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 FIVE 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 FIVE (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 FIVE ********************************************** (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 FIVE Journals for ESL/EFL/ESOL Professionals Publications for Students Grant Funding Software for ESL/EFL/ESOL Phonetic (IPA) Fonts - Where to Get Them Structured Courses Edutainment Other Forms of Computer-Aided Language Learning Teacher Training Aids ASCII Representation of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA Useful Addresses for British TEFL Information PLEASE NOTE: RE: TELEPHONE/FAX LISTINGS There are a number of telephone/fax listings within this document. There appear to be some British conventions regarding telephone numbers, which are not familiar to citizens of other countries, most significantly, a "+" (plus) sign before telephone numbers. Because of the confusion which this may cause among readers not familiar with British telephone listings, these have been left out. So - - how to use the telephone listings then? User your judgement -- check to see if the international country code has been included in the listing. If it has, you're in business. If it hasn't, look it up. Then, if the particular country you're in has any further dialing conventions for long distance/international calls, add them. ************************************** JOURNALS FOR ESL/EFL/ESOL PROFESSIONALS ************************************* AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE MATTERS ALM is a small quarterly, coordinated by the LANGUAGE AUSTRALIA (formerly the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia, Ltd.) which covers developments in and information on language and literacy issues in Australia. There are also articles on general language and literacy issues, conference news , and book reviews For a free sample copy send a request to: Australian Language Matters, c/o NLLIA, 6 Campion Street, Deakin ACT 2600, Australia. COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING An International Journal Subscription requests: Intellect Books, Suite 2, 108/110 London Road, Oxford, OX3 9AW, U.K. outside Europe: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 355 Chestnut Street, New Jersey 07648 U.S.A. editorial submissions should be sent to: Dr Keith Cameron (General Editor), Computer Assisted Language Learning, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, (UK) email: CAMERON@EXETER.AC.UK CALL periodicals and journals: The latest version of the list of CALL journals and periodicals can be obtained by sending an email message to: LISTSERV@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE with the following command in the body of the message: SEND JOURNALS TXT EL GAZETTE (formerly The EFL Gazette) A monthly newspaper, with worldwide ELT news, gossip and advertisements. Annual subscriptions of 12 issues from: 10 Wrights Lane Kensington, London, W8 6TA, Great Britain Tel (+1-171) 938 1818, Fax (+1-171) 937 7534 e-mail 100130.2037@compuserve.com Damian Wilson, Editor Dan Ward, Executive Editor. ELT JOURNAL ELT Journal Journals Subscriptions Dept. Oxford University Press, Pinkhill House Southfield Road, Eynsham, Oxford OX8 1JJ England. outside the UK and Europe ELT Journal c/o Virgin Mailing and Distribution Building 150 Newark Airport New Jersey 07114 USA There are reduced rates for TESOL and IATEFL members. Normal rate is listed as 40 dollars (outside of the UK and Europe). ELT NEWS & VIEWS A magazine-sized "newsletter" for EFL teachers in Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Argentina, and, now, North America, offering a wide variety of information, from local EFL/ELT gossip to international EFL/ELT news and practical suggestions for use in class. Published three times yearly, in March, June and September, this magazine contains a wealth of informative articles surpassing anything I've seen in U.S. ESL/EFL/ESOL journals. This year, ELT N&V began including a special topic supplement with each issue. (supplements have covered such topics as Business English, dictionaries, and testing) Rates are $15/individual, $25/institutional within Argentina, and US$25 for neighboring countries. US rates are $35 for three issues with supplements. Payment may be made by Visa or Mastercard, or by check drawn on a British bank, in pounds sterling. Contact: ELT News & Views Martin Eayrs Uruguay 782-3, 1015 Capital Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel: 541-371-7705 Fax: 541-375-3944 email: eltnews@wamani.apc.org THE ENGLISH TEACHING FORUM distributed abroad by American embassies in the more than 140 other countries where the "Forum" is distributed, questions regarding subscriptions should be addressed to the Cultural Affairs Office of the United States Information Service located in the national capital. In the United States subscriptions are available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. ESP JOURNAL from Pergamon Press 660 White Plains Road Tarrytown NY 10591-5153 Internet: PPI@pergamon.com Rate $49/year FOLIO is the journal of MATSDA. FOLIO, published twice yearly provides a forum for discussion of issues relating