British Council Learn
English Site
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish
A web site run by British Council that
provides learning materials for English learning students all over the world. It
offers online courses, reading and listening materials, stories, poems, songs,
interactive exercises and games, etc. highly recommended.
Dave's ESL Cafe
http://www.eslcafe.com
A well-known ESL/EFL site that provides various language activities for students
such as language exercises, quizzes, online chats, etc. It also provides
connections and links to various language resources for both students and
teachers. Highly recommended.
English Town
http://www.englishtown.com
A web site that provides free online English courses and student communication
services such as electronic discussion groups, chatroom, etc. The web site is in
many different languages including Chinese.
ESL links
http://www.altech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL.html
Provides links to many ESL activity sites.
Exchange
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/exchange
An interactive student-oriented site that helps students to learn English. In
addition to providing English learning materials, it presents compositions of
EFL/ESL students from all over the world. Students can submit their writing,
respond to an article, or find a penpal here.
CNN Newsroom
http://lc.byuh.edu/CNN_N/CNN_N_page.html
Provides guides and interactive learning materials for using CNN
NEWSROOM, an educational program on the regular CNN TV channel.
Purdue University's
Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
A Web site that helps students with writing by
providing resources, activities, and online support. One of the oldest writing
labs on the Internet.
Excite Travel Web
Site
http://www.excite.com/travel
Provides information on over 5000 cities in the
world. A good resource site to learn about the world.
▲ Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Cambridge Dictionary: http://dictionary.cambridge.org
WWWebster Dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
Wordcentral (interactive student
dictionary): http://www.wordcentral.com
Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing:
http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc/
Education World Internet Glossary:
http://www.education-world.com/help/glossary.shtml
Encarta encyclodpedia: http://www.encarta.msn.com
TechEncyclopedia: http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/
▲ News Web sites
International News:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gerben/news.html
(Provides links to news in different parts
of the world.)
USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com
ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com
Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com
CNN Interactive:http://www.cnn.com
▲ Free Email and
Card Sites
http://www.netaddress.com
http://www.hotmail.com
http://yahoo.com
http://www.163.net
http://www.263.net
http://www.dll-lever.com/postcard
(Provides free electronic postcards.)
http://www.card4you.com
(Provides free electronic postcards.)
▲ Internet Search Engines
http://www.yahoo.com
http://altavista.digital.com
http://askjeeves.com
http://www.hotbot.com
http://www.excite.com
http://www.lycos.com
北大天网中英文搜索引擎(http://e.pku.edu.cn)
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Internet
resources for TESL/TEFL Teachers
British Council English
Language Teaching Site
http://www.britishcouncil.org.hk/english/eltsites.htm
Provides links to many ELT (English Language Teaching) sites.
A great resource for English teachers
TESL-EJ (Teaching English
as a Second/Foreign Language--Electronic Journal)
http://www.violet.berkeley.edu/~cwp/TESL-EJ
(or) http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej
An online journal that provides many paperson CALL.
Mark Warschauer's Web site
http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/web/faculty/markw
You can find many papers written by Dr. Warschauer on CALL (computer assisted
language learning). They provide introduction to CALL as well as in-depth
research summary on CALL. Highly
recommended.
TESOL Home Page
http://www.tesol.edu
Includes information about TESOL, its
publications, conferences, etc.
Global Schoolnet Foundations
http://www.gsn.org
Resourses with connection to a wide
variety of projects, articles, contest, events, and lists involving mainly
children and the Internet, but of possible interest to students of various ages.
IECC ( Intercultural E-mail ClassRoom
Connections)
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc
Helps teachers in different countries to find
partners for email activities and other exchange projects.
Sussex CALL site
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/CALL.html
It provides links to free downloads of CALL software.
Ruth Vilmi's Hut Internet Writing
project
http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/Project
Ruth Vilmi'ssite for site for various writinprojects. You may join international
exchange writing projects here or learn from Ruth Vilmi how to conduct such
projects.
ERIC Digests
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/index
Full text database of ERIC Digests.
AskERIC
http://ericir.syr.edu
Allows a search of the ERIC archives
or puts one in touch with a real person who can answer research questions about
teaching and learning materials.
