This is a good website to get into because there are so many ESL activities that you can choose from for example: assorted quizzes, crossword puzzles etc.
This website is good because there are resources that students of all ages can use such as printable worksheets, power point lessons, video slide show lesson, games and ideas.
ESLgold.com provides over a thousand pages of free information and resources for both teachers and students. All materials are organized by skill and level for quick and easy access.
This web site is recommended for English Language Learners from kindergarten to third grade to find other web sites that would be of interest to the students.
LSN produces a wealth of hugely popular resources. Constantly striving to produce materials that will improve performance in the learning and skills sector.
http://www.usingenglish.com/ Using English UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Examples of resources: grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject area.
Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with a banana is a gorilla with appeal.
This page contains various ESL activities for use in classes, as well as many links to ESL resources on the Internet. Students who want to easily find resources for teaching or learning English.
Free, no-hassle membership gives you unlimited use of online resources such as practice tests for the TOEFL, exams, interactive ESL games, an English language assessment test, and free software. Study smart, study free!
On this Longman ELT website, there are lots of ideas and free resources for young learners of English. Try fun online activities, download free support materials and get helpful tips on English for young learners.
English Club is a site to help young learners learn English as a second language. Access to all pages is free. You'll find everything from lessons for students, including interactive pages such as forums, games, quizzes, chat, help and penpals.
This website is for all ages. It has on-line interactive activities to learn English. Activities that have audio access, and also various resources and activities.
Online Education, Interactive Learning and homework help to over 180 countries !
http://www.eslkidstuff.com/ ESL Kids Resources ESL & EFL children's resources for English. Over 1,500 flashcard images, hundreds of worksheets, crafts, games, jobs and lots more.
http://bogglesworldesl.com/esl_games.htm ESL Games and Game Board The ESL game boards found on this page are in the form of Microsoft Word documents. A great motivating TEFL activity.
These speaking activities include ESL role-plays (roleplays), Find someone who... speaking activities, information gap activities, examination rubrics for ESL oral tests, and discussion questions.
Heather Lynn Doiron
Bringing Gatsby into the EFL/ESL Classroom http://iteslj.org/ This is about bringing reading literature into the classroom and how it can help our ESL students to read. It also helps the students to understand and learn a whole new world about cultural differences. This journal also provides lesson plan activities to the reading.
Alenka Blake
ESL/EFL Listening Comprehension Lesson for the Movie Super Size Me http://iteslj.org/Lessons/Blake-SuperSize.html In this article it talks about the kind of movie that was chosen for listening comprehension. It is good to have non-speaking English students listen to English speaking people because it will help them in their learning of English. The movie that was chosen is called Super Size Me. This movie is about eating habits. The teacher only chose certain portions of the film. The journal also provided activities to what was being taught to the students. The film caused the students to think about their eating habits.
Vichea In
Using Origami and Magic Tricks to Teach English http://iteslj.org/Techniques/In-Origami.html The article mentions the pedagogical value of teaching origami and magic tricks to teachers. It talks about the rationale, ideas on how origami activities and magic tricks can be incorporated to teach English and that there are free on-line resources with description.
Claudia Marcela Arciniegas Trejos
Using Journals for Learners' Reflection and Self -Assessment http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Arciniegas-LearnersJournals.html This article is about how using journals helps the students to reflect on what they learn regularly and it becomes useful to improve their communicative skills. The learning journals enhances the students' process of reflections and their self assessment. It also talks about the type of tasks learners' completed, samples of learners' reflection upon and assessment of the task, learners' comments about the usefulness of their learning journals, benefits of implementing journals for learners' and teachers, suggestions for their successful implementation and the conclusions that were drawn from their experiences.
