This page contains useful links for TESOL educators. There are five categories:
- News, Articles, Newsworthy Blogs. These resources are a good start for teachers setting up their Personal Learning Network (PLN).
- Lesson plans, activities and resources.
- Meta-sites. These websites host a vast range of resources for TESOL educators.
- Technology for Language Teachers. These resources will help you get established using technology for professional development as well as for teaching.
- Resources for Young Learners. These resources are aimed specifically at young learners, a group usually defined by the age range 6-12 years.
Please don’t be a terrible teacher like THIS!!
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1) News, Articles, Newsworthy Blogs
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English Language Teaching Resources Daily
You’ll find all the latest news from around the world on English language teaching here. Jobs, teaching ideas, articles on language, teaching and learning materials, technology for TESOL and opportunities to connect with others.
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Group work and interaction in language learning classrooms
A collection of internet-based resources related to group work and classroom interaction.
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Links theory and practice through a series of video webcasts which can be viewed as streamed media or downloaded and distributed for educational purposes.
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ELT author Scott Thornbury’s blog, updating An A-Z of ELT – an encyclopedia-dictionary of terminology relating to English language and English language teaching. Yours truly occasionally makes a comment!
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What should every ESL teacher know?
This very practical book covers the most important information that a teacher of English as a second language should know. It focuses on practical issues such as how to teach various kinds of classes including one-to-one teaching, teaching small groups, teaching in schools, and teaching on English for academic purposes course. The idea that runs through the whole book is that well designed language courses need to look carefully at learners’ language use needs and so several chapters focus on needs analysis and environment analysis. (Freely available open-access book through Compass Media).
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A blog by two seasoned teacher trainers and coursebook writers providing a range of resources that help you answer:
- Are our learners capable of more, much more?
- Have the tasks and techniques we use in class become rituals and ends in themselves?
- How can we stop “covering material” and start focusing on the potential for deep learning?
- What small tweaks and adjustments can we make to shift the whole focus of our teaching towards getting that engine of learning going?
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Tips on integrating pronunciation into your lessons
Self explanatory!
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The Best Articles (And Blog Posts) Offering Practical Advice To Teachers In 2011
Suggestions that can help teachers become more effective in the classroom today or tomorrow.
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Tom Farrell, leading scholar in the area of TESOL teacher reflective practice, has a website full of useful information. This is a good site for new teachers engaging in a Practicum to do some additional reading on reflective teaching practice.
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Links to some online TESOL journals
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A 15 minute podcast on teaching reading.
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An up-to-date list of academic journals in TESOL and Applied Linguistics.
2) Lesson plans, activities and resources
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The Guardian Newspaper Language Learning Materials
The Guardian (UK) website has a special section for English language teachers offering free classroom materials. Each month a few new lessons are added to the site. Interesting stories from the Guardian are rewritten for low-intermediate learners or used as authentic materials for advanced learners.
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A mixed and varied site with loads of resources for teaching English with an Australian flavour.
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British Council Teaching English Resources
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/lesson-plans
On these two websites you’ll find free teaching resources to use in your English lessons. There are lesson plans and activities, complete with worksheets to download, for primary, secondary and adult teachers.
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A site which promotes the innovative and creative use of moving images in language learning. All of the lesson plans revolve around the use of video and film to teach English. The site promotes cineliteracy, the ability to analyse moving images, and considers cineliteracy as a 21st century skill which our students need to learn. In addition, the lessons promote critical thinking in the language classroom, and encourage learners to reflect on values while learning a language.
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The Genre Project has been a collaborative project with teachers working in year level teams to make decisions around the genre component of our school Literacy Program.
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Developing Teachers dot Com Lesson Plan Index
Lots of lesson plans with commentary and/or rationale for their design.
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There are currently about 50 lessons available on the site for a range of ages and levels. Teachers can review the lessons online and print any necessary worksheets via PDF.
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This site has both printable and interactive games. English learners can practise vocabulary and grammar online in your school computer lab or at home for extra practice.
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Downloadable and printable worksheets
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The Internet TESL Journal’s lesson bank
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Some lesson plans that can be used as “skeletons” or templates for your creativity. A terrific site from a great teacher
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Resources for Students and Teachers of English
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Sean Banville’s 8 sites and 3582 lesson plans (and counting!)
Lesson plans, handouts, materials, worksheets
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Loads of teaching activities
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English Study and Learning materials
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Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
A site devoted to Listening activities for ELT
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Larry Ferlazzo’s Listening Sites for ELLs
Free, accessible, wide range of listening options.
