Below please find comprehensive links for our students: personal use as well as links to important information related to the field of TESOL—please see also: Job Links.
- AU Resources
- Professional Organizations
- Tests
- Government and International Connections
- American Sign Language
- Other TESOL Sites
- DC-MD-VA Public School Links
- Publishers
- Reference
- Research
- Lesson Sources
- Funstuff
- Graphics
Suggestions? Please send suggested link information to tesol@american.edu. Please make sure that your link is current. Thanks!
AU Resources
my.american.edu—Check for on-line course schedules, getting your grades, etc.
American University Off-campus Housing—Access to a page maintained by AU to find apartments and houses in the area surrouding AU's campus
American University Blackboard—A website (often a component of coursework) that hosts discussions on various topics according to class.
American University's OIT Help Desk on the Web—Web site that is good for helping you with technology distress.
Aladin—The search engine for the DC Consortium libraries (AU is a part of this). Access MyAladin to find out when your books are due, if you owe any late fees or fines, or to bookmark your favorite electronic journals (MyAladin requires a student ID number for access.)
Professional Organizations
TESOL—The international TESOL organization based in Alexandria, VA
AAAL—American Asociation of Applied Linguistics—Learn linguist lingo!
WATESOL—Washington, DC area TESOL affiliate
Maryland TESOL—Maryland area TESOL affiliate
VATESOL—Virginia area TESOL affiliate
CAL—Center for Applied Linguistics—Washington, DC area organization of linguists
NCELA—National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition—Boasts an excellent electronic journal library
IATEFL—International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language—the British equivalent of America's TESOL
The Linguist List—How to become a full-fledged linguist! The lingo, the job, all the goodies!
NAFSA—NAFSA: Association of International Education promotes the exchange of students and scholars to and from the US
ACTFL—The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages—Dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction.
Tests
TOEFL—Information on the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Required test of English for admission into most American universities
TOEIC—Information about the Test of English for International Communication
IELTS—International English Language Testing System—tests the complete range of English language skills which will commonly be encountered by students when studying or training in the medium of English. The British equivalent of the TOEFL.
ERIC—Access to Education Resources Information Center, the premier database of journal and non-journal education literature
ERIC/AE Test Locator—A database that contains over 10,000 tests and research instruments
Teachervision.com—Assessment division of a popular teachers site
Fairtest—FairTest: the National Center for Fair & Open Testing
Government and International Connections
Metro DC Traveler's Circle—Discuss travel/tips in a friendly, low-key ambiance
The Expat Exchange—Tries to match you with someone already in the country
Third Culture Kids World —For military, State Dept. and other kinds of "brats"
USIA English Language Programs Abroad—The Office of English Language Programs creates and implements high quality, targeted English language programs in specific regions and countries of the world.
C.I.E.E.—Council for International Exchange of Scholars (FULBRIGHTs & other Opps)
Peace Corps
US State Department—A range of services, including travel advisories
Foreign Service Exam—Study guide for the Foreign Service Exam
US/Brazil Learning Technologies Network- Click on LearnNet for Teacher Training Projects
American Sign Language Sites
ASL Fingerspelling
Deaf Education: A Parent's Guide
Other TESOL Sites
English Teaching Forum- USIA's journal of TESOL tips/research
Welcome to ELT News—Website for English teachers in Japan
Karin's ESL PartyLand—An old-timer, one of my favorites—something for all!
Jonathan Aubrey's ESL Learning and Teaching Page
PeakEnglish: Distance Learning ESL, English as a Second Language
Resources: ESL Links
Dave's ESL Cafe
Jokes for the ESL/EFL Classroom (I-TESL-J)
Net Resources for TESOL
Baysights—EFL Resources and links for students and teachers
English Shop Online—a wide range of teaching tools/resources at reasonable prices
TEFL Net Nation—links to TESOL affiliates and associations world wide
Internet TESOL Journal
TESL-EJ —TESL Electronic Journal
The English Zone
ESL Basics—Useful ESL/TESOL videso and videos for business English
Needs Analysis for Workplace ESL
esl.about.com/homework/esl—A large and diverse ESL site with everything from grammar terminology lexicons, to ESP resources, to lessons for kids, to tests and quizzes.
The Mixxer is a free educational site for language learners and teachers to find a language partner for a language exchange. The language partner is someone who speaks the language you study as their native language and is studying your native language. The partners then meet online to help each other practice and learn a foreign language.
DC-MD_VA Public School Links
DC
DC Public Schools Home Page
DCPS Curriculum
MD
MCPS Home Page
Outcomes and Objectives: K-12 English Curriculum
Reading Standards for the MSPAPs
VA
Publishers
Allyn & Bacon: College Textbook Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press, USA
Delta Systems
Harcourt Brace International
Addison Wesley Longman E L T / E S L / E F L
Reference
Currency Exchange Table
Webster's Dictionary On-line
Encyclopedia Britannica On-line
CALL-IS Software List Home Page—a veritable "Consumer Reports" of TESOL CALL software
Lonely Planet On-line—perfect for EFL job destinations!
