Web Resources for ESL Teachers and Students
Web Resources for ESL Teachers and Students
BBC world service—A place for learners to practise English with the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
Cyber listening lab (by Randall S. Davis)—A wealth of listening practice, with comprehension questions to go with each audio file. http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm
Education World—Links to lesson plans, articles, resources in the content areas, newsletters and more. Geared toward general education teachers. http://www.education-world.com/
Grammar dictionary (by Anthony Hughes) —Online definitions for quick reference. http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/toc.cfm
Glossary of Linguistic terms—Summer Institute of Linguistics’ online dictionary. Definitions and examples for everything from ‘abessive case’ to ‘zero morph.’ http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/
‘Idea cookbook’— A part of Dave’s ESL Cafe: Teachers’ suggestions for classroom activities, organized by theme. http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/index.html
Interesting things for ESL students—Word games, puzzles, exercises, and more. http://www.manythings.org/
Internet TESL Journal—A monthly web journal publishing research, teaching ideas, and handouts. http://iteslj.org/
Listening activities—Site primarily for adult learners who want or need independent practice with sound discrimination and/or listening comprehension. Quality of the links/quizzes varies, as do the speakers’ accents. http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Quizzes/Quizzes_with_Sound/
Poetry 180—A poem a day for American high schools. Inspiration for teachers and students. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
Purdue’s Online Writing Lab—Writing resources for ESL, including worksheets and handouts on spelling, articles, tense consistency, prepositions and more. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html
Search English—A news, information, and networking tool for English language teachers, brought to you by the British Council. http://searchenglish.britishcouncil.org/
Sound Learning—Listening, reading, critical thinking and vocabulary exercises and more from Minnesota Public Radio. http://www.soundlearning.org/features/2004/01/
Tower of English—‘The ESL guide to the Internet.’ Web links to sites organized by topic, as well as questions for discussion/writing related to each. http://www.towerofenglish.com/
Track Star—A place to organize and annotate websites for a lesson, or use existing ‘tracks’ created by educators. http://trackstar.hprtec.org/
Web ESL index—A part of Dave’s ESL Cafe: a searchable index for ESL teachers, with over 3000 links. http://www.eslcafe.com/search/index.html
Website gallery—A gallery of award-winning sites for enriching science, technology, and mathematics education. http://www.estme.org/gallery/index.html
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