Resources on the Internet include FTP sites, gopher sites, archives of mailing lists, and world wide web (WWW) sites, where users can download and upload resources.*2 Both individuals and organizations can easily provide resources on WWW sites, and the number of resources on the Internet is increasing very rapidly. Mailing (discussion) lists*3 and news groups*4 make it possible for Internet users to exchange information. The Internet has made it possible for many people to share resources and to communicate with others in order to exchange information and discuss mutual interests. Today, there are more than 65,000 mailing lists and news groups.*5
I have made web pages to help people who are interested in TEFL/TESL find useful resources for their professional development and to improve their teaching. In this paper, I will explain the background of the development of the web pages, what they cover, what they can be used for, and how to use them effectively.
The WWW has made it possible for anyone with a browser*6 and a connection to the Internet to have access to its vast resources. The resources are very easy to use, and many web pages are linked to related resources. It is possible to follow those linked resources by just clicking highlighted words with a mouse, rather than by typing WWW addresses (URLs).
There are many powerful search engines*7 to help users find resources with key words. As users become more accustomed to searching with a search engine, they become more efficient at searching, since each search engine has different features to make searching easier.
Two more resources available on the Internet are gopher and archives of mailing lists, both of which are easy to use. You can get access to those resources using a browser.
More and more professional organizations have information available on line. Many journals and newsletters are offered on the WWW now. Available information includes the schedules of their conferences, information about their publications and projects, papers, reports, WWW resources, and teaching materials. Since WWW resources are very easy to make, many individuals have their web pages and make their own resources available to the public.
Thus, WWW has become a huge library. It provides not only text files (with characters) but also sound, pictures, and video. Resources on the WWW can be multimedia for users who have the necessary hardware and software.
Though the Internet can be compared to a library, there are some differences and some of the differences are disadvantages. Resources on the Internet are not organized by any person or committee, that is, the Internet is an accumulation of resources made available by individual people or organizations, without any system. In addition, the content of resources is not screened by anyone, so there is no control over the accuracy or recency of the information. Resources may be duplicated. There are no librarians, so help in finding resources may not be available. Since resources are provided by individuals or organizations, they may disappear or move at any time, if the individual no longer has access to the computer where the information is stored.
However, some of the differences between libraries and the Internet are advantageous to users. Resources on the Internet can be used anywhere in the world, as long as the appropriate hardware and software are available. Another advantage of the Internet is that it is interactive. Many web pages have e-mail connections to the person who is responsible for the web page, so that the user can ask questions, make comments, etc. If you post a paper or article on line, you can get responses from others as well.
It is not difficult to search for resources using various search engines and mailing lists or news groups. However, it is time consuming to collect resources, evaluate them, put comments for the future use, and classify them. If there are only a few, you can use "bookmarks"*8, but if there are many resources, you may find it more convenient to make your own web pages for future use. There are also helpful pages of links which provide information about where you can find various types of resources. The web page I am introducing in this paper is one such page.
I have constructed a web page with links to many web resources for EFL/ESL ("On-line Resources and Journals: ELT, Linguistics, and Communication" URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/onlin.htm). It includes information about useful mailing lists, WWW sites, on-line resources, and journals. I have made sixteen independent web pages for WWW resources.
In this paper, I will provide information about one of the sixteen web pages. This one includes useful resources for ELT teachers: "Useful Resources, Lesson Plans, and Teaching Materials for Teachers" (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/teacher.htm).
"Resources" includes links to background information which English teachers may find useful, such as information on studying in the US, and background information on the English language and English-speaking people and their countries.*9
I have also collected lesson plans which are available through gopher and on the WWW. "Lesson plans" includes links to plans mainly for ESL/EFL lessons, but there are also other lesson plans which might be directly or indirectly useful for TESL/TEFL classes.
In "Teaching Materials," I have included links to teaching materials which English teachers might be interested in using in their classes. Many of them are well made. You can choose whichever ones you think useful for your students, and students can use them on the web. However, I have not included learning materials which students can use by themselves. (These resources are included instead in "Useful Resources and Learning Materials for Students" [URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/student.htm]).
