RESOURCE LINKS
for
EDUCATORS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Government Links
The Center for Applied
Linguistics aims to promote and improve the teaching and learning of
languages and serves as a resource for information about language and
culture. www.cal.org
The National Center for ESL
Literacy Education provides information on adult ESL literacy
education. www.cal.org/ncle
The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (formerly NCBE), funded by the Department of Education, collects, analyzes, and disseminates information relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S. www.ncela.gwu.edu
The New York State
Education Department’s Bilingual/ESL Network contains information on
funding, assessments, learning standards, publications and resources. www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/nysben.html
Organizations and Professional Resources
Teachers of English to
Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) seeks to develop the expertise of its members and
others involved in teaching English to speakers of other languages to help them
foster effective communication in diverse settings while respecting
individuals' language rights. www.tesol.org
New York
State TESOL is concerned with the education of English language
learners in
The National
Association for Bilingual Education promotes educational excellence and
equity through bilingual education. NABE is a professional organization
exclusively concerned with the education of language-minority students in
American schools and the bilingual education professionals who serve
them. www.nabe.org
The New
York State Association for Bilingual Education informs members
of statewide and regional activities and advocates on behalf
of bilingual education issues and language minority students. www.nysabe.org
The National
Council of Teachers of English is dedicated to improving the teaching and
learning of English and the language arts. The site offers links to teaching
ideas selected from NCTE publications or submitted directly by teachers. www.ncte.org
The International
Reading Association is a professional organization dedicated to promoting
high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction
and disseminating research and information about reading. www.reading.org
The Literacy Assistance
Center is an organization that provides referral, training, information and
technical assistance services to adult and youth literacy programs in
James
Crawford is an independent writer and lecturer – formerly the
English as a Second Language
Dave’s ESL
Café enables ESL/EFL students and teachers around the world to
communicate via discussion forums and message centers. There are teaching
ideas, resources, and online quizzes. www.eslcafe.com
EPALS
Classroom Exchange connects students and teachers around the world, enabling classrooms to communicate
electronically, share projects, build literacy and language skills, and learn
about other countries and cultures. www.epals.com
EverythingESL
contains lesson plans, teaching tips, classroom activities, discussion
topics and other resources, especially for grades K-8. www.everythingESL.net
Intercultural
E-mail Classroom Connections is a free www.teaching.com service to help teachers
link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal
and other project exchanges. www.iecc.org
Interesting
Things for ESL Students offers many kinds of word games and puzzles,
quizzes, proverbs, and Voice of America Special English Programs for
students. www.manythings.org
Internet
Picture Dictionary is an online multilingual picture dictionary designed
especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and
Italian language learners of all ages. www.pdictionary.com
Internet
TESL Journal, a monthly web magazine for ESL/EFL teachers, has articles,
lesson plans, teaching ideas and links.
http://iteslj.org
Miscositas provides
access to a collection of over 40 virtual picturebooks in English, French and
Spanish. There are suggestions for teaching the colorfully-illustrated
stories. Glossary entries are in a large
pop-up format. www.miscositas.com
Middleweb (
Purdue
University Online Writing Lab has a variety of resources for
academic writing geared to teachers and students. http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Randall's
ESL Cyber Listening Lab contains pre-recorded situational conversations that
end with short comprehension quizzes.
Students can listen to social, academic and business dialogues. www.esl-lab.com
Topics: An
Online Magazine for Learners of English features articles written by students.
In the Teachers’ Corner, teachers share class projects and teaching
techniques. Student writing and class
projects may be submitted for publication.
www.rice.edu/projects/topics/Electronic/Magazine.html
English Language Arts
The
English Language Arts page of the New York State Education
Department’s web site provides links to the state learning
standards for ELA (and other subjects), assessments, and resources. www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/ela.html
The Internet
Public Library (
Litstudies, created by
Bo Wu, ELA teacher at
Web
English Teacher contains valuable links for teachers of English
Language Arts and ESL. www.webenglishteacher.com
Chinese Language Arts
BBC Chinese is the Chinese-language site from the British Broadcasting Company.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/chinese/news/default1.stm
Chinapage.com has numerous
resources on classical Chinese art, calligraphy, poetry, history, literature,
painting and philosophy. www.chinapage.com
The
Chinese Links page of the
Algunas
Lugares en Español is a listing of
sites on the Internet for information in Spanish (media, dictionaries,
government and politics, Internet directories, professional resources,
culture). www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/Algunos/spanish.html
Barahona
Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents at
BBC Mundo, the Spanish-language site from the British Broadcasting Company, includes diverse articles and also provides access to high quality Spanish audio.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news
CNN in
Spanish www.cnnenespanol.com
Mundo Latino
links to newspapers and magazines.
It has resources on literature, art,
music, and
culture from several Spanish-speaking countries. www.mundolatino.org
Time for
Kids is a Time magazine supplement for K-1, 2-3, and 4-6 with
lesson ideas. It is available in Spanish
for grades 2-3 and 4-6. www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines
Yupi.com is a Spanish-language
portal. www.yupimsn.com
The
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is the
only national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the
teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. www.actfl.org
BBC Russian is the Russian-language site from the British Broadcasting Company. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/news/default.stm
CNN in
Arabic http://arabic.cnn.com
CNN in
Portuguese http://cnnemportugues.com
FL Teach
(Foreign Language Teaching Forum) has a wealth of links to aid in
the teaching of ESL, Chinese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Latin,
Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-res.html
Internet
Activities for Foreign Language Classes, from the California Foreign Language
Project, shows teachers step-by-step how to get started using the web in
the classroom. There are also web
lessons for various levels of foreign language. www.clta.net/lessons. The web site of the California Foreign
Language Project has numerous
language-specific links as well. www.stanford.edu/group/CFLP/lg/lang.html
The Languages
Other than English page of the New York State Education Department’s web
site contains learning standards, resource guides, assessments, learning
experiences, and the LOTE News Link. www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/lote.html
The
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) connects to
newspapers and magazines around the world in Spanish, French and Creole (
Miscositas provides
access to a collection of over 40 virtual picturebooks in English, French and
Spanish. There are suggestions for teaching the colorfully-illustrated stories.
Glossary entries are in a large pop-up format.
www.miscositas.com
The
Diversity Bookmarks Collection, from IDRA, is Dr. Chris Green’s
huge listing of educational websites for bilingual/ESL educators. There are Social Studies, Math and Science
links, in addition to ESL, English Language Arts and language sites. www.diversitybookmarks.net
www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/welcome.html