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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/reading-extra.html?ref=books
From the website: “It is impossible to write about any one piece of research at great length, so for those interested in more in-depth information [about reading, online and off], here are links to some studies, speeches, reading tests — old and new — and other resources.”
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=189
Victor Mair, a deservingly respected scholar, discusses Chinese reading pedagogy and ways to promote character reading through more effective use of romanization.
http://www.cambridge.org/venturesarcade
Online activities that support the Ventures Adult Education ESL integrated series.
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This website provides a Chinese dictionary provided from public sources, with keyword search, Hanzi/Chinese character-based search, and basic text parsing. Although the offerings on this site are common among public online Chinese-English dictionaries, I find the presentation on this one to be uncommonly well done. Kudos to the developer for a handsome, cleanly designed site!
From the website: “Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling.”
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
Provides a free online Chinese-English dictionary. Has a nice “word decomposition” feature that gives definitions for characters in multi-character words.
http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/chinese-dictionary.php
From the website: “This free online dictionary, which contains over 180,000 entries, is designed for students of Mandarin Chinese.”
Windows and Internet Explorer are required to listen to audio, which opens in a popup window.
From the website: “The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) collects, screens, and identifies studies of effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies).The WWC regularly updates the WWC Technical Standards and their application to take account of new considerations brought forth by experts and users. Such changes may result in re-appraisals of studies and/or interventions previously reviewed and rated. The current WWC Standards offer guidance for those planning or carrying out studies, not only in the design considerations but the analysis and reporting stages as well. The WWC Standards, however, may not pertain to every situation, context, or purpose of a study and will evolve.”
From the website: “The Adult Literacy Resource Institute (ALRI) is a program and staff development center for adult literacy / basic education and English for speakers of other languages programs in the Greater Boston area.”