"Student projects" includes projects by students who studied English using e-mail and the World Wide Web. Many teachers have had their students produce web pages as part of their study of English. I have collected some results and also projects being carried out with other teachers' cooperation. Since keypal projects are very popular, I made a separate web page, "Keypal Opportunities for Students" for projects specifically related to keypal projects (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/keypal.htm).
"Reference materials for lessons" has links which provide information for lessons, though they are not necessarily resources teachers can use directly in their classes, as they can with links provided in "Teaching Materials." Teachers can use these links to obtain background information about what they are teaching. I did not include general reference materials such as style sheets, dictionaries, thesauruses, grammar and punctuation, writing papers, search engines, libraries, newspapers, or other media in this section. They are included in "Reference Materials for Students and Researchers" (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/referenc.htm).
"CALL" is the section with links for teachers who are interested in using computers for instruction. There are many interesting sites, and more and more pages are being produced which are useful to teachers interested in using computers for language teaching. I did not include any information for using computers and the Internet for teaching and research. Such resources are found in "Using the Internet" (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/internet.htm).
I have also compiled papers, articles, and essays available on the Internet which might be useful for ESL/EFL teachers ("Papers, Articles, and Essays for Teachers" URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/paper.htm). More and more papers, articles, and reports are available on the Internet.
There are about 20 links related to lesson plans, which can be used either directly or indirectly. It might be worthwhile for you to skim the lesson plans, so you will know what is available for future use.
In the "Teaching Materials" sections, two of my favorites are "Tower of London -- Virtual Tour" (http://www.voicenet.com/~dravyk/toltour/) and "U.S. Holidays" (http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/holidays). Some materials in this section are very well made, and, again, it is worthwhile to check out these materials for your future use.
Some teachers have already had students use the Internet to exchange e-mail, to write reports based on information gathered on line, to make web pages, etc. The results of some of these projects are available on the Internet. I have compiled a list of links to the projects. Some of them are very well done. It is a good idea to look at those and think about how you can encourage students to work creatively and learn English. Students seem to enjoy working on these types of projects. If you try to use the Internet, including making web pages, a useful section is "Using the Internet" (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/internet.htm).
Another useful section is the section on reference materials for lessons. You will find a lot of helpful information. You will obtain background information for your classes, and you are also likely to learn something there.
If you are interested in finding information on the United States or the United Kingdom, the following sites are useful.
Information on the US (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/us-info.htm)
Dr.
Dave's U.K. Pages (URL: http://www.neosoft.com/~dlgates/uk/ukgeneral.html)
"Computer assisted language learning (CALL)" has links to useful resources for CALL. You can skim these web pages and find out what you can do using computers. You will probably come up with some good ideas for using computers to improve your teaching.
I have compiled papers, articles, and essays for TESL/TEFL. If you go through that section, and you may find some that are useful to you. I have not included learning materials intended to be used directly by students in this web resource, but if you are interested in such pages, it is a good idea to check "Useful Resources and Learning Materials for Students" (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/student.htm). Using these resources, students can choose some learning materials themselves, but it might be helpful for them to have some guidance from teachers as to which materials are most effective and appropriate.
2 FTP sites, gopher sites, archives of mailing lists, and WWW sites are places where resources are made available to the public in different ways. Different methods are used to upload or download the resources to or from those places on the Internet.
3 On a mailing list, members can send an e-mail message to a central computer address, and the computer software distributes the message to all list members by e-mail. Any member can respond to the original message by sending an e-mail message to the central computer which again distributes it to all members. In this way, members can ask questions, provide information, and participate in discussions on the Internet.
4 News groups are like electric bulletin boards, and users can post messages or read them using the Internet. Messages are not distributed by e-mail, as for mailing lists.
5 Liszt (Directory of E-Mail Discussion Groups [URL: http://www.liszt.com/]) lists more than 65,000 mailing lists and news groups as of December 31, 1996.
