Teacher’s Self-Development and the Web

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)