Fodor's On-line - another resource for researching countries. Includes points of interest, places to stay, etc.
Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door—Wonderful information for budget-conscious travelers who are interested in seeing Europe
Zip Code Search—Find out any zip code in the US!
British National Corpus- a new interface to a well known corpus of English. Search capabilites include investigating word frequency in various registers, and finding which adjectives typically appear with which nouns.
Create a tiny URL for any website—Enter the long URL, and generate a small one to stand in for it.
Washingtonpost.com
Using Video in the Classroom
Plagiarism.org—The internet plagiarism detection service for authors & education
Univ. of Wisconsin Academic Writing Handbook—an excellent resource for your students
WebCam World: The Live WebCams Ring—Need authentic discourse?
Lesson Sources
Teaching from a Hispanic Perspective: A Handbook for Non-Hispanic Adult Educators—a great starter for people working with hispanic adults (or children)!
Enchanted Learning is an excellent website that can be very useful for beginner ESL students. Among its hundreds of activities and crafts is its Little Explorer English Picture Dictionary as well as 6 bilingual picture dictionaries. There are "Label Me Printouts" for dozens of categories including animals, flags, states, geology.... Under "ESL Printouts" you'll find a wealth of pictures specifically helpful to students learning English. Just recently the website added an ESL activity called "Look It Up! Quizzes" in which students look up words in the English Picture Dictionary to find pieces of information. This website is endlessly interesting for kids of all ages.
Dragonfly Workshops Home Page—workshops in interactive, creative teacher training
Movies with Convincing Accents
Clips of Movie Soundtracks in Real Audio—Soundtracks of current/past movies heard in Real Audio
Lyrics Connection—find the lyrics to almost any song that's been written
Dumb Laws
Roadside America: The Vortex—alternative reading for students
The AdCritic—All Ads, All The Time—100s of ads for authentic discourse to teach culture
Welcome to How Stuff Works—from paperclips to nuclear reactors, great for ESP
Sounds of the World's Animals—What does an elephant say in Urdu? Find out on this informative site!
Interactive Javascript Quizzes for ESL Students
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections
Cooperative Learning Principles
Vocabulary Quizzes—A practical page available for students of ESL. Quizzes are divided into categories such as easy, medium and hard.
ESL Idiom Page—A page that is part of the Dave's ESL Cafe website. Idioms are classified in alphabetical order, so they're easy to search.
Words in the News—BBC site that focuses on the language used in recent news reports, including information for English teachers
Word a Day—An innovative site that will email you a word a day, complete with meaning, pronunciation, and examples of how the word is used in a sentence.
www.eslgold.com—Tons of free resources for learning and teaching English! Grammatical explananations, phrases of conversation, ideas for teaching, great ESL links, etc.
P.O.V.'s Borders: PBS's First Web-only Series Showcasing Interactive Story Telling—P.O.V.'s Borders is a showcase for interactive storytelling about the borders in our lives. How easy is it for you to understand another person's borders?
Practitioner Toolkit: Working with Adult English Language Learners- provides needed support and resources to adult education and family literacy instructors who are new to serving adults and families learning English. The toolkit provides a variety of materials to help practitioners meet the language and literacy development needs of the ELL students they serve. These include responses to Frequently Asked Questions, a first-day orientation guide, lesson plans, etc. Download the entire document or select and download topics of interest as needed.
International Children's Digital Library—a project of the University of Maryland, this website features 573 children's books in 27 different languages, available to be downloaded and read FREE!
Funstuff
List of the 1000 books most held by libraries - This list, updated for 2005, contains the "Top 1000" titles owned by OCLC member libraries—the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the "purchase vote" of libraries around the globe.
The Dialectizer—render any piece of discourse into a variety of "dialects"
Welcome to rateyourprof.com—yes, let the nation know your opinion of your Prof.!
Blue Mountain Arts' Electronic Greeting Cards—free e-greetings
Hallmark E-cards -excellent animated e-cards for all occasions, free
The Onion—Satiric newspaper
HaHa.com Best Jokes on the NET
Korean Graduate Students—this website, created by the Korean Graduate students in Computer Science at University of Maryland, includes such information as where to find Korean groceries, restaurants, and entertainment in the area.
Urban Dictionary—a website that allows people to add their own slang words and definitions to an urban dictionary. Some are real, some are humorous, and some are both.
Preparing for a Substitute—Being a substitute teacher isn't easy under the best of circumstances, but as a classroom teacher, you can take steps to facilitate a positive experience for everyone—the substitute, the students, and yourself. Click here for links to helpful tips and templates for subsitute teacher instructions and feedback.
Graphics
Graphics
Microsoft® Clip Art—Great, clear graphics, excellent animations
Hee Yun's Graphic Collection
www.webshots.com—Extensive collection of FREE, downloadable desktops/wallpaper for PCs and MACs
