Teaching-related Websites
Contents
General EFL
Miscellaneous Useful Websites
Teaching Speaking
Teaching Writing
Teaching Literature
Teaching Video
Reference Works
Student Websites
General EFL
Asia Journal of English Language Teaching. www.cuhk.edu.hk/eltu/DP/
Research-oriented journal on topics relevant to
teaching in Asia. Published ant eh Chinese University of Hong Kong.
BBC / British Council www.teachingenglish.org.uk
Ideas on teaching, tips and lesson plans, etc.
Boggles
World. www.bogglesworld.com
Loads
of activities; also a job search site.
British Council / Learning English. www.learnenglish.org.uk
Links to themes, songs, cartoons, stories, poems,
etc.
Dave's ESL Cafe. www.eslcafe.com
Lots
of ideas and materials for both teachers and students - the links are especially
useful.
E. L. Easton. eleaston.com (Teaching
aids for English and other languages.)
English Teaching Forum. exchanges.state.gov/forum/
A quarterly journal on teaching of English as a foreign language. Articles
contributed by teachers around the world. Published
by the United States Information Agency.
English Teaching Professional. www.etprofessional.com/
Selected articles from this ELT magazine are
available at this website.
ESL
Lounge. www.esl-lounge.com
Lesson
plans, teaching aids, flash cards, role play cards, book reviews, etc.
ELT Spectrum.
http://www1.oup.co.uk/elt/magazine/
An online magazine from Oxford University Press, with
teaching tip's, articles, interviews with authors, discussion forums, and more.
ESL Magazine. www.eslmag.com
A bi-monthly magazine serving ESL/EFL professional
worldwide.
Everything
ESL. www.everythingESL.net
Lots
of lesson plans, activities, and so forth. More ESL than EFL focused.
The
Gateway to Education Materials. www.thegateway.org
Search
engine for lesson plans in many areas - including EFL.
Humanizing
Language Teaching. www.hltmag.co.uk
Interesting
variety of articles and features for language teaching.
IATEFL Newsletter. www.iatefl.org/iatefl
newsletters.html
The newsletter of IATEFL (the International Association
of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language), an organization based in the UK.
The Internet TESL Journal. http://iteslj.org
A monthly web journal started in 1995; includes articles, research
papers, lesson plans, teaching techniques, book reviews, and links. Of particular
use is the "Lesson Plans" section at http://iteslj.org/Lessons/
Journal
of the Imagination in Language Teaching and Learning. www.njcu.edu/cill/journal-index.html
Pretty
much what title says.
Karin's
ESL Partyland. www.eslpartyland.com
Resources
for both teachers and students.
The
Language Teacher. jalt-publications.org
This
is a monthly publication of the Japan Association for Language Teaching; has
lots of very readable and practical articles. JALT Journal also available at
same site.
Learning/Teaching
English. www.tolearnenglish.com
Resources
for both students and teachers.
Lingua
Center (U of Illinois, Intensive English Institute). www.iei.uiuc.edu/free.html
Broad
range of resources and links.
Longman. www.longman.com
Some
resources for teachers and students, but also lots of ads for Longman publications.
Purdue
University. owl.english.purdue.edu
Has
quite an abundance of resources, especially handouts for different aspects
of writing, and also links to other web sites.
The
Reading Matrix. www.readingmatrix.com
A
journal focusing on reading issues. Lots of other reading-related resources
available at this site.
SEAMEO
Regional Language Centre. www.relc.org.sg
Articles
on language teaching in RELC Journal.
Sites
for Teachers. www.sitesforteachers.com
Has
links to a huge number of web sites for teachers.
Teaching
Fish. www.teachingfish.com
Lots
of games, activities, EFL/ESL resources; also job search links.
TEFL China Teahouse > Teaching. http://teflchina.com/teach
A website to support English teachers in China.
Articles, lesson plans, and informal tips and discussion by Chinese and foreign
teachers.
