Downloadable computer programs for EFL
(for Windows only)

To download: click on the wanted CALL program below.
For Finnish versions of some of these programs: [click here].
Feedback and comments appreciated: [e-mail].

• My Town (Palmsoft 1993). The program practises learners' text-reconstruction skills.
• In the West (Palmsoft 1993). The program practises learners' speed-reading skills.
• Wordwork 2 (Palmsoft 2000). The program practises learners' receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge.
• More Numbers (Palmsoft 2000). The program practises learners' ability to spell numbers (0-10000) correctly.
• Word Intake (Palmsoft 2002). The program tests learners' ability to learn foreign words.
• The Missing Word (Palmsoft 2002). The program practises learners' ability to remember foreign words.
• Our House (Palmsoft 2003). The program practises learners' text-reconstruction skills.
• Odd Man Out (Palmsoft 2004). A playful program that develops learners' vocabulary awareness.
• Never Going Home Again (Palmsoft 2004). The program practises learners' ability to learn a text by heart.
• Tripoint Guru 2008 (Palmsoft 2008). The program tests learners' knowledge of European tripoints.
• Wordwork 3: At school (Palmsoft 2008). The program practises learners' receptive and productive knowledge of school-related words.
• Wordwork 4: Dolch Sight Words (Palmsoft 2008). The program practises learners' receptive and productive knowledge of select 'sight words'.
• Random Reading with Little Red Riding Hood (Palmsoft 2009). The program tests learners' ability to understand a text where words are missing.
• The Greek T-shirt (Palmsoft 2009). The program develops learners' ability to read between (and beyond) the lines.

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Java applets

Word Search: Friday. Co-authored & produced by Olav Palmqvist (1997).
Swedish-English-Swedish Vocabulary Quizzes: Days & Months, Colours, Numbers, Clothes, Animals, Occupations, Parts of the Body, The Face. Script by Charles Kelly. Produced by The Internet TESL Journal (2000).
Word Search: Smiley. Co-authored & produced by Olav Palmqvist (2001).
Word Search: Rambler. Co-authored & produced by Olav Palmqvist (2005).

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CALL & web-based exercises & lesson plans

Let's talk fast food (2000).
Let's talk about tripoints (2003). Reprinted in IATEFL CALL Review (February 2004) [pp 35-36].
Never going home again (2004). Reprinted in The Reading Matrix 4:3 (2004).
Operation Mathlog (2005-2006). Read more about this mathematical-logical EFL maze in Developing Teachers.com (October 2007).

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