Christine Meloni's "Wandering the Web" resource forum.   A rich series of discussions and links provided through the TESOL international central office.  Click here for an index of Christine's past columns.

Roger Thompson's TESOL Page: Jobs & Teaching Resources

Resources for ESL Teachers and Students (U. of Urbana-Champaign)

Using the WWW as an extension of the ESL classroom environment:  Debbie Barks demonstrates how she uses selected web sites a extensions of her university-level, EAP, classes.

Phonology Links:  WWW sites related to phonology and the teaching of pronunciation

  ACTFL guidelines:  Language Proficiency Guidelines provided by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.  Available for listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural awareness.

Independent Language Learning on the Web  (Hong Kong Polytechnic U.)

  Tips on Effective Teaching Practices (general, non-ESL specific, university teaching)

Planet English - a "virtual world" (provided by a publisher) for ESL/EFL students and teachers including lessons, chat, message boards, bookstore, job info, study grammar, etc.

Menu of Teaching Resources (maintained by Ohio U.)

Teaching Portfolios (a site for learning more about them)

  Teaching Tips from the Unversity of Nebraska:  Though these are not specifically geared toward language teaching, they include a menu of links to teaching tips which are interesting for language teachers to consider.  The specific target audience is college/university instructors.

  The CALL Lab (Ohio U.)

  Click here for an example of how Ron Corio uses course websites to teach ESL writing and reading in computer-connected classrooms at Virginia  Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.

   See how Tom Robb in Kyoto, Japan has organized a course website to highlight his EFL's students' written work.  It's organized around the theme of  "famous personages in Japan."

Rong-Chang Li's Home page links to a large selection of  ESL teacher and learner resources.

etc. . . . The ESL Teacher Connection:  a web site providing an open forum through which ESL teachers can share class activities and lesson plans.  You won't want to miss the sample format for either creating or contributing an ESL classroom activity descirption to this forum.

Visit Jeff Nelson's Web Research Project Page.  This site demonstrates a sample structure for using interactive forms to streamline record-keeping, data entry, and publication of  ESL students' projects involving their evaluation of WWW Websites.  Jeff  teaches in the Intensive American Language Center of  Washington State University.

Ideas, lessons, and lesson plans for ESL writing assignments based on WWW resources (from the Internet TESL Journal).  This link is but one brief stop on the worldwide ESLoop.
 
Archives of actual work by ESL students are provided through Susan Gaer's "Email Projects Homepages," and Miriam Seaver's "Make Dreams Come True" sites.

_The Hut Internet Writing Project_ (e.g., to locate keypals for ESL composition students).
 
Teaching Grammar (Pat Byrd's website; my colleague who specializes in this area)

The Teachers Helping Teachers Web site (general, non-ESL specific)

  Reports from the field (composed by former GSU graduate students who are now teaching ESL/EFL in the real world)

GSU's Center for Teaching and Learning

The ESL/ESL Page of Andreas Jund: resources for teachers and learners of English as a second  language. Sources, Activities, Research, many links to information on Norway.