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On line book...you can download this, too I think. The title tells you what's in this book. It covers the theories of some of the big thinkers of the 20th century, and then takes theory to practice. It seems to be well written and the whole book is only about 50 pages.

I found this link by becoming a member of one of the other open groups on Diigo - TechnoLanguages. You are probably familiar with the very prolific David Crystal. He about to release a new book on the history of English spelling (and where we are going with the advent of technology). This is a excerpt from the book

I discovered this book title in a newsletter I subscribe to. It looks interesting, and the book is not very expensive (on Amazon). You can "look inside" to see what's offered. Maybe a good addition to a professional library...

The whole book is available through this link..it has a lot relating to CALL, machine translation, etc. I just glanced through the table of contents, so I don't have any stronger comments about the usefulness of this link.

You may already have heard about this huge project from Google - the Ngram Viewer - an online tool for analyzing the history of language and culture, but there are some improvements.  The corpus is mind-boggling lare - 20 million books, and not just in English.  Plus the words have been tagged with their parts of speech.  There are some other functions that let you narrow in on particular groups of words...it seems to have some concordancer functions.  Well, you can read this article to learn more.

Nice 7+ minute video presents the history and most recent developments of SLA theory alphabetically. This is from Scott Thornbury's and his A-Z approach (book and blog). He actually made this video to demonstrate a video editing technique called Pecha Kucha which allows 20 second for 20 slides. You'll see them interjected into the video.

This is an e-book from Scott Thornbury...just $7.99. It loads onto Kindle, but you can access it from a computer, iPad, etc. Lots of potential here.

I'll be interested to see the book Larry Ferlazzo has co-written - The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide. This is link to an excerpt

This was in Discover Magazine. It sounds like it might be worth checking out the book mentioned in the article.

Not a TESL site, but this seems like a great resource, so I'll postit here. As far as I can tell, this site if free for educators. Following is the description provided by the site: "Using Bookshare® is simple. You can search for a specific title or browse through the library and its special collections, including newspapers and magazines. With a Bookshare membership, you can download accessible titles onto your computer or read them with a variety of reading tools that give you a range of options. To enhance your web experience, you can take advantage of the site's accessibility features."

Posted: Print Article This morning as I helped my son organize his bookshelf I asked him a question that came over me as I looked over his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series on his shelf, "What books did you enjoy most while in 6th and 7th grade?"