FROM: teacher@amanda.dorsai.org NEWSGROUPS: misc.education.language.english, bit.listserv.tesl-l, misc.answers,news.answers,bit.listserv.slart-l SUBJECT: ESL/EFL/ESOL RESOURCE GUIDE, PART THREE FOLLOW-UP TO: misc.education.language.english SUMMARY: This posting describes the newsgroup misc.education.language.english, including where to find more information. It should be read by anyone who wishes to post to misc.education.language.english. It also contains information of interest to ESL/EFL/ESOL teachers and students world-wide. EXPIRES: ? SUPERSEDES: 1995/03/25 ARCHIVE-NAME: esl/resource-guide POSTING-FREQUENCY: monthly LAST MODIFIED: 1996/09/15 VERSION: 4.0 THE INTERNATIONAL ESL/EFL/ESOL RESOURCE GUIDE TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: PART THREE (misc.education.language.english faq) Copyright 1996, Meg Gam The International ESL/EFL/ESOL FAQ is also available on WWW: http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/mele.faq.html by anonymous ftp: math.unr.edu in directory users/kristina/mele-faq.txt ********************************************** THE INTERNATIONAL ESL/EFL/ESOL RESOURCE GUIDE TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) PART THREE ********************************************** (For information about the contents of the various parts of the International ESL/EFL/ESOL Resource Guide to Frequently Asked Questions, please consult the Table of Contents, which is available as a separate document.) ********************************************** TABLE OF CONTENTS ********************************************** PART THREE What resources for ESL/EFL/ESOL teachers are available on the Internet? Accessing Internet by Email Newsgroups Search engines for newsgroups Mailing lists Search for your own mailing lists WebSites On-line dictionaries World Wide Web search engines Telnet sites MOOs Gopher Sites For students of ESL/EFL/ESOL Internet Education ********************************************* WHAT RESOURCES FOR ESL/EFL/ESOL TEACHERS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET? ********************************************* Well, of course, there is misc.education.language.english. **************************** ACESSING THE INTERNET BY EMAIL **************************** If you only have Email access to the Internet, you can still get almost everything everybody else can get (except the graphics) To receive a guide to accessing the Internet by Email, send e-mail to one of the addresses below. for US, Canada & South America mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu Enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email for Europe, Asia, etc. mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk Enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt ********************** NOTE: Where descriptions have been given,they are included. (My access is limited to text-only, so I browse/have browsed the WWW sites lightly, but I haven't dwelt there.) Listings are in alphabetical order to facilitate updating. NEWSGROUPS -------------------- alt.education.email-project bit.listserv.slart-l (which is a redistribution of a BITNET mailing list --not all machines on Usenet carry these) is a discussion of second-language acquisition,which often overlaps into issues directly pertaining to ESL/EFL. bit.listserv.tesl-l (which is a redistribution of a BITNET mailing list -- not all machines on Usenet carry these) is a discussion of TESL/FL. It is a moderated discussion and to participate you must first subscribe to theTESL-L mailing list. Discussions tend toward the academic/theoretical -- most active participants appear to be university-affiliated. comp.edu.languages.natural is devoted to oftware for assisting language instruction. k12.ed.business Business education curriculum in grades K-12. k12.chat.teacher For teachers of grades K-12. k12.ed.comp.literacy Teaching computer literacy in grades K-12. k12.lang.art The art of teaching reading, writing,literature, English grammar, and composition in grades K-12. misc.education.language.english an unmoderated newsgroup for discussion of TESL/TEFL/TESOL. Postings tend toward practical classroom applications and information request/postings. Active posters are involved in teaching EFL in both university and non-university settings. SEARCH ENGINES TO FIND NEWSGROUPS: --------------------------------------------- ---------------- DejaNews Research Service http://www.dejanews.com/ Directory of Scholarly E-conferences http://www.austin.unimelb.edu.au:800/1s/acad Search List of Discussion Groups http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/lists --No title provided-- http://www.tile.net/tile/news/index.html MAILING LISTS --------------------- There are also several lists which focus on ESL/EFL/ESOL. APPLIX. A discussion group for people interested in applied linguistics. ATELL. A discussion group for people interested in computer- assisted language learning. Both APPLIX and ATELL are mailing lists administered by LATTICE, the Language and Technology Centre of LANGUAGE AUSTRALIA (formerly the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia), for language, literacy and linguistics specialists, based at the University of Queenland in Brisbane, Australia. To subscribe to the lists, send an email message with a blank subject line to: majordomo@cltr.uq.oz.au The body of the message should read: subscribe [name of list] The lists are: CTESL-L: An International online fellowship for Christians who teach ESL.To subscribe send an email to: Mail-Server@rhesys.mb.ca Enter in the message area: Subscribe ctesl-l ELTASIA-L: English Language Teaching in Asia send email to: majordomo@nectec.or.th Leave the 'Subject' line blank. In the body of the message type: subscribe ELTASIA-L ELTASIA website: http://www.nectec.or.th/nectec-list.html This URL has info on several Asian lists: ESLCC (English as a Second Language at the Community Colleges) To subscribe to the eslcc list, send an email message to: eslcc-request@hcc.hawaii.edu In the body of the message write only: subscribe eslcc EST-L is a mailing list for teachers of English for Science and Technology. Subscribe by sending an email message with a blank subject line to LISTSERV@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU In the body of the messaage write: SUB EST-L where firstname is your first name and lastname is your last name FLTEACH - a mailing list for foreign language teachers. To subscribe send the message SUBSCRIBE FLTEACH Your Name to listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu GLESOL-L Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Educators of English to Speakers of Other Languages (and their friends) The purpose of this discussion group is to foster serious dialog and exchange of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual issues in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. ***Disclaimer: Participation in this discussion is not to be construed as an indication of a participant's sexual orientation. To subscribe to GLESOL-L, send an e-mail to: mailserv@uni.edu In the body of the message write:: subscribe glesol-l KEXPAT This list is intended to serve the interests of expats in Korea and other interested people. ELT issues are appropriate topics, as are any others related to living and working in Korea. This list includes info for those teaching in Korea, or interested in doing so. To subscribe, send a message to kexpat-request@nextel.net. The text of the message should say " subscribe kexpat LCTL mailing list contact Louis Janus, Listowner and Network Coordinator, LCTL Project, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, , janus005@maroon.tc.umn.edu or LCTL@maroon.tc.umn.edu. LINGUIST Write to LISTSERV@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU subscribe LINGUIST (Example: Sub LINGUIST Alexander Magnus) MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION list. To subscribe, enter only the following command in the BODY of your e-mail message: Sub Mult-Cul real name This command should be sent to: Listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu NETEACH-L is a mailing list concerned with electronic ESL teaching. Subscribe by sending a message (without a signature) to listserv@thecity.sfsu.edu the message should read subscribe NETEACH-L SCOLT (Southern Conference on Language Teaching), a list for those interested in teaching foreign languages,exists for disseminating professional announcements, presentations,special programs, job availabilities, questions, inquiries, searches, informal article reviews, etc.. Subscribe to this "conference" by sending an email message to LISTSERV@catfish.valdosta.peachnet.edu stating: SUBSCRIBE SCOLT SLART-L Second Language Acquisition,Research, and Teaching Send a message to LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU In the body of the message, type: SUB SLART-L first-name last-name Example: SUB SLART-L Jeanne d'Arc TESL-L is a moderated mailing list populated by thousands of ESL/EFL/ESOL professionals. Subscribe by sending an email to LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU with a blank subject line. In the body of the message, write: SUBSCRIBE TESL-L where firstname is your first name and lastname is your last name. Use all caps. TESL-L also has a number of sublists, which can be subscribed to similarly once you've subscribed to TESL-L. TESP-L is a list for English for Special Purposes /Vocational ESL TESLMW-L is a list for materials writers TESLIT-L is a list for those working with literacy issues TESLIE-L is a list primarily for administrators of IEP's TESLCA-L is a list concerned with computer-assisted learning in ESL/EFL/ESOL TESLJB-L is a list concerned with job listings and job seekers SEARCH FOR YOUR OWN MAILING LISTS --------------------------------------------- LIST OF LANGUAGE LISTS A current list of most language-related lists can be obtained by ftp: ftp://dkuug.dk/CEN/TC304/EversonMono10646/mis c/lnglst1d.txt LISTS OF MAILING LISTS http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/kitao/onlin.htm lists PUBLICALLY ACCESSIBLE MAILING LISTS http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml/bysubj.html http://www.indigo.ie/egt/lnglst1d.txt VIA EMAIL There is a "list of lists" available through e-mail. It is rather large, as there are over 7,000 LISTSERV lists in the world. To get it send an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET with the command LISTS GLOBAL in the body of your e-mail letter. The list can be narrowed down to LISTSERV lists in the world that have a particular word in its title by using the Email: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET Message: LIST GLOBAL /KEY WORDS Example: list global /language learning LIST GLOBAL /COMPUTER You can include several searches in one message. You will receive a reply with a list of listservs that match your search. WEBSITES -------------- NOTE: Websites come and go. If you happen to discover that a particular listing is no longer functional, it would be very nice of you to advise me, so that I can update the listings. There are also numerous WWW sites available for ESL/EFL/ESOL professionals and students alike.For those with only email access to the Internet: WWW is availableto you, too. According to information at: http://pip.shsu.edu/ftp/MaasInfo/HowWWW.html