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• John Albee's Needle in a CyberStack - The InfoFinder at http://home.mchsi.com/~albeej/. "There are currently several inter-linked pages including Business and Career Tools, the best of curriculum, research, reference, exploring, what's cool, fun, Cybrarian's Favorites, etc." - organized in a frame matrix for enhanced browsability. This page centralizes all you want to know about finding all you want to know on the web. (verified June 8, 2005)
• Teresa Almeida d'Eca in Portugal lists interactive activities with her students at: http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/school/studentactivities-esa.htm. (verified June 8, 2005)

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• Erlyn Baack, ITESM, Campus Queretaro, Mexico has a site called Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English at http://eslbee.com (verified June 8, 2005)
• Sean Banville says about his http://www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com "uploads still-breaking world news and current affairs lessons daily. These multi-level materials contain a still-hot news article and MP3 audio file, 20+ communication activities, pairwork, discussion, reading and vocabulary. Everything is 100 per cent photocopiable and free. Printable lesson plans and classroom worksheets are downloadable in MS Word and PDF formats." (verified June 8, 2005)
• Christine Bauer-Ramazani has created "an indexed compendium for both CALL teachers and ESL learners ... called Useful Links to TESL/CALL Web Sites. For student resources, go to the ESL TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES in the index frame to find Listening, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Pronunciation, and many more." http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/gsl520/Links/useful_sites.htm (verified June 8, 2005). She mentioned in a recent post (Feb 2005) her "handout on Techniques of Sentence Combination (http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/AEP/BU113/English/discmarkers.htm) " (verified June 8, 2005)
• Begum Ibrahim keeps a list of her favorite sites (for her own reference, like the page you are presently viewing, for Vance's reference) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4843/onlineesl.htm (verified June 8, 2005)
• Claire Bradin's CALL page is at http://edvista.com/claire/call.html (verified June 8, 2005); The Internet for ESL Teachers page is at http://edvista.com/claire/internet-esl.html (verified June 8, 2005)
• The British Council has an online resources page for ESL students: http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish (verified March 14, 2007). In an update: "In addition to the general content, we've added a lot more stuff for Kids and a lot more downloadable audio. Hope you like it! All comments welcomed..."

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• Angel Castaño has a page called the Multimedia English Classroom "where learning English is fun and multimedia" prepared originally for his class at E.O.I Zamora but directed now at anyone in the world who wants to learn real English through multimedia material,.at http://www.multimedia-english.com (visited May 12, 2008)
• María Luisa Castro Brylka has "built a website that has the main purpose of testing CALL material through experiments with students of my university, and seeing to what extent teachers can easily make CALL material themselves" http://www.angelfire.com/nb/callenglish (verified June 8, 2005)
• Steve Chadwick invites all to "Feel free to link to my wicked stuff for English language learners site" at http://www.stuff.co.uk/wicked.htm . Topics include Vocabulary (phrasal verbs), Pronunciation, Testing, Listening, Reading. (verified June 8, 2005)
• Mark Chandler UK Student Life: http://www.ukstudentlife.com (verified June 8, 2005). Study, Work, Travel in the UK. British culture and life. "This website has been written for people from other countries who go to the UK to study, to work or on holiday. It is also for people anywhere in the world who want to learn British English or who want to know about British culture. It is a practical guide, containing hundreds of useful links and photos. There are sections on the following subjects: Britain: British culture English: Study British English Course: Find a school in the UK Prepare: Plan your trip to Britain Life: Advice about daily life Personal: Take care of yourself Work: Find a job Travel: UK transport and holidays Links: Useful websites Ideas: Things to do "
• For variety try James Christensen's (University of Queensland) Resources for Learning English as a Second Language at http://www.uq.edu.au/~uejchris/stlink.htm. Some samples of what you can find here are •links to Dave's ESL Cafe •Frizzy University Network (FUN) •e-zines for ESL •Yamada ESL Web Guide •Yahoo listing for ESL •News online (CNN, Asiaweek, Time, New York Times) •links to cinema sites •cyber cards •cyber cafe guide •dictionaries •song lyrics •colleges worldwide •study in Australia •Lonely Planet •find an "e-pal" (a pen-pal by e-mail) •join an ESL e-mail list •moo chat at Schmooze University (on June 8, 2005 I'm getting a UQ disclaimer here and am unable to proceed to the page; anyone else?)
• Renata Chylinski's ESL/CALL Corner is here: http://members.optushome.com.au/renatachylinski/index.htm (verified June 8, 2005)
• Karin Cintron's ESL PartyLand, http://www.eslpartyland.com is divided into Student and Teacher areas. The Student side has the following features: Learning With The Internet, Music, Movies, Quiz Center (Hot Potatoes Javascript quizzes), Discussion, Chat, E-mail Exchange, Message Center, Links, Search the Site, and Meet the Hostess. Teachers can click on Teaching Conversation, Grammar, Integrated Skills, Listening & Speaking, and Reading & Writing; plus there is a jobs area. There are 25 discussion forums, an interactive quiz center, lots of lesson plans and printable materials to use in class, etc. This site is well thought out and executed. (verified June 8, 2005).
• V.A. Coulter's ESL Home.org offers reading exercises and activities http://home.earthlink.net/~eslhome/ (verified June 8, 2005)

