NEIU TESL

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."

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) academic is uniquely placed at the interface of theory informed practice and practice informed theory in English Language Teaching (ELT).

VOICE, the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English, is a structured collection of language data, the first computer-readable corpus capturing spoken ELF interactions of this kind.

From Pearson ELT...Jeremy Harmer is giving a lecture series on TESL pedagogy...this link gives you info about the 4th lecture which is on June 19th.  It looks like you can access the first 3 lectures too, but you'll have to register on the Pearson ELT site.  Links to other useful things too...

Fantastic video with audio examples of some phonetically complex languages!

Teflpedia is an award-winning wiki dedicated to everything associated with teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) or second language (TESL). Our objective is to become a major user-generated resource for English teachers from all over the world. We opened our doors on 27th May 2008 and we've been growing ever since. [This looks very interesting...and I'm already a big fan of wikis.]

I love the idea of this. Looking forward to checking it out.

Wow, what an awesome resource! Can't wait to use it!

New Scott Thornbury blog entry - "S is for Soaps" focuses on the authentic nature of soap operas and tv dramas. Some recent research studies on this subject are included.

I first saw the cartoon (scroll down to find it) in Larry Ferlazzo's blog and then discovered this article. It seems to be right up our alley. Let me know what you think...could be a good choice for your discussion groups.

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.

Nice infographic and cooperative group dynamics...how to give constructive criticism.

I like seeing a "normal" sandwich. The one I remember hearing about was not-so-politely referred to as a S&*t sandwich! Disgusting but it sticks in the memory of the students!

I thought you might enjoy this post from "MakeUseOf", a tech website with tips on things like apps, websites, etc.

"How to pronounce foreign languages Even if you can't master a native accent, the key is to be clear and comprehensible. Anne Merritt offers five top tips. "

Free journal "Humanising Language Teaching" has some interesting articles going back 15 years.

This is a pretty amazing graphic! It's so big I don't know how to print it out or even show it all at once, but very worth having! I discovered this through Larry Ferlazzo's blog.

'Key Concepts in ELT' is a feature of the Journal that aims to assist readers to develop an appreciation of central ideas in ELT, and to approach the content of articles from a perspective informed by current debate on aspects of theory and practice. The list given below is an up-to-date guide to all 'Key Concepts' that have been published in the Journal. The list contains links to the original articles, which are available to download free of charge (PDF file).

The following list of periodicals (mostly journals) is of special interest tostudents and faculty in Applied Linguistics and TESOL.

The keywords of the Oxford 3000™ have been carefully selected by a group of language experts and experienced teachers as the words which should receive priority in vocabulary study because of their importance and usefulness.

I know you'll enjoy these.

These are so good! Love it.

Click on the link to take this dialect survery...mostly vocabulary questions, but also some "r" questions. There are around 30 total questions.

116 pages on ELLs in city schools..."The Council of the Great City Schools conducted a comprehensive survey of its 65 district members about the English Language Learners that were enrolled and the instructional services provided to them The survey collected information on (1) district demographics and languages spoken, (2) instructional staff, (3) achievement data, and (4) financial information . The findings from this survey make up the bulk of this report. In addition, the report drew on data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) and from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).