Category Archives: ESL

English as a second language (ESL) is the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages ( Wikipedia )

HTML/Javascript Jumbled Sentences and Words Modal Tutorial

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When we last left off with our ESL (or “English as a Second or Foreign Language”) Jumbled Sentences and Words game web application, with HTML/Javascript Jumbled Sentences and Words Game Tutorial as shown below, we did succeed, but not for … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Jumbled Sentences and Words Game Tutorial

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Today we’ve added functionality onto yesterday’s HTML/Javascript Jumbled Sentences Game Tutorial as shown below, by allowing for the words of the sentences to also be jumbled, adding to the complexity of the game should the user (perhaps an ESL (or … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Jumbled Sentences Game Tutorial

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We have an ESL (or “English as a Second or Foreign Language”) Jumbled Sentence construction game today that builds on the basic (game) structure of HTML/Javascript Homophones Game Tutorial as shown below. Doing this web application, though, taught me, yet … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Homophones Game Tutorial

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Homophones, the topic of today’s web application, and homonyms, the topic of HTML/Javascript Homonyms Game Tutorial as shown below, are both frequently cited as sources of difficulty for ESL (or “English as a Second or Foreign Language”) students. In the … Continue reading →

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Alliterated Synonyms Word Game Primer Tutorial

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Today, we hope you find our “Alliterated Synonyms Word Game” that links word pairs that have alliteration and, loosely, have similarities to their meaning … congratulations on finding it, and you may also want to try running it, while you’re … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Sentence Participle Phrase Game Tutorial

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The easiest English games to design are those that involve discrete words, because then dictionaries and thesauruses can be used. Learning English (for students whose first language is not English (ESL)) is obviously more useful when the student can piece … Continue reading →

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Javascript Dynamic Function Overload Tutorial

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Once you’ve succeeded with a piece of coding logic that is functioning, and you went to the trouble of making it modular, which we feel we did a couple of days ago when we presented Javascript Function Overload Primer Tutorial, … Continue reading →

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Javascript Function Overload Primer Tutorial

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Today’s blog posting, long in the making, is about Javascript’s function override (or overload) capabilities. We’ve spoken about this before in relation to C++ or Java with these tutorials. So let’s do a simple example first. Take the Javascript global … Continue reading →

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