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• Damianopoulos A. Damianos's Virtual English Classroom, http://users.otenet.gr/~damker. " Damian Damianoupoulos teaches junior high in Greece but has collected a very good list of resources at: http://users.otenet.gr/~damker/activities1.htm" (Commentary thanks to Arlyn Freed, Nov 2003) (not working June 8, 2005)
• Graham Davies's 'favorite sites' definitely worth a look at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/websites.htm (verified June 8, 2005). Graham also edits the ICT4LT(verified June 8, 2005) site at http://www.ict4lt.org/en/index.htm(verified June 8, 2005). Everything you want to know about CALL is there. Look at http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_contents.htm for a list of all the modules.
• Douglas DeLong's Tower of English, http://TowerofEnglish.com is now organized around Theme Parks. These were listed March 2001: Advertising Animals Art Business English Cartoons/Comics Computers/Internet Culture ESL Sites Food Games Grammar History Holidays Humor Idioms/Slang Inventions Lifestyle Listening Movies Music Mysteries News People Pictures Places Poetry Pronunciation Puzzles Quizzes Reading Reference Material Tests Vocabulary Writing (verified June 8, 2005)
• Raquel de Sousa’s EFL/ESL Connections and communities on the web: http://fln-con.yazigi.com.br/collaboration.htm - focuses on student collaboration projects; links back to the Collaboration page on this site.(not working June 8, 2005)
• Nellie Deutsch's http://www.nelliemuller.com/Signs_to_follow.htm
• Bernie Dodge's The WebQuest Page at: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html (verified June 8, 2005). This is the definitive page on Webquests, including detailed criteria for creating them.
• Jim Duber's Chorus site with numerous ESL/CALL links - http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/(verified June 8, 2005)

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• David Eastment has a selection of resources for ESL students on his site: http://www.eastment.com/links.html (verified June 8, 2005)
• E.L. Easton has some Materials for Language Teachers such as Hangman & Amazing Hangman at http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html (verified June 8, 2005). There are instructions for creating your own web-based exercises here.
• Chris Elvin has "a website specifically for young learners of English as a foreign language," http://www.eflclub.com.(verified June 8, 2005)

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• Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day for Teaching ELL, ESL,& EFL: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ - For example ...
  • The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2007: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2007/12/21/the-best-web-20-applications-for-education-2007/
  • The Best Web 2.0 Applications for ESL/EFL Learners — 2007: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2007/12/22/the-best-web-20-applications-for-eslefl-learners-2007/
  • Ten Best Internet Sites For English Language Learners -- 2007: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2007/12/22/the-best-internet-sites-for-english-language-learners-2007/
  • The Best Online Learning Games — 2007: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2007/12/22/the-best-online-learning-games-2007/
  • The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners -- 2007 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2007/12/24/the-best-search-engines-for-eslefl-learners-2007/
  • Other similar Websites of the Year can be found at: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/websites-of-the-year/
• Birgit Ferran in Barcelona, Spain Creating Interactive Language Learning Activities: http://pie.xtec.es/~bferran/(verified June 8, 2005)
• Sharon Betts's ESL site of the day one day in October 2007: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
• Jamie Fowlie has a list for the secondary level divided by subject at: http://www.edu.aytolacoruna.es/aula/ingles/secondary/index.html (verified June 8, 2005)
• Quentin Fuller from Australia hosts Quentin's ESL: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~qqqf/page2.html plus a list of computer lessons divided by grade school level at: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~qqqf/computerlessons.html (verified June 8, 2005)