you can send email to: agora@www.undp.org with a blank subject line and a message reading: www where is the URL you want to look at. You can request more than one URL at a time, by putting each URL on a separate line with "www" (minus the quotation marks) at the start of each line. According to information at http://www.best.com/~pierre/web-mail/, you can also access WWW by sending an email message to : web-mail@ebay.com The body of the message must contain each URL you want to receive. Web-Mail is a commercial service which allows a certain number of pages for free. You can receive more information about Webmail by sending an email message to web-mail-admin@ebay.com LINKS ---------- COOL SITES FROM NETEACHERS Sites taken from suggestion from teachers on the NETEACH-L list. http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/neteach.html EFL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/efl.html EFL LINKS FOR RESEARCHERS http://ssa.bris.ac.uk/~edjmt/home EFL LINKS FOR RESEARCHERS http://info.bris.ac.uk/~limdw/eflres.htm EFLWEB English as a Foreign Language magazine: An online publication for teachers and learners, with articles and teaching resources. http://www.u-net.com/eflweb ENGLISH, WRITING AND DISTANCE ED links to other pages and to relevant information relating to English, Writing and Distance Education. http://www.actrix.gen.nz/biz/cwa/edu/writing.html ESLOOP You can link your own ESOL web-site to this loop. Visitors follow a "tour" of linked pages. Many of the best are linked here http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/esloop/esloop.html FAMILY LITERACY ANNOTATED BOOKLIST Resource library and links to websites of interest to those in adult education. http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/ email.htm INTERNATIONAL TESL JOURNAL http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL3d.html INTERNET RESOURCES FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS A compilation of resources available on the Internet for teachers of English and other languages, including e-mail addresses, web sites, etc.. http://www.cti.hull.ac.uk/langsite.htm LINGUISTIC FUNLAND http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/tesl.html Try http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/linguistic.funland.html. LINGUISTICS INFO AT BUCKNELL: http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/linguistics/fun.html LINKS FOR ESL TEACHERS http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/mitesol/linkseslteachers.html NETEACH-L HOMEPAGE Links to many other ESL sites from its Cool Sites page, easy to browse for information and resources http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb/neteach.htm OHIO UNIVERSITY lots of links http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/ teachers-language-engl.html OXFORD UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE CENTER http://info.ox.ac.uk/departments/langcentre/ TESL-EJ ELECTRONIC JOURNAL http://cc22000.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej VIRTUAL CATALOG http://www.pvp.com/esl.htm WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY http://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/~hblackme/newhome/langd.html YAHOO http://yahoo.com/Education/Languages/ English_as_a_Second_Language/ RESOURCES ----------------- ASKERIC.......... http://www.aspensys.com/eric2/welcome.html ASKERIC Lesson plans and information guides http://ericir.syr.edu/ BRITISH COUNCIL http://www.open.gov.uk/bc/eistchef.html BUSINESS ENGLISH http://www.lydbury.co/besig CAPWEB - A Guide to the U.S. Congress http://policy.net/capweb - THE CIA WORLD FACT BOOK Everything you need to know about every country, information about weights and measures, the U.N. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/ COLLEGE BOARD http://collegeboard.org/ information about thousands of colleges across the country , SAT courses, products and online registration, financial aid calculators, SAT "question of the day COURSE OUTLINE FOR TEACHING ACADEMIC READING AND CREATIVE WRITING THROUGH THE INTERNET http://www.mofet.macam98.ac.il/~ett/elaine.htm DISCOVERY CHANNEL SCHOOL http://school.discovery.com/ integrate Discovery Channel programming into their curriculum DISCUSSION LISTS AND NEWSGROUPS http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/tesllist.html EDWEB The Education Resource Guide, and teachers' discussion groups http://k12.cnidr.org:90/k12.html THE EDWEB HOME ROOM http://k12.cnidr.org:90/resource.cntnts.html EDUWEB HOMEPAGE http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/eduweb.html EFLWEB Home Page http://www.u-net.com/eflweb/ ELECTION TERMS GLOSSARY http://www.usia.gov/elections/glossary.htm ENCYCLOPEDIA MYTHICA Mythology, magic, myths, legends, folklore from around the world. Info on gods/goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary creatures, monsters. http://www.pantheon.org/myth/ ESLCAFE. http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html ESL CAFE GRAFFITI WALL http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wall.html ESL CAFE IDEA PAGE: http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/ideas.html ESL CAFE RANDOM IDIOM PAGE http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/idioms.cgi ESL CAFE RANDOM QUOTE PAGE http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/cookie.pl.cgi ENGLISH RESOURCES http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/english.html ESL HELP CENTER http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wwwboard2/wwwboard.html ESL RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET http://www.pvp.com/internet_resources.htm