BBC Learning English
A deep resource for English student and English teachers.
Becoming a Better EFL Teacher
This informative blog on teaching English in a foreign country, written by EFL author Larry M. Lynch in Columbia, includes many practical tips on working around the globe.
Better at English
Practical podcasts to improve listening and speaking skills.
CAL PRO
The California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project. An excellent insight into the California's official goals for adult ESL students. Read!
CATESOL
The California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages remains the crucial professional membership organization for ESL teachers in California and Nevada. Visit the site to find an extensive library of conference presentations, official policy positions, and information on the evolving profession.
Center for Applied Linguistics
The leading resource for American linguistics and a leading voice in government policies.
Common Errors in English
Professor Paul Brian's award-winning site.
Developing Teachers
A website for the developing language teacher.
Effective Teaching Solutions
This teacher-created website offers a rich variety of K-12 educational materials and books.
English-Online
is a website that provides understandable texts for learners of English. At the end of each text there is a section with difficult words that are explained in English.
EnglishSoftware.org
Another cutting edge program to help English language learners write better and make fewer mistakes.
English Teacher Forum
This U.S. State Department educational publication for English Language Teachers deserves to be more widely read!
ESL Expat
An online resource for people teaching English abroad, including teaching jobs, classroom activities, and other resources.
ESL Garage
Teresa X. Nguyen hosts this outstanding YouTube channel for English language learners. Many of the videos feature both English and Vietnamese. Teresa is also the co-author of Compelling Conversations - Vietnam.
ESLHQ
A selective collection of the best sites and lesson plans, flash cards, and job leads for ESL teachers, administrators, and students. Worth a visit.
ESL-lab
An outstanding resource for adult ESL students with developed listening exercises for low, intermediate, and high intermediate students. Practical and impressive!
ESL Lounge
Another deep and strong website with a wide variety of ESL materials for multiple audiences.
ESL-Galaxy
ESL lesson plans and ESL Activities; with more additions daily.
ESLteachersboard.com
A favorite site to find ESL resources, tutors, and language schools.
ESLTower
A free ESL, EFL & ELT site that offers top quality printable and interactive English grammar and vocabulary exercises for teachers and students.
ESL Tutor
Experiences, resources, grammar tips, lessons plans, and more from an English as a Second Language Tutor. Also, notes on teaching one-on-one and being self-employed.
ESL Video
A practical, multilevel video site for ESL/EFL students.
EnglishMediaLab
Exercises for all English learners - online grammar exercises, vocabulary videos, pronunciation, quizzes for beginners, intermediate & advanced level English learners.
English-4kids
ESL kids lab offers: printable ESL worksheets, games for ESL classrooms, EFL videos, PPT lessons videos, interactive kids vocabulary & grammar quizzes, powerpoint downloads for English teaching and learning.
Fun Easy English
Learn English online free. American English pronunciation, grammar, idioms, slang, writing, English language activities, TV, radio, surveys, tests, video lessons, travel information, and much more.
Download-ESL
a website for ESL, EFL students and teachers of English looking for useful tools to help them study or teach English.
GetintoEnglish
Looking for practical tips on learning English and speaking with confidence? This site, run by an experienced Australian English teacher based in Prague, has some fine materials.
International Professors Project
Another noble educational effort to bring the benefits of modern knowledge to developing countries. They have a small ESL section. Help us make it larger and better!
JALT
The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) is dedicated to the improvement of language teaching and learning both within Japan and internationally.
Kalinago blog
A creative, dynamic website highlighting practical materials for teaching conversation and Business English.
Kaliango
An evolving website by ESL/EFL teacher Karenne Sylvester promoting her innovative conversation materials (Simply Conversations) and other products for English language teachers (ELT), Business English professionals, and ESL/EFL students.
KQED ESL Insights
KQED Education has launched a blog that offers a space for ESL educators to explain what they do, share ideas and resources and engage in discussion about what inspires them and what challenges them. Posts are written for and by ESL practitioners.
Learn English
A free, on-line, educational resource helping ESL and EFL students to learn English words. The flash site incorporates 40 topics, along with over 1,500 English words and phrases.
Languages Out There
Jason West, a creative ESL teacher and crusading education reformer, has created a compiling website for innovative language learning.
Language Success Press
Outstanding ESL Books for accent reduction, business English and everyday expressions .
NCSALL
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy. The name speaks for itself.