6 A browser is a type of computer software, such as Mosaic, Netscape, or Internet Explorer, which is used to read resources on the WWW, FTP, and gopher sites.
7 Search engines are types of computer software used to search for information on the Internet. There are some listed at http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/referenc.htm#search.
8 A "Bookmark" is a device used to record URLs (WWW addresses) so that they can easily be accessed again without having to re-type the URL.
9 Since I have collected a lot of background information about the United States, I made an independent web page, "Information on the US" (URL: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/us-info.htm).
Table of Contents
"Useful Resources, Lesson Plans, and Teaching Materials for Teachers"
on WWW by Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao
Read this article before you use this web resource.
Resources
Lesson Plans
Teaching Materials
Student Projects
Reference Materials for Lessons
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
Papers, Articles, and Essays for Teachers
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Resources
Studying
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http://www.iac.net/~conversa/S_homepage.html
American University and English as a Second Language Information Service
(AUESLIS)
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http://webcrawler.com/select/ed.new.html
Education
**Links to information on American education with some reference materials
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http://rrnet.com/~gleason/k12.html
K-12 Internet School Sites - USA
EFL/ESL
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http://www.itec.sfsu.edu/students/k12/resources.html
Ben Franklin Intermediate K-12 Resources
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http://www.educ.wsu.edu:80/esl/index.html
Bilingual Education and ESL Resources Washington State University
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http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/resources/biblio/
A Bibliography of Resources related to Technology Use in ESL
**You can submit resources you know of or your own resources to be add to
this site.
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gopher://CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:70/11/Subject%20Specific%20Gophers/teslfl
CUNY: Gopher Menu
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http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html
Dave's ESL Cafe
ESL Job Center| ESL Idiom Page | ESL Quote Page | One-Stop ESL Search Page
| ESL Quiz Center | ESL Help Center | ESL Idea Page | ESL Graffiti Wall |
ESL Question Page | ESL Links for Students | ESL Links for Teachers | ESL
Message Exchange | Teacher Email Connection | Student Email Connection
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http://www.rescol.ca/ext/ecoles/tournesol/yahoo.htm
Education:Languages:English as a Second Language
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http://kokpoly.fi/kotisivut/ejohnson/telemati.htm
EFL and Telematics page
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http://info.bris.ac.uk/~limdw/eflres.htm
EFL links for EFL researchers
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http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/esl/
English as a Second Language Home Page
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http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/teachers-language-engl.html#plans
English Language Teaching Resources
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http://www.mlckew.edu.au/english/
The English Teachers' Web Site
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http://weber.u.washington.edu/~frederic/esl.html
ESL Hotlinks
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http://205.198.248.7/gen_esl.htm
The ESL Virtual Catalog Resources specifically related to ESL/EFL
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http://www.pvp.com/esl.htm
The ESL Virtual Catalog
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http://www.sn.no/~andreasl/
ESL/EFL Page of Andreas Lund
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http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/esloop/esloop.html
The ESLoop
"The ESLoop is a collection of sites relevant to English Language Teaching
and Learning on the World-Wide Web. Each site is linked to the next, so
that no matter where you start, you will eventually make your way around
all the sites and end up back at the beginning" -- comments by the author
**If you have anything useful, you can submit it.
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http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb/
FUN
Frizzy University Network (FUN) is a relaxed and comfortable environment in
which students learning English as a foreign or second language (EFL/ESL)
can improve their writing. FUN students explore, discover and share their
ideas, opinions and feelings in written English without the pressure of
working for grades or credit. Here, students are motivated from within to
learn and have FUN in the process!
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http://www.encomix.es/~dudeney/
Gavin's Home on the Web : EFL Links for teachers
| Call | E-mail | Employment | Groups | Language Centres | EFL Links |
Lists/Listservs| | Newsgroups | | Personal Sites | Publications |
Publishers | Resources | Search Sites |
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http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ELI/thesis.html
ESL MA Dissertations
the English Language Institute, the University of Surrey
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http://www.edunet.com/esol-idx.html
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages )
Resources and information for students and teachers of English for speakers
of other languages.