Michael Morgan More Productive Use of Technology in the ESL/EFL Classroom
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Morgan-Technology.html This article is aboutthe role of technologyin the ESL/EFL classroom, it also mentions three methods that can help the teachers meet their own English language teaching objectives. It also mentions that making technology more productive is to know how it will equip the ESL/EFL students with the skills needed. The article also talks about three strategies that can help teachers ensure that technology fits their teaching needs, it is also an important teaching tool that provides bits of information or communicative activities, how it identifies new media that changes TESOL and set the objectives before selecting the technology.
Yuan Yuan Five Steps to Creating an Effective Team-teaching Relationship http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Yuan-TeamTeaching.html This article is about steps to creating a good team-teaching relationship. Yes, there are some steps that might not work but it is good to try and find out what works. The steps are exchange e-mails, talk for five minutes before class, display your trust in action, make small talk in between lessons, and after class write a reflection about the lesson that was taught. Most important have good cooperation in and out of class.
Joy L.M. Brown Rhymes, Stories and Song in the ESL Classroom http://iteslj.org/Articles/Brown-Rhymes.html This article talks about the value of teaching rhymes, stories and songs in the classroom. All people learn as children and it is ingrained in their culture what they have learned. They talk about the importance of cultural items to fluent English speakers, value of cultural items to adults, vocabulary and language development, the value of music, creating lessons with music and rhymes, tongue twisters, fairy tales in daily life, and building literacy skills.
Tatyana Putintseva
The Importance of Learning Styles in ESL/EFL
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Putintseva-LearningStyles.html This article is a reminder to all teachers the need to be aware of individual learning styles and learner diversity. Sometimes, teachers tend to forget to cater to the different learning styles. This article also give very important learning style information for the different learners.
Kuang-wu Lee
Energizing the ESL/EFL Classroom through Internet Activities
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Lee-InternetActivities.html This article talks about several kinds of internet-based activities for the ESL/EFL Classroom and also it describes some strategies that will ensure that the activities will keep the students' interested. The article also gives brief summaries about the four basic ways theinternet can be used in the classroom.
Gordon Liversidge
What Do EFL Students See in Introductory Sequences of Movies
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Liversidge-Video.html In this article Gordon mentions that the beginning of a movie is always the difficult part for students learners because they need vocabulary background in order for them to sit through the movie by themselves and understand and comprehend what they watch and hear. It is important for teachers to try and identify what learners actually perceive at the beginning of any movie.
Maya Khemlani David
Acquiring Communicative Competence in the Reading Classroom http://www2.aasa.ac.jp/~dcdycus/LAC99/MAR99/david399.html The teacher has to make advanced language learners aware of cross-cultural differences in communication. The language teacher in the reading classroom can make use of appropriate reading texts as a starting point to such cultural awareness. The goals of language teaching are to enable the learner to communicate with both native and non-native speakers in English, then it is important that the norms of language behavior of interlocutors from a range of different cultures are also taught in the English language classroom.
Alex Case
15 Tips for People Attending TESOL Conferences http://edition.tefl.net/articles/15-tips-for-people-attending-tesol-conferences/ This article give 15 tips on attending TESOL conferences, they are to make/ take some business cards, get out and get some air, check out the local area, take a break, what you’d usually do at the weekend do it during the week instead, treat yourself, leave the book stands till later (or when everyone else is in a session), mix up the topics, choose good speakers, take plenty of notes, go through your notes afterwards, pass it on, plan to give a workshop next time, arrive at each session early, and hold a conversation starter.
Aubrey Neil Leveridge The Relationship Between Language and Culture and the Implications to Language Teachinghttp://edition.tefl.net/articles/language-and-culture/ The relationship between language and culture is deeply rooted. Language is used to maintain and convey culture and cultural ties. Different ideas stem from differing language use within one’s culture and the whole intertwining of these relationships start at one’s birth. Teachers must instruct their students on the cultural background of language usage. Conflict in teaching styles also stem from the relationship between language and culture. Creators of second language teaching policies must be sensitive to the local or indigenous languages not to make them seem inferior to the target language.