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• Though he teaches at the college level, John Graney offers resources by subject at: http://admn.sfcc.edu/~jgraney/ (verified June 8, 2005)

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• John and Muriel Higgins's professional links are at http://www.marlodge.supanet.com/(verified June 8, 2005)
• Annie Huang has created a site on Educational Computing Resources with subcategories about CALL http://www.geocities.com/chiayi_huang/call.htm (verified June 8, 2005) and a page about schools offering educational technology majors (including online courses) http://www.geocities.com/chiayi_huang/schools.htm(verified June 8, 2005)
• Lilliam Hurst has a page for teachers in Geneva at: http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/page3.htm(verified June 8, 2005). There are Commented Links for Students and Teachers of English at http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/welcome.html (verified June 8, 2005)
• Nancy Husari, City College of San Francisco, has an ESL Hotlist at http://hills.ccsf.org/~esltech/Lessons/Comp/lab.html (verified June 8, 2005)

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• Isabel's ESL Site, a project of Isabel Pérez Torres, has numerous links for English and Spanish foreign languages at http://www.isabelperez.com/tesllinks.htm(verified June 8, 2005)

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• Linguist Steve Kaufmann, who has learned to speak 9 languages fluently, maintains a blog http://www.thelinguist.blogs.com (where, in his words) "he provides tips and advice on learning English and language learning in general. [And at] http://www.imakenews.com/TheLinguist/ - A free e-magazine containing content for the English student in both audio mp3 and text format". His commercial portal is at http://www.thelinguist.com(all 3 verified June 8, 2005)
• Douglas Kellar has an extensive list of links at http://www.eslbears.homestead.com. He says: "I teach ESL at an American high school, and I have created an extensive collection of links for my students to use in computer lab. Most, but not all, of the activities I link to are aimed at the beginning to lower-intermediate student."(verified June 8, 2005)
• Charles Kelly's personal site is http://www.manythings.org/ . He is also involved with http://a4esl.org/ (quizzes, studies guides, lessons, and activities) and The Internet TESL Journal's lessons sites http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL.html; http://iteslj.org/Lessons/ etc.in conjunction with other webmasters. (all 3 verified June 8, 2005)
• Michael Krauss has made available "materials that are useful for teachers who want to learn more about using Internet resources in the classroom. Topics covered include strategies for incorporating online content, improving Web searching techniques, learning to evaluate (and helping students learn to evaluate) Web content, creating online activities using 'click 'n build' resources, and creating collaborative student projects. In addition to materials (collections of Web resources and lesson plans), there are hands-on activities that can be used by teachers or with students. Though these materials were designed for use in a graduate course offered online, they are accessible to all who would like to make use of them. Use the "Syllabus" and "Daily Assignments" links to access the materials." http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/usia/home.html. Also, his ESL Independent Study Lab has "a wide selection of annotated, graded Web sites in all skill areas, appropriate for ESL/EFL learners ...The Lab is organized by language ability and includes resources for listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, TOEFL, and fun & games (all educational). All links have been checked for accuracy. Your students are also invited to follow the "Interact" links, which are written extension activities for many of the Web sites in the Lab. The writing is submitted to me via email and I will post the student work at the Lab." http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html (both verified June 8, 2005)

More about the Internet TESL Journal

Charles Kelly's Internet TESL Journal and Manythings.org comprise an extensive and regularly maintained site linking many aspects of ESL such as: •Professional Life: Associations, Conferences, Journals, Newsgroups, Teacher Training, Web-Based Discussions & Bulletin Boards •Teaching English: Bilingual Education, CALL, English for Science & Technology, Literacy •Articles, Lessons, Linguistics, Phonetics & Pronunciation, Reference Materials •Raw Materials for Lessons: Culture, Reading Materials, Poetry & Song Lyrics, Travel, Vocabulary •Teachers' Homepages •Projects by ESL Students •Schools (ESL/EFL) •Education in General: Journals, Links to Teaching Resources, Using the Internet •Jobs - Where to Find Them

