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Computers and the Internet in TESL/TEFL

  • Cutting Edge  
    Demonstrations of how various new interactive  technologies (e.g. video, Shockwave,  Real Player) can enhance computer-assisted language learning.  
    http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/cuttingedge.html  
  • English at Work
    Online support for David Lloyd's Internet-based book/workbook. This address takes you to the Teacher's page of a lesson on newspapers. Go from here to the Student's page and other lessons.
    http://www.cyberjourneys.net/books/englishatwork/whosenews.htm
  • EFL/ESL Lessons Using Web Sites
    Examples of lessons requiring students to use the Internet. There are separate lists for low-intermediate, intermediate, high-intermediate and advanced students, whether individuals or class members, and there is homework! Another list from the     Internet TESL Japan site.
    http://iteslj.org/t/ws/
  • ESL NetWorld.com
    Free courses for teachers and students around the world who want to use Internet resources 'as a way of improving language skills and developing a greater awareness of cultures around the world'. The course builds skills in using search engines effectively, using email, evaluating sites, creating basic home pages and participating in discussion groups.
    http://www.eslnetworld.com
  • From Now On
    Online Educational Technology Journal. Recent articles deal with how teachers learn technology best, information literacy,  Internet use policies,  staff development, email and the Internet as curriculum. Look for the article 'Filling the Tool Box: classroom strategies to engender student questioning' as one example.
    http://www.fno.org/index.html
  • Guidelines for Designing a Good Web Site for ESL Students
    Five pages of sensible advice for teachers preparing online TESL/TEFL materials: an article from The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. VI, No. 3, March 2000.
    http://iteslj.org/Articles/Kelly-Guidelines.html
  • Integrating the Internet
    A smart looking site which has won various awards.  Curriculum resources and tutorials to help teachers use the Internet, plan projects and design a class home page.
    http://integratingtheinternet.com/index/awards.html
  • Internet Basics for ESL Students
    A 14 lesson introduction to using computers and the Internet for ESL students.
    http://iteslj.org/s/ib/
  • Oxford University Press
    Online updates and support for the truly excellent book by Windeatt et al, The Internet.
    (Details on the Useful Books page). Downloadable lesson plans and worksheets. Updated every 3 months.
    http://www1.oup.co.uk/elt/rbt.internet/
  • Technology in EL Learning (Dave Eastment)
    For EFL/ESL teachers using computers in education, this site with its articles and links is still of use though it has not been updated recently.
    http://www.eastment.com/
  • Virtual Call Library  
    Gives access to downloadable software for Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) . Just click on the name of the program you want. From the Universiy of Sussex.
    http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/1-6-6.html
  • Web as a Tool for Language Learning, The  
    Though undated, this is a quite useful summary of the uses that an English teacher can make of the Web.
    http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/lla.html

Resources and Links (General)

  • Aardvark’s English Forum and EFL Resources
    'English at your fingertips.' Sections for Students and for Teachers. interactive exercises, dictionaries, daily idiom and quotation, extensive lists of resources and contacts. Access to news, tools and other subject areas. For an example, go to Resources for Learning English.     The first part of the list is on Dictionaries and Reference Books, giving direct access to each source via a word the user wants to look up. The next section is labelled Learning Activities, Exercises, Quizzes, and the third Readers' Additions: recommendations of visitors to the site.
    http://www.english-forum.com/
  • Andrew Moore's Teaching Resource Site
    Well-organised resources for all aspects of teaching English language and literature at secondary and 6th form levels. The author is a founder member of BYTEachers, the Association of Teachers' Websites which recommends only quality sites.
    http://www.shunsley.eril.net/armoore
  • Anglik
    A one-stop resource for English on the Internet from Cambridge University. The many pages include access to online dictionaries, classroom activities, pronunciation, top English words, word games, all kinds of useful links..
    http://www.anglik.net/
  • BBC World Service: Learning English
    Programme information, features, tips for teachers and learners.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
  • British Council: Learn English on the Net
    From the English Home Page, click on Learn English for lessons and activities at three levels (Kids, Teenagers, Adults). Tune in (or record) twice a week for practice materials. . The FAQs have some interesting information on the use of English worldwide..
    http://www.britcoun.org/english/index.htm
  • Cambridge ELT New
    An attractive new website offering a wide range of information and resources for ELT professionals, teachers and students, e.g. teaching young learners, support for many of the excellent Cambridge coursebooks, study tips, Cambridge dictionaries on line.... There are new features each month and, of course, information on Cambridge books and multimedia.
    http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/
  • CILT (Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research)
    This sheet is on Creative Use of the Target Language (any language) and is a bibliography of books and articles (not websites). CILT publishes useful materials, some of them quite inexpensive. Information Sheet 24 lists publishers and distributors of materials for language teachers.
    http://www.cilt.org.uk/infos/0to25/info14.htm
  • Dave Sperling’s ESL Café
    One of the most popular ESL portals with lots of links.   Navigate to the Ideas Cookbook page for practical classroom ideas (there are now 24 themed collections of ideas),  or click on Links for Teachers. Dave has also published The Internet Activity Workbook (see Some Useful Books).
    http://www.eslcafe.com/
  • Designing a Lesson (RMC Research)
    How to design,develop, implement and evaluate lessons. Scroll down to the Teachers' Internet Use Guide, Click on Site Map so you can see what is available. Be sure to look at the Designing A Lesson page.. There is an archive of sample lesson plans
    http://www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/lessons/design.htm?
  • English Job Maze New
    A new TESL/TEFL job search and info site for teachers around the world. Help with CVs, a country-specific guide to popular destinations, a page offering really useful ideas for supplementing your regular income, a guide to living as a teacher in any one of 50 countries...
    http://www.englishjobmaze.com

  • English Teaching in the United Kingdom
    An Oxford teacher maintains this reliable site, a content provider for the UK's National Grid for Learning. There are over 75 different language and literature topics to choose from and some excellent links. The site is searchable.
    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Harry_Dodds/

  • English-to-Go: Instant Lessons
    Photocopiaable lessons written by an international team based on Reuters' articles. There is one free lesson per week per level and a 'weekly warmer'. Membership is required for access to the lesson archives and multiple lessons per week (US$7.50 per month).
    http://www.english-to-go.com/
  • ERIC/CLL Resource Guides Online
    The portal to a vast collection of Internet resources for teachers of English as a second language: ERIC digests, online journals and magazines, listservs and websites plus a sample search of the ERIC Database.
    http://www.cal.org/ericcll/
  • ERIC/IT Preview
    ERIC is the world's largest educational database. This page identifies and links to each part of the ERIC network: Database, Digests, Educational Technology, Links and Ask Eric.
    http://ericir.syr.edu/ithome/EXPL2.html
  • ESL Center, The
    Exercises, lessons and well-organised links for all the language areas and topics English teachers look for. Kept up-to-date.
    http://members.aol.com/eslkathy/esl.htm
  • ESLflow
    Lessons, activities and resources for Elementary, Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate levels. Try the Intermediate section on Multiple Intelligences or the Pre-Intermediate page on Childhood. Attractive design and a high standard.
    http://www.eslflow.com/
  • ESLwideworld New
    Emphasis on job information worldwide for teachers of ESL/EFL but also includes many useful links, activities, quizzes, a search feature, book and sofware informaton, and more.
    http://eslwideworld.com/
  • Free ENGLISH.com
    The free page of ESL Pro, offering ESL and English games to develop vocabulary, grammar, reading and listening skills. You must sign up but membership is free. Also offers free educational softward packages and other services such as TOEFL practgiced for a fee.
    http://www.freeenglish.com/
  • FRET (Free Resources for English Teaching) Language and literature at secondary level. There are now over 1000 pages of lesson ideas, schemes of work, PDF files and other resources. Click on LearningLearning for a collection of wel-tried language learning activities contributed by an experienced trainer, seminar leader and author.
    http://www.english-teaching.co.uk/
  • Frizzy University Network (FUN)
    Online learning environment for ESL/EFL students:  grammar,  resources for students and teachers,  web projects, epals... From San Francisco State University.
    http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb/

  • Global Learning On-line
    Ready-made web searches, classroom ideas and  printer-friendly materials  to raise awareness of world issues such as world debt  globalisation, media influence, human rights, the environment, child labour--all with teachers’ notes.  Access to up-to-the minute news from 'Southern' countries.
    http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rmext05/glo/
  • Interlink Language Centers
    Links to resources for ESL practice, reading / writing, games, reference, free lesson. Designed for students at Interlink Language Centers but available to anyone wishing to practice using English. Regularly updated.
    http://www.eslus.com/eslcenter.htm

  • Internet TESL Journal, The
    One of the best on the Web for TESL. It is a monthly web journal offering articles, research papers, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and one of the most comprehensive and reliable links lists available. You can search the site by using the links search box at the bottom of this page.
    http://iteslj.org/

  • LessonPro.Net
    A free programme allowing teachers to create online lessons by using a template. Pays US$50.00 for good lesson plans; a format is provided.
    http://lessonpro.net/
  • Lingua Center
    Grammar Safari activities (e.g. hunting for grammatical structures on the Web) and other ideas for using corpus collected from the Net. Other parts of the site include Teachers' Resources and ESL on the Web.
    http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html
  • LinguaNet: Virtual Language Centre
    A select and organised list of websites for languages under the heading The Internet for Language Teaching and Learning. Topics include web skills for language learning, activities and email in language learning.
    http://www.linguanet.org.uk/websites/wwwteach.htm

  • Linguistic Funland TESL
    Now in its 7th year. Links to resources for the teaching of English, exercises and activities for students of English, online journals and linguistic databases and corpora as well as for linguistic study, computer-mediated communication and the study of other languages.
    http://www.linguistic-funland.com/
  • Neteach-L
    A list for international teachers of English as a second or foreign language to discuss Internet-assisted teaching and learning. A good starting plade for learning how to use the Internet in your teaching. The 'Cool Sites' database provideslinks to over 550 TEFL/TESL resources in 56 categories; the list is updated daily.
    http://www.tesol.net/neteach.html
  • One Stop English Magazine
    Monthly online magazine sponsored by MacMillan (Publishers) offering professional support, free resources, lesson sharing and more. Current features include listening skills (and assessment), drama activities, using songs with young learners, webquests, business and ESP, exams and assessment. Be sure to check out the large methodology archive which has much useful how-to material.
    http://www.onestopenglish.com/

    Plagiarism and the Web
    Identifies the problems--and provides a dozen practical ways to combat the dishonest use of other people's work.
    http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm

  • Teacher's Pet
    'A free text tool for creative language teachers' using Microsoft Word with macros. In includes a word/sentence randomizer and gap fill generator so you can turn text into stimulating classroom exercises: jumbled words/sentences/paragraphs for students to order, punctuation practice...
    http://www.teachers-pet.org/
  • Teaching English as Another Language
    A Norwegian site, regularly updated, with several worthwhile sections, e.g. Grammar and Poetry, Links and Activities. Literature (including a Reading Books with Partner Classes project).
    http://home.online.no/~anlun/index.htm

  • Teaching Tips
    A colorful index leads to hundreds of ideas for The First Day, Preparing a Lesson Plan, Teaching Techniques, Using Questions Effectively, Motivating Students, Dealing with Stress and more--all as applicable to TESL as any other subject
    http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm

  • Teachit
    1500 pages of free resources for secondary/6th form school teachers. 
    Professionally produced lesson plans, schemes of work, classroom resources,  links, organised by topic and age level.  PDF format for photocopying.  Wide scope and high quality. A must.
    http://www.teachit.co.uk/

  • TEFL.NET
    Classroom activities, lesson plans and webguide to other ESL/EFL links. Click on Improvisations (under Lesson Plans) for both pair and group ideas. Offers a monthly electronic magazine with online teaching help
    http://www.tefl.net/index.html
  • Virtual English Centre, Hong Kong
    Recommended as a self-access centre for yourself or as a source of teaching ideas. There are sections on grammar, reading, vocabulary; interactive games; regular features (e.g. Common Errors, English Concversation), worthwhile links plus direct access to a net dictionary and concordance. The Teachers' Toolbox can help in creating teaching materials.
    http://vic.polyu.edu.hk

  • Volterre
    Links to resources for learning and teaching English (and using the Internet) and to free clip art.  Use Search Volterre; type in "Searchtips" for links to sites teaching how to surf effectively. Also try the Learners and Teachers of English section.
    http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/

  • Web English Teacher
    This site has a wide variety of pages to explore. Try Mythology, Folkore and the Hero; Speech; Writing; Grammar, Mechanics and Usage. Just for Fun and the poetry pages (see below). Aims to be a library and workroom for teachers around the world
    http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
  • Wide World of English as a Second Language
    The place to find a job an an ESL teacher, post your CV, get country information, find teaching materials, learn about conferences. There are links to teachers' resources, quizzes and games for the classroom, search facilities and more.
    http://eslwideworld.com


Lesson Plans and Materials for the Classroom
Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Thinking

Most of the sites in the previous section include links and resources for teaching language, thinking and information skills. These next sites place special emphasis on lesson plans and materials for classroom use, sometimes in a particular language area. Where particular examples within the pages are suggested, these are intended as starting points from which you can explore other parts of the site.