TESL-EJ: Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language.
www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ
Selected articles from this ELT magazine are
available at this website.
TEFL
Web Journal. www.teflweb-j.org
New
quarterly teacher magazine.
TESOL
Matters Online. www.tesol.edu/pubs/articles/index.html
A
newsletter published by TESOL - Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
- an international organization based in the US. The "Wandering the Web" column
(http://www.tesol.edu/pubs/magz/wanweb.html)
provides information on useful websites for teaching.
Wordskills. http://wordskills.com/index.shtml
Has
a variety of resources, including book recommendations, level tests, mini grammar
lessons and so forth.
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Miscellaneous Useful Websites
www.bartleby.com
"www.bartleby.com is massive and amazing. It has tons of literary material
-- complete works of Shakespeare and anthologies such as the Harvard Classics & Shelf
of Fiction and Cambridge History of English and American Literature, which have
pretty much any novel, play, poem, essay or story written before 1900 that you
ever wanted to read. There is also critical material for all of that. But the
biggie is the reference collection, which includes a complete Columbia encyclopedia,
dictionaries, most usage and style manuals, thesauri, quotation collections,
Gray's anatomy, the Columbia Gazetteer of North America, King James Bible, Farmer's
Cookbook, Emily Post's Etiquette and other stuff, all in their complete forms.
It's pretty much a whole public library online - but easy to use and without
overdue fines."
www.goodkate.homestead.com/home.html
Materials and resources created and shared by Kate Goodspeed (former Amity teacher).
www.google.com
For the fastest searches on the net!
www.grammarlady.com
Answers any questions about grammar you may have.
www.half.com
Books, music, etc. for half the price.
www.newsunlimited.co.uk
This is for the Guardian, a UK newspaper. You can subscribe to the Wrap, a daily
news summary sent to you by e-mail
www.powells.com
A new and used bookstore. If you buy US $50 worth of books they will ship them
anywhere in the world free.
www.scmp.com
The South
China Morning Post, a Hong Kong daily newspaper.
.www.sinohotels.com
Book
Chinese hotels online.
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Teaching Speaking
The
talking topics below can be used and adapted for small group discussions, speeches,
debates, warm-ups, English Corner, etc. They are also useful as essay or journal
topics for Teaching Writing.
Argumentative Topics
http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/English/topicarg.html
Brain Candy Mind Games Collection: Questions to Make you Think
http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/question.html
Cambridge First Certificate level discussion course for English language
learners
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/discuss.html
Conversation Questions for the ESL- EFL Classroom
http://iteslj.org/questions/
Conversation Teaching Page (with links to conversation topics)
http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/conv.htm
Easy oral language topics
http://hometown.aol.com/rcswallow/OralLangTopics.html
Eslflow's guide to communication skills
http://www.eslflow.com/speakingtalktopics.html
A Month of Discussion Topics
http://www.etanewsletter.com/discussion.shtml
Prepare for Discussion - List of Topics - The Language of Discussion
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/dis00.html
Regents' Test Essay Topics (also useful as speech and discussion
topics)
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/regents/samples.html
Sounds of English. www.soundsofenglish.org
A
website dedicated to pronunciation - American English. Information, activities,
exercises, links, etc.
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Teaching Writing
100 Writing Topics
http://www.srv.net/~allenh/leave/writing_topics.html
Guide
to Grammar and Writing. cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar
Grammar
for writing.
