Recommended by Polyu for MAELT Students

Useful Websites

(recommended by PolyU for MAELT students)

Useful links: For concordancing: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm Many publications: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html#Doc

For research: For ERIC: You may look up the ERIC report: http://www.eric.ed.gov/resources/annual/annrpt.doc

A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/news/youcanuse/craig/index.html

A book review: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/news/conferencewraps/rodrig.htm

English Department research resources: http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/DeptResearch/R_Resource.htm See Electronic Texts & Corpora

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Useful Websites

Using searching engines of yahoo.com and hotbot.com by keying in 'teaching resources of ESL in secondary schools'.

http://home.t-online.de/home/kfmaas/readstr2.html A site for teachers of ESL providing lesson plans, grammar, sample lessons, tests, teaching strategies, TQM and learning strategies like listening comprehension, analysing, summary writing, note taking

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslplans.html English plans and resources http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/methods/resources.html Teaching Methods Web Resources Scientific Basis for the Art of Teaching | The Role of Planning in Teaching | Curriculum Theory | Technology in Education | Learning Environments and Motivation | Extend

12/5/2001 http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/methods/resources.html

5/13/2002 http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos/eslint.html ERIC/CLL Resource Guides Online Internet Resources for Teachers of English as a Second Language Jeanne Rennie, ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics Kathleen Marcos, ERIC Clearinghouse on La

4/27/2001 http://home.no.net/bomotor/ESL.html Recommended ESL Resources Online English4us | Grammar & exerises | Fun & Games | English learning web site for intermediate level learners with free Membership. English4Us is aimed towards the individ

3/31/2000 http://mathweb.uccs.edu/haefner/resources/archive1resouces.htm Web resources for teaching with technology. Many of the following links are brought to my attention from an electronic newsletter from Swarthmore. It is a FANTASTIC RESOURCE for educators. Here's the U

5/31/2002 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/IESE/resources/writing.html Home Programs Projects TeachLink Resources Who We Are ATTLaS RITS Ed Department IESE Friends Sitemap Search Home : Resources : Teacher Resources IESE Teacher Resources: The Teaching of Writing General

6/6/2002 http://www.usq.edu.au/library/liaison/education/sltx.htm Resources for Second Language Teaching Virtual Pathfinder Directories English as a Second Language Languages other than English Full text documents Journals Collections Individual journals USQ e-journ

7/8/2002 http://www.tefl.net/links/efl.htm Links for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language

5/1/2002 http://www.wtps.org/links/teacher.html source of educational, foreign language links for high schools

2/28/2002 http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rthompso/tman.html teaching resource page (good!) There's no place like home: Homepages and Classroom Management presented at Southeast Regional TESOL 2000, 19-21 October 2000 at Miami, FL. (Recent and Upcoming Conference Papers and Workshops There's No Place Like

Home Homepages and Classroom Management Roger M. Thompson University of Florida

teacher resources | class activities | homepage creation

1. Start by collecting websites you

might use in class.

Looking for websites? Here's a place to start: Tman's TESOL Page Kidsafe Search Sites Yahooligans 2. Save your collection either with bookmarks or on a teacher resource webpage.*

Sample Teacher Resource Webpages (created by graduate students in TSL 6372: ESL Materials for Special Purposes)

Vocabulary Amy's Idiom Resources Brian's Vocabulary Builder Changyong's Eating your way to English Marlene's Vocab Corner Mohamed's Holiday Page

Reading and Writing Douglas's TESL Times Ling-Hui's Festivals and Holidays Nikki's Daily Delivery Tomomi's Academic Writing Helps

Listening and Speaking James's Music, Movies, and More Fun Kent's How-to Page Kristin's ESL Pronunciation Work Page Sunny's Mass Media Resource

Culture/Learning Styles Anthony's Note Taking Helps Christina's Connecting with the Community Derek's Ethnography for ESL Mareen's Learning Helps Paige's Crossculture Page

English for Special Purposes Beth's Business English Holly's Travel Page Shu-Huei's Sport Center Tracy's Business Page

