Some Useful ESL/EFL Links
Compiled by Deborah Healey

Professional interest

Decide who will look at each site so that everyone does not check the same one. Look at two of these. Open Microsoft Word and write your comments in a file. You will send your file to the group at the end of the session.

Share your finds and comments at the TOP site at Nicenet. Log into www.nicenet.org. The first time, you'll need to join the class. After the first time, just use your name and password to log in.

TESOL online

http://www.tesol.org/

Internet TESL Journal

http://iteslj.org

CALL Interest Section Software List

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/softlist/

Macintosh Software for ESOL on CELIA at La Trobe University.

http://osu.orst.edu/Dept/eli/celia/maccelia.html

CELIA archive at La Trobe University, including DOS, Mac, and Windows files

ftp://ftp.latrobe.edu.au/pub/CELIA/english/

Guide to Arabic language learning links from Middlebury.

http://cat.middlebury.edu/~lib/arabic.html

Guide to French language learning links from Middlebury.

http://cat.middlebury.edu/~lib/french.html

Macintosh Free/Shareware for English Language Learners and Teachers, compiled by Geoff Taylor

homepage.mac.com/geofftaylor/FileSharing1.html

Directory of educational software - mostly Mac

ftp://ftp.amug.org/pub/amug/amug-files/educ/

Creating interactive websites -- ELI Tech Seminar '99

http://osu.orst.edu/dept/eli/techsem99/creatinginternet2a.html

Teacher-oriented sites

Decide who will look at each site so that everyone does not check the same one. Look at three of these. Add your comments to your Microsoft Word file. You will send your file to the group at the end of the session.

Share your finds and comments at the TOP site at Nicenet.

DEN - The Digital Education Network

http://www.edunet.com/

Ed Web - information for teachers learning about the Web

http://www.ibiblio.org/edweb/resource.cntnts.html

Search the ERIC database

http://ericir.syr.edu/Eric/

A Place to Start in Selecting Software - an article to help teachers and lab planners get started with software

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/mar1998.html

Keypals for students from Kenji Kitao

http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/keypal.htm

Tech Tip of the Month - helpful hints for teachers who use technology

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/techtip.html

Deborah's K-12 Links - a work in progress

http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/ed596/k12_links.html

Vance Stevens' Web resource for CALL Lab managers and others - lots of links.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4631/esl_home.htm

E.L. Easton's material for teaching English - lots of good links for language teachers

http://eleaston.com/materials.html

Student Interest

Decide who will look at each site so that everyone does not check the same one. Look at three of these. Add your comments to your Microsoft Word file. You will send your file to the group at the end of the session.

Share your finds and comments at the TOP site at Nicenet.

Dave's ESL Cafe on the Web

http://www.eslcafe.com

Magazine Rack

http://www.magazine-rack.com/

Learning Oral English Online

http://www.rong-chang.com/book/

Pronunciation practice - some student-oriented links.

http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/138/pronlinks.html

ESL/Topic pages, etc. from Leslie Opp-Beckman

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/

Internet TESL Journal links for students, with quizzes and crossword puzzles.

http://a4esl.org

Writing Den - part of the Digital Education Network

http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/index.htm

Online mysteries to read and solve

http://mysteries.mysterynet.com/

Knock-knock jokes and riddles

http://www.lofthouse.com/humor/knockknock/

Interactive jokes and riddles - you need to be online to use these.

http://www.azkidsnet.com/JSknockjoke.htm

iTools, a site with links to a dictionary, thesaurus, translating dictionary, maps, and many other resources.

http://www.itools.com/

Cobuild Word Watch page - this week's feature and a list of previous words

http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/wordwatch.html

Cobuild Concordancer demo

http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/direct_demo.html

The White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

The Smithsonian Institution

http://www.si.edu

CNN Online

http://www.cnn.com

Time magazine online

http://www.time.com

NPR - National Public Radio- with audio files

http://www.npr.org

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