ELT WEBSITE LINKS


I hope this ‘clickable’ list will be a good starting point for accessing some of the mass of ELT material available on the Web. It lists sources I myself have found useful.

As is the way with the Web, many of these sites will then point you on to other useful material!

General ELT websites (links etc.)

All the sites below contain a range of useful ELT stuff – most have worthwhile links lists, and some have valuable material of their own.

http://www1.doshisha.ac.jp/~kkitao/

- and see particularly

http://www1.doshisha.ac.jp/~kkitao/online/www/communi.htm

All the sites in this section are worth looking at, but I particularly like this site which Kenji and Katherine Kitao have put together – should be a bookmark/favourite for anyone involved with teaching English, I think

http://eleaston.com/

A really good site for links.

http://iteslj.org/links/

Another good links site, based in Japan.

http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/teacher.html (for teachers) and
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/weblinklearners.html (for learners)

Good links - and see http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/inetpro.html for ELT-related Internet projects.

http://www.english-forum.com/

A nicely-presented and well-organised ELT ‘portal’ site from the UK.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Languages/Specific_Languages/English/English_

as_a_Second_Language/Teaching/

Worth browsing among these links (provided by Yahoo).

http://www.eslcafe.com/

"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" Dave Sperling’s ESL Café has become widely known. Materials, teachers’ and students’ forums, etc.

http://www.tesol.net/neteach.html

NETEACH-L is a (recommended) mailing list for international teachers of English as a second or foreign language to discuss Internet-assisted teaching and learning . This is a list of sites NETEACH members like.

http://www.ohiou.edu/linguistics/esl/
Good student ESL resource links


 

Extensive reading

http://erfoundation.org/

Useful stuff from the Extensive Reading Foundation for anyone who (like me!) is a firm believer in the value 

of graded reading materials. (And see their useful links list at http://erfoundation.org/erf/node/9.)

Online exercises

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot

If you don’t already know the Hot Potatoes online exercise suite, have a look at this website.

http://www.esl-lab.com/

‘Randall’s Listening Lab’ – a widely-recommended collection of listening exercises.

http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/lcra2/lcra_index.html

Listening comprehension exercises

http://w2.byuh.edu/academics/languagecenter/CNN-N/CNN-N.html

Exercises from Hawaii, based on the CNN Newsroom website

http://a4esl.org/q/h/

A whole range of quizzes for ELT learners, from a respected Japanese website.

Checklist for writing language learning materials

http://www.webofenglish.co.uk/ltmat2.htm

My own modest contribution to online resources for language teachers!

  

Vocabulary 

http://www.lextutor.ca/
The portal page (˜The Compleat Lexical Tutor"™) for the two URLs mentioned below, and a good deal of other useful material besides.

http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/textools/web_vp.html

A really useful vocabulary level checker from Canada, based on wordlists developed in New Zealand – cut and paste in your text, and the checker will analyse it. 

http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/
Check incidences of a vocabulary item in a number of different corpuses, including the Brown corpus from the US and the British National Corpus. (You can also search several different corpuses together - texts totalling over four million words.)

 

 

Guide to grammar and style

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html

Jack Lynch's unstuffy and (mostly) very sensible guide to English style.

Phonology

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

The Sounds of American English, from the University of Iowa. Just as the name suggests: phonetic introduction to the sounds of (standard-midwestern) American English. Great for pronunciation help for students or clients who consistently have trouble with a certain sound. Thanks to Ann Hendricks

http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm
Does include some British pronunciations as well as American - but 'The British version is given only where it is very different from the American version.'

Language testing

http://languagetesting.info/

A very useful site maintained by Glenn Fulcher, a well-known language testing expert. Includes streaming video interviews with various testing gurus (Vivo or Real Player).

Photographs for language teaching

http://www.langpix.com/

Free of charge if used for educational purposes. .

Academic English

www.uefap.co.uk
Very helpful EAP site for teachers, developed by a lecturer from the University of Hertfordshire in the UK.

http://eslbee.com
"This web site is for non-native speakers of English who want to write in English for academic purposes."

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Purdue University's excellent Online Writing Lab (OWL).

http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
Academic writing conventions from the University of Manchester   Recommended by Adrian Tennant in the IATEFL newsletter

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/EAP/Audio-visual/
Very useful EAP videos (presentation techniques, analysing seminar discussions, etc.) from the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap
http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/index.htm
Two links to pages at HK Polytechnic University    Recommended by Adrian Tennant in the IATEFL newsletter

www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/index.html
From the University of Ohio    Recommended by Adrian Tennant in the IATEFL newsletter

www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab
University of Nottingham site on academic vocabulary    Recommended by Adrian Tennant in the IATEFL newsletter

Business English

http://ec.hku.hk/epc
Tertiary level business English pages from the University of Hong Kong

http://www.besig.org/links.htm
A very useful collection of Business English links. Thanks to Evan Frendo.

Getting published

http://www.tesol.org/pubs/author/books/demystify.htm
TESOL page on how to get published in ELT and other serial publications in the field of applied linguistics. Thanks to Ann Hendricks.

http://www.webofenglish.co.uk/submit.htm
My own take on this area, focusing more on language learning books and electronic publications. See also  http://www.webofenglish.co.uk/illusmat.htm and http://www.webofenglish.co.uk/copyright.htm.

Sound editing

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Great and simple open-source downloadable sound editor. Can capture, edit, and export sounds in MP3 or .wav formats. Perfect for when you need a digital recording of a lecture or sound. Thanks to Ann Hendricks. 

International writing exchange

http://www.writeit.fi/sys/

Ruth Vilmi’s well-established international student writing exchange.

Listserv forums

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/~tesl-l/about.html
TESL-L is perhaps the best-known general ELT forum. To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu, with the message "subscribe TESL-L" (without the quotes). Once you do this, you'll get an e-mail from them confirming your subscription, and containing directions on how to manage your listserv, including how to subscribe to the more specific sublists, for ESP, CALL etc. (The main list has a lot of traffic; the sublists are quieter but useful. You can subscribe to them without also subscribing to the main list.)

http://hunter.listserv.cuny.edu/scriptshc/wa-hc.exe?SUBED1=neteach-l&A=1
NETEACH-L is a very good CALL forum. For subscription details, go to this web page.

http://www1.doshisha.ac.jp/~kkitao/online/list/index.html
For details of a wide range of other ELT listserv forums, go to this web page. 

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