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/HARRY_DODDS/homepage.htm
English Teaching in the United Kingdom
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gopher://gopher.ucc.cuny.edu/11/Subject%20Specific%20Gophers/teslfl
Gopher Menu
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http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/Project/
HUT Internet Writing Project
Ruth Vilmi
The Language Centre
Helsinki University of Technology
Otakaari 1
FIN-02150 Espoo Finland
Email: Ruth.Vilmi@hut.fi
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Spring 1996
* Schedule for the Individual Writing Exchange
* Individual Writing Exchange topics
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Information on HUT Internet Writing Project
* Earlier Projects
* Overview
* Joining HUT Email project
* Help pages
o language
o technical
* Culture pages
* HUT Virtual Language Centre
* Language Adventure Game
* Project teachers
* EST - English for Science and Technology
* Resources for teachers
* Email, News and Student Discussion Lists
* Ruth's Publications
* Conferences
* CyberCorner
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL3.html
The Internet TESL Journal: Many TESL/TEFL/TESOL Links For Teachers of
English as a Second Language
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http://www.classicweb.com/usr/jseng/jstefl.htm
JOHN AND SARAH'S TEFL PITSTOP
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http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/llrc/
The Language Learning Resource Center Department of Modern Languages
Carnegie Mellon University
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http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/class.pages/class.html
The LinguaCenter Class Projects Page
**links to pages developed by or for teachers using the World Wide Web as a
resource for teaching, plus some links to class projects
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http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/tesl.html#teslmenu
Linguistics Funland: TESL Resources Main Menu
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http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/OER/l
Online Educational Resources
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
The Purdue On-Line Writing Lab
**This is mainly intended for native English speakers, but it has some
information useful to non-native speakers.
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http://www.ilcgroup.com/ILC_OtherSites.html
Resources & Contacts ... on and off the Internet for students and teachers
of English as a foreign language.
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http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/res.htm
The Resource Library (the Calfornia Email Project)
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http://www.livjm.ac.uk/language/eng_res.htm
Resources for English
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http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/Resource/
Resources for teachers by Ruth Vilmi
**A huge number of resources and very useful for many people
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http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~t-orr/est1.html
Resources for Teachers of English for Science and Technology
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http://beam.cop.fi/ejohnson/webonry.htm
Resources for Teaching ESL (26-07-93 -- Doug Walker)
**There are many resources with descriptions.
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http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ELI/external.html
Resources in Applied Linguistics link to esl
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http://www.schoolnet.ca/sne/esl-sne/tlinks.html
Special Needs Education Network ESL Resources for Educators
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http://ietn.snunit.k12.il/resource.htm
Teachers' Resources
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http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/teachers.html
Teaching Resources
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gopher://CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:70/11/Subject%20Specific%20Gophers//teslfl
TES/FL Gopher
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http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/mele.faq.html
TESL/FL Resource Guide SUMMARY:
This posting describes the newsgroup misc.education.language.english,
including where to find more information. It should be read by anyone who
wishes to post to misc.education.language.english. It also contains
information of interest to ESL/EFL/ESOL teachers and students world-wide.
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gopher://cunyvm.cuny.edu
TESL-L Gopher
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http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/esl.html
University of Colorado at Denver
School of Education: Teaching English as a Second Language
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http://www.teachersoft.com/school/teacher.htm
Teachers' Lounge
**various useful general information for teachers, not EFL
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http://www.rede.com/eslgames/webgate.htm
Webber Gate
From Webber Gate, you can search several sites on the web that are
interesting to ESL/EFL Teachers.
This site is always growing. When it is finished, it will have every
ESL/EFL site in the universe, and more !
When it is finished, you will be able to find jobs, books, teachers home
pages, international tourist information, games, publishers, training
programs, newsgroups, travel insurance, classroom supplies, etc.