to Materials Development for the teaching of Second and foreign languages, e.g,research into the effects of different kinds of teaching and materials; critical studies of present materials;and evaluations of innovative materials Issues I've seen discussed issues current in ESL as they affect materials developers or gave examples of writers' materials. I found it quite exciting to hear from other materials writers, see what they are doing and know how they are thinking. Cristina S. Banfi, Secretary of MATSDA, Queens9 College, Cambridge CB3 9ET, UK. Tel: +44-1223-574883 Fax: +44-(0)1223-335522 e-mail: cristina@ling.ucl.ac.uk HANDS-ON ENGLISH The audience of Hands-On English is ESL teachers working with adult students, including part-timers and volunteers. Some are experienced professionals and some are not. Anna Silliman Hands-on English PO Box 256 Crete, NE 68333 73651.1122@compuserve.com 1-800-ESL-HAND FAX 402-826-3997 Each year, Hands-on English awards ten Minigrants of up to $100 each, for the development of classroom projects. The purpose of the grants is to give classroom practitioners some encouragement, recognition, and experience in applying for funding. Although Hands-on English is oriented toward Adult ESL teaching, it is not necessary to be working with this populationin order to apply. IDEAL JOURNAL Issues and Developments in English and Applied Linguistics A forum for research into the acquisition and teaching of ESL IDEAL Wayne Dickerson Editor DEIL, 3070 FLB, UIUC 707 South Mathews Urbana, IL 61801 USA tel. 217-333-1506 IDIOM Idiom is a quarterly publication of New York State TESOL. Idiom: Jan Hayneman 157 Benton St. Rochester, N.Y. 14620 phone/fax 716 473-0746 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES A quarterly electronic journal devoted to all aspects of computer use by persons with disabilities. Individual subscriptions are free of charge. 1) BY EMAIL: send an e-mail message with the subject line blank to: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu and the following command in the body of the message sub itd-jnl 2) BY GOPHER: To receive each issue's TABLE OF CONTENTS ONLY: send an email message wtih the subject line blank to: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu in the body of the message sent the command: sub itd-toc The Table of Contents will provide abstracts of articles as well as explicit instructions for accessing Information Technology and Disabilities by gopher. INTERNATIONAL EDUCATOR. International Educatorcovers issues regarding international educational exchange programs--administration, foreign student advising, internationalization of curricula, etc. It does *not* however contain actual job listings. For information or subscriptions, contact: NAFSA Association of International Educators 1875 Connecticut Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20009-5728 USA . 202-462-4811. $12/yr (2 issues, fall and spring). JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING (JALT) JOURNAL Urban Edge Bldg. 5 fl. 1-37-9 Taito, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110 Tel. 81-3-3837-1630 Fax. 81-3-3837-1631 JOURNAL OF IMAGINATION IN LANGUAGE LEARNING The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning Grossnickle Hall, Room 347 Jersey City State College 2039 Kennedy Boulevard Jersey City, New Jersey 07305-1597 JOURNAL OF INTENSIVE LANGUAGE STUDIES JIES Center for ESL CESL 100- Bldg. # 24 Univ. of Arizona Tucson AZ 85721 USA (602) 621-1362 fax: 602-621-9180 JOURNAL OF SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING Journal of Second Language Writing ABLEX Publishing Corporation 355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648 (201) 767-8450 For information on editorial matters, contact: Ilona Leki Department of English University of Tennessee 37996-0430 (615) 974-7080 or (615) 974-5401 e-mail: leki@utkvx.utk.edu or Tony Silva Deparment of English Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1356 (317) 494-3769 e-mail: silvat@mace.cc.purdue.edu LANGUAGE QUARTERLY For subscription details, please send street mailing address to: adderley@quijote.lang.usf.edu ON-CALL For information or subscriptions: ON-CALL Language and Applied Linguistics Bond University Gold Coast, Queensland 4229 Australia Phone: +61-75-95-2530 Fax: +61-75-95-2530 E-mail: On_Call@Bond.edu.au MODERN ENGLISH TEACHER Macmillan (U.K.) MET Houndmills Basingstoke Hants. RG21 2XS England FAX: +1 (0)256 819210 NEWSLINKS Free, quarterly newspaper.which contains articles about trends in teaching K-12 and EFL abroad, and about individual schools It contains no actual job listings. Newslinks International Schools Services, PO Box 5910 Princeton, NJ 08543 609-452-0990. READING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Contains mostly research papers, on both practical and theoretical topics related to L2 reading, with occasional book reviews Subscriptions and submissions: International Education Center, College of St. Mark and St. John, Derriford Rd., Plymouth PL6 8BH, England 12 pounds/year outside U.K. SECOND LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION/ACQUISITION ABSTRACTS SLI/AA includes sections on Non-native Language Pedagogy, Non-native Language Acquisition, Language