Sites about school, work, language teaching, and research:
- BYU English Language Center's Teacher
Corner: tons of good ideas for teaching and research
- Doing research? This is an absolutly wonderful tool: The
ERIC database
- Teaching? Why not have your students write an online journal? Blogger
(web log)
- Great journal of Swiss linguistics in English, Italian, German, Romansch,
and French: Babylonia
- All you need to know about qualitative, quantitative, and experimental
research, analyzing data, research designs, literature reviews, variables,
subjects, instruments and procedures, and how to write a great thesis:
Taming the Research Beast
- Purdue's online Writing Center Online
Writing Lab (OWL)
- Need information about the TOEFL? Need to register?: TOEFL
online
- All about APA format: BYU's APA
reference style
- English
Today: The International Review of the English Language: recognizes
English as a constantly changing language that belongs to all countries
and cultures, and makes reading research fun.
- American Language
Review: journal promoting the teaching of all languages in the United
States, ESL, EFL, bilingual education, and the teaching of other languages.
- Applied
Linguistics: quarterly journal interested in principled approach to
language and language related research.
- Journal
of Second Language Writing: Editors: Ilona Leki, University of Tennessee
& Tony Silva, Purdue University. The journal is published three times
a year featuring articles on second language, foreign language writing and
writing instruction.
- TESOL's official
webpage: find more information (about publication, jobs, conferences, etc.)
than you can ever need to find!
- TESOL official page for the NNEST
Caucus (nonnative English-speaking ESL teachers).
- Creating a Teaching Portfolio: from Jessie
Kapper, the University
of Texas at Austin, the University
of Virginia, the University
of Southern California, the University
of Texas, El Paso.
- Teaching critical
thinking.
- Looking for a job, a lesson plan, a weird idea for your students? Try
Dave's ESL Cafe
- Learn about the languages of the world, every country, and the secrets
of linguistics with this amazing resource: Ethnologue.com
Sites about how to become smarter and have fun:
- The greatest travel guide ever: World66,
the travel guide you write
- Newspapers from all over the world and in all languages:
Foreign Language News and Newspapers
- Learn everything there is to learn about Switzerland: swissworld.org,
the Suisse
Revue, Swiss
statistics, the official Swiss
page, the federal office
for education and science.
- A site about Purdue university, the programs, how to apply, etc.:
Purdue Graduate School
- Merriam-Webster Online, where you can find word games, a great dictionary,
thesaurus, the Word of the Day, and much more:
Merriam-Webster
- Great Radio! NPR Online
- Eyewitness: History through
the eyes of those who lived it
- Can you say: The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick?
Tongue twisters for all
- Répétez après moi: Je veux et j'exige d'exquises excuses.
En français, swahili, turque, javanais...
- Crossword puzzles for ESL teachers and students: Crossword
Puzzles
- the US
Constitution from A to Z.
Sites about stores, movies, quotes, people, history, cheese, newspapers,
airlines, music, and more to come with time...