**This is a gateway to many resources, including commercial sites.
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http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/esl.html
Yamada Web Guide to English as a Second Language
Others
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http://www.lehigh.edu/~ddm2/ddm2.html
Classes and Resource Links From Doug Moesel at Lehigh University Douglas D.Moesel
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http://www.neosoft.com/~dlgates/uk/ukgeneral.html
Dr. Dave's U.K. Pages
massive information about the UK
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http://www.magic.ca/~geofftay/edlink.html
EDUCATIONAL LINKS
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http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication (ERIC/REC)
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.iearn.org/iearn/index.html
IEARN Youth Making A Difference In The World Through Telecommunications
The International Education and Resource Network enables young people to
undertake projects designed to make a meaningful contribution to the health
and welfare of the planet and its people.
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http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/langsite.htm#general_ling
Internet Resources for Language Teachers
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http://www.netmind.com/URL-minder/URL-minder.html
The URL-minder: Your Own Personal Web Robot!
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Lesson Plans
EFL/ESL
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http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/teachers-engl-plans.html
English Language Teaching -- Lesson Plans Ohio University CALL Labs
**links to many useful sites
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http://olympia.gse.uci.edu/Lessons/esl.html
ESL lesson University of Arizona
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http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslplans.html
ESL Lesson Plans and Resources by Marty Levine
**with very useful descriptions for each link
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gopher://ericir.syr.edu:70/11/Clearinghouses/Adjuncts/ACLE/Digests
Gopher Menu
**25 lesson plans
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http://www.ecnet.net/users/uwwwelp/topics.htm
Ideas and lesson plans for writing assignments
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http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/lessons.html
K-12 Lesson Plans
**There are many k-12 lesson plans.
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http://www.teachnet.com/lesson.html
Lesson Ideas
**lesson plans for various subjects including language arts
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http://www.tminet.com/~jwalsh/favor.html#lesson plans
Lesson Plans
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.sils.umich.edu/~jarmour/etc/lp.html
Lesson Plans/Activities
**ESL lesson plans submitted by teachers to share
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslindex.html
Lesson Plans and Resources for ESL, Bilingual and Foreign Language Teachers
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Links/LessonLinks.html
Links to ESL Lessons on the Net : Lessons & Lesson Plans
The Internet TESLJ
Language Learning Activities for the World Wide Web
Compiled by the discussion group "WWW: New Activities, New Pedagogy"
CNN Newsroom Daily Lesson Plans (Designed for Native Speakers)
Computers and Language Learning, UO-AEI Leslie Opp-Beckman
ESL Lessons by Steve Tripp (University of Aizu, Japan)
Capitalization | Future | Numbers | Punctuation
Free Photocopyable Lesson (Heinemann)
Truth & Lies Game (Elizabeth Hardin, Gallup Mckinley County Schools, NM)
Who is in the Bag? (Lorna Hockett, Waldport Elementary School, Waldport, OR)
Other Sources
20 ESL Lesson Plans
California Department of Education, Adult Education Unit. Eric Lessons -
Language Arts Not ESL, but possibly useful
ESL Lessons (WSU)
More ESL Lessons (WSU)
Even More ESL Lessons ? (WSU)
The TESL newsgroup archives have lesson ideas.
ELTASIA-L Archive (English Language Teaching in Asia)
TESL-L Archive (Teachers of English as a Second Language Electronic List)
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gopher://gopher.scoe.otan.dni.us