Testing, Reading Instruction and Remediation, Reading Processes, Writing, Bilingualism/Bilingual Education, and Translation. Second Language Instruction/Acquisition Abstracts P. O. Box 22206, San Diego, CA 92192-0206 Email: SOCIO@SDSC.BITNET Telephone: (619) 695-0416 TESOL JOURNAL and NEWSLETTERS Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Membership in TESOL includes a choice of refereed publications. and special interest groups. TESOL QUARTERLY, TESOL JOURNAL, TESOL MATTERS Special Interest Sections Adult Education Applied Linguistics Bilingual Education Computer-Assisted Language Learning Elementary Education English as a Foreign Language English for Specific Purposes Higher Education Intensive English Programs International Teaching Assistants Materials Writers Program Administration Refugee Concerns Research Secondary Schools Teacher Education Teaching English to Deaf Students Video For information about TESOL membership: email: mbr@TESOL.EDU WATESOL JOURNAL: WATESOL Journal Christine Meloni, WJ Editor Program in EFL Academic Center, T-604 George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 Email: Christine Meloni WORLD ENGLISHES Requests for information or subscriptions should be sent to: World Englishes Journals Subscriptions Department Marston Book Services PO Box 87 Oxford OD2 0DT, England ********************************************* PUBLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS ********************************************* THE REPORTER Reporter Publishing Via Manzoni 31 50018 Scandicci (Fi) Italy tel: +39-55-2578346 fax +38-55-250868 email: grae@mclink.it or mc7386@mclink.it WWW: http://www.mclink.it/com/reporter The Reporter, an English language publication written by native speakers, contains articles and entertainment for students of the English language. It is distributed worldwide with an estimated readership of 24-26,000. The printed version is a 24-page tabloid The Reporter is also available over the Internet A year's subscription to The Reporter (hard copy) is 25$ for Europe, 33$ for America and 38$ for the Pacific. (these prices include Air Mail) Group subscriptions receive a 10% discount plus a cassette and a free subscription for the teacher. A subscription to the electronic issue costs $20 and you may print single articles from it in order to prepare your classes . Multiple subs to the electronic version are also available . ********************************************* GRANT FUNDING ********************************************* Educational and Research Grant Information Online (this information has been taken directly from a FEDIX newsgroup announcment) A free online e-mail service delivering targeted research and education U.S. government funded opportunities. The service is provided by Federal Information Exchange (FEDIX) in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Energy. A consolidated data base of RFPs, grants, fellowships, scholarships, or other funding opportunities from the Departments of Energy, Agriculture, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, and AID, NASA, NIH, EPA,AFOSR, ONR, and DISA will generate an e-mail to subscribers. Registration requires subscribers to outline the type of funding opportunities to be targeted. This process can take up to 30 minutes. To subscribe, go to (note: this long address is case sensitive): and select "Registration." WWW: The FEDIX home page is simpler at http://www.fie.com and has a search engine for the funding database as well as useful links to other federal sites. GOPHER ADDRESS: TELNET ADDRESS: . ********************************************* SOFTWARE FOR LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION/LEARNING ********************************************* This is a list generated by surveys of ESL/EFL/ESOL teachers who use Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) programs. I can't vouch for any of them - all I know is that they are available. PHONETICS FONTS - where to get them ------------------------------------------------------- contact SIL SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS .Fred West Roman Font Support Voice (214)709-2495 Fax: (214)709-3388 Mail: ILC-PAD, 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236 E-mail: fred.west@sil.org To obtain the SIL Encore IPA fonts on WWW: http://www.sil.org/ By gopher: gopher.sil.org and look under SIL resources for a pointer to SIL software and the fonts. By FTP: FTP to ftp.sil.org [198.213.4.1]. Log in as "anonymous" and give your e-mail address as the password. For Windows version, do these commands: cd [.fonts.win] binary get silip12a.exe This is a self-extracting archive. To get KEYMAN, a keyboard redefinition program that facilitates typing the IPA font. Do this command (in the same subdirectory): get keyman.exe For the Macintosh version, do these commands (from the log-in directory): cd [.fonts.mac] get silipa12.sea_hqx This is a Binhex-encoded self-extracting archive. You will need a Binhex program to decode it. To obtain the SIL Encore IPA fonts forWindows by e-mail: Create a message consisting of only this line: SEND/MODE=BLOCK/ENCODING=UUENCODE [FTP.FONTS.WIN]SILIP12A.EXE Send this message to: mailserv@sil.org The file will arrive