ESL/EFL/LINGUISTICS CONFERENCES: There are about 200 conferences on the list for linguists, translators, teachers of languages, those interested in natural language processing,interpreters, etc.. http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html ESL RESOURCES FROM SARAH BRENCHLEY http://www.classicweb.com/usr/jseng/jstefl.htm#free THE ESL VIRTUAL CATALOG http://www.pvp.com/esl.htm EXPLORING ANCIENT WORLD CULTURES http://www.evansville.edu/~wcweb/wc101/index.htm The Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, The Roman Empire, The Islamic World, and Medieval Europe. FAMILY LITERACY ANNOTATED BOOKLIST Resource library and links to websites of interest to those in adult education. http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.htm FEDERAL WEB LOCATOR http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html FLTEACH WEBSITE: http://www.cortland.edu/www_root/flteach/flteach.html FRIZZY UNIVERSITY Frizzy University Network for writing, links, email penpals http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb HOLIDAY INFORMATION information and projects for U.S. holidays http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/holidays THE HUMANITIES WEB SITE Swedish University Network. **Requires Netscape. http://human.www.sunet.se/ HUMAN-LANGUAGES PAGE resources, covering Language and Literature, Multilingual Resources, Text and Book Archives, Language Schools and Institutions (of great value), Linguistics Resources, and Commercial Resources. http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/Language-Page.html HUT: HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Resources for Students and Teachers http://www.hut.fi /~rvilmi HUT CULTURE PAGES http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/Project/Culture/ INTERCLASS PROJECTS PRESENTATION http://www.vcu.edu/cspweb/,epi/ipi.html INTERNET DIRECTORY OF LITERACY & ADULT EDUCATION RESOURCES http://www.cybernetics.net/users/sagrelto/elandh/home.htm INTERNET RESOURCES FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS http://www.cti.hull.ac.uk/langsite.htm THE INTERNET TESL JOURNAL Useful info for teachers, lesson plans, links to other sites http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ IT'S ON-LINE A resource for ESOL teachers and students, with lesson plans,worksheets,and interactive sections for student and teacher exchanges. http://www.encomix.es/~its JON'S HOMESCHOOL RESOURCE PAGE for all people involved with homeschooling, or parents interested in their children's education News Groups, Mailing Lists, FAQ's, Homeschooler's Web Pages, Resources, Vendors of curriculum, magazines, etc. http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/ LANGUAGE AUSTRALIA (NLLIA) CONFERENCE SCHEDULE OF LINGUISTICS AND RELATED TOPICS http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/nllia/conf.html THE LANGUAGE CENTRE http://bmserver.bus.bton.ac.uk/BusSchool/Depts/LangCent/ LangCent.htm LANGUAGE LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR THE WWW http://www.cibnor.conacyt.mx/est/activity.html LANGUAGE TESTING information on and links to organizations and universities, mailing lists, publications, English language tests used internationally, and non-English language tests. Also includes info about testing organizations, professional language testing organizations, etc.Links to websites of various English language tests such as Cambridge, IELTS, TOEFL, and TOEIC. http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/test.htm ). LINGNET Public service of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center; dedicated to the support of military linguists http://lingnet.army.mil LINGUIST http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/html/ LITERATURE ON WWW General info for literature, readings, electronic texts, etc. http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/literatu.htm). MANY TESL/TEFL/TESOL LINKS http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL3.html MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN ESL RESOURCE PAGE http://www.milwaukee.tec.wi.us/esl/ NETEACH-L homepage http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb/neteach.htm THE NINE PLANETS http://www.phys.ttu.edu:8001/www/nineplanets/nineplanets.html ONLINE EDUCATOR http://ole.net/ole ON-LINE LANGUAGE GAMES FOR VOCABULARY http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk ON-LINE RESOURCES AND JOURNALS RELATED TO ELT AND LINGUISTICS http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/onlin.htm . ON-LINE RESOURCES FOR ELT AND LINGUISTICS Useful WWW Sites, teaching English in Japan,CommercialPublishers, Distributors, Software Developers, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/kitao/onlin.htm . PHONOLOGY PAGE: information on phonetic software http://www.stir.ac.uk/epd/higdox/Stephen/phono/phonolg.htm PIZZAZ! (Creative Writing for ESL) http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html POLITICS NOW the Almanac of American Politics, searchable by state, name, senate or house. The News sectionwith extensive articles posted from all major US newspapers and magazines (Washington Post, Newsweek, Associated Press, and more). all elections on a state-by-state basis. Also, there are articles on all the major campaign issues, from gun control to taxes. http://www.politicsnow.com/ PROFESSOR ARTHUR MILLER'S COURTROOM CHALLENGE. (Real U.S.Supreme Court cases.) http://www.courttv.com/cases RESOURCES ON COMPUTER USE IN ESL (requires forms-capable browser, such as Netscape 2.X) http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/resources/biblio/ http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu RESOURCES IN LANGUAGE TESTING PAGE http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ELI/ltr.html SLA AND TECHNOLOGY WEBSITE CALICO's SLA and Technology SIG's homepage http://www.fln.vcu.edu/SLAT/home.html THE SMITHSONIAN http://www.si.edu/ THEME-BASED ESL PAGES http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/themes.html U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY www.usia.gov/education/engteaching/1pubndx.html VIRTUAL CALL LIBRARY, the Language Center at the University of Sussex,(England) http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/welcome.html UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Language learning activities for the WWW. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/nflrc.html VOLTERRE-FR http:www.wfi.fr/volterre/home.html Multicultural Awareness in the Language Classroom http://www.wfi.fr/blair US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Info on what the government education policies, publications, funding for grants, student aid and contact numbers, links to other education sites. http://www.ed.gov/ THE VIRTUAL CALL LIBRARY http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/CALL.html VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT US National Library of Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html WRITING ROULETTE... more places to get words, messages, graffiti, etc. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/roulette.html NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES/E-ZINES ---------------------------------------------------- AJR NEWSLINK 3,000 media links http://www.newslink.org BANGKOK POST http://www.bkkpost.co.th/ THE DAILY RECORD/THE SUNDAY MAIL http://www.mirror.co.uk/rm/ The first Scottish papers on the Web; interesting news stories THE ECONOMIST http://www.economist.com/ ELECTRONIC NEWSTAND Over 2,000 magazines and newspapers http://www.enews.com E-ZINES DATABASE MENU Magazines listed by categories http://www.middlebury.edu/~otisg/zines.html INFOSEEK PERSONAL" NEWS SERVICE A free, personal news service (requires a forms-capable browser)-an online "newspaper" geared to your interests, with two sections: General news with latest headlines and personal news http://personal.infoseek.com/ THE JERUSALEM POST News from Israel http://www.jpost.co.il/ NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION http://detnew.com/nie NEWSPAPERS ONLINE IN FRANCE & WORLDWIDE in Volterre-Fr http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/newspapers.html NEWSPAPERS ON THE WEB Alphabetical list of newspapers by country, with a separate listing for student newspapers. http://www.intercom.com.au/intercom/newsprs/index.htm NEWS SOURCES... newspapers from around the world, magazines, etc. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/news.html THE OBSERVER LIFE MAGAZINE http://www.observer.co.uk/ PHILADELPHIA ONLINE The main is primarily full of Pennsylvania news but the other pages are fairly comprehensive. http://www.phillynews.com/ THE REPORTER http://www.mclink.it/com/reporter. THE SAINT PETERSBURG TIMES Local St. Petersburg news; very good op-ed section http://www.spb.su/times/index.html TESL-EJ ELECTRONIC JOURNAL http://cc22000.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej LIBRARIES/RESEARCH/BOOKS --------------- ACQWEB Alphabetic directory of publishers,vendors,related WWW links. Includes most publishers worldwide. http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/pubr/alph.html BOOK LIST over one million books at http://www.amazon.com. THEBRITISH LIBRARY NETWORK http://portico.bl.uk/nbs/opac.html CAL -THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS Information about CAL's research, services,publications, links to ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics (ERIC/CLL), and National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE) http://www.cal.org * COPYRIGHT INFO http://www.gasou.edu/psychweb/resource/copyrght.htm EFL PUBLISHERS http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/pif.html GUTENBERG ETEXT WORLD WIDE WEB HOME PAGE http://jg.cso.uiuc.edu/PG/welcome.html THE INTERNET RESEARCH POINTER Links to sites that will help you in any research task, a list of search engines,help on writing research papers and properly citing online references. http://csbh.mhv.net/~rpproctor/IRP.html LANGUAGE AUSTRALIA -SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TEACHING AND CURRICULUM CENTRE OF THE NATIONAL LANGUAGES AND LITERACY INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA (LANGUAGE AUSTRALIA-SAT) South Australia.(applied linguistics research and teacher professional development in second language acquisition,bilingual education, indigenous languages and literacy issues, language policy, language teaching resources, child literacy and ESOL) http://203.17.136.22/public/nllia_satcc/nllia-satcc.html LANLRESEARCH LIBRARY: GENERAL REFERENCES http://lib-www.lanl.gov/infores/genref/genref.htm LATTICE: http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/: LIBWEB over 900 libraries in over 45 countries. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb NATIONALBIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICE http://portico.bl.uk/nbs/ NCLE ESL WEB PUBLICATIONS Free publications are now available for adult ESL educators from the National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE), which provides practitioners and others with timely information on adult ESL literacy education. http://www.cal.org/CAL/HTML/ncle.htm NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADULT LITERACY http://litserver.literacy.upenn.edu THE ON-LINE BOOKS PAGE http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html RESEARCH-IT http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.htm RESEARCH LINKS http://www.rmplc.co.uk/rmplc/info/eduwebfq.html TEACHERS COLLEGE WEB SERVER. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/ TEACHING MATERIALS FOR ADULT LITERACY reading materials for adult students of English. http://www.sharplink.com/books STUDENTS --------------- BUSINESS MAZES at:- http://www.stir.ac.uk/epd/higdox/Vallance/Diss/fp.htm ESL CAFE ON THE WEB: http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/ ESL CAFE IDIOM PAGE http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/idioms.cgi ESL CAFE QUIZ CENTER, interactive quizzes in Current News, Geography, Grammar, History, Idioms, Slang, Words,People, Reading, Comprehension, Science, Vocabulary,World Culture, and Writing. Answers are automatically checked in seconds. http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/ ESL CAFE QUOTE PAGE Quotations,proverbs, and humor. http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/cookie.pl.cgi ESL CAFE SEARCH PAGE: http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/search.html ESOL-WWW SCAVENGER HUNT EX*CHANGE_ http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/exchange Interactive student-oriented sites, self-study materials. GLOBAL SCHOOLHOUSE links and projects here for teachers and students alike, run by The Global SchoolNet Foundation, and sponsored by Microsoft. http://www.gsh.org/ HUT: HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Resources for Students and Teachers http://www.hut.fi /~rvilmi HUT: GRAMMAR HELP PAGES http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/Project/ IDIOM OF THE DAY http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/Idiom.html INTERNET FOR KIDS http://www.sybex.com/i4kids.html Internet ideas and projects for kids LATROBE STUDENT LISTS http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/education/sl/sl.html The student lists includ: CHAT-SL General Discussion List (Low Level) DISCUSS-SL General Discussion List (High Level) BUSINESS-SL Discussion List on Business and Economics ENGL-SL Discussion List on Learning English EVENT-SL Discussion List on Current Events MOVIE-SL DiscussionList on the Cinema MUSIC-SL Discussion List on Music SCITECH-SL DiscussionList on Science, Technology & Computers SPORT-SL Discussion List on Sports LINKS FOR ESL STUDENTS http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/mitesol/linkseslstudents.html ON-LINE LANGUAGE GAMES FOR VOCABULARY http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk THE REPORTER http://www.mclink.it/com/reporter. SCHMOOZE UNIVERSITY telnet to schmooze.huner.cuny.edu 8888 THE VIRTUAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTER Fables, worksheets, Idiom of the Week, and links to other ESL/EFL/ESOL/ELT sites. http://www.comenius.com WRITING CORRECTION PROJECT (Netscape 2.0 or above is required) http://www.tnis.net/rbowers/demo.html EMAIL PEN-PALS ------------------------ ESL CAFE EMAIL CONNECTION PAGES Split into student and teacher sections: http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/guestbook.html ESL CAFE STUDENT EMAIL CONNECTION http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/student.html E-MAIL PENPAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS Info for students to exchange e-mail with other students, for teachers to find other teachers to make keypal arrangments for their students, e-mail projects already done,and students' work through such e-mail projects. http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/keypal.htm). SCHOOLS -------------------- PILGRIMS Teachers meeting place where teachers can share ideas and make contacts throughout the world. http://www.demon.co.uk/pilgrims-lang/PilgrimsLtd. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE - International Language Centres Group UK and other countries: ESL/EFL, RSA/Cambridge, ELT Bookshop and mail-order, http://www.ilcgroup/home.html INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AGENTS http://www.edunet.com/agent.html#denmark" SOFTWARE --------------- CELIA (COMPUTER ENHANCED LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION ARCHIVE) ESL shareware http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/education/celia/celia.html INTERNET APPLICATION ARCHIVES find Internet software, including many Mac FTP sites ONLINE DICTIONARIES -------------------------------- ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH FAQ ON-LINE http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/alt-usage-english-faq/faq.html LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES AND TRANSLATORS WEBPAGE Access to online translation dictionaries for 37 languages http://rivendel.com/~ric/resources/dictionary.html LINGUISTICS TERMINOLOGY GLOSSARY http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/ling LINK TO A NUMBER OF DICTIONARIES INCLUDING WEBSTER. http://schools.sys.uea.ac.uk/schoolnet/srch.html LINKS to over a hundred electronic dictionaries and thesauri representing 44 languages. (Most of these dictionaries may be used online, though some must be downloaded) http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html MISCELLANEOUS DICTIONARIES AT BUCKNELL dictionaries include: thesaurus, synonym, acronym, medieval Latin, computer, legal, and medical (to name a few). http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html ON-LINE DICTIONARIES http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html ON-LINE TRANSLATION DICTIONARY 3.5million terms, consultable in up to 31 langauges. You enter a word or phrase in any language and a page is generated containing translations of that word into a long list of languages http://www.logos.it/query.html SYNONYM DICTIONARY http://vancouver-webpages.com/synonyms.html WEBSTER'S http://einet/galaxy/Arts-and-Humanities/Language-and-Literature WORLDWIDEGUIDE TO DICTIONARIES http://www.theworld.com/REFERENC/DICTIONA/SUBJECT.HTM ACRONYMS, ABBREVIATIONS, NETSPEAK, EMOTICONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS http://www.ucc.ie:80/info/net/acronyms/acro.html http://curia.