We have compiled a large collection of websites of interest to teachers and students.
Websites of interest to teachers and learners
Dictionaries
- All Words.Com
- The American Heritage Dictionary
- Dictionaries, thesauri, acronyms
- Dictionary.com
- Foreign Word
- Merriam-Webster OnLine
- Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online
- Your Dictionary
- Google Translate (by sentence or a text)
Grammar
- English Language Guide
- Road to Grammar
- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
- ESL Study Hall: Grammar
- English Grammar The Easy Way
- Grammar Bytes!
- Grammar Slammer
- Guide To Grammar and Writing
- The Internet TESL Journal
- Online English Grammar
Listening
Professional Organizations
- American Association for Applied Linguistics
- Office of English Language Programs (U.S. State Dept.)
- TESOL Online
Reading
Speaking
- Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish – The University of Iowa
- VOA: Pronunciation Guide
Writing
- Dave´s ESL Cafe
- Dictionary.Com
- ESL Study Hall: Writing
- The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
- Your Dictionary
Students
- Dave´s ESL Cafe
- ESL Study Hall: Grammar
- ESL Study Hall: Listening
- ESL Study Hall: Reading
- ESL Study Hall: U.S. Culture
- ESL Study Hall: Vocabulary
- ESL Study Hall: Writing
- ESL Web Guide
- English Club
- English Page
- The Internet TESL Journal
- Learners Online
- Online English Language Center
- Real English
- Selected Links for ESL & EFL Students
Teachers
- FORUM Magazine from the Office of English Language Programs (U.S. Dept of State)
- Clickteaching.com
- Dave´s ESL Cafe
- ESL Lessons
- Handouts for Classroom Use
- Internet: Teaching with the Web
- Online English Language Center for teachers
- TESL TEFL TESOL ESL EFL ESOL Links
- Teachers Net Lesson Exchange: Lesson Plans
- Teaching Techniques
- Tips for Teachers
Testing Sites
- NEW!!! YouTube TOEFL videos
- GMAT
- GRE
- LSAT
- Materials to Prepare IELTS Speaking Test
- SAT
- Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
Specialty Websites
- English Interactive
- ELT Games
- Sound of English
- VOA Special English
- English for the Internet: On-line school for grammar, listening, writing, TOEFL, Business etc.
- 1-language.com
- About: English as a Second Language
- Applied Linguistics Without Tears: An Online Reference
- Center for Applied Linguistics
- Directory of English Language Schools in the United States
- English as a Foreign Language Publication Catalog
- FORUM Online English Teaching Forum (U.S. State Dept.)
- Global English
- The Internet Acronym Server
- Materials for Teaching and Learning
- TESL: Linguistics
Other resources
- ESL Cafe on the Web: Dave Sperling’s regularly updated Cafe is among the most widely visited English language sites on the Web.
- Digital Education Network: Hosts a range of ELT organizations, and offers a wide range of links and ELT-related information.
- IATEFL: As well as general information on IATEFL, has links to the Web pages of all the IATEFL SIGs.
- Internet TESL Journal: In addition to its role as a monthly journal, this site gives access to over 1500 regularly updated ESL\EFL links.
- Linguistic Funland TESL Page: A large number of links, regularly updated.
- Babel Fish Translation
- ClassBrain
- Edufin
- English Zone
- Free Translation
- Learn English Kids
- RHL School, Free Teaching Resources
- ESL Loop: A collection of 50 + sites relevant to ELT on the Web.
- NEW!!! VoiceNation – Ultimate ESL Subject Guide
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Forum Magazine
The English Teaching Forum, a journal for English teachers outside the United States, is published four times a year (January, April, July and October). There is an on-line edition of the Forum at
http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum-journal.html
You can submit your articles as well by following these instructions. To be considered for publication, manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, and have margins of at least three centimeters. They should also be accompanied by a statement indicating whether they have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Anything written for submission to Forum should be sent to the following address:
Editor, English Teaching Forum
304 4th Street SW, Room 312
Washington, DC 20547
USA
Fax: 202-401-1250
e-mail: etforum@eca.state.gov
E-Journals
The Office of English Language Programs is pleased to offer the electronic journals Language and Civil Society and Language and Life Science to teachers of English as a foreign language. These journals contain ready-to-use lesson plans and are suitable for students at the intermediate level. Each chapter contains background information, classroom-ready activities, and related resources and references. Teachers are encouraged to download and use the lessons, adapting them to suit the need of their students.
