Teacher Links

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• • TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)

  • GATESOL (Georgia)

  • Sunshine State TESOL (Florida)

  • CATESOL (California)

  • IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language)

• AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics)

FREE ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES

• • ELLLO (A collection of listening activities and quizzes) 

• ESL Flashcards (A collection of free, downloaded flashcards)

  • ESL Gold (A collection of activities and lessons for all skills and levels, and other resources for students and teachers) 

  • Guide to Grammar & Writing (A collection of grammar and writing explanations and quizzes) 

  • The Internet TESL Journal (A collection of articles, lessons, activities, games, etc.)

  • Karin’s ESL Partyland (A collection of grammar activities) 

  • Language and Academic Skills, LaTrobe University (General academic reading strategies)  

  • Likely (Pronunciation) Errors (A list of common pronunciation errors of different language speakers)

  • Lingual.Net (A collection of short movie clips with quizzes) 

  • One Stop English (A collection of activities of various types of skills and purposes – mostly free) 

  • Open MIT Courseware, MIT (Free access to videos of lectures on a selection of courses taught by MIT professors) 

  • Open Yale Courses, Yale University (Free and open access to videos of lectures on a selection of introductory courses taught by Yale University professors) 

  • OWL Online Writing Lab, University of Purdue (A collection of materials for teaching writing and grammar)

  • Preparation for an American University Vocabulary Workshop (A comprehensive list of English prefixes, roots, and suffixes; prepared by Carla Caglioti)

  • Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab (A collection of listening materials and quizzes)

  • Sounds of English (Resources for teaching general American English pronunciation)

  • The Sounds of Spoken Language, University of Iowa (Cool animated descriptions of phonemes)

• TeleNex (A resource for English Teachers in Hong Kong)

• Tutoring and Academic Success Centers, Three Rivers Community College (Academic textbook reading strategies)

FREE DICTIONARIES (FOR LEARNERS OF ENGLISH)

• • Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online

• Cambridge Dictionaries Online

FREE SOFTWARE/APPLICATION

• • PRAAT (Free program for speech analysis and synthesis)

  • Audacity (Free program for recording and editing sound files)

  • Hot Potatoes (Free program for creating multiple-choice, short answer, etc. exercises)

  • Compleat Lexical Tutor (Free online resource for data-driven learning and teaching of vocabulary and grammar)

  • Flash Card Machine (Free online application for creating & sharing interactive flash cards)

  • Quizlet (Free online application for creating & sharing vocabulary games)

• OpenOffice.org (free word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and graphics by Sun Microsystems - great for those who don't have MS Office)

JOB POSTINGS

• • Dave’s ESL Cafe Job Center (A good place to start your search)

  • ELT News Classifieds (Job postings updated daily, but mostly Japan)

  • TEFL.net (Job postings, forums, resources, etc.)

  • ESL Job Find (Job postings, resources, etc.)

  • ESL Teachers Board (Job postings, resources, etc.)

  • Transitions Abroad (Job postings, resources, articles, etc.) 

  • EPIK (Teaching English in Korea; Korean government-sponsored program)

• The JET Programme (Teaching English in Japan; Japanese government-sponsored program)