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html gopher://info.mcc.ac.uk:70/11/miscellany/acronyms gopher://info.mcc.ac.uk:70/11/miscellany/acronyms BABEL:A Glossary of Computer Related Abbreviations and Acronyms http://www.access.digex.net/~ikind/babel96b.html GUIDE TO EMOTICONS a guide to those cutesy little marks people sprinkle throughout their email. http://wwws.enterprise.net/fortknox/emoticon/smiley.html NETGLOS: a multilingual glossary of Internet terminology http://wwli.com/translation/netglos/netglos.html NETSPEAK,BY SARA LINGAFELTER http://www.wwu.edu/~sara/netspeak.html EMPLOYMENT ---------------------- THE BRITISH COUNCIL - SERVICES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE http://www.open.gov.uk/bc/subelt01.html EFL JOB-RELATED WEBSITES http://www.demon.co.uk/edusource/elt-vac.html ESL JOB CENTER Job links, an add-to Teacher Profile Page, an ESL Job Board, and a link to TESL/FL Frequently Asked Questions.(with more job- search info- note: if you're reading this, you already have this FAQ) http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/jobcenter.html ESL JOBS: DISCUSSION http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wwwboard3/wwwboard.html ESL JOBS: OFFERED http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wwwboard4/wwwboard.html ESL JOBS: WANTED http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wwwboard5/wwwboard.html HUNGARY:TEACHING ENGLISH IN HUNGARY http://www.u-net.com/eflweb/hungary.htm INTERNATIONAL JOB SEARCH PAGE http://snowmass.zdv.gov:8080/jobs.html JAPAN - OHAYO SENSEI The complete current newsletter is available free via e-mail as a text-only document (about 30K), by sending a message with ONLY this EXACT text string in the body: get issue 1996no10 to ONLY this address: issue@ohayosensei.com O-Hayo Sensei will be e-mailed back to you in a few hours. Or you can visit the WWW site for a preview: http://www.ohayosensei.com JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH Individual job announcements, links to info on teaching abroad, job search sites, recruiters. Official O-Hayo Sensei mirror site. http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/tesljob.html JOBS IN TESL/TEFL AND LINGUISTICS Information on TEFL/TESL/TESOL/ELT and linguistics jobs http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/int-job.htm). KUWAIT UNIVERSITY HOMEPAGE http://www.kuniv.edu.kw/ku_home.html KUWAIT UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE http://hsccwww.kuniv.edu.kw/fom/dept/ENGLISH/TeachatKU.html KUWAIT UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE CENTER http://www.kuniv.edu.kw/language_centre.html#ANCHOR1 THAILAND: TEACHING ENGLISH IN THAILAND ARTICLE Information on how to get a teaching job, schools and placement organizations for ESL teachers,general info on Thai culture and expectations of ESL teachers., links to WorldTeach and other American volunteer organizations, Lonely Planet's Thailand page, Moon Publications, The Bangkok Post, and other Thai websites. http://eslcafe.com/thailand EFL in Asia by Hall Houston http://piglet.cc.utexas.edu/~ifgz623/EFL.html ECC SCHOOL IN THAILAND Employ native English speakers with an RSA CTEFLA or equivalent and a degree. Branches in :Chiang Rai, Yala, Nakorn Pathom. Udon Thani, Chonburi, Bangkok Benefits include: Work Permit, Medical Insurance, one-year renewable contract, computer training. How to Apply: send CV/resume, copies of education certificates/diplomas, and photo to: Director of Studies ECC (Thailand), Head Office, 430/17-24 Chula 64, Siam Square Bangkok, 10300. Thailand HOW TO CREATE AN ON-LINE RESUME Before you seriously begin your international job search on the Internet you should create an on-line resume http://www.occ.com/occ/JLK/HowToEResume The TESL-L archives have three files listing additional websites. To access these files, you must first be subscribed to the TESL-L and TESLCA-L mailing lists. To order, send an email message to LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU with the following command(s).in the body of the message. GET WEBSITES TESL TESL-L F=MAIL GET WEBSITES LANGLING TESL-L F=MAIL GET WEBSITES MORE TESL-L F=MAIL WORLD WIDE WEB SEARCH ENGINES --------------------------------------------- -------- If you're looking for something on the Internet (WWW or Usenet newsgroups), search engines can help you to find it. ALTAVISTA http://www.altavista.digital.com A search tool developed by Digital with a database of over 16,000,000 web pages and 13,000 Usenet newsgroups. Alta Vista will query both the Web and Usenet newsgroups. Some other notable features of Alta Vista are: * Boolean searching with AND, OR, NOT and NEAR operators * Case-sensitive and quoted-string searching * Ability to search on portions of a URL INFOSEEK Search http://www2.infoseek.com/ or under the Net Search button on Netscape. Searches Web pages around the world. Choose special query operators or helpful tips to get a broad list of special options.Results limited to 10 matches (there is an associated commercial service which allows larger numbers of matches.) Results also include a paragraph of comments on each match. LYCOS