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Here are a dozen sites to start with, listed in alphabetical order. Save those you like on Favourites, or download articles to read at your leisure. Do you have a favourite TESL site not included here? Send your recommendations to jlfloyd@streamyx.com
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A4ESL (Activities for English as a Second Language)
A collection of over 1000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles for language learners. This site is a project of the Internet TESL Journal (below).
http://a4esl.org/
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Anglik
Participants on ELTC's Materials Evaluation courses have particularly liked the look of this site. There are all kinds of useful links to teaching resources and language learning activities plus a search facility. E-Pals? Tongue Twisters? Word Games? Top 250 English Words? On-line Dictionaries? Song Lyrics? Language Doctor? These and many more are here.
www.anglik.net/
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Dave's ESL Café
This immensely popular site for ESL teachers and learners gets a million hits a month. Click on About Dave's ESL Café for a very interesting (if old) article about Dave and his site. The most useful sections are probably Ideas Cookbook and Webguide Links. The quality of the links varies so you'll get to hone your evaluation skills.
http://www.eslcafe.com/
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Humanising Language Teaching. 6 x per year
A free e-zine edited by Mario Rinvolcri of Pilgrims and a sister to The Teacher Trainer. Articles, course and lesson outlines, and links to sources of other free materials. You can download every issue (or the parts you want) 1999 to the present.
http://www.hltmag.co.uk
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IATEFL SIGS
The Resource Centre is an institutional member of IATEFL and we also belong to 11 of the 14 Special Interest Groups. That means we receive 3 print copies of each of their various publications(one for the Resource Centre, one for the corresponding HoD, one for level 3). Ask Jean how you can access them online as well.
http://www.iatefl.org
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Internet TESL Journal
A leading free monthly web journal offering articles, research findings, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and many instant links. The archives goes back to 1995. You can ask to be emailed whenever a new issue goes online.
http://iteslj.org/
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Internet TESL Journal
A leading free monthly web journal offering articles, research findings, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and many instant links. The archives goes back to 1995. You can ask to be emailed whenever a new issue goes online.
http://iteslj.org/
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OnestopEnglish
Most major publishers have a website offering support for their courses and materials. This one, from MacMillan, is one of the best. There are methodology articles, all kinds of lesson plans, help with vocabulary and grammar teaching, links to other resources, competitions…
http://www.onestopenglish.com
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Reading Online 2 x per year
Published by the International Reading Association (to which we belong), with thousands of visitors each month. Features practice and research related to both primary and secondary teaching. Besides peer-reviewed and printer-ready articles there are sections on the Electronic Classroom, New Literacies . International Perspectives, Book Reviews and Online Communities.
http://www.readingonline.org/
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Reading in a Foreign Language 2x per year
This is the international refereed journal formerly produced at Marjons, now at the University of Hawaii. We have all the print back issues in our Resource Centre. Sample article in the October 2003 issue: Promoting English language development and the reading habit among students in rural schools through the Guided Extensive Reading program by Ratnawati Mohd Asraf and Ismail Sheikh Ahmad, International Islamic University.
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/about.html
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The Teacher Trainer. 3x per year
The Resource Centre subscribes to the print version, but you can access the best ('Golden Oldies') of past issues from 1986 (!) for free on the site; many articles are by names you know. The library of past articles also includes a Basic Bibliography for Language Teacher Educators; we've got most of the titles on the list and will get the rest with our next orders. Edited by Tessa Woodward.
http://www.tttjournal.co.uk
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Webguides for Teachers
This site of annotated links aims to connect teachers to quality sites for teaching, learning and research purposes. It is inherited from MPIK. Malaysian teachers and trainers are still its most important target group and selections have been made accordingly. Changes and additions over the coming weeks will result in a sharper focus on support for TESL: literacy, methodology, ETeMS, training and management, research and teacher development, language and technology and so on.
http://www.webguidesforteachers.com
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World English
Calling itself 'the one-stop resource for the English language and more', the World-English monthly newsletter is aimed at learners of English at intermediate level and above; there are apparently 10,000 such readers who log on for the numerous activities and links to other English language sites.
http://www.world-english.org
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Some of the most useful sites for teachers of English are provided by major international publishers of ELT materials. There are teachers' resources, lesson plans, activities for learners, worksheets in PDF format, companion websites to support textbooks and links to other sites-usually including an annotated catalogue.
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The following eight websites satisfy two criteria: They all offer resources and ideas useful for Malaysian teachers and the hosts are all represented in Malaysia (some have showrooms). If you are interested in any of the published materials, remember that government colleges and schools must order through approved government vendors. Since vendors rarely have sufficient lines of credit to deliver books from all overseas publishers, you may with to check with a publisher to ensure you use a vendor who will be able to deliver its books to you.
