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Partners in English Language Learning
Formerly Literacy Council of Nevada County

ESL Links:

ESL LINKS

Here are some sites that make good entry points to use in investigating what's out there on the web for ESL students and teachers:

The LinguaCenter is the web page of DEIL (Division of English as an International Language) and IEI (Intensive English Institute of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This center maintains this useful site with links to other useful sites.

This famous ESL site has just about everything you could think of related to ESL.

Rong-Chang Li is a graduate of Suzhon Univesity in China and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research area is computer-assisted language learning.

This is the site for an association called Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, the leading professional organization for ESL/EFL teachers.

According to information provided on CAL's web pages, CAL is "a private, non-profit organization: a group of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related problems." Good site for information on bilingual education and the various program options for working with English language learners. One of the centers associated with CAL called CREDE (Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence) is a useful site for ESL teachers. See especially CREDE's publications page.

An excellent site to learn what is happening regarding English learners in California.

According to its homepage, UC LMRI is "a multi-campus research unit of the University of California that was established in response to the California Legislature's request that the UC's Office of the President pursue 'knowledge applicable to educational policy and practice in the area of language minority students' academic achievement and knowledge.' This website provides information to researchers, students, practitioners, and policy makers interested in issues of language, education, and public policy."

Dr. Jill Kerper Mora is an Associate Professor of education at San Diego State University. She provides a wealth of information on her website related to English Learners.

Even More ESL web site Links
http://www.languageguide.org/ One of my favorites. Click on the link for learning English. Then there are categories for learning vocabulary, such as Body, Food, etc.  Pictures with callouts will appear.  Point to a callout, such as for an eye, and audio plus written vocabulary will happen, such as "pupil" "eyelash" etc.
 
http://esl.about.com/          By ESL level, this site has lesson plans, phrasal verb activities, vocabulary, quizzes, conversation and pronunciation lesson plans. Links that include audio & video for phonics.
 
http://www.esl-lab.com/       One of my favorites, Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab.
Organized by levels, including beginner, has MANY listening scripts with audio.
 
http://www.soundsofenglish.org/  Sounds of English, another favorite. The initial part of the website has tips for teaching the mechanics of phonics. Click on the link for Handouts, the first link gets you to ""Start Spinning Webs." More games, exercises, links.
 
http://www.newreaderspress.com/  New Readers Press, the publishing arm of ProLiteracy, this is where most of our library materials come from.  On the website you can peruse the materials they use, you can order directly or, if you see something you like that you'd like our library to have, you can petition the Literacy Council Board to see if they will buy particular materials for you.
 
http://www.usingenglish.com/    Using English, Resources for English as a Second Language. Has idioms, phrasal verbs, irregular verbs, ESL tests, ESL articles, ESL Teacher Resources, ESL Discussion forums, Tools and Resources.
 
http://www.myefa.org/login.cfm    English For All Listen to vocabulary spoken, listen and read a story, answer questions about the story.
 
http://www.cityfamily.org/      For years, City Family magazine helped immigrant and other working families. Now, City Family is a Web site. Anyone with access to the Internet can enjoy it. Cityfamily.org has articles on the things that are important in your life. It is about your family, your job, your home and your money. Use it and you will understand how America works.
 
http://www.cal.org/   Center for Applied Linguistics.  Site for tutors.
 
http://www.agsglobe.com/Category.asp?nCategoryInfoID=2673  Pearson Publishing sells materials / books for teaching ESL students.
 
http://www.manythings.org/     Interesting Things for ESL Students.  American English Pronunciation Practice  Listen to a sentence, choose the correct answer for the word used. Listen and read along activities, MANY other activities.
 
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/     Breaking News English.  English for Current Events, includes lesson plans, podcasts.
 
http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/adultesol/high.html     Adult ESOL Lesson Plans  Vocabulary and Lesson Plans on a variety of topics.
 
http://podcasts.yahoo.com/search?p=esl&c=s        A listing of podcasts related to ESL.
 
http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/writingc/handouts/englishverbtenses.htm  Georgia Southern University Online Writing Resources, lists of various tenses of English verbs, with sentence examples of each verb tense; "I walk to school", "I am walking", "I walked", etc. 
 
http://www.tefl.net/  Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Lots of resources here.

 

 
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