More
Than 180 TOEFL Writing Topics
http://www.toefl.org/testprep/prepindx.html
Purdue
University. owl.english.purdue.edu
Has quite an abundance of resources, especially handouts for different aspects
of writing, and also links to other web sites
Regents'
Test Essay Topics (also useful as speech and discussion topics)
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/regents/samples.html
Web
Resources for Writing CVs and Job Applications
The following web sites contain useful career advice, especially
for graduate students looking for a job. Students can use the guidelines and
samples to help them compose their own CVs and letters of application. Many
of the web sites give advice on job interviews and can also be used in an Oral
Skills course.
www.career.vt.edu
www.careerperfect.com
www.cvtips.com
www.agricola.umn.edu/owc
www.thebigchoice.com
www.support4learning.org.uk
www.cvservices.net
www.cvspecial.co.uk
http://resume.monster.com
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.internationalstudent.com/resume_writing/letter_guide.shtml
http://www.internationalstudent.com/resume_writing/writing_tips.shtml
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Teaching Literature
www.bartleby.com
Tons
of literary material -- complete works of Shakespeare and anthologies such
as the Harvard Classics and Shelf of Fiction and Cambridge
History of English and American Literature, which have pretty much any novel,
play, poem, essay or story written before 1900 that you ever wanted to read.
There is also critical material for all of that.
www.bedfordstmartins.com/charters/litwriters/index.htm
Scroll through an extensive list of writers of fiction, poetry and drama.
Click on an author for study and discussion questions and writing suggestions.
This index covers most any writer that would appear on a "Survey" course
syllabus, but it may not cover all the texts you are teaching.
www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/home.htm
This is a huge list of
links to websites with
author-specific information. Choose "Fiction", "Drama", "Poetry",
"Essays", "Critical Theory" and then scroll through an alphabetical
list of
writers in that category.
cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/mcmichael
Good resource for American Literature. Online
companion to Anthology of American Literature by George McMichael. The site is
divided into sections on Colonial Literature, Literature of Reason and
Revolution, The Age of Romanticism, The Age of Realism and 20th Century
Literature. Each section has an in-depth timeline for historical
background, sample essay questions, author profiles, additional resources and
message boards.
www.luminarium.org
A
pretty comprehensive site for Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century English
Literature. Some of the critical articles are kind of
lame, but the historical and biographical info. is good.
vos.ucsb.edu
The "Voice of the Shuttle" is
a big online resource
for humanities managed by the University of California at Santa Barbara. Click
on "English" or "Literature" on the homepage and go to
town. It's kind of hard to tell where the links will take you but, with
so many, there must be some pretty good stuff here.
xroads.virginia.edu
Website
for University of Virginia American Studies Department.
Click on "hypertexts" to reach the actual writings of famous authors plus some
critical material. Surf this site for other links and background
information. It may be good for history and culture courses too.
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Teaching Video
www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/PF/movies.html
www.uk.imdb.com
www.us.imdb.com
www.rottentomatoes.com
www.screenit.com
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Reference Works
www.bartleby.com
The reference collection includes a complete Columbia encyclopedia,
dictionaries, most usage and style manuals, thesauri, quotation collections,
Gray's anatomy, the Columbia Gazetteer of North America, King James Bible, Farmer's
Cookbook, Emily Post's Etiquette and other stuff, all in their complete forms.
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Student Websites
Aardvark's English Forum. englishforum.com
Lots
of resources for students.
Activities for ESL Students. a4esl.org
Lots
of quizzes and activities for students.
Ask Oxford. www.askoxford.com
What
you would expect from a dictionary-related web site.
Dave's ESL Cafe. www.eslcafe.com
Lots
of ideas and materials for both teachers and students - the links are especially
useful.
The English Listening Lounge. www.Englishlistening.com
Site
for listening practice. Has Chinese language version.
ESL Resource Center. www.eslus.com/eslcenter.htm
Lessons
for students.
Karin's ESL Partyland. www.eslpartyland.com
Resources
for both teachers and students.
Learning English Online. www.aec.ukans.edu/leo
Online
classes, activities, resources for students.
Learning/Teaching English. www.tolearnenglish.com
Resources
for both students and teachers.
TEFL Games. teflgames.com
Lots
of word games and so forth.
Topics. www.rice.edu/projects/topics/Electronic/Magazine.html
Magazine
for students of English - lots of interesting features.
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