These are a few of my favourite sites that I have been collecting along my years of teaching and I'd like to share with you. They are mainly for EFL/ ESL teachers that wish to develop their expertise while making their teaching more professional and enjoyable.
1. Blogs
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/10/brave-new-classroom-20-new-blog-forum/
http://edublogawards.com/2008/best-elearning-corporate-education-edublog-2008/
http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/
2. Encyclopaedias
Britannica.com
http://www.britannica.com/
**Encarta Homepage
http://encarta.msn.com/
Information Please: On-Line Dictionary, Inter...
http://www.infoplease.com/
3. Dictionaries
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
**Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com
*NetLingo Dictionary of Internet Words: A Glos...
http://www.netlingo.com/
Oxford English Dictionary
http://www.oed.com/
**Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Thesaurus.com
http://www.thesaurus.com/
**Wordsmith.Org
http://www.wordsmith.org/
4. Newspapapers and magazines
**Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
nationalgeographic.com - Adventure, Maps, Tra...
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
**News in English, Kidon Media-Link
http://www.kidon.com/media-link/english.shtml
**TheMagazineBoy.com |
http://www.themagazineboy.com/
**ThePaperboy.com | Online Newspaper Directory ...
http://www.thepaperboy.com
USATODAY.com
http://www.usatoday.com/
5. Bookstores
Amazon.com--Earth's Biggest Selection
http://www.amazon.com
**Blackwell's
http://www.blackwell.co.uk/
English Book Centre Online Bookstore
http://www.ebcoxford.co.uk/
6. Associations/ Organizations
AILA International Association of Applied Lin...
http://www.aila.info/
APAC. Associació de professors d’anglès de Catalunya.
http://www.apac.es
**British Council
http://orb.britishcouncil.org
CercleS. Confédération Européenne des Centres de Langues de l'Enseignement Supérieur
http://www.cercles.org/
CILT. The National Centre For Languages
http://www.cilt.org.uk/
IATEFL. International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
http://www.iatefl.org/
TESOL. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc
http://www.tesol.org/
7. Libraries
Bibliomania - Free World Literature Online
http://www.bibliomania.com/
**Library of Congress Home Page
http://www.loc.gov
The Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org
The On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The Virtual CALL Library
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/CALL.html
8. Grammar
The Online English Grammar and Writing
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/
The Internet Grammar of English
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/
9. Sites with potential for Writing Activities
CRAYON
http://www.crayon.net/
**Welcome to Academic Writer
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/academicwriter/
10. Sites with potential for Reading activities
Lonely Planet Online
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
Novels, stories…
**MysteryNet.com: The Online Mystery Network for books and games
http://www.MysteryNet.com/
253 Journey Planner
http://www.ryman-novel.com/info/home.htm
11. Sites with potential for Listening activities
**FREEKaraoke.com
http://www.freekaraoke.com/
Learning English | BBC ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/music
MidiKaraoke.com - The Midi Karaoke Library
http://www.midikaraoke.com/
12. Miscellaneous
The Educator’s Reference Desk: Resource Guides
http://ericir.syr.edu/
Classroom Connect
http://www.classroom.com
La web de los estudiantes y profesores de inglés
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/recursos_informaticos/concurso1998/accesit9/estudiantes.htm
13. Self-Access Centres
**Self-access centres
http://ec.hku.hk/autonomy/centres.html
Self-Access centre. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk
Llas. Subject Centre for languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
http://www.llas.ac.uk/index.aspx
Centre d’autoaprenentatge de Llengües. Universitat Jaume I
http://www.uji.es/CA/serveis/slt/cal/
I hope you find them useful. If so, send me a note.
Montse
(Revised December 2008)
sábado, 20 de diciembre de 2008
Teacher’s Self-Development and the Web
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