3. Create activity pages for your students*

Sample Classroom Activity Pages

Scary October TESL Learning Space #1 Anglo-Saxon Times

4. Reset your classroom computers so your class page is now Home*

*Simple Steps for Creating a Homepage with Netscape Communicator/Composer

(download a copy from here) 1. File/new/blank page 2. With cursor on writing area, right click then select page properties 3. Set name and colors for page (note tabs at top) Select general tab--type in title, author, one or two descriptive phrases. Select colors and background tab-click on background square and select color. You can also change the type color (normal text). Click on ok. 4. Type away as on a wordprocessor. (centering, changing letter size, etc.) 5. Add links to websites you have found. Type in name of site, descriptive phrases or instructions. Click/hold/wipe to highlight words you want to be links. Click on link on the tool bar. Type in the URL or location of the website (http://www....). Double check then click ok. 6. Save your page. Use oneword.html as format. NO SPACES. Check with your school as to how to save on your Internet server. 7. Try out the page on your computer by adding the filename.html to the URL your school/class account has on the Internet server (or file:///C| local/filename.html if you saved it in the local file of your c: drive) 8. Remember to press reload every time you make a change so you can see the new version. 9. Set the computers in the classroom to have your homepage as HOME by going to Edit/Preferences/Navigator and type in the URL or location of your class webpage if you have Netscape. For Microsoft Explorer go to Tools/internet options-general/address. 10. To make revisions or updates to your page, bring up the page in the Netscape browser, click file/edit page, then work on the page as with a word processor. Save with the same name in the same place, open the browser window again, click reload to see how it looks.

There is now no place like home.

******************************************************************** 4/20/2001 http://www.peta.edu.au/resource/pub/English PETA PO Box 3106 Marrickville NSW 2204 Tel (02) 9565 1277 Fax (02) 9565 1070 The resources section provides details of teaching resources including books, articles, journals, etc, which may assist tea

5/13/2002 http://www.nassp.org/news/bltn_englsh_lang1100.htm Online community, news and career development resources for principals, associate and assistant principals, administrators and teachers in secondary schools, middle schools and high schools.

1/25/2001 http://www.norwich.net/~jochurch/prof.htm Links to sites for teachers, students, librarians; includes curriculum, education resources, school projects, technology resources, elementary school, middle school, high school, ERIC, lesson plans, h

7/19/2001 http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/shl9/ufomata/titi.htm Department of Phonetics and Linguistics SETTING PRIORITIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION IN ESL CONTEXTS Titi UFOMATA 1 1 Titi Ufomata was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at UCL in Autumn 1995 a

5/12/2002 http://www.cie.uci.edu/~cie/iop/teaching.html Information on teaching experiences and opportunities in countries around the world

6/17/2002 http://www.miguelmllop.com/Teachers/Teachers.htm Interesting Web Sites for Teachers [General ESL/EFL Sites] [ESL/EFL On-line Resources, Lesson Plans and Links] [History of English Language and Literature] [Personal Pages] [Educational Software] [Met

10/19/2001 http://www.bangkokpost.net/education/links.htm Designed to help EFL and ESL learners read and understand an English-language newspaper, this is one of the largest educational

6/27/2002 http://www.eviews.net/references.shtml 1001 links for EFL students and teachers

http://nhd.heinle.com/ 40,000 entries from the best selling Newbury House Dictionary of American English. Includes pronunciation, sample sentences, cultural notes, related words, and pictures

5/2/2001 http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/esl/crookes/CandA.html Teaching idea sources and work conditions in an ESL program Graham Crookes & Lowell Arakaki 1999. TESOL Journal, 8(1), 15-19. Introduction Where do ESL teachers get their ideas for teaching? Many in t

6/4/2001 http://libweb.uncc.edu/cimc/ebsscmc/esl.htm CMC/EBSS Webliography English as a Second Language English Speakers of Other Languages ESL/ESOL Web Sites Selectors: Jeannie Kamerman and John Hickok Electronic Journals || General Resources || Meta-S (Good!)

4/29/1999 http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/Ejones/plc933F98.htm San Diego State University Policy Studies in Language and Cross-Cultural Education Course Title: PLC 933, Skills in Teaching Reading in the Secondary Bilingual Classroom Course Instructor: Evangelina

5/24/2002 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/TeachingVid.html Education and Student Life Affirmative Action. 1986. This event took place on February 2, 1986, at Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley. An exchange of views and a discussi

5/15/2002 http://www.pps.k12.or.us/district/depts/edmedia/profedu.shtml List of Educator Resources (Reading Skills)

5/6/2002 http://www.blacknet.co.uk/education/esl.html A directory of Internet resources on English grammar, writing, & English as a Second Language (ESL)