Gopher Menu
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gopher://gopher.otan.dni.us
Gopher Menu
**There are about 50 lesson plans.
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http://www.educ.wsu.edu:80/esl/lessons.html
6 Lesson Plans and Lessons
Bolivian Instruments by J.C. Molina
Glaciers by A. Reyna
Lesson on Weather by M. McDonald
Folk Song Lesson by J. Campbell & M. Fornander
Environment Lesson by S. Rosmaryn
Easy Recipes by A. Chang
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http://www.educ.wsu.edu:80/esl/content.html
8 Lesson Plans and Lessons
The Amazon
Cranes (Japan)
Hawaii
Music
Heroes
Spanish
Vertebrates
Oregon Trail
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http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/emc300/resources/lessplns.html
Teacher Resources Module Part 2 -- Lesson Plan Resources
______________________________________________________________________________
http://its-online.com/framet.htm
Teaching Notes
Others
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http://wolfen.wolfe.k12.ky.us/educate/lessons.htm
Lesson Plans and Other Resources:
**Lesson Plans and Other Resources: links to massive lesson plans and
resources, including various subjects
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http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/Curriculum/LssnPlns.html
Lesson Plans North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
**not ESL
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Teaching Materials
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.pedagonet.com/
The Service To Locate Learning Resource Material
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http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/links.html
Dave Sperling's ESL Page
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/
EFL teaching materials
**American Holidays series is very good.
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2276/egypt.html
Egypt - A Tourist's View
by Nigel Freeman
**very interesting travel diary including photos
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/English_Direct/
English Direct: Ready-made English lessons
**ready-to-use English lessons, information about English-speaking
countries, links to other useful sites, etc.
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http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/esl/
English as a Second Language Home Page
**many lessons for listening, speaking, reading and writing as well as
resources for teachers
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/material.htm
English Teaching/Learning Materials by S. Kathleen Kitao and Kenji Kitao
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http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wall.html
An ESL Wall on the Web
**"Wall" where students and teachers can leave graffiti
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http://www.stir.ac.uk/epd/higdox/stephen/elt.htm
English Language Teaching
**poems and folk tales
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http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/flags.html
Flags of all Countries
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http://www.ghbooks.com
Gryphon House Early Childhood Books
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gopher://nic.merit.edu:7055/11/celia-gopher/.english
Gopher Menu
**userful materials including games, sofware, etc.
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http://its-online.com/index.htm
iT's On-Line Contents
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http://its-online.com/framet.htm
3SIXTY5
The 3SIXTY5 on-line calendar lists a selection of the most important,
interesting or unusual events that are taking place this month or that have
taken place during this month in the past. Many of the entries have
hypertext links to related material in the e-zine or the current issue of
iT's Magazine. If an entry is followed by a reference number then this
indicates where you can find related teaching material in the book 3SIXTY5.
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http://www.rede.com/eslgames/circus.htm
Michael Bendel's two games
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http://www.sar.usf.edu/~zazuetaa/recipe.html
Ridiculously Easy Recipes for Students and Other Incompetents
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http://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/scott/015.html
Scott's Internet Hotlist: Electronic Texts
**A long list of links to on-line magazines, newspapers, journals, and
other types of on-line texts; good source of authentic English
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http://www.utc.fr/tsh/sg/resources/
Simulation/gaming resources...
This page contains a collection of Internet resources related to
simulation/gaming, taken in its broadest meaning, to encompass such areas
as simulation, computerised simulation, gaming, modeling, virtual reality,
role-play, play, active learning, experiential learning and toys. The
purpose may be education, training, planning or research.
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/torpedo/
Torpedo Software
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http://www.voicenet.com/~dravyk/toltour/
Tower of London - Virtual Tour
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http://www.magic.ca/~geofftay/tours.html
Virtual Tour Sites
**There are about 40 interesting sites.
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Student Projects
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http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/Project/Culture/
Culture Pages
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http://www.csun.edu/~hcesl004/CSUN.html
DAVE'S ESL CLASS
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http://ikra.call.uvic.ca/LangCen/Special/eslspec.html
ESL Special Projects at the Uvic Language Centre
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http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/Project/
HUT Internet Writing Project
**See "Culture pages".
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http://www.gatech.edu/lcc/idt/Students/
IDT Program
**students' autobiographies
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http://www.gatech.edu/lcc/idt/Projects/projects.html
