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 New York State. The group’s interests include classroom practice, research, program and curriculum development, funding, and legislation.  www.nystesol.org

 

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 New York.  www.lacnyc.org

 

James Crawford is an independent writer and lecturer – formerly the Washington editor of Education Week – who specializes in the politics of language. His site encourages discussion of language policy issues, reports on pending language legislation, and illuminates the policy debates over bilingual education by publicizing the latest research findings.   http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD

 

 

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 (Exploring Middle School Reform) includes resources for ESL as well as foreign languages, technology, art, and more.   www.middleweb.com/CurrOther.html

 

PIZZAZ!...People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling offers creative ideas for teaching the writing of poetry and fiction to students at all levels of ESL. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html

 

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 (University of Michigan) has an Online Texts section with links to 20,000 works of literature--novels, stories, essays, poems, drama, folktales--that are freely available over the Internet.  www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00

 

Litstudies, created by Bo Wu, ELA teacher at Murry Bergtraum High School (and webmaster for this web site), is a rich site that contains resources for the teaching of literature, lesson plans and projects, and ideas for integrating technology into instruction.   www.litstudies.com 

 

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 Language Center (City College of San Francisco) has many connections for teachers and students: search engines, media, government, language, and culture.   www.ccsf.edu/Departments/Language_Lab/chlinks.htm

 

 

Spanish Language Arts

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 California State University, San Marcos, promotes literacy in English and Spanish. The Center endeavors to inform educational decision-makers about books centered on Latino people and culture and about books in Spanish.  www.csusm.edu/csb

 

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

 

 

Foreign Language/Heritage Language

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

 

ACTFL is the publisher of Teaching Heritage Language Learners: Voices from the Classroom, a groundbreaking volume that offers a guide for language teachers, school administrators, and support personnel that will enable them to work more effectively with the growing population of heritage language learners in the nation's schools. (Co-Editors: John B. Webb, Ed.D, Princeton University & Barbara L. Miller, Ph.D., Hunter College High School, CUNY.  $20.00)

 

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 (Haiti), and Portuguese (Brazil).  http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news

 

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

 

 

Content Connections

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

 

Paso Partners - Integrating Mathematics, Science and Language is a bilingual curriculum and resources guide for elementary school teachers.

www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/welcome.html

 

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the repository for the permanently valuable records of the United States Federal Government, as well as Presidential papers and historical materials. The Research Room section has a very helpful “Teaching with Documents” link.   www.archives.gov/index.html