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500+ videos of people talking about their jobs. Part of a Careers Scotland website with lots of info about working, training and getting a job

Online tutorial for referencing academic work

This is a shared website & blog from Adrian Underhill and Jim Scrivener. We work in the field of English Language Teaching. We are both interested in reflecting on the current state of our profession and in discussing ways of initiating and supporting change where it is needed. We are curious about how people learn things and how teachers can best help that learning to happen.

Talking feedback - Moving cursors and voice comments could revolutionise the way teachers correct learners' work

From the point of view of a student of English, this website provides a collection of readings of different lengths on a variety of topics. Students are free to choose which material to read and work on from the main page where it is possible to organize the readings according to several criteria. From the point of view of the ELT practitioner, this website provides a collection of readings, each coupled with detailed lexical coverage analyses. All readings provide access to their corresponding analyses via a link in the top-right corner of the reading's page.

PhoTransEdit applications have been designed to help those who work with English phonetic transcriptions. Far from providing perfect automatic transcriptions, PhoTransEdit is aimed at just helping you save your time when writing, publishing or sharing English transcriptions.

This site aims to help students learn about - and teachers teach - the English language. There are tasks to help work through the material, expert advice and strategies for identifying unknown texts.

Cool Text is a FREE graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly.

Teaching English with Technology (TEwT) is a free online double-blind peer-reviewed journal that seeks to disseminate cutting-edge work focussed mainly on how technology is being used, or could be used, in TESOL (Teaching English To Speakers of Other Languages).

Through videos, practical resources and an active online community, Teachers TV supports the professional development of anyone working in school, enabling them to widen their skills, develop their practice, and connect with others in the field.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) academic is a knowledge dissemination site which links the work of TESOL-based academics to teachers, teacher-trainers, teacher-trainees, decision-makers and other researchers.

Staffroom Monologues - This series of short plays based on winning scripts from the 2008 competition run by Teachers TV, in association with the National Union of Teachers, offers an alternate view of life in an educational environment, written by those who work within it. There are 9 videos in this series.

Article about different types of cultures and how they work: high-context v low-context, relationship v rules etc.

The pack offers resources for exploring many issues relevant to the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Curriculum Framework . The resources provided an opportunity to develop critical awareness of language and culture, to encourage learners' self determination by valuing their own identity and choices, and to celebrate difference and diversity. * language choices in speech and writing * concepts of identity and self image * cultural practices * stereotyping and prejudice. The teaching materials included a DVD and transcript and suggested approaches and materials for working with individual learners and groups.

Our mission is threefold: * to provide great material for educators (fairly priced and readily accessible) * to give a fair deal to authors (who sell and retain the copyright on their own work) * to be a learning environment (where we share expertise and ideas)

Articles and Ideas for Dictionary Skills work

Lessons from real news: Easily create English Language learning material from an enormous pool of ever growing English Language news sources from around the world. LINGLE automatically identifies grammar, vocabulary, topic and complexity from international English Language news sources including The New York Times, The Guardian and China Daily. You can rapidly find authentic, interesting articles at the right level, with the vocabulary and grammar for your learners. Rapidly build and manage lesson plans with exercises, key-word glossaries and news stories automatically generated from any article. FREE TRIAL for only 2 weeks or 6 documents.

interesting and good idea, but not sure I'd want to pay for it (I don't like anything that uses teachers for an income stream)

http://wp.me/p1VP4o-K I made a GRAMMAR GAP FILL using Lingle - have a look and see what you think. It was very easy, the lesson you'll see on this link took me about 15 mins from start (working out how it all works) to finish.

Critical and subversive stimuli for discussion and language work

Master List of Web 2.0 Tools.