Language Corpora

If you've ever wanted to see how words are really used, check these out:

• British National Corpus: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
• Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English: http://micase.elicorpora.info/
• International Corpus of English: http://ice-corpora.net/ice/
• Corpus of Contemporary American English (Brigham Young University): http://www.americancorpus.org/
• Time Magazine Corpus (Brigham Young University): http://corpus.byu.edu/time/

Customizable newletter with Teaching Tips

Here is a link to a useful customizable newsletter from the Center for Applied Second Language Studies - http://casls.uoregon.edu/intercom.php

This is what they say about it:

InterCom: The Busy Teachers' Newsletter

Between planning lessons, grading students' work, meeting with parents and administrators, organizing after-school activities, and attending teacher in-service days, who has time to stay apprised of recent developments in the field? Let CASLS help!

Our staff subscribes to numerous listservs and taps our national network to create InterCom, a customizable weekly newsletter designed for the time-pressed educator. Members receive a short description with links to resources that match their interests, such as curriculum, workshops, assessment, funding opportunities, and more.

InterCom Features

Available free of charge
Arrives once a week
Incorporates information from numerous listservs and Web sites
Customizable to match individual preferences
Access to over five thousand past articles

Simple video introduction to Wikis

If you've never done a Wiki before it sounds so much more complicated than it is.

Look at this video to find out how simple it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&feature=channel

Website for Teachers

Here is a link to website designed for Algerian ESL teachers. It has a variety of materials and links and some some useful articles for higher education faculty.

www.algeriatesol.org

Free video courses from leading universities.

Free video courses on a variety of topics from leading universities including courses from Columbia, Yale, UCLA, Michigan, and MIT.

http://www.academicearth.org/

Free Resources from Cambridge University Press

Here is a series of free short e-books on topics such as Teaching Listening, Teaching Vocabulary, Teaching Pronunciation, etc.

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/resources/teachersupportplus/#teacher-support