ESL Instruction

The ESL Wonderland - Resources for Students and Teachers: Tons of resources! This page was created by an ESL teacher for teachers and students. It contains various activities for use in your classes, as well as many links to ESL resources on the Internet.

Dave's ESL Café: The Classic Site that has been around for many years. Highly recommended by experienced ESL instructors. Go to the Idea Cookbook to find useful materials. There are also discussion forums where students can converse.

Lesson Plans & Resources for ESL, Bilingual and Foreign Language Teachers: Lots of links! Links to ESL lesson plans and resources, bilingual education, study abroad for teachers, employment opportunities, professional associations and educational standards.

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Great resource for improving your student's language comprehension - includes an ESL Blog, listening quizzes, ESL vocabulary lessons, language learning tips and "watch and learn" videos.

Prof. Rick Shur's ESL and Computer Handouts: Dozens of handouts for your students - writing aids, grammar and vocabulary exercises and a variety of readings.

Teaching English: On these pages you will find links to ideas for your class created by ESL instructors from around the world on a range of topics. Please note: This is a British site - so watch out for British spelling!

ESL-lounge: This site provides you with "free access to hundreds of ESL lesson plans and materials that can be used for communicative English lessons in the classroom. The emphasis on this site is on communication. The majority of resources are geared towards getting students talking."

The Internet Picture Dictionary: Great site for your students to study English while they expand their vocabulary from A to Z.

The Internet TESL Journal: For Teachers of English as a Second Language : What a great site! Pages and pages of articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas & links.

Free Multilingual Reading Resources: This page provides links to free multilingual reading resources recommended in the Technology Digest, Volume 12, Issue 14.

This section includes links and annotation taken from the Pima Community College Website which is called the "Splendid ESOL Site" by Arizona's ESL Instructors:

General Resources for Learning English

• English as 2nd Language: Lots of links from About.com for ESL teachers and students
• EnglishClub.com: ESL communities worldwide; includes lessons, interactive forums & special interest segments for ESL students
• EnglishForums.com: Free English language help online
• TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links: Links of interest to students & teachers of English as a Second Language
• English as a Second Language: Rong-Chang Li lists a variety of resources, including podcasts

Educational Activities (Quizzes, Games, Puzzles, Practice)

• Activities and Exercises for ESL Students: Linguistic Funland's links to 73 ESL activity sites
• Activities for ESL Students: Puzzles, quizzes, etc. by the Internet TESL Journal
• EnglishPage.com: For intermediate and advanced English learners
• EnglishLearner.com: English lessons and tests
• English Pronunciation: Uses sound files to aid in pronunciation
• EverydayEnglish.com: Explores common phrases including audio
• Interesting Things for ESL Students: A fun study site for students of English as a Second Language: word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, etc.
• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Improve English listening and comprehension skills

Grammar

• English Grammar: from EnglishClub.com
• Complete List of English Irregular Verbs: by Susan Jones
• ESL Blues: Adjectives, past tense verbs, tutorials, etc.
• Grammar Aquarium: Grammar notes, online and handout exercises
• Guide to Grammar and Writing: Online written guide to grammar with quizzes
• Fun with Randomly-Generated Sentences: Study English sentence patterns

Online Translation Services

• Free2Professional Translation: Free text translator to and from English for several languages

Online Magazines for ESL Students

• Topics: Online magazine for learners of English
   

Research to Practice: Culture Shock and Language Stress of Latina ESL Students (This is a pdf document.  If you don't have adobe, you can download it by clicking here.): This research brief written by Dr. Lucia Buttaro summarizes the results of her study of Latinas and how these findings may contribute to success in the ESL classroom.

Dave's ESL Cafe: Mainly for instructors, providing many ideas for instructions, link to other web sites and online discussion forums. There is also a learner chat room.

The Crossroads Cafe: A fee-based curriculum connected to PBS. It "offers a complete program designed to teach English to speakers of other languages, by depicting the lives of six characters - their backgrounds, challenges and their struggles, which are typical of many ESL learners"

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages: Offers a wide variety of resources for teachers.  There are certificate programs to help prepare teachers for work with non-English speaking students.

National Center for Applied Linguistics: Provides books and articles about teaching English as a second language to adults.

Harnessing Technology to Serve Adult Literacy: Helps adult literacy education (ABE/GED/ESL/ESL) teachers and learners to use computers, television, audio and videocassettes, and other electronic technology to help solve learning and instructional problems.

Blaine Ray Workshop/Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TRP): TPR Storytelling was created by Blaine Ray in the 1990s. Teachers all over the world are trying this powerful foreign language teaching method. With TPRS you can use your existing text. There is no need to spend money investing in new materials. You can learn the steps and use TPRS right away. This site was recommended by Jim Baird (SDA 3).

• Literacy Training for Young Learners: This is a discussion of teaching another language to young learners. It offers some distinctions between teaching children, adolescents and adults and recommends resources for teaching young learners.
• Young Learners Special Interest Group of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL): The site was created to "support and inform everyone involved in teaching English to children and teenagers."