Internet for language teaching:
Highlights of Micheal Krauss's
'Integrating the Internet into the Classroom", a course I took.
Lesson Plans:
The 'Three
Wise Monkeys' site has many classroom games compiled from teachers in
Tochigi prefecture.
http://www.edochan.com/teaching/
Need an idea for a
communicative lesson? 'One Stop English' has a big stock.
http://www.onestopenglish.com
'Boggle's world' has lots of materials for younger learners.
http://bogglesworld.com/
'eslflow' has hundreds of activities divided by level. The
'debate' section has lots of usable topics. 'Academic Writing' has tons
of stuff, like graphic organizers ready to go.
http://www.eslflow.com/
The British Council's 'LearnEnglish' site has many things for teachers
and learners. The children's site comes highly recommended.
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/
Grammar:
The Internet
Grammar of English has detailed explanations of
stuctural features accompanied with exercises.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/
Edufind's 'Online
English Grammar' has detailed descriptions of grammar features.
Go to
the table of contents to start.
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
'Guide to Grammar &
Writing' has pull-down menus in several categories from word,
sentence,
paragraph, to research papers formats
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
'Hypergrammer'
is a hypertext site with
basic explanations for many features of English grammar. The terms
aren't always in line with those used in applied linguistics at
present, but there are some useful insights.
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/
Idioms:
Wayne Magnuson, ESL teacher of Calgary,
Canada has created a nice hyperlink collection of common idioms.
http://home.t-online.de/home/toni.goeller/idiom_wm/index.html
Writing:
'WriteFix' has a very detailed list of
strategies for timed essay writing as in TOEFL or IELTS
http://www.writefix.com/argument/
About's 'English Writing
Style' page has many useful resources and articles for a writing class.
http://esl.about.com/od/writingstyle/
'Pocket Movies' lets you
download short movies that can be used as a writing topic.
http://www.pocketmovies.net/index.php
'DFilm' lets students create
thier own animated stories online by clicking.
http://www.dfilm.com
'Criterion' instructor's page
http://criterion.ets.org/cwe/admin/
Corpus:
'A Ten-step Introduction to
Concordancing' takes
you through the concepts and techniques of using corpora. Really cool!
http://web.quick.cz/jaedth/Introduction%20to%20CCS.htm
Collins Corpus Concordance Sampler searches
56
million words from BrE, and AmE books, ephemera, radio, newspapers, and
magazines.
http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx
'VIEW', the best interface for the
100 million word BNC allows you
to search different registers. etc.
http://view.byu.edu/
Tim
Johns Data-Driven Learning (DDL)
page
http://www.ecml.at/projects/voll/our_resources/graz_2002/ddrivenlrning/whatisddl/resources/tim_ddl_learning_page.htm
Web
concordancer
'VLC' can search several different corpora such as 'Brown', 'LOB' and
dozens of others
http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/default.htm
Web
concordancer
'MICASE' from University of Michigan specializes in academic speech
events.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/
Web
concordancer 'HTI'
Modern English Collection uses online resources like the Gutenberg
project.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/p/pd-modeng/simple.html
Web
concordancer
and many other online tools for studying lexis:
http://www.lextutor.ca/
'Bookmarks for Corpus-based linguists' has an incredible
collection of links to tools.
http://lingo.lancs.ac.uk/devotedto/corpora/software.htm#Concordancers
'The Linguists Search Engine' creates tree diagrammes from texts.
http://lse.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/
Vocabulary:
The '
GSL', General
Service List ( the 2000 most useful words for learners ) is explained
as well as the full list with frequency numbers.
http://jbauman.com/aboutgsl.html#top
This online doohickey will do GSL-type
analyses on smallish texts
http://kweto.com/skripts/chaff.html
The '
UWL', University
Word List ( 837 words families not covered in the
GSL, but that are frequent in
academic texts )
http://jbauman.com/aboutUWL.html
The '
AWL', Academic Word
List ( 570 words that actually cover
more of academic texts than
the '
UWL' )
http://language.massey.ac.nz/staff/awl/index.shtml
"Second Language Vocabulary Resources page" has word
frequency
lists, and more.
http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/vocab/
Pronunciation:
Phonetics page from U of Iowa
has
movie files of a woman moving her mouth for every sound.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html
IPA = International
Phonetic
Alphabet ( Wikipedia )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Pronunciation listening
practice using sound files of minimal pairs.
http://www.manythings.org/pp/
The ESL Pronunciation Work Page has links with activities for
pronunciation.
http://grove.ufl.edu/~klilj/pron/
Reading:
"The
Extensive Reading
pages" is a hub for many resources on the
subject.
http://www.extensivereading.net/
'References for
Extensive
Reading in EFL/ESL" is a link collection with much on the
subject.
http://asia.geocities.com/wm_hogue/extensiv.htm
A page about '
Active
Reading', but
mine's better!
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/weeklytips.phtml/6
Methodology:
Macmillan dictionary '
ELT terms'
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/glossaries/glossaries.htm
More
ELT terms
explained at "BogglesWorld".
http://bogglesworldesl.com/glossary.htm
A more thorough rundown of all those confusing names of
methodologies.
http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/elke/recpast/recpast.html
A nice homemade page. The 'teaching
english' link talks about
method.
and techniques.
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/
'onestopenglish' is huge and has a lot of
downloadable prints.
This is the
Methodology Archive
http://www.onestopenglish.com/News/Magazine/Archive/archive.htm
A Masters student at U of Aston has made a pretty heavy site for
fellow
MA or Dip
candidates.
http://www.philseflsupport.com/
Research tools:
CiteSeer:
You can search an author or researcher's name and it will give you
contexts where they were cited
in other papers. Kind of a shortcut, but brings clarity to what exactly
was claimed by that author.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
'
Google Scholar' is similar to
CiteSeer. Which one is better? You tell me!?
http://scholar.google.com/
Professional
Groups/ Journals
JALT's
online version of 'The Language Teacher'
http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/
ETJ, English
Teachers in Japan is an organization for all types of language
teachers. Many seminars to participate in!
http://www.eltnews.com/ETJ/
The Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org
The Asian EFL Journal
http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/
Useful TEFL website
http://www.tefl.net/
TESOL website
http://www.tesol.org/
iatefl website
http://www.iatefl.org/newhome.asp
The ELgazette
http://www.elgazette.com/
ESL Teachers Board, - lots of materials, links, 'how to' sites,
and job
info
http://www.eslteachersboard.com
'Sites for Teachers' has lots of links
http://sitesforteachers.com/cgi-bin/autorank/rankem.cgi?id=Walsh1
'eslcity': A teacher in Korea, Mike has lots of free worksheets
http://www.eslcity.com
Niigata
based forum for sharing teaching ideas. Many useful links:
http://jhsenglipediaproject.com/default.aspx