uuencoded. You will need a uudecoding program to decode it. You may also want to get KEYMAN, a keyboard redefinition program that facilitates typing the IPA font. Use this command: SEND/MODE=BLOCK/ENCODING=UUENCODE [FTP.FONTS.WIN]KEYMAN.EXE The SIL Encore IPA fonts are also available on diskette for $5.00. Order from: International Academic Bookstore Summer Institute of Linguistics 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road Dallas, TX 75236 U.S.A. phone 214/709-2404 fax 214/709-2433 e-mail academic.books@sil.org Send inquiries about the Encore fonts to: fonts@sil.org The UCL Dept of Phonetics & Linguistics sells a set of Truetype phonetic fonts for use on IBM-compatible PCs running Windows. For more information: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipafonts.html http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm STRUCTURED COURSES ---------------------------------- English Discoveries Edusoft IBM Triple Play Plus! Syracuse Language Systems, Inc IBM Active English (1-4) Courseware Publishing Intern. IBM English Plus Edusoft Israel IBM Reading~, Grammar~, Vocabulary MASTERY ALA IBM Rosetta Stone Fairfield Language Technologies IBM, Mac Success with Writing Scholastic Software IBM DYNAMIC ENGLISH Dyned International IBM, Mac HyerAce Advanced Athelstan Mac macESL Hacienda La Puente Mac I Speak English Intechnica International IBM English Easy - Vowels and Consonants Multimedia Corp. Transparent Language Transparent Language Inc., Learn to Speak English 6.0 HyperGlot IBM, Mac Wordstore, Vocab (vocab. training sw) Wida Software IBM Gap~, Match~, TestMASTER, (authoring sw) WIDA IBM, Mac Words on Wings, Steps to ELDevelopm. (K-12) Jostens Learning Corp. The Longman Interactive English Dictionary Longman, UK IBM,Mac WinCALIS authoring system Duke University IBM The ALA LabSystem, American Language Academy IBM DAEDALUS Integrated Writing Environment (DIWE) The Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment (DIWE) consists of eight interactive programs, or modules, that together create the opportunity for collaborative learning in the computer classroom. DIWE is designed for use on a network, but some of its components may be run on individual workstations; these "standalone modules" can be purchased as a separate bundle. Likewise, the remaining programs or"network modules" that run exclusively on a network may be purchased as a single unit. DOS and Mac demo copies of DIWE can be downloaded from the Daedalus gopher site: gopher.daedalus.com port 70 More information can be found at: http://agoralang.com/cgi-bin/daedalus.pl TOEFL Mentor CD-ROM from Encomium Publications includes Listening, Strucure and Reading practice sessions and test sessions, along with a detailed description of the "Test of Written English." It also has info about the TOEFL test itself, on-line instructions on using the program and test taking strategies. http://www.iac.net/~encomium/ email: encomiump@aol.com GESSLER, a small publisher of foreign language teaching materials carries a number of ESL/EFL/ESOL software titles. Request the Gessler catalog from: Gessler Publishing Co. Inc. 10 E. Church Avenue Roanoke, VA 24011 USA 1-800-456-5825 or Access their web page at http://www.gessler.com/gessler/ EDUTAINMENT ---------------------- Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Broderbund IBM, Mac Sim City 2000 Maxis Software IBM, Mac Encarta, Microsoft Mac, IBM Civilization & Colonization( 2 simulation programs) Microprose OTHER FORMS OF COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SchMOOze University on Internet The Linguistic Funland TESL Kristina Pfaff http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/tesl.html On-line Language Games for Vocabulary http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk ESL 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/ Comenius: Interactive Quizzes, Worksheets, Readings, etc http://www.comenius.com Educational and Instructional Shareware http://www.SliceOfLife.com/Official/ TEACHER TRAINING AIDS ------------------------------------- AUDIO-FORUM "Video in the ESL Class" + 173-page book "Video in Action" +32-page teacher's guide "Practical ESL Teaching Techniques" 4 audio cassettes featuring a J. William McVey "Speech improvement: Do it yourself" 3 audio cassettes featuring Phyills Rooder Weiss. You might also check the TESOL, Inc.publication, DIRECTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING VIDEOS, 1994, which was produced by the TESOL Video Interest Section and edited by Julie Falsetti. ASCII REPRESENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET (IPA) --------------------------------------------- The standard way to represent (used in the many dictionaries and by linguists worldwide) is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). IPA uses many special symbols which are not available as ASCII characters; consequently, we need some other way to represent IPA.symbols. There are several competing versions. Tne.from the YuenRen Society is available at: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/ASCII_IPA.html postscript version http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/ASCII_IPA.ps Another WWW page shows what the IPA symbols look like: