TEACHING RESOURCES
 

Tman's TESOL Page   This page is dedicated to English language teachers world wide who want a handy home base when they use the internet as a teaching resource.  Maintained by Roger. Academic Written English   This webpage was edited by me for an ESL program of the Program in Linguistics at the University of Florida: Academic Written English, a writing course for international graduate students. Resources for English Language and Culture   This page provides various aspects of English learning, such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary, and also provides other valualble resources.  the Ohio University CALL Lab.

SchMOOze University   Established as a place where students could practice English while sharing ideas and experiences with other learners and practicers of English. Students have opportunities for one-on-one and group conversations as well as access to language games, an on-line dictionary, virtual stockbroker and many language games.  Virtual English Language Center   This site was developed by the Comenius Group to help students, teachers and speakers of English from around the world have on line access to relevant materials, lessons and products.

ACTIVITY SITES
 
 

Dave's ESL Cafe   This site provides fun things for ESL students and teachers to do on the web.  Maintained by Dave Sperling. ESL Study Hall   This site provides activity links for reading, writing, vocabulary, conversation, grammar, listening, and discussion.  Maintained by The George Washington University. The English Professor   It allows us to reach out beyond the walls of the school classroom and interact with the real world.  Maintained by Patrick Kinch. Learn Egnlish - Have Fun  Here you can find English games to give you fun practice, English crosswords to help you remember all those new words, ESL tests to practise vocabulary and grammar, and great English jokes so you can laugh while you learn.  Designed and maintained by Larry

The Internet TESL Journal's Pages for ESL Students   This web site has over 1,000 activities to help you study English as a Second Language. ESL Home Page   This site links you to those good and free ESL places. The variety of materials will allow you to choose something appropriate for yourself.  Maintained by Rong-Chang Li. EnglishClub.com   This site comes to you from Cambridge, England. It is written mainly in British English, taking the The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English as a reference. ESLGames.com   I recommend that this method be used at the first class so that it helps students to lower their affective filter.  One of Dave's ESL Cafe's sites.

E-JOURNALS
 

Internet TESL Journal   This fine monthly web magazine includes articles, research papers, lesson plans, class room handouts, teahing ideas, and links. TEFL.NET   TEFL Jobs and Resources for TEFL/TESL/ TESOL Teachers.

The Language Teacher Online   You'll find excerpts from this site, the monthly publication of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT).

DICTIONARIES
 

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary   Merriam-Webster delivers the most up-to-date dictionary on the Web. Yourdictionary.com   You'll find your own language.  Also, it links to other online dictionaries.  Amazing! Alternative Dictionary   These pages contain words and expressions you most likely won't find in a normal dictionary.  This is an experimental "internet collaborative project", which means that all entries are made by internet users.

OneLook Dictionaries   Here is the place to look for "hard to find" words that may not appear in general dictionaries.  If you type a word for search, you will see what special dictionaries (e.g. slang, medical, science dictionaries) as well as general dictionaries say in one look. Rhyming Dictionary   You can find rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, related words, homophones, and more.  Especially, you will be surprised you can find how Shakespere used the words you choose.

ENCYCLOPEDIA
 

Encyclopedia Britannica    This is now a phenomenal resource.  Connections are provided for the World Wide Web as well as to articles within the Britannica.

Free Internet Encyclopedia   relies on information found on internet sites--a work in perpetual progress.

FREE SOFTWARE
 

Macromedia Shockwave Player Download Center   With Macromedia Shockwave Player, you can enjoy multimedia games, learning applications, and product demonstrations on the Web. Macromedia Shockwave Player includes Macromedia Flash Playey. CNET Download.com   The source for computing and technology. Computer Learning Foundation   You can download a complete copy of Computer Learning 2001 with articles and complete details on Computer Learning Month, annual contests for educators, students, community groups and schools, andresources available from this site.

Downloadable Files to Replicate Web-Reading Study   This page lists the original study materials from one of the experiments in a research project about how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages. Scriptware   With Scriptware scriptwriting software you have the fastest, easiest and most powerful way to get the story that's in your head onto the page in the format professionals demand. BYU-Hawaii Language Center   This site is made by the Brigham Young University-Hawaii Language Center's "CNN Newsroom and Worldview for ESL" web exercises.