IDT Projects
**"The Carlos Museum Project" is very interesting.
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http://cc2000.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/
Information Service
**This Kyoto Sangyo University Page has two students' project results.
Famous Personages in Japan
Kyoto Restaurant Information
**well done projects
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http://www.itec.sfsu.edu/students/projects.html
ITEC Student Project Showcase
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Links/StudentProjects.html
Links to Projects by ESL Students
**compiled by the Internet TESLJ
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http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/tesl-student-projects.html
Projects by ESL Students Linguistic Funland
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http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/projects.html#S-Produced Projs-Engl
Student-Produced Projects
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http://www.vcu.edu/cspweb/,962/,96290/web96200.html
Students' Web Pages
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http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/Project/TechWeb/
TechWeb Project
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http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/inetpro.html
VOLTERRE-FR Internet Projects for Learners and Teachers of English
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http://www.lehigh.edu/~ddm2/travel.html
World Travel Planning by Doug Moesel From Lehigh University
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http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/people/teacher/trobb/projects.html
"Web Projects for the ESL/EFL Class" by Thomas Robb
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http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
Web66: A K12 World Wide Web Project
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http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/resources/TESOL/doug/index.html
The WWW as a Project for Collaboration by Douglas Mills
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Reference Materials for Lessons
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http://www.slanguage.com/
The American Slanguages Site
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http://206.74.57.36/geography/usa/page00.htm
The United States
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http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~hoemann/cwarhp.html
The American Civil War Homepage
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http://webcrawler.com/select/art.new.html
Arts & Literature
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http://www.whitehouse.gov
The White House Home Page
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http://www.discovery.com
Discovery Channel Online
**Information on history, nature, science, technology, etc., for children.
Different information under each topic every week. Includes search engine.
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/floor/floor_home.html
Exploring The Internet
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http://www.w3.org
Gutenberg Master Index
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http://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu/
The NCSU Libraries Webbed Information System
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http://nearnet.gnn.com/
The Nearnet Home Page
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html
The On-line Books Page
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ttp://www.wfi.fr/est/est1.html
Resources for Teachers of English for Science and Technology
**Bibliography, books, papers, etc., on writing about science or technical
writing
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sii
The Science Information Infrastructure
The Science Information Infrastructure is a collaboration among teachers
and scientists. The SII is developing resources using NASA images and data.
Find out about ozone depletion, satellites, auroras and more!
From: Jim Spadaccini [jims@isaac.exploratorium.edu]
**fairly difficult, and even college students may have trouble
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http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/teach.html
Teaching with the Web
**There are useful teaching materials.
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/
The American Studies Programs at the University of Virginia
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http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
The World Lecture Hall
**Useful for students and teachers
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http://www.utexas.edu/lecture/#e
World Lecture Hall--English, Rhetoric and Composition
**Useful for both students and teachers
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http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
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http://www.w3.org/pub/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
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Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
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http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/People/dub.html
CALL page by Jim Duber, ESL Instructor/CALL Developer
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.cibnor.conacyt.mx/est/esl.html
ESL / EFL Educational Resources
**There are some useful links to CALL.
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http://www.pvp.com/call.htm
The ESL Virtual Catalog Computer Assisted Language Learning
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http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/eurocall.htm
EUROCALL
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/computer.htm
Individualising English Instruction Using Computers (1995) (TESL-L
[COMPUTER EFL])
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/instruct.htm
Introduction to CAI English Classes (1996) (TESL-L [CAI INSTRUCT])
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http://www.cibnor.conacyt.mx/est/activity.html
Language Learning Activities for the World Wide Web
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http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/oncall/callink.htm
Links to other CALL sites around the world
**Many useful links for CALL
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/cai-cont.htm
Organizing a CAI Contest (1995) (TESL-L [CAI CONTEST])
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/inte-pub.htm
Publishing Your Paper Using the Internet (1996) (TESL-L [INTERNET PUBLISH])
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http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/interest/
RECENT ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM CLTR The University of Queensland
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http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/neteach.html
Sites Neteachers Thought were Cool!
