| GENERAL
ELT WEBSITES (LINKS ETC.) |
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the sites below contain a range of useful ELT stuff – most
have worthwhile links lists, and some have valuable material of
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http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/
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particularly like this site which Kenji and Katherine Kitao have
put together – should be a bookmark/favourite for anyone involved
with teaching English at tertiary level, I think. Richard
Slessor |
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| http://eleaston.com/ | | A
really good site for links. Richard
Slessor |
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| http://iteslj.org/links/ | | Another
good links site, based in Japan. Richard Slessor |
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| http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/weblinklearners.html | | Good
links. Richard
Slessor |
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http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/inetpro.html | |
Good
for ELT-related Internet projects. Richard
Slessor |
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| http://www.english-forum.com/ | | A
nicely-presented and well-organised ELT ‘portal’ site
from the UK. Richard Slessor |
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http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_
Human_Languages/Languages/Specific_Languages/
English/English_as_a_Second_Language/Teaching/ | |
Worth
browsing among these links. Richard
Slessor |
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| http://www.eslcafe.com/ | | "The
Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from
Around the World!" Dave Sperling’s ESL Café has
become widely known. Materials, teachers’ and students’
forums, etc. Richard Slessor |
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http://www.tesol.net/neteach.html | | NETEACH-L
is a (recommended) mailing list for international teachers of English
as a second or foreign language to discuss Internet-assisted teaching
and learning . This is a list of sites NETEACH members like. Richard
Slessor |
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| http://www.geocities.com/teflthings/materials.htm | | Useful
list of online teaching materials. Richard
Slessor |
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| MORE
TIGHTLY FOCUSED WEBSITES |
| Business
English | | |
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http://ec.hku.hk/epc | | Tertiary
level business English pages from the University of Hong Kong Richard
Slessor |
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| www.besig.org | | A very
useful collection of Business English links Evan Frendo |
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| http://businessballs.com | |
Useful
for anyone working in the business communications and organizational
behavior field Phyllis Wachob |
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| Academic English | | |
| www.uefap.co.uk |
| Developed by a lecturer from the University of Hertfordshire in the UK (Recommended by Adrian Tennant in the IATEFL newsletter) Richard Slessor |
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| http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap & http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/index.htm |
| Two links to pages at HK Polytechnic University (Recommended by Adrian Tennant in the IATEFL newsletter) Richard Slessor |
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| www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/index.html |
| From the University of Ohio (Recommended by Adrian Tennant in the IATEFL newsletter) Richard Slessor |
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www.phrasebank.man.ac.uk/index.htm |
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Academic writing conventions from the University of Manchester (Recommended by Adrian Tennant in the IATEFL newsletter) Richard Slessor |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu |
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Some of you will already know this US academic writing site (Recommended by Adrian Tennant in the IATEFL newsletter) Richard Slessor |
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www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab |
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University of Nottingham site on academic vocabulary (Recommended by Adrian Tennant in the IATEFL newsletter) Richard Slessor |
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Checklist
for writing language learning materials | | |
| http://www.webofenglish.co.uk/ltmat.htm | |
My
own modest contribution to online sources for language teachers! Richard Slessor |
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Getting
published | |
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http://www.tesol.org/pubs/author/books/
demystify.html | | TESOL
page on how to get published in other serial publications in the
field of applied linguistics. Ann
Hendricks |
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http://www.webofenglish.co.uk/submit.htm | | My
take on this area, focusing more on language learning books and
electronic publications. Richard
Slessor |
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| Grammar
and style | | |
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
index.html | | Unstuffy
and (mostly) very sensible guide to English style. Richard
Slessor |
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Language
testing | |
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http://www.dundee.ac.uk/languagestudies/ltest/
ltr.html | | A
very useful site maintained by Glenn Fulcher, a well-known language
testing expert. Includes streaming video interviews with various
testing gurus (Vivo or Real Player). Richard
Slessor |
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Online
exercises | |
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http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ | | Half
Baked created the famous "Hot Potatoes" and "Quandary"
programs. Both are free educator-shareware in their "basic"
versions, and very cheap in their full and registered versions.
Hot Potatoes creates clozes, crosswords, and many other exercises,
and can make these in HTML format so you can put on IVLE or your
course website. Quandary creates action mazes. Excellent programs. Ann Hendricks |
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| http://www.esl-lab.com/ | | ‘Randall’s
Listening Lab’ – a widely-recommended collection of
listening exercises. Richard Slessor |
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http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/grammar/
activities.html | | A
lot of grammar activities - and links to more! Richard
Slessor |
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| http://lc.byuh.edu/cnn_n/CNN-N.html | | Exercises
from Hawaii, based on the CNN Newsroom website. Richard
Slessor |
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/ | | A
whole range of quizzes for ELT learners, from a respected Japanese
website. Richard Slessor |
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| IT and
language learning | | |
| www.it-links.org | | IT-Links
is an online journal dealing with IT in English language teaching,
with a special focus on our region. Richard Slessor |
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| Other
copyright-free material | | |
| http://creativecommons.org/ | | Leader
in alternative copyright: great source for usable text, images,
video, and sounds. Ann Hendricks |
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http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm | | MIT
OpenCourseWare. Outstanding provision by MIT of hundreds (thousands?)
of its courses' syllabi, assignments, etc. online for all to benefit
from. Ann Hendricks |
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| http://www.archive.org/ | | The
Internet Archive. Leader in online archiving of public domain and
other very usable video, texts, images and sounds. A mind-bogglingly
huge and valuable archive. Tons of stuff here! Ann
Hendricks |
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http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-
db.php? collection=open_ mind&collectionid=openmind_ep892 | | The
Open Mind online episodes. Fabulous interview show which ran (has
been running?) for decades. This link takes you to "Race Relations
in Crisis", with Malcolm X among the guests – you can
go from there to other episodes. Ann
Hendricks |
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| http://promo.net/pg/index.html | | Project
Gutenberg. Leader in the provision of online, downloadable copyright-free
texts, in many languages. Thousands of books: absolutely great. Ann Hendricks |
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http://www.icdlbooks.org/ | | International
Children's Digital Library. Outstanding online-readable books for
children in many, many languages. Fabulous. (Use it for your kids!
