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Organizations &
Publishers |
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British Council -
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www.britcoun.org
This has good information about some handy links for teachers. There is
also some stuff at |
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www.learnenglish.org.uk
as well as some good cultural awareness reading
activities in the British Council Culturelab. |
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IATEFL |
www.iatefl.org
Again this is basically an “advert” site, rather than an information
mine, although it is probably more useful if you are a member of IATEFL!
However there are good links, in particular to the IATEFL Special
Interest Groups. |
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Cambridge ESOL (previously known as UCLES) |
www.cambridge-efl.org
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This site is basically information about the various Cambridge exams,
and useful in that you can download handbooks, sample papers and so on.
NB. The URL may change soon, following the recent name change from UCLES) |
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OUP |
www.oup.co.uk/elt/
@ &
At this site you can find resource sheets to go with various course
books, as well as updates for the OUP Resource Books for Teachers
series. There is also the OUP teachers club at |
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CUP |
http://publishing.cambridge.org/elt/
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Not as thorough as the OUP but there are free sample Activities you can
download |
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www.eltweb.com/liason/Teacher_Associations/Germany/
English Teachers Associations in Germany |
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Longman (publishers) |
www.longman-elt.com
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Lots of supplementary materials for the various Longman Books (Cutting
Edge etc.). More useful, particularly for students, is the Longman web
dictionary at |
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www.longman.com/dictionaries/webdictionary.html
This is better for
students than sites such as |
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www.dictionary.com
as the language has been graded. |
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Resource Sites |
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Dave’s ESL Café |
www.eslcafe.com
This is a very bright and cheerful site, probably the grandfather of EFL
on the web. There are good resources for teachers, and basically if you
haven’t been here yet, then why not? The resources can generally be
found in the “Ideas Cookbook”. As well as this, there are chat forums
for teachers and students as well as plenty other bits and pieces at
this site, including a Today in History function as well as several
quizzes and other such “fun” activities. |
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Aardvarks English forum |
www.english-forum.com
A surprisingly good website aimed at both students and teachers, and,
along with ESL Café and the Internet TESL journal, a great place to
start looking for TEFL stuff on the web. There are lots of interactive
exercises for students at different levels on vocabulary, grammar and so
on. |
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The Internet TESL Journal |
http://iteslj.org
This is rather more serious in style, and more far reaching in content.
It covers most of the major stuff very comprehensively, and it’s updated
on a monthly basis. This site covers an enormous range of possibilities.
Most sites to which it links usually have further links, so you could go
on forever, almost. There is also a good section for students at
http://a4esl.org |
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English-to-go |
www.english-to-go.com @
This site consists of well thought out activities based around recent
news stories from Reuters. There is a free lesson every week, although
for a small charge you can gain access to a whole bank of lessons and
activities (recommended for schools and so on, as one payment allows you
to access a lot). |
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One-Stop English |
www.onestopenglish.com @
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An interesting site, with activities, resources and articles for your
enjoyment and the benefit of your class. Very useful indeed! |
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Karin’s ESL Partyland |
www.eslpartyland.com
Yes it sounds tacky, but it has got a great deal of useful links
(including song lyrics and film script sites) as well as printable
worksheets for various films, Internet treasure hunts and other
net-based tasks. There are also some exercises for students on the
Learning Pages, discussion forums where, if you are so inclined, you can
post a message about a teaching matter and see what responses you get.
It seems to be handier for students, but the teacher’s side has some
value. |
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Flo-Joe |
www.flo-joe.com
The one and only decent site for FCE, CAE & CPE practice – indeed quite
possibly the only free site. Still good, although the CPE stuff is still
under construction. |
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BBC English |
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
Very good website, mainly aimed at learners, but it could be used in
class as it has up to date and topical listening and reading activites. |
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The ESL Lounge |
www.esl-lounge.com
Again, this has a lot for both teachers and students, including a very
good blank board game which you can download and adapt as you want to. |
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Learn.co.uk |
www.learn.co.uk
This often uses articles from the Guardian as the basis for reading
activities, especially those in the Tuesday Education section.. However,
this is aimed at state schools, so it may be of limited use. |
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E.L. Easton, English Online |
http://eleaston.com/
Does the lot really. |
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The Linguistic Funland |
www.tesol.net |
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English Club |
www.englishclub.com |
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TEFL.net |
www.tefl.net |
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ELT Web |
www.eltweb.com |
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Films, Scripts & Lyrics |
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Using Films |
www.eslnotes.com
Here you can find, as it says on the URL, notes on various films which
students may find useful, and might be usable in class. |
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www.teachwithmovies.org
This is an American site aimed at parents with kids, rather than EFL
teachers as such, but still has some use. |
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www.fortunecity.com/lavender/banzai/80/index.html
This site has detailed lesson plans for several films, including Shallow
Grave, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Vertigo. |
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Film scripts |
www.script-o-rama.com
Not the only one, but pretty good. Alternatively, you should find more
under Yahoo! |
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“Friends” Scripts |
http://members.tripod.com/ufwebsite/scripts/scripts.htm
“I’ll be there for you…” and so on. You never know when you might need
them! |
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www.sing365.com |
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www.lyrics.com |
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Computers & EFL |
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Information & Communications Technology For Language Teachers |
www.ict4lt.org
This is a free course introducing language teachers to computers and
their application in the classroom. Useful, especially for technophobic
teachers! |
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The Internet Classroom Assistant |
www.nicenet.org
You can “Create a class” at this site, and use it to set exercises and
tasks based on written instructions. An ideal place to post a WWW task.
