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 โ€œEnglish as a Second or Foreign Languageโ€) 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 โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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HTML/Javascript Jumbled Sentences and Words Game Tutorial
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Today weโ€™ve added functionality onto yesterdayโ€™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 โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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HTML/Javascript Jumbled Sentences Game Tutorial
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We have an ESL (or โ€œEnglish as a Second or Foreign Languageโ€) 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 โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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HTML/Javascript Homophones Game Tutorial
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Homophones, the topic of todayโ€™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 โ€œEnglish as a Second or Foreign Languageโ€) students. In the โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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Alliterated Synonyms Word Game Primer Tutorial
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Today, we hope you find our โ€œAlliterated Synonyms Word Gameโ€ that links word pairs that have alliteration and, loosely, have similarities to their meaning โ€ฆ congratulations on finding it, and you may also want to try running it, while youโ€™re โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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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 โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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Javascript Dynamic Function Overload Tutorial
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Once youโ€™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, โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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Javascript Function Overload Primer Tutorial
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Todayโ€™s blog posting, long in the making, is about Javascriptโ€™s function override (or overload) capabilities. Weโ€™ve spoken about this before in relation to C++ or Java with these tutorials. So letโ€™s do a simple example first. Take the Javascript global โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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