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Ready-to-print ESL lesson plans based on current events
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Before, During, and After Reading
Instructional Strategies That Will Foster Reading Comprehension
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Learner Interaction in Reading and Writing
Some ways to make reading and writing practice activities more enjoyable and relevant to learners.
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Dictogloss Activity: Procedure and materials for the classroom
Learn about a terrific, integrated skills, interactive activity that focuses both on form and meaning.
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Registry of English Language Teaching Coursebooks
A good way to locate course books for your particular teaching/learning context.
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This site deals primarily with content from the British Broadcasting Corporation, but if you have quality spoken-word material from other radio networks then you can post it here.
3) Meta-Sites
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The Internet TESL Journal Links
Links of Interest to Students & Teachers of English as a Second Language
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A collaborative project with the aim of providing useful information for TEFL professionals on many aspects of teaching and learning English.
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Over 3,000 links related to the ESL and EFL teaching world.
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Aussie Educator: English as a Second Language
English as a Second Language is common in the Australian setting with our multicultural nation. Like several resource listings, these are usable in multiple curriculum areas. They cover all areas from flashcard programs to resource directories, musical activities to information about TESL/TEFL. It is a limited selection of what is available.
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Resources for Teachers of English as a Second Language
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British Council/BBC Teaching English
You can find free classroom materials to download, from short activities to full lesson plans, for teaching kids and adults. There are also articles on aspects of teaching, and free teacher development and teacher training materials.
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Extensive website for English Language Teachers
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We are a group of dedicated professional ESL teachers and teacher trainers who have realized that there are very few Internet quality resources and materials for teachers of ESL. Each of our staff members has at least 10 years of teaching experience. We are confident that the resources found on our website are far better suited for various teachers needs than anywhere else on the web.
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4) Technology for Language Teachers
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Cybraryman Internet Catalogue for ESL/EFL
Catalogue of ESL/EFL/Bilingual educational websites.
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A lively monthly Twitter chat which affords teachers further access to a community of dedicated professionals. The blog provides a focal point for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by posting chat summaries, stimulating blog rolls and valuable links to resources. #AusELT’s chat topics are chosen by participants via a poll on the blog. Topic choice is driven by teachers ensuring discussions are relevant. A secondary aim of #AusELT is to support and recognise innovation and contribution to ELT in Australia and its environs, and facilitate collaboration on further projects.
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ELT Chat live online
Home Page: http://eltchat.com/
Past chats: http://eltchat.com/chat-transcripts/
#ELTchat sessions via Twitter are on Wednesdays at 12:00 pm London time, and 21:00 pm London time and last for one hour. Join English language teachers from around the world to chat about current topics of interest.
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Watching and listening to videos is a great way to learn English. On English Video Tweets you can…
- Find a video to watch using the topic keywords
- Read and reply to the questions under each video
- Ask @inglishteacher a question
- Share video links with learners and teachers of English
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The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators
Introductions to more than six dozen web tools for teachers.
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A series of videos for teachers who want a practical way to begin their eTeaching adventure but didn’t know where to start.
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Listing of over 180 online applications that can be useful in a language learning environment: audio, video, animation recording and editing tools; blogging platforms; material builders; collaboration applications.
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Setting up a PLN (personal learning network)
Larry Ferlazzo’s best Ways ESLL/EFL/ELL Teachers Can Develop Personal Learning Networks
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Introduction to Using Twitter as an Educator
A 13 minute video that shows you all you need to know to set up Twitter and therefore start your PLN.
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The Twitteraholic’s Ultimate Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter
The name speaks for itself!
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This article takes a look at blogging, which is becoming increasingly popular as a language learning tool. It gives an overview of blogging websites, suggests why you might want to use them, and gives some practical advice on setting up blogs for use with your own classes.
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Using Powerpoint in the Classroom
A short (7 minute) video on adding Powerpoint to your teaching toolkit.
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A handy web page with downloadable rubrics for evaluating educational apps.
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Foreign Language Software Reviews
Reviews of foreign-language education electronic resources.
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5) Young Learners
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Crazy Animals and Other Activities
This is a book for primary school teachers of English written by primary school teachers of English. (Direct pdf download)
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Ideas and resources for the primary English language teacher.
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Great list. Lots of useful reading here. Hopefully, my humble blog (proncentral.wordpress.com) will make it to your comprehensive roll one day : ).