Education Virtual Library
http://www.csu.edu.au/education/library.html
Helps you get online materials concerning
education.
Electric
Library
http://www.elibrary.com
Provides major journal articles in the
world; using key words to select articles; subscription: US$9.00 per month; free
use for the first month.
National library of China
http://www.nlc.gov.cn
American Memory-- Historical Collections
for the National Digital Library (the Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov
Provides articles, documents, photos, pictures, sound
recordings, motion pictures concerning American history.
Webquest
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
Provides many real samples of
Internet-based research projects for students at different levels in a fun way.
TESL/TEFL
Mailing Lists
(Mailing list is a kind of electronic
discussion group through the use of email. If you have an email account, you can
subscribe to a mailing list. Then the list server will send you all the messages
written by the list members through the email. On the Internet, there are many
mailing lists for English teachers and students.)
TESL-L List
listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Probably the most famous TESL/TEFL
electronic discussion group in the world, with teachers, experts, and graduate
students from over 100 countries. There are eight branches under it. You can
subscribe rts, and graduate students from over 100
countries. There are eight branches under it. You can subscribe to
it by using email. To subscribe, send an email to
the above address; in the message box, type
SUB TESL-L (your first name) (your family name)
e.g.SUB TESL-L Ming Li
TESLK-12
listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
An electronic discussion group for K-12
(kindergarten to 12th grade) English teachers. An
electronic discussion group for K-12 (kindergarten to 12th grade) English
teachers. To subscribe, join TESL-L List first and
then send an email to the above address with the following message:
SUB
TESLK-12 (your first name) (your family name)
ELTECS-Chi-L
Listserv@list1.britishcouncil.org
ELTECS-Chi-L (English Language teaching
Contacts Scheme China List) is a discussion group sponsored by the Cultural and
Education Section of the British Embassy for Chinese ELT (English language
teaching) professionals. English teachers in China are encouraged to join this
list to share ideas, expertise and experience with their colleagues. To join the
list, send an email to the above address with the following message:
Sub ELTECS-Chi-L (first
name) (family name)
FLTEACH ( Foreign
Language Teacher’s Forum )
listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu
To get information about it, send the above address
an email with the following message:
Info FLTEACH
Neteach-L
Listserv@thecity.sfsu.edu
An electronic discussion group on the
use of the Internet in language teaching. To learn about the list, go to http://www.ilc.cuhk.edu.hk/emnglish/neteach/main.html.
SL-Lists (International
Student Lists)
Listserv@lugb.latrobe.edu.au
Famous students electronic discussion groups for international university
students who learn English. There are 10 branches under it including General
Discussion List (Low level), General Discussion List (High level), Lists on
Business English, on Learning English, on Current Events, on Cinema, Music,
Sports, etc.
To help your students join the lists, write
to Mr. Tom Robb at trobb@cc.kyto-su.ac.jp
Papyrus News
http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/web/faculty/markw/papyrus-news.html
Papyrus News is a mailing list run by Dr Mark Warschauer providing most up-dated
information on technology in education and CALL. Access the above web site and
you can find how to join the list. Once you are on the list, materials will be
delivered to you through the email every week.
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Web Resources for Clip Arts
Clipart Web site
http://www.clipart.com
http://202.95.18.169/education/CALLLab/index.htm
(Web site in china)
网虫乐园Web资源角
(Web site in china)
http://202.114.98.14/webresource
Picman 图片库
(Web site in China)
http://202.205.10.31/entertainment/pic
Clipart collection for foreign
language Instruction
http://www.sla.purdue.edu.edu/JapanProj/FLClipart
http://www.tol24.com/
新东方教育在线
http://www.anycities.com/user/hydongwei/
http://www.etiponline.net/etip/index.asp
英语教学与互联网项目
http://www.etc.edu.cn/Information-theme/index.htm
中小学教育通讯
http://www.lookercn.com/xinshijie_qingbao.htm新视界
http://www.hainnu.edu.cn/licb/Reference-data/Reference-index.htm参考文件汇总
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