Josef Essberger Are you netting the world's best ESL resource? Internet Tools for Teaching ESL http://www.tefl.net/esl-articles/internet-esl.htm If you have access to the Internet, whether for yourself or for your students, you have the world's premier ESL resource at your fingertips. If you're going to use Electronic Mail to communicate with students, the first thing to do is create mailing lists of your students. Using e-mail is also good to give on-line homework, telephone lesson, students can write and edit publication of some kind, the beauty of e-mail is that the text can be written, transmitted, rewritten, edited, retransmitted easily between any number of studentsworkining in any location, also they can collaborate with students in other schools. Ania Krzyzak
Dyslexia in the Foreign Language Classroom
http://www.tefl.net/esl-articles/dyslexia.htm Schools cater to all needs of children coming from different classes and sections of the society. There are students who are smart and capable and they are not given the opportunity to show their knowledge and to show their intelligence. These students are often labelled as lazy, but they are not lazy, they suffer from a processing problem called dyslexia. Dyslexia has many faces. Students with dyslexia have significant difficulties with the acquisition and use of writing, reading, speaking, listening, reasoning and mathematical abilities. School environment plays an important role for a dyslexic learner.
Helene Jarmol Uchida
12 Tips for Teachers of Children http://www.eltnews.com/features/kids_world/2000/09/12_tips_for_teachers_of_childr.html Teaching children through an International Approach. Elementary school children are the most gratifying age level to work with. Students at this age possess three condition before entering the classroom: they are naturally cooperative, curious and self conscious. They also learn very quickly. Here are the 12 tips: Make the rules, Remember the students' name the first time you meet them, Show your students what to do, Nourish trust between you and the students with each class, Use eye contact to communicate your praise and disappointment, Create well planned, consistent lessons with a predictable format which gives the students a sense of security and balance, Always be pleasantly surprised when students interact with each other or you in English, Reassure you students that you understand their English and you approve of their attempts, Show respect to the students, Use English as a tool to build their self-esteem, Be their "sensei," not their parent, and Remember childhood through your students.
This article recommends five specific and measurable actions teachers can implement to assist ELL learning in the new year. Choose one and stick to it through out the year. Here are the five things: 1. Increase ELL students' English language production and peer interaction.Specific and measurable goal: ELL students will verbally demonstrate their English speaking abilities in classroom work at least three times a week. 2. Explicitly teach English language vocabulary and structures.Specific and measurable resolution: The teacher will identify, teach, and post key academic vocabulary and structures for one content lesson each day. 3. Build on ELLs' Background Knowledge to Increase Comprehension.Specific and measurable goal: The teacher will elicit background knowledge from ELLs in one content area through a variety of activities, including questioning and graphic organizers. 4. Increase ELL Parent Involvement.Specific and measurable goal:The teacher will contact one ELL parent each week to share information on his/her student or to inform the parent of a school event. 5. Increase Writing Opportunities. Specific and measurable goal:Students will engage in a weekly writing activity that will focus on developing a certain skill such as creative vocabulary use, the correct format of an essay or the peer editing process.
Aida Walqui
Context Counts in Second Language Learning http://www.readingrockets.org/article/99 This article discusses factors that relate to learning a second language, from the perspective of the language, the learner, and the learning process. Learning a second language is hard, but it can be made easier when the teacher knows a bit about the similarities between the first and second languages, and can successfully motivate students.
Annick De Houwer
Raising Children With More Than One Language http://www.readingrockets.org/article/237 This article talks about many children who are raised with a home language different from the language at school, and this has given rise to many misconceptions about language learning. This will help parents learn the facts, and get information about helping their second language learner.
Mary Ann Zehr
Bilingual Students With Disabilities Get Special Help http://www.readingrockets.org/article/258 This article talks about children who are eligible for both special education and English as a Second Language instruction, but few models for how to serve these children well. Learn about a program in Clark County, Nevada in which dually trained teachers provide overlapping instruction to meet both these needs.
