Resources for Teachers

Books in the CESL library in the section Second Language Teaching

Teaching English abroad : talk your way around the world! By Susan Griffith, (2003) Teaching English abroad : first hand reports and resource information. Edited by Clay Hubbs (1996)The teaching of English in Japan. Edited by Ikuo Koike (1978)
Teaching English overseas : a job guide for Americans and Canadians. By Jeff Mohamed. (2003)

Web siteshttp://www.cie.uci.edu/iop/teaching.html (University of California, Irvine,
Center for International Educationhttp://www.eslcafe.com/ (Dave's ESL Café) Employment web sites:

Enhance Your Career - TESOL

Textbooks

Talk it Through! http://college.hmco.com/esl/kozyrev/talk_it_through/1e/students/index.html
Northstar Focus on Listening and Speaking: Advanced http://www.longman.com/ae/nsls_adv/index.html
Contemporary Topics 2 http://www.longman.com/ae/skills/contemptopics/index.html
Tapestry Listening and Speaking 1 http://tapestry.heinle.com
Readers Choice: http://www.press.umich.edu/esl/readerschoice
Azar grammar series http://www.longman.com/ae/azar/index.html
http://www.efcafe.com/ English Firsthand
http://college.hmco.com/esl/folse/gsgp/2e/students/index.html Great Sentences for Great Paragraphs
http://www.impactseries.com/ Impact series
http://college.hmco.com/esl/reppy/journeys_two/1e/students/index.html Journeys Near and Far 2
http://www.longman.com/ae/marketing/toefl/ Longman TOEFL preparation
http://www.longman.com/ae/northstar2e/northstar2eNorthstar textbooks
http://www.press.umich.edu/esl/readerschoice Reader's Choice

Encyclopedias and Almanacs

http://www.infoplease.com/ - almanac
http://encarta.msn.com/ - short entry encyclopedia
http://www.library.arizona.edu/libresources/diction.html – U. of A’s online references (to use off campus you must have a CATCARD)
http://www.refdesk.com/ - collection of links on almost every topic imaginable
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html – country information

Dictionaries

http://www.dictionary.com/ - a basic dictionary
http://dictionary.msn.com/ - pronounces the word
http://www.wordsmyth.net - a dictionary and thesaurus in one
http://www.wordwizard.com/resourcesX2.htm – many different types of dictionaries
http://onelook.com/index.html – a dictionary search engine
http://enchantedlearning.com/Letters.html - children's picture dictionary http://www.visual thesaurus.com/ - visual thesaurus
http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/ - includes the history of the word
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html – specialty dictionaries
http://www.lexfn.com/ - Lexical Freenet searches for words related to the term you type in at the prompt
http://www.1upinfo.com - Browse articles in all areas of topics within Earth & Environment, History, Litrature & Arts, Health & Medicine, People, Philsophy & Religion, Plants & Animals, Science & Technology, Law, Sports, Everyday Life, and more.

Country and map information

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html - excellent maps and country information from the CIA
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html - printable maps

Bibliographic citations

http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/type1/tips/data/citation.html - the U. of A. 's guide to the major style manuals

Virtual libraries

http://vlib.org/Overview.html - a collection of subject area links put together by experts in the field
http://www.refdesk.com/ - "the single best source for facts on the net"
http://www.ask.com/index.asp? - Ask Jeeves, a website that allows you to search using natural language
http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/index.htm - Internet Library for Librarians

Local online reference and information

Use your university and library card numbers to gain access. http://www.library.arizona.edu/ - the University of Arizona 's excellent online resources
http://www.lib.ci.tucson.az.us/ - renew, reserve and use electronic resources including magazines and reference tools

Using the internet to teach

http://newtongue.org/webgapper makes cloze exercises from web pages fun
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk gain access to teacher networks and professional development communities
http://go4english.com fun teaching tips and lesson plans; a kids section with games, songs and stories
http://www.teachenglish.org.uk teacing methodology; a range of activities including dictations, lesson plans and quizzes
http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant tips, suggestions and teaching materials for ELT classrooms; advice on managing class, exploiting materials wtih games and activities
http://www.englishmaze.com improve pronunciation, speaking, reading, listening and writing skills; much of the material is free with free lesson plans
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html practice and compare English and Spanish phonetics
http://eslsite.com A good teaching resource
http://geocities.com/twocentseltcafe A good teaching resource
http://www.1-language.com - free, comprehensive ESL site including forums, realtime chat, jobs, grammar, helplines, multi-lingual content and much more.
http://www.marksesl.com- general ESL information about teaching, practicing and jobshttp://www.teaching.com/iecc/lists/iecc-he.cfm - a higher education pen pal sitehttp://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling417/index.html - examples of web-based ESL activities http://www.tesol.net/neteach.html - - Neteach-L, Sites Neteachers Thought Were Cool
http://kathyschrock.net/ - web site evaluation and integration
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Kelly-Guidelines.html - web site design for ESL

ESL megasites for teachers

http://www.eslgold.com http://www.rong-chang.com/eslmenu.htm - English As A Second Language by Rong-Chang Li
http://www.eric.ed.gov - Educational Resources Information Center
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html - tutorial on web searching
http://eleaston.com/index.html - English On-line with E. L. Easton
http://www.eslcafe.com/ - Dave Sperling presents the ESL Cafe http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslteacher.html - information from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue
http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/Tinitial.htm - Karin's ESL Partyland
http://towerofenglish.com/ - Tower of English
http://eleaston.com/biz/bizhome.html - Easton 's business oriented links
http://www.cal.org/ncle/links.htm#national - provides links to national and regional literacy groups
http://www.eslgold.com/jsps/site.jsp?resource-pag_ex_home

Newspapers with educational components

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml - the BBC's language site
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html - the New York Times site for teachers
http://www.english-to-go.com/English/introduction.cfm?CFID=1073241&CFTOKEN=91292220 - Reuter's news service site with resources for teachers
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/fyi/index.html CNN newsroom with classroom guide
http://pbs.org - home of the PBS Teacher Source
http://usatoday.com - U.S.A. Today has no ESL component, but provides multimedia to accompany some of their stories

Access to research and articles on education and ESL

http://www.eric.ed.gov - ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics http://www.cal.org/ncle/ - National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Educationhttp://www.cal.org/ncle/links.htm - links on NCLE
http://www.cal.org/ncle/DIGESTS/ - ERIC Digests

ESL writing sites

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/specificgos.html, http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html, http://www.west.net/~ger/cops.html, http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/tesol98/home.html- writing with the web http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html - a collection of resources and links for writing http://www.wordcircuits.com/ - hypertext and cybertext literature
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslteacher.html - Purdue University 's writing site

ESL Magazines

http://www.calico.org/calicopubs.html - CALICO Journal
http://llt.msu.edu/ - Language Learning and Technology
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj - The Internet TESL Journal
http://www.eltnewsletter.com/ - ELT Newsletter
http://www.library.arizona.edu/indexes.htm - the U. of A. has subscriptions to several online journals. Use your U.
http://www.eslworldwide.com/ http://www.eslemployment.com/http://www.eslgold.comTESOL Resource Center
http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/trc_genform.asp?CID=1253&DID=7561