upon your needs
and interests. You can find great resources to improve your English
ability.
- The E-mail
key pal connection on the Internet
- ESOL International
for On-line English grammar and English grammar clinic
- An ESL web site for learning, teaching, job searching, etc: The
Really Useful Page
- EFL learning resources
including texts, short stories, novels, etc.: Learning Resources
- ESL Students' Writing Exchange
at the University of Illinois with feature articles, peer interaction,
etc.
- While reading news around the world, learn words, pronunciation, and
reading comprehension. Impact!
Online.
- Do you want to increase your vocabulary of English? If
you subscribe the following list, it sends you one English word vocabulary
and its definition every day. Send an e-mail message to A.Word.A.Day
and type subscribe your full name on the subject line (leaving
the body of the message blank)
- Are you interested in improving your English? There is a site
for more high-intermediate and advanced learners of English. Chat-SL
(low level), Discuss-SL (high level), Business-SL (business
& economics), EVENT-SL (current events), MOVIE-SL (cinema),
MUSIC-SL (music), SCTECH-SL (science, technology, & computers),
SPORT-SL (sports), ENGL-SL (learning English) list invites
people around the globe, especially ES/FL teacher-trainees from non-English
speaking backgrounds. In the list, you can ask any questions such
as "Who could tell me the meanings of 'in vivo' and 'in vitrol'?
They seem unlike English. Is it good to use such words in our papers?"
To receive further information and subscribe, send a blank email message
to announce-sl@latrobe.edu.au
and type subscribe your full name on the subject line and leave blank in the body
of the message.
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Learning HTML &
Publishing Web
If you are interested in learning more web page publishing, please
contact the following sites. They will provide on-line traning, useful
materials, and other additional information.
- You can see an entire book on the Internet.
- From A to Z to
learn the Internet. A Beginner's Guide is for you, Newbies.
- Do you want to put graphics onto your home page, go to The
Clip Art Connection
- How about background graphics for your home page. Texture
Land provides a great selection of background graphics.
- NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
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Online Audio with RealAudio
If you want to improve your English listeing skills, one of the best
ways is to have more opportunities to listen to authentic materials such
as news, interviews, speeches, discussions, dramas, you name it.
The Internet is a great resource that you can use for this purpose.
Visit the following sites and explore what are available:
- AudioNet is a home for sports,
news, interviews, and local radio stations.
- ABC(American Broadcasting Company)
RadionNet is another great site for news, weather forcasting,
traffic, and local information.
- Can you image that you can listen to one-hour news coverage on the
Internet? Natioinal
Public Radio is the site for one-hour long RealAudio news. Scripts
are available.
- How about News
Radio, if only if you are interested in up-to-date computer- or Internet-related
news.
- US Supreme Court provides
a large amount of historic cases in RealAudio format that have been done
on US Supreme Court. The oral arguments to defend each position seems
to be a great resource for more advanced students.
- Last year, we watched a presidential race between Bill Clinton vs.
Bob Dole in the United States. If you are interested in what their
positions were and what they are going to do for American people and the
world, stop by All Politics
site or US Republican
Party.
- Webcorp Real Audio pages
provides
- Online
Sport News and Interviews with RealAudio
- The Internet
Today. The radio show is designed for all types of Internet users.
There will be featured guests every week, and archived shows for those
who are not available at show time.
- Radio on the Internet
is designed for American public.
- National Press
Club is a site that you can get a speech with RealAudio from leading
people around the world.
- Public Broadcasting System also provides
a comprehensive listing of deep and unbiased current news in RealAudio
format and documentary on various issues such as US foreign policies and
other social and cultural issues. Especially, Online News provides
other related links so that you can understand an issue comprehensively
by getting other related information at the same site.
- www.wrn.org/audio.html:
Audio File Index. Using RealAudio, listen to many public radio programs.
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On-Line TV with VDO LIVE
If you like to watch real-time Internet news, movie, video, etc., stop
by the following great sites to expand your world of information
network:
On-Line Communication and Interaction
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On-Line News & Magazines
Internet is a great place for news and other current events ranging
from daily news to historical documents. Why don't you enjoy daily
news on the Internet? The following provides a list of Internet news
sites including 'Time", "New York Times", "USA Today",
etc.
- The first place is PathFinder
provided by Time. It contains comprehensive and diverse news
from entertainment to politics to education.
- Getting up-to-date World news on your fingertips. Discovery
Channel Online is the place.
- For computer manias, CMP Press
provides computer- and Internet-related magazines
- How about Public Broadcasting System?
It provide useful and educational programs. It is a non-profit organization
funded by the public. Some of the programs such as McNeil news hour
or other programs provide deep and comprehensive coverage on current issues
in the United States and world wide.
- Do you know CNN? It is an American
company that delivers news world wide. It is a news-oriented company.
Even it covered Iraq during Gulf war or North Korea during atomic crisis
in North Korea. .
- Other than AFKN, you can enjoy other majoy US broadcasting companies
such as ABC, NBC,
and CBS on the Internet. These
companies provides up-to-date news with traditional texts, audio, and video.
- CNET is a place for computer-related
information. You can experience why people call WWW a multi-media
delivery system. It provides text, sound, video mostly in real-time
bases.
- FrontLine
is a place that you can get information and news on
- The Daily Internet News Collage
from Reuters News, Time Daily, CNN, USA Today, Nando Times, CBS News.
- US News Online
- News Page
- Go to Hoseo University's Central
Library. You can find a huge listing of world-wide online newspapers
around the world.
- Are you wondering what other college students think of at this
time? IVY league students publish an
online magazine (NeWWW) during semester. Go for
it and communicate with them.
- 'For the Youth' from
SSang Yong group provides news on Korean university campuses.
- The Revolutionaries
provides a series of interviews with leading computer engineers and scientists
(e.g, Nolan Bushnell, a leader in computer game, etc.)
- How about reading current news through Newspapaer
Cartoons?
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Study Abroad
Would you like to have an opportunity to study abroad for an advanced
degrees or just English? The Internet is the place that you can find
information.
- Look for study in the USA, go to Study
in the U.S.A. study's home page.
- Would you like to find how many universities and colleges worldwide
and what they look like, go to university
list home page at MIT.
- American University
and English as a Second Language Information Service. It
contains information on Visa for American universities, US educational
system, language schools, etc.
- Princeton Review provides
information on TOEFL, GRE, SAT, LSAT, MCAT, etc. How about
TOEIC? Of course, you can stop by here
for TOEIC.
- Are you interested in Business Schools in the United States?
Why don't you stop by here?
- For Law school information, go to The
Princeton Review and University
of Texas at Austin.
- You can get an application form from the Internet. Go to
Peterson.
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Virtual Campuses
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Searching the Internet for Information
WWW
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Usenet Newsgroup
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Gopher
Files on the Internet
People
Books and Articles
- Amazon Searching for books
and purchasing
- Uncover Searching for
articles and online purchasing
- AskERIC (Educational Resource
Index Center
- NLinghtN Searching
Library of Congress, Public Database, EBSCO, North America & European
Dissertation Abstracts, etc. to find and purchase books, articles, and
so on.
Would like to know the impact of the Internet and Computer-Mediated
Communication on our society and life? Go to the following sites:
- Howard Rheingold's the Virtual Community provides his view on information
society and cyber space.
The Internet site addressed listed above might be subject to change without prior notice.
When you find a site that has a different address or has disappeared, please
let me know. Thanks.
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