And yourself, to brush up on your foreign languages!) Ann
Hendricks |
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http://www.repeatafterus.com/ | | Repeat
After Us. Started by an American school student, this site has thousands
of copyright-free online texts, ranging from "memorable quotes"
to prose to "stories around the world", many of which
are accompanied by audio of students or teachers reading the texts
aloud. Ann Hendricks |
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| http://www.thislife.org/ | | This
American Life. My favorite radio show, archived online. (Great to
listen to while you have to do some mindless task, such as inbox
clean-up.) Fascinating, hip, expertly-crafted stories, most of which
are true investigations, and a few fiction, including regular work
by writers including David Sedaris. Can buy downloads of individual
episodes, or listen for free using streaming audio. Has been used
by dozens if not hundreds of educators. Great for listening tasks
for students. Ann Hendricks |
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http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php | | The
Prelinger Archives. These guys are particularly interesting: they
have hundreds of online films and commercials ("ephemeral"
films) from the U.S., 1927 to 1987. Fascinating - and in English,
of course. Great material for social sciences and English language
classes. Ann Hendricks |
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http://web2.unt.edu/weblibrary/freemedi/gallery/
index.php | | Free
Media. "Royalty-free resources for education" Ann
Hendricks |
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http://www.langpix.com/ | | Photographs
for language teaching, free of charge if used for educational purposes. Richard Slessor |
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Phonology | |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
english/frameset.html | | The
Sounds of American English, from the University of Iowa. Just as
the name suggests: phonetic introduction to the sounds of (standard-midwestern)
American English. Great for pronunciation help for students or clients
who consistently have trouble with a certain sound. Ann
Hendricks |
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| Sound
editing | | |
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http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ | | Great
and simple open-source downloadable sound editor. Can capture, edit,
and export sounds in MP3 or .wav formats. Perfect for when you need
a digital recording of a lecture or sound. Ann
Hendricks |
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Vocabulary | |
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http://www.lextutor.ca/ | | The
portal page (‘The Compleat Lexical Tutor’) for the two
URLs mentioned below, and a good deal of other useful material besides. Ann Hendricks |
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http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/textools/
web_vp.html | | A
really useful vocabulary level checker from Canada, based on wordlists
developed in New Zealand – cut and paste in your text, and
the checker will analyse it. Richard
Slessor |
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http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/ | | Check
incidences of a vocabulary item in a number of different corpuses,
including the Brown corpus from the US and the British National
Corpus. (You can also search several different corpuses together
– texts totalling over four million words.) Richard
Slessor |
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Writing | |
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http://eslbee.com/ | | Advanced
Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English. Richard Slessor |
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http://www.writing.ku.edu/students/guides.shtml | | University
of Kansas Writing Guides Richard
Slessor |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ | | Purdue
University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) Richard
Slessor |
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http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/ | | Ruth
Vilmi’s well-established international student writing exchange. Richard Slessor |
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MISCELLANEOUS
USEFUL WEBSITES |
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http://www.openoffice.org/ | | Open
Office. Open-source Microsoft Office alternative: free and easy
(can also do PDF conversions). Works on Mac, Windows, Linux, or
Unix. Ann Hendricks |
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http://www.thenakedscientists.com/ | | The
Naked Scientists. A science radio archive from the U.K. that delivers
streaming audio of many, many episodes that are filled with content
that appeals to ages from primary school through college and beyond.
Very clear, likeable show, interesting and great for listening exercises.
Looks like they are planning to allow downloadable audio soon. Ann
Hendricks |
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http://www.si.edu/revealingthings/
load-index.html | | Smithsonian
Without Walls. Really neat funkily-hyperlinked online exhibition,
called "Revealing Things". Ann
Hendricks |
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LISTSERV
FORUMS |
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listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu | | TESL-L
is perhaps the best-known general ELT forum. To subscribe, send
an e-mail to listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu,
with the message "subscribe TESL-L" (without the quotes).
Once you do this, you'll get an e-mail from them confirming your
subscription, and containing directions on how to manage your listserv,
including how to subscribe to the more specific sublists, for ESP,
CALL etc. (The main list has a lot of traffic; the sublists are
quieter but useful. You can subscribe to them without also subscribing
to the main list.) Ann Hendricks |
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http://www.ilc.cuhk.edu.hk/english/neteach/
main.html | | NETEACH-L
is a very good CALL forum. For subscription details, go to this
web page. Richard Slessor |
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http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/list/lis-tefl.htm | | For
details of a wide range of other ELT listserv forums, go to this
web page. Don't miss the rather inconspicuous link to Part 2 at
the end of Part 1! Richard Slessor |
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