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Cambridge ELT
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, data for language researchers, online activities… There are new features each month.
http://uk.cambridge.org/eft/
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Falcon Press
Based in KL, Falcon Press specialises in quality English language teaching books for Asia and the Pacific. It offers the popular Picture Process dictionaries and courses, Minimax folders (Minimum space, Maximum information), test preparation (TOEFL, IELTS), English for business, tourism and hospitality, supplementary readers and Clarity software for English. Check it out.
http://www.falconpub.com/
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Heinemann (Harcourt Education)
You probably already know Heinemann as a publisher for pre-school through college, and for teachers. Go to the main site for links to special Heinemann sites--for English teachers and drama teachers, for example--or for professional development ideas. Another good place to start would be the new firsthand series, a response to teachers' demand for practical help in the classroom. Experienced author-teachers provide classroom-ready materials in template form giving you guided help in creating original lessons of quality. Try the writing material. There are also sample chapters from books, including textbooks, on useful topics.
http://www.heinemann.com/
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MacMillan One Stop English Magazine
One of the best of publishers' sites, this monthly online magazine offers hundreds of free resources: professional support, lesson plans, lesson sharing at all levels plus a new Forum section.. Recent and current features include practical teaching ideas on grammar and speaking, teaching with minimal maerials (e.g. using timetables, role play), drama activities, using songs with young learners, reading lessons on topics of global interest,
webquests, business and ESP, exams and assessment plus a warmers and icebreakers section and links to other ELT sites. Be sure to check out the large methodology archive which has much useful how-to material.
http://www.onestopenglish.com/
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Oxford University Press (Penerbit Fajar Bakti)
This is the Oxford site tailor-made for Malaysian teachers, dedicated to providing information, resources, support materials, and ideas for teachers and students. There are sections for Young Learners, Teenage Learners and Adult Learners, each with activities and exercises for practicing English plus a free online Teachers Club with tips, articles, Ask the Expert forums, downloadable teaching materials and links. The large dictionaries section provides an excellent
http://www.oup.com/e/t/my/
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Pearson Education
Pearson Malaysia includes under its umbrella several key publishers of books for children, teenagers and teachers: Longman, Penguin/Puffin, Dorling Kindersley and Prentice Hall for example. The Longman website has a wide choice of excellent dictionaries-with downloadable worksheets. There are also sections for specific age groups and interests, e.g. Young Learners, Teens, Adults, Business and Exams, each with a variety of activities, resources, quizzes, reading ideas and teaching tips. There are companion websites (meaning sites to supplement coursebooks) and an ELT Forum for professional development online hosted by Jeremy Harmer. Current features are papers from the Young Minds Forum 2003 for teachers of young
learners and a teaching pack on testing. There is a searchable archives of past articles.
http://www.longman.co
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Scholastic
There/s lots of useful material here! The range is primary to lower secondary and the main message is that access to a wide range of high-quality books in the classroom plays a big role in children/s reading success. There are ideas on motivating readers, free resources for the classroom, lesson plans and
teaching strategies, tips from librarians for parents and teachers, online activities, up-to-date research and best practices, literature connections, printable newsletters and archived articles... A related ELT site. (www.scholastic.com/elt) includes the Clifford books and activities. Clifford is the big red dog who has been helping children learn to read for 40 years and he came to ELTC's Launch Exhibition!
http://www.scholastic.com
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Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific
RoutledgeFalmer is the major Taylor and Francis publisher of materials for TESL. Although the site is primarily concerned with information on its publications--books, Ebooks, journals and authors, it does offer downloadable resources on its companion websites which can be used independently of the particular text. For an example, click on Teachers Resource > A4 Photocopiable Resources> Supporting Literacy and retrieve the photocopiable sheets for anyone concerned with children's learning in primary schools.
http://www.routledgefalmer.com/
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If you want to become an expert fast in using the Internet, try these on-line tutorials. They take you step-by-step through all the things you need to know.
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Bare Bones 101
A basic tutorial in 20 succinct lessons, covering all the essential aspects of using the Internet. The last lesson provides links to other tutorial sites. From the home page you can also access library and information guides on such topics as citing sources, evaluating web pages and plagiarism.
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml
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Cybertours
Hands-on instructional tours cover: active learning sites for students, search strategies, weaving a web-based curriculum, evaluating websites and teaching the web. Each tour takes you to 12-15 relevant sites which you can explore further.
http://www.infosearcher.com/cybertours/
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Geekgirl.guides
An Australian site with easy-to-read tutorials and step-by-step guides to basic computing, Windows tools and techniques, word processing, spreadsheets and databases. Under Tips, References and Resources you'lll find 50 Great Help Sites, Using Search Engines and Dealing with Browser Messages (for example). In the Internet Guide Archives you'll find Internet tips and tricks and Internet Security and Privacy.
http://www.geekgirls.com
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Link-to-Learn Professional Development
Sections include Learn about Technology, Teach with Technology, Resources and Links. Check out The Internet in Schools and Classroom Activities sections, or a workshop kit for, e.g. teaching a class about browsing and searching.
http://205.146.39.13/teach.html
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Microsoft Tutorials
Choose the Microsoft program, the subject area and/or the grade level you are interested in, then ask for a tutorial (there are lots available), how-to articles,a virtual classroom tour, lesson plans, case studies… And it's all free!
http://www.microsoft.com/Education/Tutorials.aspx
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UC Berkeley Library: Internet Workshops
This has been the most heavily used and linked to tutorial on web searching worldwide. From the Table of Contents page you can choose the topics you need, and you can explore to the depth you need-complete beginner to advanced researcher. Advice from UCBL backed by research: Time invested in learning to use the Web efficiently and effectively is well worth while.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/
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Walt Howe's Internet Learning Center
Appealing, well-organised site-though now a bit dated--offering expert guidance in how to navigate, search, evaluate, use and publish on the web. Especially useful for those with Netscape as browser.
http://www.walthowe.com/index.html
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Webhound
Still one of the best tutorial sites on the Net for learning how to use it. Worksheets can be adapted for use with students. Useful links to other sites with similar purpose.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/webhound/index.html
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WebTeacher
Self-paced Internet tutorials for teachers (and librarians) presented in two sections: Web Primer for beginners, and the more in-depth Web Tutorials which covers every aspect of using the Internet for educational purposes.
http://www.webteacher.org/
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