Under For Students As Well As Teachers, there are: •Games - Quizzes - Puzzles •Grammar & English Usage •Listening •Penpals & Communicating With Others •Reading •Tests: TOEFL •Vocabulary - Idioms - Words •Writing •Commercially Available ESL Materials & Services:

These pages were all active in June, 2005

• The Internet TESL Journal's Activities for ESL Students: http://a4esl.org/
• Selected ESL/EFL Links for Students, at http://iteslj.org/ESL.html
• Self-study Quizzes for ESL Students: http://a4esl.org/q/h/
• Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students: http://iteslj.org/cw/
• Interactive Javascript Quizzes for ESL Students: http://a4esl.org/q/j/
• Daily Page for ESL Students: http://www.manythings.org/daily/ (has such things as "Proverb of the Day", "Quiz of the Day")
• Easy Vocabulary Quizzes with Pictures at http://www.manythings.org/vq/ (Interactive JavaScript quizzes. Good for beginners.)
• Commonly used Proverbs at http://www.manythings.org/proverbs/ (Well-known short sayings presented in a quiz-like fashion.)
• Commonly-used American Slang at http://www.manythings.org/slang/ (Slang is informal, often entertaining, language.)
• Fun with Randomly-Generated Sentences: http://www.manythings.org/rs/ (These JavaScript pages will make sentences for you which you can study.)
• Everyday Vocabulary Anagrams at http://www.manythings.org/anagrams/ {These are words made by using letters of another word in a different order.)

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• Walter F. Lockhart's sites (in Spanish and English) "include details of the language learning counselling services that I offer, and a link to other sites of interest for English learners." http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/6931/index.html (verified June 8, 2005)
• John Paul Loucky, CALL 4 ALL.s Language Learning Links Clearinghouse http://www.call4all.us/home/index2.php. Computer-Assisted Language Learning for All exists to help students, teachers and researchers to improve their language learning or teaching in English and most other major languages (over 500 language pairs) by the use of modern technology. Link to CALL Professional Organizations Worldwide. Get rapid access to many free Web Dictionaries and Language Learning Links on a broad array of topics from A-Z. Do quick Link, Word, Collocation and Site Searches using our Links Index, Site Map and wide variety of Monolingual and Multi-Lingual Online Dictionaries. The site is reviewed (by its developer) in 2005, Issue 7 of APACALL's online Newsletter, http://www.apacall.org, on pp 13-14. Retrieved December 16, 2005 from http://www.apacall.org/news/Newsletter7.pdf

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• Kaye Mallory's http://english-zone.com/ (verified June 8, 2005, and when I went there I couldn't use BACK to return to the page I'd linked from :-(( )
• Mark's ESL World looks like it might have items of interest but it is very well done and it came to me as unsolicited spam, so be careful where you click: http://marksesl.com(verified June 8, 2005). As Mark says: "In these weekly newsletters, I'll inform you of what I think is the most interesting ESL teaching job posted during the week on the Internet, and keep you current on others newsworthy items of ESL interest." He also points out that "You are receiving this email from Mark's ESL World because you purchased a product/service, subscribed on our website, or are known to have interest in ESL related information. To unsubscribe ..." etc. Seen August 31, 2004. Meanwhile, on Sept 14, 2004, traffic on TESLCA-L suggests boycotting any products sold at this site because apparently 'Mark" has targeted many of that list's members and failed to remove people when they asked and later demanded that he do so.
• Michael Marzio has free videos at http://michaelmarzio.free.fr/ and free lessons at http://www.real-english.com/ where you can watch videos and do exercises. (both verified June 8, 2005)
• Elek Mathe has Interactive tests, quizzes and crosswords at http://www.englishlearner.com(verified June 8, 2005)
• John McVicker's Ohio ESL@Ohio University site is now at http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/index.html
• The A-Z of useful resources for the TEFL/TESL sector is on the TEFL Europe web site at http://www.tefleurope.com/links.html; also the Academy of Windsor Institute in Barcelona's homepage: http://www.windsorinstitute.com/links.html; and http://www.windsorschools.co.uk/links.html, http://www.windsorenglish.com/links.html, and finally http://www.windsorlanguages.com/links.html. There is a reciprocal link back to this site under ESL_Home on all these pages, courtesy of Craig McLaughlan, webmaster. (all verified June 8, 2005)
• Christine Meloni has a very accessible and practical site for students and for teachers looking for resources. There are sections for reading, writing, grammar, listening, vocabulary, discussion, conversation, and student site reviews. There are clear and helpful annotations for each link, and there is a section of reviews by students of the links found in the other sections of the site. The ESL Study hall is at http://home.gwu.edu/~meloni/eslstudyhall/(verified June 8, 2005). Christine Meloni's Wandering the Web URLs from TESOL Matters are no longer online at http://www.tesol.org/pubs/magz/wanweb.html
• Joann Miller http://www.efltasks.net has downloadable activities for beginning ESL and links to online activities Joann has created for all levels.(not working June 8, 2005)
• For grammar ... Miguel Millop's "My Own Resources" site at: http://www.miguelmllop.com/index.php(verified June 8, 2005)
• Nellie Muller's page at http://www.nelliemuller.com

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• Natalie's page of ESL links - http://nathalieb.com/(verified June 8, 2005)

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• Jeremy Paton's http://www.1-language.com which he says "has all kinds of resources for ESL students and teachers. It's non-commercial and started out as just a hobby, but it's gone from 10 to over 2000 users a day this year so I guess it's proving useful to people. I've been focusing on audio and video content recently"(verified June 8, 2005)
• John Pereira has a site for site for English teachers in Japan: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/sampachi/efl/(verified June 8, 2005)
• Isabel Perez has a list of kids links at: http://www.isabelperez.com/tesllinks.htm (Commentary thanks to Arlyn Freed, Nov 2003); also English as a Foreign/Second Language in Secondary Education Materials and links for Teaching and Learning http://www.isabelperez.com/(both verified June 8, 2005)
• The ESLoop is a part of Kristina Pfaff-Harris's Linguistic Funland. Some topics at the Funland are •Exercises/Activities for Students •Articles & Essays •E-mail Pen-Pals •Organizations & Journals •ESL/TESL Study Programs and Schools •Fun, Interesting, & Cultural Sites •Miscellaneous ESL/EFL Resources •Teaching Materials, Books, & Software •Projects by ESL Students •Information on TOEFL and Testing. Also: Linguistic Funland TESL's links. Kristina also maintains the Neteach-l ‘Cool sites’ page: http://www.tesol.net/neteach.html(all verified June 8, 2005)

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• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/ (for listening)
• Alicia Rey's ENGLISH STUDIO Argentina http://www.ingleseninternet.com.ar(verified June 8, 2005)
• Jacob Richman's Learn English with Pictures at http://www.my-english-dictionary.com/ - a picture dictionary with pictures displayed of common items, alphabetically arranged, with index http://www.my-english-dictionary.com/index2.htm

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• Ana Clara Sanchez and Gabriel Obando's English on the Run: http://www.geocities.com/gob72/englishontherun.html (verified June 8, 2005)
• Steve Schackne's resource site has a few pages that are "language-esl-efl" focused: http://www.schackne.com/Languageteaching.htm http://www.schackne.com/Netteaching.htm http://www.schackne.com/Reference.htm. "Steve Schackne reviews sites and offers exercises -- mostly reading: http://www.schackne.com/Langex.htm" (all verified June 8, 2005)
• Laerte J. Silva's Mai English site has interactive exercises, at http://www.mai.com.br(verified June 8, 2005)
• Dave Sperling's Dave's ESL Cafe has links to •Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students •Exchange Magazine •Games, Puzzles & Quizzes •Grammar •Communicating with Others •Listening •Writing •Songs •Vocabulary •Dictionary •Shockwave •Many ESL/EFL/ESOL Links (For Students) and etc. Check out the ESL Web Guide search engine: http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/links2.html(all verified June 8, 2005)
• Ann Stokes's University of Strathclyde's ESL Links presented in an easily accessible matrix: http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/ELTD/links.html(verified June 8, 2005)
• John de Szendeffy has set up lab and program web sites for the Multimedia Language Lab, Center for English Language and Orientation Programs at Boston University. There's a lot of neat stuff for students, teachers, and techies, at http://www.bu.edu/celop/mll The Computing Resources for Lab Administrators is no longer exactly at http://www.bu.edu/celop/mll/AT.html but this link will lead you to more on students, teachers, tutorials, facilities, CALL, and faqs.(both verified June 8, 2005)

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• Linda Thalman - This link is to Vance's page citing Linda Thalman's work.(verified June 8, 2005)
• Philip Toews to quote his own promotional email of Sept 8, 2002, is "webmaster of http://www.teachingfish.com/ a non-profit full service esl community web site which offers free teaching resources, an on-line English grammar, web boards, a job finder service, esl games and activities, teaching tips and articles on esl teaching. Everything on teachingfish.com is cross-referenced and database driven, so it is easy for esl teachers to find games and activities for the grammar and language objectives that they are teaching in their classrooms. Membership on the site is NOT required, but many people are happy to sign up so that they can contribute games, tips and articles of their own!" (verified June 8, 2005)
• James Trotta's ESL go English at http://www.eslgo.com/ and "research projects and collobarative excahnges and such on http://www.esl-blog.com which gets visited by about 120 unique people each day." (verified June 8, 2005)

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• Toby Ung has developed a site called Online Tutoring World - ESL Online Tutors Resource which he characterizes as "The one and only online tutoring resource for esl teachers." http://www.onlinetutoringworld.com/ with a number of free materials and lesson plans on it. (verified December 2006)

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• Jorge H. Villegas Alzate has a "website at the language center at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, with lots of free resources for language teachers. I can not overload the site with flash animations but it's quite comprehensive and contains many interesting links. Feel free to visit this site and use the free resources in/for your classes. http://www.upb.edu.co/cdelenguas/ and / or http://www.upb.edu.co/cdelenguas/englishexer/ "(both verified June 8, 2005)

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• Mark Warschauer, Heidi Shetzer, and Christine Meloni. Internet for English Teaching has a printable, clickable index of Internet addresses used in the book available in Adobe PDF format from http://www.tesol.org/pubs/catalog/IFETappA.pdf (no longer here June 8, 2005)
• Richard Williams wrote in June 2004: "My ESL web page, which used to be at www.su.edu at Shenandoah University, is now at http://geocities.com/ccsnstudents/index2.html"; however as of June 2005 it's no longer there, but a Google search in June 2005 produced a text version (not hyperlinked, but available for copy/pasting into a browser) of the URLs that apparently were on the page: http://202.202.192.9/englishonline/jxck/xslw/InternetResourcesforELT.htm (verified June 8, 2005). Some comments on the old site: "One of my favorite ESL/EFL sites is from Shennandoah University at the following address: http://www.su.edu/esl/langlab.htm. which was 404 Not Found July 26, 2002. This site has information for all skills and levels, links to other ESL/EFL sites, and an enjoyable "Perceptions and Illusions" link, according to Erlyn Baack, 27 June, 1999, teslca-l, quoted with permission, May 1, 2000.
• David Winet's English for Internet at http://www.study.com

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• To see a list of great ideas in action, visit Aiden Yeh's pages of activities with her students at the following links: http://www.geocities.com/yehsy0304/nkfust/listening/ http://www.geocities.com/yehsy0304/nkfust/listening/debate-smoking/9-16.html http://www.geocities.com/yehsy0304/nkfust/listening/passages2/relationship.html (Commentary thanks to Arlyn Freed, Nov 2003) (each verified June 8, 2005)

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Alphabetically, by Name Brand

• The AlphaPlus Index to Web Resources claims to have over 800 helpful websites related to literacy, ESL, etc.: http://alphaplus.ca/opnhs/english/subjAuth.asp (verified June 8, 2005)
• Blue n' Web offers a great many resources in a searchable database by level (school) and activity: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/ (verified June 8, 2005)
• Boggle's World: ESL Teacher Resources and Worksheets http://bogglesworld.com/ (verified June 8, 2005) "Boggle's World is an enriching resource site for elementary and middle school English, English as a Second Language (ESL), and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. Maintained by ESL teachers in Asia and North America, it aims to "bring free quality resources to parents and educators." Colorful and fun-filled, the site is equipped with various teacher resources including crossword puzzles, flash cards, work sheets, a spell book, and more. The site also contains a link to a teacher's resource database that contains hundreds of ranked Web listings. Furthermore, this site provides a link to the Adult ESL center, which is comprised of free worksheets and activities for teaching adults. In all, this is a wonderful resource site for anyone teaching or interested in ESL activities."
• The CASLT web site has a new page providing an annotated listing of links to some excellent resources that can be useful in preparing for the first few days of school: tips from veteran teachers, fun activities, tools for teachers and printable handouts for students, ideas for bulletin boards and for ice breakers, back to school clipart and more. The "Back to School" page can be accessed through http://www.caslt.org (verified June 8, 2005)
• Centro Friend is a multilingual teacher exchange site with an English version at http://www.centrofriend.it/home.htm (verified June 8, 2005)
• - EFL Gazette's EFLWEB Home Page - http://www.u-net.com/eflweb/
• Tim Nall's ELT Two Cents Cafe is at http://www.geocities.com/twocentseltcafe/ (verified June 8, 2005). There are links to teaching, employment, and web page resources as well as numerous two-cents asides on pedagogical issues.
• English Practice, http://www.englishpractice.com/ has "thousands" of lessons, a community section with chat (voice chat went the way of HearMe, unfortunately), a resources section, and a newsletter for students with an audio version. (link works, but found to have been hacked, June 8, 2005)
• English Teachers Network, for Teachers, by Teachers: http://www.etni.org.il/index.html (link works but blocked by UAE government proxy June 8, 2005)
• Englishtown.com - EF Multimedia's site has become a school where unlimited access to all courses is available for $35 a month. However, there are free areas at this site, such as: • Englishtown Hello, a free magazine • English in your mailbox • Test your English • Talking e-Cards • Practice speaking with Voice charts • and Pen Pals. The website is at http://www.englishtown.com.(verified June 8, 2005)
• "The ESL Special Collection is a comprehensive collection of materials, resources, and web links for instructors, tutors, program administrators, and adult learners. A major focus of this site will be downloadable curricula for use by tutors and teachers. Visitors will also be able to find links to adult ESL research, policy issues, articles about practice, and project updates. ESL-focused materials found in the other LINCS collections (family literacy, EFF, etc.) can also be found here. Civic Participation (CP) materials are included in the Special Collection as they relate to ESL." http://www.literacynet.org/esl/ (verified June 8, 2005)
• FreeEnglish links to ESL resource sites, including this one: http://www.freeEnglish.com (verified June 8, 2005)
• A-Z Global Study directory of English School Websites in Australia http://www.globalstudy.com/esl/au/abc/ (verified June 8, 2005)
• HPR*TEC. http://www.hprtec.org/; Check out http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp and http://www.4teachers.org/ for teachers. (each verified June 8, 2005)
• The Applied English Center at the University of Kansas maintains a site with a number of annotated links: http://www.aec.ku.edu/leo/index.html (verified June 8, 2005)
• Language Dynamics Englishpage: http://www.englishpage.com
• Learn English Feel Good http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com - Robert McAlister writes that his colleague and he "recently started a very nice website for ESL students and teachers called learnenglishfeelgood.com - Apart from a large collection of grammar and vocabulary exercises, the site has video-based exercises, printable (pdf) handouts, lists of idioms and phrasal verbs, and more... and it's all free." (verified Dec 29, 2006
• Lingolex.com English for Spanish speakers, and Spanish for English speakers: http://www.lingolex.com
• The Macquarie University National Centre for English Language Teaching & Research (NCELTR is: The centre for English language) at Macquarie Universityhttp://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/ (verified June 8, 2005)
• National Institute for Literacy's ESL Special Collection at http://www.literacynet.org/esl (verified June 8, 2005)
• The New York Times' Teacher Connections to browse for ideas. Search the Lesson Plan archive as a jumping-off point for class activities. Get ideas from the topic, the news article, or the lesson plan.http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/index.html (verified June 8, 2005)
• The NODE: Learning Technologies Network, Resources for Learners, http://node.on.ca/ (verified June 8, 2005)
• Online Resources for English students and teachers, http://www.wvmccd.cc.ca.us/MC/ESL/OnlineRes.html This link no longer works, but a search in Google of Online Resources for English turns up lots of sites.
• Open Learning Agency's ESL links page at http://www.cln.org/subjects/esl.html leads you to Educational Resources in ESL, Curricular Resources in English as a Second Language, and Theme pages which at the moment link to Listening resources (verified June 8, 2005)
• Posted to a list: at http://www.peakenglish.com "You can sign in free and observe all the features/tools they offer without paying for any courses" (verified June 8, 2005)
• Steve Rudolph's Planet English for International Communication, a comprehensive interactive CD-ROM, Web, and book-based courseware package. The community page links to ISIS3Learning. This appears to be pay-per-view now. (verified June 8, 2005)
• St. Julian's has a good kids resource page at: http://www.stjulians.com/eal/index.html (verified June 8, 2005)
• Taiwan Teacher, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1979/links.html has links to online English courses, grammar quizzes, articles, newsgroups, games, journals, references, and links to Taiwan. (verified June 8, 2005)
• Vancouver Community College has some very useful ESL activities at their site, http://esl.vcc.ca/eslvoc/ESLWEB/eslweb.htm (verified June 8, 2005)

Recommendations from Michael Marzio, to be sorted when I have time (ie. never ...)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/wslearningenglish_aodshtml?ws
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/wslearningenglish_promo.shtml
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
http://searchenglish.britishcouncil.org/
http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/sites/video.htm
http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant/ (collection of tasks and exercises)
http://www.tesol.net/teslact.html (collection of websites to find tasks and exercises!!!)
http://www.webspawner.com/users/bestesl/ (collection of tasks and exercises!!!)
http://www.languageguide.org/english/index.jsp (vocabulary tasks w/ pron.)
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/index.cfm (for young listeners)
http://www.readenglish.net
http://a4esl.org

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/livingenglish/
(all kinds of tasks, listening too)
http://www.165.net.com
http://www.wiredforbooks.org/ (listening)
http://www.wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm
http://www.homepages.ihug.com.au/%7Eadelegc/index.html
(elementary gr., list. and vocab)
http://www.wwnorton.com/nael
http://elt.freehomepage.com
http://www.crossingborders-africanwriting.org
http://www.britishcouncil.org/newwriting
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/media_efl
http://www.elllo.org/index.htm
http://www.englishhorizons.com
http://www.languagetraders.com
http://RepeatAfterUs.com
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/english
http://www.ww3.free-english.com/english
http://www.elrebumbio.org/lord/lord.htm
http://www.english-trailers.com
http://www.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/michel.barbot/hotpot/exercises.htm
http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/sites/video.htm
http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk (site about
teaching about plants)
http://www.wordsurfing.co.uk/4598.html

Reviews: Evaluating ESL Websites

• Jeffrey T. Nelson's MA thesis is on " A system for the evaluation of ESL web sites". http://itp.innoved.org/~jtnelson/thesis/ (verified June 8, 2005)
• The review of ESL websites is no longer at http://www.ialc.wsu.edu/eslint/eslindex.html but a Google search on esl web site review OR reviews turns up a plethora of hits.
• Jeong-Bae Son has headed a project entitled "Developing a model for the evaluation of ESL/EFL Web sites" at: http://www.usq.edu.au/users/sonjb/projects/web_reviews/ (verified June 8, 2005). Sites evaluated are:
  - Activities for ESL Students - http://a4esl.org/
  - Advanced composition for non-native speakers of English - http://www204.pair.com/ebaack/
  - English Club - http://www.englishclub.com/
  - English Exercises Online - http://www.smic.be/smic5022/
  - English Forum - http://www.englishforum.com/
  - ESL Cafe - http://www.eslcafe.com/
  - ESL Cyber Listening Lab - http://www.esl-lab.com/
  - Grammar Bytes! - http://www.chompchomp.com/
  - Guide to Grammar and Writing - http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

For foreign students interested in studying in the USA:

• American University and English as a Second Language Information Service

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