Focus on Listening and Speaking

  • Art of Successful Presentations, The
    This is one item from the Teachit package for teaching NonFiction with the Web. It is a brief, clear outline of points to consider as to Presentation Content and How to do a Good Presentation. It could be used in conjunction with the checklists mentioned above and below.
    http://www.teachit.co.uk/teachit/nls.htm#websites
  • ESL Partyland
    Lively site. Lesson plans and ideas, reproducible materials, interactive quizzes, lots of links. Three recommendations: the collection of Conversation Questions, presented as card sets for about 20 topics (e.g.technology, the environment and you, learning languages); Ideas for Previewing Vocabulary and the Peer Evaluation Checklist for oral presentations.
    http://www.eslpartyland.com/
  • ESLflow
    Icebreakers, pronunciation, role plays, debates, ESL audio... and other aspects of communication skills. Site also includes lesson planning and classroom management. Good looking site.
    http://www.eslflow.com/
  • Internet TESL Journal: Conversation Questions
    With 30 to 60 questions per topic to choose from, there is no excuse for not getting students talking! Top choices of MPIK teachers/trainees is the 'What if...?' page. Other popular choices: Gettting to Know Each Other, Environment and Pollution, Favorites, Food and Eating. There is a search box for iteslj at the bottom of this page.
    http://iteslj.org/questions/
  • Minimal Pairs, Listening Lists, and more
    This is probably the most comprehensive and useful of the minimal pair lists available on the Net. About.com and Interlink both have listening and pronunciation practice exercises. Use your search skills to find these and others.
    http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/wordlists.html
  • Oral Presentation Checklists (Project Based Learning)
    After reading what Project Based Learning is all about, click on Project Based Checklists and then on Oral Presentations 9-12 to create your own checklist for oral presentations. Better yet, involve your students in creating it. You can create customised checklists for many other formats from puppet shows to written reports and multimedia projects. As useful in the early stages of planning and preparing work as for evaluation.
    http://www.4teachers.org/projectbased/
  • Questioning
    "Filling the Tool Box: classroom strategies to engender student questioning." An Educational Technology Journal article by Jamie McKenzie and H. B Davis. Includes practical classroom activities.
    http://www.fno.org/toolbox.html
  • Virtual Presentation Assistant
    The Virtual Presentation Assistant is an online tutorial for improving  public speaking skills. It covers such topics as determining purpose,  selecting topic, analysing audience,  supporting points, using visuals through to presenting the speech, thinking skills, role playing and overcoming. writer's block.
    http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/vpa/vpa.htm


Focus on Reading,Thinking, Writing
See also the web guide for Teacher Librarians

  • A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students
    A large Internet Public Library site with step-by-step guidance in finding information in cyberspace,  using it and writing a research paper.  Material can be downloaded free.
    http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/

  • Drop Everything and Read (DEAR)
    Dear time is time regularly set aside in the classroom for both students and teachers to rop everything and read. This article sets out how to use it to turn students 'on' to independent reading. It works!
    http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/tips/read.html

  • Writing Den
    This takes you to the Teacher's Guide to using WritingDen in the classroom. The aim is to improve students' writing, communication, thinking and research skills. The classroom ideas involve role playing, interviewing, integrating text and graphics, a technique for overcoming writers' block...
    http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/t-guide.htm


Grammar

Don't forget to check the sites listed under Lessons, Links and Resources. Many of them have a section specifically on grammar.

Vocabulary and Pronunciation

Related Guide: Reference

  • Word Central
    Lively, award winning site for upper primary and secondary levels. Winner 2000 Webby award for best educational website
    http://www.wordcentral.com/

  • World Wide Words    
    A site devoted to words and their origins,  with a worldwide following. Topical words, turns of phrase,  usage notes, weird words, the story of English, pronunciation help (British), question and answer section, searches, and a free newsletter if you wish. For a sample article, try 'Guttta Percha, Ketchup, Sago: Words from Malay'.
    http://www.worldwidewords.org/genindex.htm
  • yourDictionary
    A web of online dictionaries is part of the site.. Some other sections: Fun and Games (including 'the richest assortment of crossword puzzles on the planet', 'Nyms and More, Grammars--and you can receive a Word of the Day by email everyday.
    http://yourdictionary.com/

Poetry and Songs

Poetry

  • Can You Haiku?
    Lesson plans, activities, resource links covering reading haiku, rules of haiku, haiku warm ups and writing haiku. Useful for both primary and secondary classes. Useful Asian links. Edsitement is a highly regarded gateway to quality humanities sites.
     http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/can_you_haiku.html 
  • Combining Grammar and Poetry
    Part of the extensive site English as Another Language maintained by Norwegian Angus Lund. This page offers a technique to get everyone to produce 5 line poems. Good efforts around the world are published on the site. Students could decide which the good ones are-and why Other sections cover grammar, projects, links, research.
    http://home.online.no/~anlun/gram-po.htm

