~ ESL Faculty Resources ~

ESL : INTERNET RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

ENGLISH TO GO   http://www.english-to-go.com
Provides free language lessons based on newspaper articles. Lessons range from comprehensions to cloze activities. Join by emailing for a password. You can,

• do the lessons online in the RC

• book a computer room and use a downloaded copy of each week's free lesson.

• print out and photocopy the lessons for use in classroom

ONLINE LITERACY   http://www.nexus.edu.au/teachstud/onlit/index.html
This is a DETE website that provides learning strategies for a range of middle school subjects. ESL is not included, but some of the activities under English are useful. You, (or your students!) can download proformas to help them set their own goals for improving their speaking and undertake some critical literacy. It provides some assistance in writing bibliographies as well as dealing with afew written genres: recounts, arguments, narratives. There are some weaknesses e.g. does not include connectives at the start of paragraphs in an argument.

INTERCULTURAL EMAIL CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS  http://www.iecc.org
IECC is a free service, based in America, that can connect you with other teachers wishing to set up on-line projects  between classes. Your students can exchange projects, email as pen pals (keypals!), hold discussions and respond to surveys. The topics are extremely varied and seem to attract input from USA, Japan, Scandinavia and Australia. It has potential for the ESL Studies research study.

BUSHNET    http://www.bushnet.qld.edu.au/
It does not immediately appear to be related to ESL, but it is a good example of what our students could do. It is an Australian network of isolated schools in north Queensland. We could do similar things and publish student work on our intranet, and eventually the world wide web (when the school website is finished!)

SOME EXTRAS FROM ROSS.............

English as a second language home page  http://granny.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/esl

Australian Council of TESOL Associations  http://www.acta.edu.au

Dave's ESL Cafe on the Web   http://eslcafe.com/

TESOL Online    http://www.tesol.edu

OZ-Projects    http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/

l*EARN    http://www.igc.apc.org/iearn/projects.html

TESOL Cafe
Offers teaching ideas. lesson plans, guides to teachers and lessons for students. 

Internet TESL Journal Features classroom activites, articles, weblinks and projects.

SOME MORE EXTRAS FROM SUE...............

Education Network Australia    http://www.edna.edu.au/EdNA
This Australian directory is specifically designed for educators. You can...

• search by key word/s (e.g. ESL or TESOL)

• or browse to find useful resources.....Try these paths:

Browse ->  School Education -> Online Resource Centre -> English -> Language Theory

Browse -> School Education -> Online Resource Centre -> Cross Curriculum -> Directory of Current Online Projects for Students

Browse -> School Education -> Online Resource Centre -> Cross Curriculum -> Cross Curriculum Lesson Plans and Units of Instruction

Check this search result page from www.askjeeves.com (one of my favourite search engines!)

Everything ESL
Content-based E.S.L. lesson plans, downloadable activities to go with these plans, and reviews of classroom materials.
The site also provides inservice ideas and strategies for mainstream teachers. Teachers from all over the U.S.discuss issues related to E.S.L. and bilingual education on our interactive discussion boards.http://www.everythingESL.net

English as Second Language
http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/seclang.htm 

English as a Second Language Teaching
http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/teaching/subject/eslteach.htm