Teaching pronunciation

Here is a link to a series of online sessions on teaching pronunciation.

Great stuff!

http://www.dlfeschool.in.th/2007/etraining_eng7.php

Teaching Large Classes

Here are two great resources for teaching large classes.

The first is aimed at K-12 and produced by UNESCO in Bangkok. Lots of great stuff here.

http://www2.unescobkk.org/elib/publications/095/Teaching_Large_Classes.pdf

The second is a great book aimed at TESOL specifically. You can view it online through Google books at

http://books.google.com.pe/books?id=kEyHZ_DiVVkC&printsec=frontcover&lr=&hl=en

Free Online Video English Lessons

Here is a link to a series of free online video lessons.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JenniferESL

I haven't yet been able to listen to them (no speakers on my current computer), but they look good.

Good for English students, as well as teachers who want to see how another teachers works with particular content areas.

Roleplay

A great collection of links here on using roleplays

http://www.eslflow.com/roleplaysdramatheatregames.html

Common European Framework

Here is a link to a huge document on the Council of Europe's Common European Framework for language teaching and learning.

There is a useful self-assessment on p 26 and 27 and a good chapter on language learning and teaching.

http://www.coe.int/T/DG4/Linguistic/Source/Framework_EN.pdf

Pronunciation website

Here's a great website with lots of useful information and activities for teaching pronunciation.

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/activities/printable/FinalConsonantBingo.pdf

Great blog - lots of practical ideas for teachers.

http://eltnotebook.blogspot.com/2006/10/complete-list-of-contents.html

Online magazine for English teachers and trainers

This is a link to 15 issues of a very useful online magazine. Although it's aimed at the Vietnamese context, most of it is universal.

http://www.bcvietnam.org/englishnow/issues.htm

Articles are generally short and very practical.

Teaching with web resources

This was another great webcast on using the internet to teach.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E418AFF7ABDAD18E

YouTube video of webcast on Digital Natives

This was a really great introduction to the profile and needs of digital natives.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=14C2503BED14537C

Two online magazines for teachers - great articles

The American Federation of Teachers has two great online magazines.

The first, American Educator, has a particularly useful feature on cognition and learning.

Here's the main link,

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/index.htm

Here also is a link to an article on accommodating ELLs in mainstream classrooms - so you can get a taste.

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/summer08/goldenberg.pdf




The second, American Teacher, has a variety of articles on classroom practice, policy, and administration issues.

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_teacher/index.htm

Here's a sample of the useful articles you can find.

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_teacher/mayjune09/AT_MayJune09.pdf

Resources for teachers

Here is a useful website created for English teachers - lots of great stuff here.

http://englishcompanion.ning.com/

You can create your own website like this at www.ning.com A great way to create a discussion group for teachers or teacher educators.

Free online teacher development program

Here is a link to the US Department of State funded teacher development series, Shaping the Way we Teach English

Useful online video and associated readings.

http://oelp.uoregon.edu/shaping.html

Online video

Lots of great video online here at Teacher's TV

http://www.teachers.tv/video

Kathleen Bailey's resource lists for teachers and teacher educators

Professor Kathleen Bailey has a great list of resources on a wide variety of topics at
http://www.kathleenmbailey.com/5_resources_reflists.html

E-pals

It used to be we had penpals. Now the internet makes it easy for us to find someone to write to in English. Here's a site to help people find an appropriate person to write to.

http://www.e-palworld.co.uk/

International House Journal

This is a link to the in-house journal of the International House affiliation of language and teacher training programs.

Some great stuff here for teachers and teacher educators alike. Practical short articles.

http://www.ihworld.com/ihjournal/backissues.asp

Teaching Large Multi-Level classes

Two great online resources

The first is Natalie Hess' excellent book - a limited preview is available at Google Books

http://books.google.com.pe/books?id=kEyHZ_DiVVkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0

The second, on the same subject, but somewhat older is available on ERIC in its entirety. It was originally designed for Peace Corps volunteers.

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/29/a7/06.pdf

Reading for Young Learners

Here is a great site with lots of really fun reading activities for young learners.

http://younglearners.eslreading.org/index.html

Online teacher development videos

Here is a series of videos produced by the BBC and the British Council

Useful for teachers and teacher educators alike

http://teachingenglish.org.uk/transform/teachers/training/training-videos

A really great site for practicing English sounds and phonemic script

This site is a lot of fun. It would be great for kids, but is also sufficiently engaging for adults. A great way for teachers and students alike to improve their understanding of English phonology.

http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/

Mindmap Software

Here is a link to a website that lets you make mindmaps online. Useful once in a while, and free.

http://www.bubbl.us/

Good for teacher educators but also for ESOL students who can make their own lexical mindmaps or collocation webs, etc.