http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/ or under the Net Search button on Netscape The big Lycos catalog searches 5.6 million web pages. A second smaller catalogue searches 486,000 pages. A good feature of Lycos is that it will rank the search results in order depending on how many times your key words appear in the documents. Click on search language help to see a number of options. WEB CRAWLER http://webcrawler.com/ or under the NetSearch button on Netscape. Searches through 1.5 million documents. Options are limited to the number of results requested and choosing between any or all keywords. WORLD WIDE WEB WORM http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWW.html Searches three million Web pages. Includes a wide range of options, including some very specialized ones. WEBTAXI http://www.webtaxi.com/ YAHOO DIRECTORY http://www.yahoo.com/ or under the Net Directory button on Netscape Yahoo searches Web titles, URLs and comments. By selecting options, you can make your search casesensitive, choose between searching for any or all of your keywords, and look for substrings or complete words. Or, if you prefer, you can "surf" through Yahoo's pre-selected categories (e.g., arts, education, entertainment, science) to see if you find anything interesting. YAHOOLIGANS http://www.yahooligans.com/. An index of the Internet aimed at pre-teens and early teens. Text only: http://www.yahooligans.com/text/ TELNET SITES: -------------------- DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER lingnet.army.mil LATTICE Databases: lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au . Log in as dbguest, using the password is NLLIA-db Make sure that your terminal type is set to VT100. MOOs ----------- MOO stands for Multiple-user-domain,Object-Oriented. It is a computer application which is Internet accessible via telnet . It is a text-based virtual reality, a means by which users who log in from countries around the world can talk in real time to each other, have a permanent character, build their own virtual spaces and objects,and form a lasting sense of community.More general MOO info is at: http://central.itp.berkeley.edu/~thorne/MOO.html MOO Teacher's Tip Sheet" is at: http://www.daedalus.com/net/MOOTIPS.html ESL MOO ------------- SCHMOOZE UNIVERSITY http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu 8888 SchMOOze University is a virtual environment (a MOO), through which people can communicate with each other in real-time (as opposed to email) SchMOOze was designed to help students around the world learn and practice English. To check out schMOOze, telnet to the above address and once you see the Entrance Gates, type: connect guest Follow the on-screen directions, and ask others for guidance--schMOOzers enjoy helping newcomers) HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, VIRTUAL LANGUAGE CENTER MOO http://hutmoo.cs.hut.fi 7777 GOPHER SITES: --------------------- NOTE: Many gophers are liinked together.Once at one gopher, you can often connect to others in your interest area. Don't be afraid to explore. AGORA LANGUAGE MARKETPLACE gopher.agoralang.com:2411 ASK ERIC gopher://ericir.syr.edu BOOLEIAN GOPHER ACCESS http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/bardhtml/bardhelp/gopher.htm CELIA (Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archive) gopher gopher.latrobe.edu.au COMENIUS GOPHER: gopher.comenius.com CUNYGopher: TESL gopher://CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:70/11/Subject%20Specific %20Gophers choose Teaching English as a second or Foreign Language FLTEACH GOPHER gopher.cortland.edu 71 ON-LINEREADY REFERENCE gopher://gopher.solinet.net:70/11/SOLINETGopher/ USIA GOPHER: gopher.usia.gov WIRETAP GOPHER MENU gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/11/Library NETIQUETTE SITES --------------------------- DEAR EMILYPOST NEWS http://www.clari.net/brad/emily.html MAP07 - FROM THE ROADMAP FOR THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY http://www.hart.bbk.ac.uk/~trish/maponline/MAP07.html NETIQUETTE ON THE INTERNET http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/ccs/insync/ 1994-09-09-134423/1701313.html NETLINKS: NETIQUETTE 101 http://www.interlog.com/~csteele/netiquet.html NET USER GUIDELINES AND NETIQUETTE http://www.revealed.net/IRWeb/INM/netiquette.html ******************************************** INTERNET EDUCATION ******************************************** For those who would like to expand their understanding of the Internet and all it offers, the Roadmap lessons, available by email, offer a free, user-friendly method of becoming accustomed to using the Internet in its various aspects. To obtain the syllabus for the Roadmap lessons, send an email message with a blank subject line to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU In the body of the message write: GET ROADMAP SYLLABUS F=MAIL This will fetch you a listing of the Roadmap lessons and what they contain, as well as instructions as to how to obtain the lessons via email. BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE EMAIL> http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html BIG DUMMY'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/bigdummy/ BIG DUMMY'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET - COUNTRY CODES http://www.ccs.neu.edu/Cobwebs/BigDummy/bdg_279.html#SEC282 MLA-TYPE STYLE SHEET FOR INTERNET RESEARCH The Walker/ACW Style Sheet -------------------------- An MLA-style guide for citations of electronic sources. http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE MAILING LISTS http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml/