Linguistics
www.elsevier.ru Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, access to over 1800 Elsevier journals including some ELT titles. Have to register on the Russian site of Elsevier
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/0080448542, the most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive international reference source in the field.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/cgi-bin/fil2.pl
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/usgbintr.html#top - Variants of the language
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/e/en/english_language.htm everything about English, encyclopedia links
Teaching Methodology
http://712educators.about.com/library/quizzes/blteacher_personality.htm online fun quiz on teacher's personality
http://712educators.about.com/od/teachingstrategies/ teaching tips and strategies, advice to student teachers, links to articles
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listteachingna.html. for pre-service and in-service teachers who just start an EFL Methodology course
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/webreflectiga.html Learner-Centered Instruction - designed for teacher training
Great Databases/Resources for teachers
Content teaching
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/index.shtml
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/project/index.html
http://newslink.org/mag.html
- magazine articles, university level (from entertainment: games, movies, cuisine to science and technology, chemical research, popular science, from computing to lifestyles)
http://www.score.k12.ca.us/ -Teacher CyberGuide, activities for kids in various sciences. "Language and Arts" site provides resources on issues related to American and British Literature, history and culture
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listenvironmna1.html -great environmental issues hotlist
Social Science
http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/module1/authentic.html#sociology –authentic inquiry, sociology
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/ -political and sociology scientists
http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502/archive.htm -sociology, archive
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/socialscientist/ -- monthly journal Social Scientist, content, articles
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc-sci/resengine.html research engines for social scientists, fields
http://caster.ssw.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html resources for social studies and economics, database of subjects and links
http://socialscientist.wordpress.com/ -fun articles
http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/9836.html an essay on research methods in social science
MIT lecture courses for free http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#AeronauticsandAstronautics MIT list of courses in Aeronautics, lectures
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-213Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm MIT: Academic communication course
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-223Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm MIT course: Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation, downloadable
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-059Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm MIT course with readings and literature ‘Paradigms of European thought and culture’
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-019Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm MIT course on intercultural communication (lectures)
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-225Advanced-Workshop-in-Writing-for-Science-and-Engineering--ESLSpring2003/CourseHome/index.htm MIT course on advanced writing for non-nests, science and engineering
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/samjenniferje.html
EFL/ESL Resource Sampler
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/tesol98/webresources.html#misc
http://www.4teachers.org/ reading, listening, interactive tests, video about interesting events
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ - subject areas Social Studies, US government sites, puzzles on logic, lateral thinking, reasoning, (crossword-weaver.com). Clip Art Gallery with some animated clips
http://gsh.lightspan.com/programs/FTE/index.html global school net foundation (programs and partners)
http://web1.caryacademy.org/facultywebs/delia_Decourcy/MIDLINK/englishhonorroll.htm#vocabulary everything – collection of best sites, categorized
http://iteslj.org/
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/usia/faqduring.html#download%20Web%20pages actys to download without i-connection
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/call/webtraining.html puzzlemaker and other tools, free
http://www.eslcafe.com/search/index.html everything , links, games
http://www.k12.hi.us/~mkunimit/more_teachers_sites.htm lesson plans, links to subject areas
www.education-world.com lesson plans and research
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAMO.htm lesson plans
www.wizards.com card games
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/ortesol2004/smart.html hands-on activities
HTTP://ENCARTA.MSN.COM/-quizzes
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/ - for intermediate level, a huge number of different topics and practice reading and especially listening comprehension, word games, a current events, News section, General Knowledge quizzes, British-English link to the BBC web pages, Lesson Plans
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ -for adults at the upper-intermediate and over level, with current events articles, listening comprehension, Science and Nature quizzes (excellent), Finance, Entertainment, Sports, History, Health, Lifestyles, Music news, etc., a learning section which covers such areas as Math, English grammar, Environmental Studies, Science, etc. The Learning section also includes English Teacher Resource materials.
http://atozteachersstuff.com./ - lesson plans, teacher chat
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/teaching.html online activities
www.manytings.org for ESL students
www.marvel.com comics in English
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/ kids’ project on holidays (world calendar)
http://answers.yahoo.com/info/welcome to ask a question and get lots of answers, chat for free
Reading, Stories, Books
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=773 -developing critical thinking about literary characters
http://messenger.latam.msn.com/ critical reading
http://edsitement.neh.gov - treasure of high-quality material in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies; 100 links to the top humanities sites and online lessons plans
http://encarta.msn.com/ free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page free encyclopedia
http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/ Media stories for children
http://www.cnn.com/ books
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ books
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/ books
www.ohiou.edu/esl/project/seven.html texts about wonders, lessons
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Enduring-Wisdom/message/203 fables
http://www.biography.com/search/ - biographies
http://www.amillionlives.com/ -thousands of biographies
http://stpetersburg-guide.com/people/glinka.shtml about famous Russian people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_Americans Lists of famous Russian-Americans for project work
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/polish2.html.
http://www.loc.gov/ library of Congress
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/proverb.html#d –Chinese proverbs (annotation and connotation)
News
www.aldaily.com
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/quiz/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html good for lesson planning on current events
Quotations
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html - quotations of famous people
http://www.funny2.com/quotes.htm
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/Reading/quotations/k_School.asp
http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3 quotations search page
Public speaking
http://sbinfocanada.about.com/c/ec/32.htm
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/campusvisits/home.html Power Point presentations
http://www.teachtheteachers.org/projects/MBergey/index.htm Evaluation sheet for presentation
http://www.aresearchguide.com/3tips.html -lots of tips, resources
http://712educators.about.com/cs/speeches/a/speechwriting.htm speech writing with link to articles
http://712educators.about.com/od/speecheswriting/ tips for speech writing
Writing
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/writing/reference.html list of links on writing from Ohio uni
http://www.onestopenglish.com/tefl_skills/writing_think.htm pre-writing tips
http://ozline.com/electraguide/ -essay writing
http://www.teachtheteachers.org/projects/MBergey/index.htm evaluation sheet, persuasive writing
http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/essay.html questions after essay test
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/advwrf99/classassign.html assignments
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/nflrc.html - for writing projects
http://www.teachtheteachers.org/projects/MBergey/index.htm -persuasive paper, tips
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/writing.html - links to tips for writers, organization and style, Mechanics, The Writing Process, Topics for Writing, Research and Writing, and Writing for Special Purposes.
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets.shtml -writing tutorial courses
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listreadinghe.html -reading/writing guide hotlist
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/interact/index.html interactive exercises, practicing writing
http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/handouts.html virtual writing centre, handouts
http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/apa.html citation format APA, references
http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/mla.html citation MLA format
http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/abstracts.html abstract writing
http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/genderfair.html gender fair language: text with examples
http://www.eslbee.com/ writing for non-natives with explanation and samples
http://www.eslbee.com/topic_sentences.htm topic+ controlling idea with a quiz
http://www.eslbee.com/persuade.htm how to write persuasive essay + students’ samples
https://my.hamilton.edu/academics/resource/wc/WritinganAPAstyleresearchpaper.PDF good text on research paper, long
http://www.uefap.co.uk/ Academic writing, an exhaustive range of activities as well as lots of clear explanations.
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/reaction.html how to write reaction/response essay http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/foropen.htm ways of essay opening
St’s research, projects
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/ortesol98/home.html#master how to structure it, monitor the process
http://www.aresearchguide.com/index.html - guidelines for students’ research, lots of links, every tiny sphere from format to footnotes, plagiarism, and presentation
Punctuation
http://www.correctpunctuation.co.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv302.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/learn_english/newsid_3243000/3243760.stm tasks for testing punctuation
http://esl.about.com/od/englishgrammar/a/a_punctuation.htm punctuation
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-English-Punctuation-Correctly
http://www.englishclub.com/writing/punctuation.htm
Grammar
http://www.english-online.org.uk/course.htm
http://a4esl.org
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listenglished.html-Grammar hotlist
Vocabulary
http://my.opera.com/nnhnnhu/blog/index.dml/tag/Vocabulary/Expression blog with interesting phrases, their meaning
http://www.geocities.com/lsilver5/cont.htm ‘English rules’ is a site that takes a look at vocabulary from a grammatical point. The site has lots of explanations and examples.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,5961,580600,00.html A short quiz on ‘weird words’ from the Guardian Unlimited site. It’s quite a lot of fun to try and students can then use the dictionary to check out definitions etc.
http://school.discovery.com/puzzlemaker - vocab puzzlemaker
http://www.niagara.edu/oas/lc/Study%20&%20Reading%20Strategies/13_easy_ways_to_increase_your_vocabulary.htm - ways to increase vocab
http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/eli/july2000.html vocab games, article with links
http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/vocabulary.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr096.shtml - great to pique interest
http://www.onestopenglish.com/english_grammar/vocabulary.htm -metaphor, phrasal verbs, word stories
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/resourcenew.htm -word of the week
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/vocabulary2.html links, interactive tasks
http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/WWWAssocWords.htm -concordances
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/vocabulary.html ESP vocab
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Vocabulary/ a lot of links
http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/eli/march1997.html concordances software
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/samdictionama.html -Dictionaries Sampler
Collocations
http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blcollocation_1.htm Five pages of exercises that cover collocations with the following verbs: break, catch, come, do, feel, find, get, go, have, keep, make, miss, pay, save and take.
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/advparta.html This site focuses on particles and has the snappy title of ‘Watch your particles’. The pages have good example sentences showing common collocations followed by exercises giving students a chance to practise.
Common errors
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html has over 100 common errors including words often easily confused, punctuation and false friends with a nice simple explanation. http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk3.html A slightly more complicated set of ‘rules’ but nevertheless quite useful for teachers. A few of the explanations and examples are difficult to find elsewhere and yet are relevant to many students – including over-elaboration and failing to omit unnecessary words.
Etymology
http://www.worldwidewords.org/ A comprehensive site which aims to take a look not just at the meaning of words but also their origins. You can search words in the conventional alphabetical way or by using the typical www search facility. Two of the more interesting features are a look at words from 2001 and the ‘Surprise me!’ button which can take you anywhere on the site! The site also contains a Q & A section
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/index.html New words in English collected by American linguistics students with definitions and brief etymological notes. You’ll find a lot of quite obscure words here as well as a few that your students might already be using without really knowing their meaning or origin.
http://www.wordorigins.org/home.htm Apart from an alphabetical list of entries with explanations of etymology this site also has a discussion group and a section on irresistible stories – false etymologies which are just too good, or funny, to dismiss out of hand. Browse through the pages here and be entertained as well as educated.
http://members.aol.com/MorelandC/Phrases.htm - phrase origins
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