This page contains useful links for English Language Teachers. 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.
(Content updated and all links checked 14 Feb 2020, by Agi Bodis)
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1) News, Articles, Newsworthy Blogs
Connecting ELT professionals in Australasia and beyond. You can find an up-to-date professional development calendar, resources, discussions here and an amazing community.
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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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The English Australia Journal is a professional journal for teachers of English to speakers of other languages, specifically to international students, within and outside Australia.
It comprises peer-reviewed articles from TESOL practitioners and academics as well as a section on classroom practice and reviews of TESOL resources.
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PETAA (Primary English Teaching Association Australia) Resources
Text essays and video interviews on literacy, knowledge about language and other goodies. Derewianka, Christie, Freebody, etc
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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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Self explanatory!
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Larry Ferlazzo’s award winning blog
All things ESL/EAL/TESOL/TEFL.
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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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Decentralised Teaching and Learning
A blog filled with ideas, materials, lesson plans and the like all aimed at focusing on learners rather than materials.
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TEFL Equity Advocates was set up in April 2014 in order to speak out against the discrimination of non-native English speaker teachers (NNESTs) in TEFL/TESL industry.
2) Lesson plans, activities and resources
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TES Australia Toolkit for ESL learners
The ESL Toolkit provides over 50 strategies for helping learners of different ages who are learning English as a second language in schools (Years 1 -12). Each strategy is clearly explained and accompanied by an illustration to aid memory. The strategies are non-subject and non-age specific.
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English teacher Todd Beuckens publishes weekly two new listening lessons that students and teachers can use freely to make learning English fun, natural, and meaningful.
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TESOL Research and Methodology booklets
From Cambridge University Press. “These methodology booklets have been prepared by internationally recognized authorities on English language teaching. They have been written to address topics of interest for an international audience of language teachers, teachers in training, program administrators, and anyone concerned with the study of teaching.”
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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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A Unit of Work Using Genre-based Teaching
This is a good example of a unit of work teaching the genre of Arguing to primary school students, but which would work in many other contexts too, inclusing ESL and EFL.
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A large range of resources for teachers and students to engage with extensive reading.
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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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Lessonstream.org is a place for teacher trainer and writer Jamie Keddie to share his lesson plans. It was formerly known as TEFLclips, winner of a British Council ELTon Award..
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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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Resources for Students and Teachers of English
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Sean Banville’s 9 sites and 4242 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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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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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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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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English as an Additional Language or Dialect: Teacher Resource (EAL/D)
The English as an Additional Language or Dialect Teacher Resource to support teachers as they develop teaching and learning programs in the Australian Curriculum: Foundation to Year 10 with students for whom English is an additional language or dialect (EAL/D).
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Henry Parkes Equity Resource Centre
The library’s collection has over 45,000 resources including multi-media classroom resources, teaching and learning resources, and professional development materials. The centre is available for department staff, teachers from community language schools, pre-service teachers at university and lecturers.
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4) Technology for Language Teachers
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Founder, Todd Beuckens: “The primary aim of this site is to share my experience and enthusiasm for using technology in the classroom and to examine new and creative ways to use Ed Tech.”
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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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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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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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Top Facebook Pages for English Language Teachers
Self explanatory! Get connected with some great groups via Facebook.
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Emerging Internet Technologies for Education
Blog Owner: ” Each week, I research relevant topics and write articles seeking to provide information, insight, and/or opinion about those topics. We also get some great guest posts from educators, administrators, technologists, and other writers. EmergingEdTech publishes a few articles each week, along with a “Tweet Wrap” post at the end of each week (consolidating most of the Tweets I posted that week about ed tech articles and resources that I think readers might find informative and useful).”
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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.
Resources for Young Learners based on functional grammar and/or a Genre Approach to language teaching.
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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 : ).
Love the website, but it opens up a Pandora’s Box of sorts regarding pronunciation… It is however a website which I will be frequenting, and often 🙂
Very useful!
Your link to the ‘terrible teacher’ leads to this message: “Sorry, the page you requested was not found.”
Thanks. I’ve removed that old link now. Glad to see you here!
Phil
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Excellent resources here – thank you!
Wow, thanks for putting this list together! Very informational and helpful! I will have to set aside a full day and a large mug of coffee before I look into everything, but it will be well worth it. I so appreciate this! Thank you!
Thank you– this is really a wonderful collection, which I’ll be sharing with teachers in our program!
Great job!
Hey, I just got linked here from twitter. Great post!
May I add one? http://www.weteachkorea.com is fast becoming a reliable up-to-date source on ESL teaching in South Korea.