John Battenburg

English Language Teaching Webliography

Activities for ESL Students 
  http://grove.ufl.edu/~ktrickel/activity.html

This site allows students to work on grammar and vocaulary. Quizzes and crossword puzzles are provided for varying language proficiency levels. Resources for classroom ESL teachers are also included.

 

BBC Worldservice: Learning English 
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

BBC news with interviews (using Real Audio), commentary, science and technology, society and culture, study skills, and speaking English. 

 

Cal Poly International Phonetic Alphabet Project
  http://multiweb.lib.calpoly.edu/medialib/ipa/ipap.html

Websites teaching and illustrating articulatory phonetics in English, Spanish, French, and German.

 

California Central Coast Online Dictionary
  http://cccod.lib.calpoly.edu/

An online dictionary containing some six hundred entries describing the vocabulary of the California Central Coast. Pronunciation information, photos, and videos are also included in the dictionary. 

 

CNN Newsroom and Worldview
  http://lc.byuh.edu/CNN_N/CNN-N.html

CNN news with grammar and vocabulary exercises.

 

Collins COBUILD Student's Dictionary Online
 

http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ccsd/

English language dictionaries for second language learners. Based on the University of Birmingham spoken and written corpus.

 

Communicating Through Fables
  http://www.teachersdesk.com/lessons/esl/fables/Fables.htm

Learning English is enjoyable with this site because it provides fables including "The Thirsty Pigeon," "The Kingdom of the Lion," and "The Tortoise and the Hare." Related exercises include "completion," "true or false," "matching," and "discussion."

 

Dave's ESL Cafe
  http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/

This website is filled with material for English language teachers and students: global English, chat central, discussion forums, FAQs, help center, hint-of-the-day, idea cookbook, idioms, job center, phrasal verbs, photo gallery, quizzes, quotes, search the web, slang, and today in history. 

 

English Language Club
  http://www.englishclub.net/

Grammar, pronunciation, games, literature, and a reference guide are included in this website.

 

The English Page
  http://www.englishpage.com/

The English Page provides weekly lessons, grammar book, reading room, listening lounge, games, and forums for students and teachers. Bilingual and monolingual English learners' dictionaries as well as dictionaries for irregular verbs, phrasal verbs, and a thesaurus are also included. 

English Space Information Center
  http://www.englishspace.ort.org/launchpad/about_whatis.asp

English Space has quizzes, games, puzzles and exercises to practice reading, writing and listening to English. 

 

ESL Interactive
 

A great resource for links to self-correcting quizzes on geography, grammar, history, idioms, slang, people, reading comprehension, science, world culture, and writing. Crossworld puzzles, hangman games, and internet treasure hunts also provide activities for ESL students.

 

ESL Partyland 
  http://www.eslpartyland.com/

Student pages include over 75 interactive quizzes, 15 discussion forms, interactive lessons, a chat room, and various other links.Teacher pages provide lessons plans and material that can be reproduced for the classroom.

 

ESL Online
  http://eleaston.com/

This site contains links to numerous websites used in language teaching and learning. Other than covering the four skill areas, this sites includes a wealth of encyclopedic information on topics such as architecture, currency, flags, food, holidays, scripts, music, religion, terrorism, and weather. A variety of languages other than English are also included in this website.

 

ESL Lesson Plans and Resources
  http://www.csun.edu/%7Ehcedu013/eslplans.html

A guide to ESL lesson plans and activities. 

 

ESL Resources
  http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/esl.html

Links to ESL journals, games, quizzes, forums, information about studying abroad, and teaching aids.

 

ESL and Computer Assisted Language Learning: CALL
  http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/

Discussion of Computer Assisted Language Learning and software reviews of languages ranging from Chinese to Hebrew to Spanish.

 

Funland TESL Page
  http://www.tesol.net/tesl.html

A fun and interactive site for students and teachers with activities, lesson plans, and more.

 

Guide to Grammar and Writing
  http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/

This site contains a wealth of information for ESL students. The writing process is discussed in detail, and students can click on a number of links to study the paragraph and the essay. This site provides a small lesson on just about every type of grammar problem imaginable.

 

Internet TESL Journal
  http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/

Over 5,000 links to websites for English language teachers and students. 

 

Journals and Newsletters in TESL/TEFL, Linguistics, and Communications
  http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/journal.htm

Links to professional development journals and newsletters (both electronic and paperbound) for language teachers and linguists.

 

Linguist List: ESL, EFL, L2
  http://www.linguistlist.org/esl.html

Numerous links to ESL/EFL resources for students and teachers, ESL/EFL Programs, and computer assisted language learning. 

 

The Longman Dictionaries Web Site 
  http://www.longman.com/dictionaries/students/sts_resources.html

This site is designed for both teachers and students of English. Study exercises are an important part of this site, ranging in difficulty from upper intermediate to advanced. Exercises deal with word choice in speech versus writing, the use of synonyms.

 

Mining Co. ESL Guide
  http://esl.miningco.com/education/esl/

Links to methods in English language teaching, dialects of English around the world, online courses, TOFEL preparation, careers in ESL and EFL, false lexical friends, and much more.

 

National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education
 
Numerous articles are arranged by subject in ESL for adults in the U.S. Frequently Asked questions on literacy development, technology, and reading are also featured.
 
Newbury House Online Dictionary
  http://nhd.heinle.com/

Another English language dictionary for second language learners.

 

Online English Grammar 
  http://webnz.co.nz/checkers/grammar2.html

This site provides information on verbs, sentences, fixing common mistakes as well as includes print-outs of tests and lessons and exercises available by email. Guidance is given in areas such as transitive versus intransitive verbs, punctuating sentences, use of apostrophes, and which or that.

 

Online Writing Lab--Purdue University 
  http://owl.English.purdue.edu/

Purdue's Online Writing lab has an entire section devoted to ESL students. Handouts can be accessed on topics such as article usage, verb tenses, preposition usage, parts of speech, sentence construction, punctuation, spelling, and much more. Students can utilize the actual writing lab by submitting inquiries through the site.

 

Take Our Word for It
 
This weekly word-origin webzine focuses on vocabulary development for the English language learner.Sites include featured words, questions and answers about words, gripes and grumbles from language purists, and humor in language.
 
TESL-EJ
 


TESL-EJ is a freely distributed, academic, refereed journal.This online publication, created in 1994, provides useful articles and reviews for teachers around the world.Recent articles have dealt with "Etymology and Vocabulary Development for the L2 College Student, "Teaching about Sexism with English Composition in a Nigerian Classroom," and Reflective Teaching in EFL:Integrating Theory and Practice.

 

Tower of English Lobby
  http://towerofenglish.com/

Step into the Tower of English elevator and stop on floors such as the library, study hall, game room, music room, or comedy club.

 

Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students
  http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/

This site is a project of The Internet TESL Journal offering over 500 quizzes for the ESL student. Quizzes deal with an array of topics such a holidays, reading, trivia, culture, sports, writing, grammar, homonyms, idioms, phrasal verbs, slang, scrambled words, and vocabulary. Answers are given to the students immediately so that they can track their progress.

 

Soon Online Magazine 
  http://www.soon.org.uk/

Soon is an "ezine" that is spefically put together for ESL speakers.  The articles are fresh, interesting, and engaging for the students. They help to incorporate students from all over the world by handling topics that are culturally diverse.

 

updated 3/1/2005