Negotiation Skills
Negotiation skills training gives you the confidence to enter any negotiating arena and secure the best possible outcome.
OWL
Purdue University hosts an outstanding online writing lab (OWL) for ESL teachers and students
Spanish School
Learn Spanish in Cusco, Peru, with Wiracocha Spanish School.
Teaching English
This wonderful site, sponsored by the British Council and the BBC, should be visited by creative English teachers around the world.
Teaching ESL to Adults
Experiences, resources, grammar tips, lessons plans, and more from an English as a Second Language Tutor.
What's Up America?
Diane Asitimbay's humorous and insightful book subtitled A Foreigner's Guide to Understanding Americans.
Wikigogy.org
Lesson plans and teaching tips for teachers of English as a second or foreign language.
YourDictionary
Resources for learning the English language.
YouGlish.com
This amazing beta site from Google allows English language learners to hear how words and phrases sound in authentic contexts.
YouGlish.com
This astonishing pronunciation site, originally created by Google for internal use, allows you to hear how authentic English speakers pronounce words and phrases. You can improve your English pronunciation by seeing and hearing scholars, entrepreneurs, political leaders, and other articulate speakers use targeted phrases. The corpus includes over 20 million video segments from YouTube.
ESL Garage
Teresa X. Nguyen provides expert advice on many aspects of learning English and how to pronounce different English words and study tips. Teresa is the co-author of Compelling Conversations - Vietnam: Speaking Exercises for Vietnamese Learners of English.
Answer.com
This site has a wide range of science and technology terms, as well as terms from other fields, including economics and accounting. Most entries include information about pronunciation. In some cases, there are actual audio recordings, and in others, phonetic spellings.
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Offers a Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms. These are useful to chemists, biologists, and biomedical researchers. Phonetic spelling and audio pronunciation. The definitions are spoken and it is a good place for listening comprehension practice.
Medline Plus
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. An online dictionary useful for biologists, chemists, and health researchers. Phonetic spelling.
American Rhetoric
Index of more than 5,000 public speeches, sermons, lectures, debates and interviews. Top 100 speeches list. Offers text and audio.
Museum of Tolerance
Dedicated to the memory of Holocaust victims and the promise of “never again.”
Teaching Tolerance
A place to find thought-provoking news, conversation and support for those who care about diversity, equal opportunity and respect for differences in schools.
Ted.com
Ideas worth sharing in our rapidly evolving world!
The Hungersite
Site dedicated to send food to hungry populations in the developing world.
This I Believe
This website, based on Edward R. Murrow's original radio program, features personal radio essays on what matters in life. Excellent resource for writing, listening, and speaking classes.
The Diesol Podcast
Brent Warner and Ixchell offer insights into using digital technology in the ESL/EFL classrooms.
A Way with Words
A weekly public radio show celebrating the English language and its wonderful, weird words.
Lexicon Valley
A fascinating examination of how English works, hosted by Columbia University linguist John McWhorter.
That's What They Say
This short, weekly segment explores our changing language. University of Michigan English Professor Anne Curzan hosts the show, studies linguistics and shares the history of the English language.
ELT Buzz
English Language Teaching "Buzz."
EFL Magazine
The magazine for English Language Teachers.
TESOL Blog
TESOL resources for English Language Teachers..
Edtech for Multilingual Learners: 48 Fun and Flexible for Every Classroom by Brent Warner
Designed for busy, curious teachers wanting to bring apt edtech tools into their English classrooms, this practical 2005 ISTE book focuses on six key language acquisition areas (reading, writing, speaking, listening, vocabulary and pronunciation). Brent - the co-host of the popular DIESOL podcast for English teachers - emphasizes what new activities and lessons students can learn from various edtech tools. It’s a fantastic primer that emphasizes the possibilities without over-hyping or overlooking limits.
Language Teaching Insights From Other Fields: Sports, Arts, Design, and More
This exceptional TESOL Press book shares insights from several fields in short, illuminating essays.
Conscious Classroom Management: Unlocking the Secrets of Great Teaching:
This savvy primer on managing classrooms in a friendly, effective, and humanistic manner deserves its stellar reputation. Although many techniques and suggestions work better with motivated students than reluctant learners, this book emphasizes how structure and authority can allow many students to relax, participate, and co-create in their positive learning experiences. It’s also an easy, practical read for novice teachers.