Teaching and Learning English Spelling

Here is a link to a blog about teaching and learning English spelling... As it says,
How it works, how to learn it, how to teach it, and how to love it!

http://thespellingblog.blogspot.com/

Useful site for less experienced teachers

This site has nice short summaries on a range of topics. It's written by James Alatis, former head of linguistics at Georgetown University, so it's quite good.

http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/planning/structure.htm

Visual thesaurus

This a great online gidget that allows you to see synonyms or closely related words in the form of a visual mindmap.

You have to buy it to get regular access, but you can check it out before you do.

I don't use it a lot, but it's really cool anyway...

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

Online dictionary of English teaching terminology

This is a useful tool for folks like me who sometimes aren't sure of their terminology.

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/knowledge-wiki/index-e

Online EFL course for Spanish speakers

Here is a link to an online course that has been produced in Ecuador.

http://guayaquil.gov.ec/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=516&Itemid=174

If you're interested in supporting Second Language Learners in K-12 settings...

Jill Mora is a professor at San Diego State and has put a lot of useful summaries of her courses online.

http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/moramodules/default.htm#Theory

Here are the courses she teaches. Click on the link to find more detail

Theoretical Foundations of Bilingual/L2 Education
Thematic Unit & Lesson Planning for CLAD Instruction
Literacy Instruction in the CLAD Classroom
Teaching in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
Bilingual Education and Biliteracy Instruction

Humanising Language Teaching - an online magazine

This online magazine has a lot of great articles

http://www.hltmag.co.uk/

The Internet TESL Journal

A huge number of great articles here! Something for everyone!

http://iteslj.org/

Empowering teachers as testers

Here is a link to a video presentation at IATEFL 2009 on helping teachers with assessment.

http://iatefl09.britishcouncil.org/2009/sessions/63/empowering-teachers-testers-0

Session Details

As testers, our aim is to involve teachers in all phases of testing, at the very least to increase their understanding of the place of assessment in the teaching/learning process and to gain their cooperation in promoting transparency. The presenter will set this topic in context and present useful techniques for developing teachers as testers.

Creating interesting language exercises, and making language exercises interesting

Here is a link to a video of a presentation by Penny Ur in which she will

look at some grammar, vocabulary and spelling exercises, discuss what makes them more - or less - interesting, and explore some strategies that can add interest to the boring ones. The aim is to equip participants with some ‘practical principles’ for creating and maintaining interest in essentially form-focused procedures

http://iatefl09.britishcouncil.org/2009/sessions/63/creating-interesting-language-exercises-and-making-language-exercises-interesting

For Spanish speaking teachers of English & others

This is a really great website hosted by the Benjamin Franklin Library at the US Embassy in Mexico City. It has a huge number of resources that are useful for all English teachers, but especially geared to those working in Latin America.

http://www.usembassy-mexico.gov/bbf/bfingles.htm

Another Website with Ideas for Lesson Planning

Here is another website with useful ideas for lesson planning

http://askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/Guide.shtml

The National Reading Association website

Not strictly ESOL, but lots of great stuff here.

http://www.readwritethink.org/index.asp


The lesson plan page has lots of great resources.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp?grade=0&strand=0&engagement=0

Lesson Planning

Here are two links to a couple of pages that have ideas on lesson planning.

http://esl.about.com/library/howto/htplan.htm

http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?catid=59449&docid=146578

Resources for teaching reading

This site has a wide variety of resources for teachers of reading to ESL/EFL learners

http://www.eslreading.org/

There's a companion site that deals with reading for young learners...

http://younglearners.eslreading.org/

Lots of good stuff here...

Six of the Best!

Here is a fun website for teachers with topic focused lists of six.

http://sixthings.net/

Here's a sample.

Scott Thornbury’s Six great films about teaching
Six ways to exploit the “atheist bus” in class
Six ways the American military has taught languages
Graham Stanley’s Six Web 2.0 resolutions for teachers
Six original topical teaching ideas for January 09
Six suggestions for teachers on getting through the economic crisis
Six drinks for an English teachers New Year’s Eve Party

Free online course for beginning level ESL learners

Here is a new free website produced by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education of the US Department of Education. It looks great and there is a teachers' page where you can register.

http://www.usalearns.org