It’s free, and run by a charity (hence the .org address). |
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University of Sussex Language Links |
www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/general.html
This is the website of the University of Sussex (UK) language centre,
and, as well as having general information and links, there is also a
page of links to CALL freeware & shareware @ www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/callengl.html |
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Technology in Language Learning |
http://www.eastment.com/index.html
This site discusses some of the possibilities of computers in ELT –
written by one of the authors of Oxford’s The Internet (Resource Books
for Teachers). The Article on searching for non-ELT sites is excellent. |
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Internet Resources |
http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/langsite/
This is part of Hull University’s language site, and isn’t bad, despite
the unappealing pedigree! |
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Creating Web Pages for EFL |
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/cgi/interact.html
This is a very thorough guide to building websites for EFL in
particular. |
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Online Journals |
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Teaching Fish |
www.teachingfish.com
This is quite informative with articles and ideas . |
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Teaching English |
www.teachingenglish.org.uk
This is a fairly new site, a joint project by the British Council & the
BBC, with links to both, excellent discussion forums and useful articles
& tips for teachers. |
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The ELT Newsletter |
http://www.eltnewsletter.com/index.shtml
This is an archive of weekly articles going back to February 2000. It is
updated every Friday, and the back issues are freely accessible. |
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The Language Teacher Online |
www.jalt-publications.org/tlt
@
This is a good collection of EFL articles, but is quite tricky to
navigate. At the moment it’s free, but they are planning to make it only
available to members in the future. |
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The Digital Education Network - |
www.edufind.com
Lots of links, but very little else but very useful for jobs. Links to
English Teaching Professional which is an online version of the
magazine, rather than anything different. A lot of magazine websites are
like this, with very little to choose between the online version and the
hard copy |
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Developing Teachers |
www.developingteachers.com
There are some good articles and a great discussion forum for teachers.
Because the site is for teachers, not students, the discussion lists are
not interspersed with “I student Thailand want speak English” or
similar. |
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The English Teaching Forum |
http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/
This is an American site, which you can search for articles and ideas.
It is a state run website (as you can tell from the address), so there
is a slight emphasis on teaching in American state schools. However, it
is a serious, academically inclined site which is well run and easily
searched. |
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TESL Electronic Journal |
http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/index.html
This site is a collection of articles of a fairly academic nature, and
claims to be “an internationally- recognized source of ESL and EFL
information for people in scores of countries.” As such it succeeds,
too. |
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The TEFL Farm |
www.teflfarm.com
Similar in style and outlook to the ESL Partyland, this consists mainly
of articles. The focus, like Developing Teachers, seems to be on less
experienced teachers. |
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ESL Focus |
www.eslfocus.com
Focuses mainly on teaching jobs in different countries and related
issues, such as becoming a teacher, rather than methodologies. |
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ESL & EFL Resources - |
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/esl.html
The EFL links section of Lancaster University’s Linguistics website.
There is some good stuff to be found with a little exploration. |
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Theories & Methodologies |
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Abbreviations Quiz |
http://a4esl.org/q/h/nr/abbr-test.html
Do you know the difference between TESOL and TEFL? Now you can test your
knowledge of these abbreviations! |
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TESOL Online Conference 1999 |
www.iei.uiuc.edu/tesolonline/topics.html
This is a (now finished) online TESOL conference for which the papers
are still available. The conference is on Task based learning, and there
is lots of stuff about course design. |
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Second Language Acquisition |
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~vcook/SLATOPICS.htm
…is a good site for
general theories of second language acquisition, although at first
glance it seems a bit scary! For those who are interested, a good
overview of Krashen’s work can be found at |
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http://www.english.sk.com.br/sk-krash.html |
while a savagely opposing view can be found at the .Krashenburn site |
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Krashenburn site |
http://www.angelfire.com/az/english4thechildren/krashen.html |
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Applied Linguistics |
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Applied Linguistics – Without Tears– |
http://members.tripod.com/ALWT/alwthome.html
Introduction to Linguistics |
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www.geocities.com/CollegePark/3920
These sites both provide an accessible introduction to the more in-depth
field of applied linguistics, as well as links to further information. |
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Humanising Language Teaching |
www.hltmag.co.uk
This looks at some of the more humanistic approaches in a practical
manner, and includes articles and lesson plans. |
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An Education For The Future - |
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/une.education.pour.demain/
This site is dedicated to the Silent Way and provides loads of
background information about using charts, rods and pointers in the
Silent Way. |
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Finally, for a little light (wicked) relief, try |
www.simonbarne.com/tefl/
(also known as the “I hate teaching English website”). It’s a little
dark, and occasionally nasty, but after a bad day… |