  • Contemporary Poetry
    Start here for access to about 30 About.com poetry lists covering types (e.g. haiku, sonnets), periods (20th century, contemporary), references, audio and video, anthologies, pantoums, nursery rhymes....
    http://poetry.about.com/

  • Grandpa Tucker's Poetry
    Deservedly popular site (over a million visitors so far) for primary level with the purpose of making language play fun: poems, stories, songs, poems contributed by kids, music, art gallery. Well-illustrated.
    http://www.night.net/tucker/

  • Grammar and Poetry
    Part of Andreas Lund’s English as Another Language page. Well-designed. Instructions, models, examples and contributions from around the world.
    http://home.online.no/~anlun/gram-po.htm

  • Haiku Salon
    Complete guide to appreciating, writing and teaching haiku e.g. why it is popular in ELT, examples…
    http://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/English-Haiku.html

  • KidzPage
    Poetry and verse for children of all ages. Recommended: Have a bash with Ogden Nash, For Better or Verse, Verse or Worse, all delightfully illustrated. There is a huge collection of poetry by children all over the world, some of it quite good. Click on More KidzLinks for more sources of poems and stories plus support for all school subjects, and 'jsut fun'.
    http://www.veeceet.com/kids/better.html

  • Listen and Write
    BBC site with writing activities and audio poems aimed at 9-11 year olds plus a gallery of children's work.   Try Wonderwords (lively, descriptive, unusual words which 'make pictures leap into the reader's mind',  or Simile Satellie.  Download Real Player to hear actors read the poems. From here you can also go to Education, Kids and Teens pages
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/listenandwrite/
  • Poem Finder on the Web
    'The largest, most comprehensive and most current poetry database available' it indexes 800,000 poems and has the full text of 85,000. You can use it as extensively as you like during a two week free trial period. International in scope,
    http://www.poemfinder.com

  • Poetry4Kids
    A particularly useful list of resources: links to popular  children's poets,  a collection of funny poems and help in writing them,  children's poetry on the web, collection of classic anthologies,  writing resources and useful software.
    http://www.poetry4kids.com/

  • Poetry Covers it All
    A collection of teaching ideas, with examples, incorporating the reading and writing of poems into subject teaching. Try The Genius of Math, Diamante Poems (opposites like hot and cold), Poems for Two Voices (A Crysalis writing...), Poetry with Shape... There are references to good poetry collections for children.
    http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Broughton/Poetryunit.html 
  • Poetry Pals: Lessons and Activities
    Students from around the world develop literacy, technology and communication skills for reading, creating, publishing and original poetry on the Internet. Numerous teaching ideas, plus examples, links Caters for K-12. Click on Poetry Forms, Themes and Examples which shoes how to create poetry in various forms, e.g. haiku, diamante, cinquaine, limericks, autobiographical...
    http://www.oocities.org/cponykid/pages/lessons2.html

  • Poetry Project
    This is found under Key Stage 3 on the FRET site. It is a step=by-step introduction to writing poetry--examples followed by 'over to you', at the end of which the student has written 'four super poems'..You will need to register in order to access the PDF file but it's free! While you are on the site, look at some of the other lessons and materials too,
    http://www.english-teaching.co.uk/ 

  • Scholastic's Poetry Pages
    Includes the popular Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky (and others).  Poetry and step-by-step workshops plus Teacher's Guide. Intended for primary level but useful also at lower secondary.
    http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/index.htm

  • Writing Poetry: A Beginner's Guide
    Despite the subtitle this is best suited to upper secondary or 6th form students who are serious about wanting to write poetry. It covers all aspects, with plenty of examples and practical exercises.
    http://teenwriting.about.com/cs/writingpoetry/ 

Songs

  • Dave's ESL Cafe Ideas Cookbook
    Click on Music for a page of links to teachers' ideas for using songs to teach Englliksh. Most consist of a paragraph or two of description. Quality varies considerably, but try Take the song and run!, Music and Rhyme, "Perfect Modals" Salad or Drawing to Music. At the least these may trigger some ideas of your own.
    http://eslcafe.com/ideas/
  • E. L. Easton - English - Music and Lyrics
    An extensive collection of links to pages with ESL-through-music lessons and teaching ideas, plus audio and vocals (American pronunciation), song collections, national anthems plus a multilingual songbook section where you can compare the lyrics to popular songs in a variety of languages. There is a great deal on offer at this site.
    http://eleaston.com/music.html
  • English Through Music
    A lesson ‘swap meet’ where teachers share lesson plan ideas for learning English through music and can find articles and supporting materials   Nicely presented and organised according to language focus and level,  with an attempt at quality control. 
    http://www.oocities.org/ESLmusic/

Drama

Literature