**There are many computer and the Internet-related sites. Very useful for
teaching English using Internet resources.
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http://www.tnis.net/rbowers/demo.html
Using HTML for online editing
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/CALL.html
The Virtual CALL Library
This area represents an attempt to create a central point of access to the
diverse collection of Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) software
scattered across the Internet and available for downloading.
**It includes English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese,
and other languages.
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http://www.mclink.it/com/reporter/email.htm
Write Around The World
**This is a book about an e-mail project carried out in 1993 and 1994.
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Papers, Articles, and Essays for Teachers
Table of Contents
Links to Articles
Individual Ariticles
TESL-L Archives : 14 Articles on Testing by S. Kathleen Kitao and
Kenji Kitao
Selected Publications on WWW by Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao
English Teaching/Learning Materials
Links to Articles
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.u-net.com/eflweb/tefl13.htm
Articles English as a Foreign Language Magazine
**several articles about teaching English in various countries
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http://www.liv.ac.uk/~tony1/direct.html
DIRECT: Development of International Research in English for Commerce and
Technology
Page contains working papers and other info available by FTP and WWW.
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http://www.wordsimages.com/ewinters/ewinters.htm
Elaine Winters' Homepage
Contains articles on Instructional Design, Thoughts on Achieving
International Technical Communication Success, Cultural Issues in
Communication, and more.
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http://kokpoly.fi/kotisivut/ejohnson/telemati.htm
Links to ESL Articles on the Net
**There are many useful articles and they are available on the web.
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Individual Ariticles
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/reading.htm
Difficulties Japanese Have in Reading English
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/int-teij.htm
English Language Education in Japan: An Overview
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/tesl-his.htm
The History of English Teaching Methodology (1996) [TESL HISTORY]
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/computer.htm
Individualising English Instruction Using Computers (1995) [COMPUTER EFL]
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Lessons/Trabich.-Travel.html
"Innocents Abroad: Training Japanese for Travel" (Eugene Trabich)
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http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb/thesis.htm
"The Internet as an Educational Tool in ESOL Writing Instruction."
Karla Frizler's thesis titled, It's available for your reading and/or
downloading pleasure from my Web page.
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/instruct.htm
Introduction to CAI English Classes (1996) [CAI INSTRUCT]
An article by Kenji Kitao: Introduction to CAI English Classes, which
offers information on rational, trends, content, pros and cons, materials,
and ideas for starting a CAI program.
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/int-test.htm
Language Testing on WWW
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http://www.aichi-gakuin.ac.jp/~scott/kansai.html">
"Making the Most of Prescribed Texts" (Scott H. Rule)
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Lessons/Kitao-Newspaper.html
Teaching the English Newspaper Effectively (1995)
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/cai-cont.htm
Organizing a CAI Contest (1995) [CAI CONTEST]
An article on organizing a computer assisted instruction contest,
including grammar, vocabulary, and typing, submitted by Kenji Kitao.
______________________________________________________________________________
http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/kirchner.html
"Problems in EFL in the Western Czech Republic" by James Kirchner
An interesting paper by James Kirchner on the problems he encountered
teaching English in the Western Czech Republic.
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/inte-pub.htm
Publishing Your Paper Using the Internet (1996) [INTERNET PUBLISH]
______________________________________________________________________________
http://ourworld.compuserve.com:80/homepages/ecs/ecsmag.htm
Running a student magazine as a mini business
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http://www.wordsimages.com/ewinters/styles.htm
Seven styles of learning
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http://www.netaxs.com/~rmk/London/england.html
" Student Teaching in London" by Rick Kephart
Rick Kephart's account of his six weeks as a student teacher in London,
noting differences in UK/US English, etc.
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/tejk.htm
Teaching English in Japan by S. Kathleen Kitao, et al.
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http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/teach.html
Teaching with the Web by Lauren Rosen
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/people/teacher/trobb/projects.html
"Web Projects for the ESL/EFL Class" by Thomas Robb
______________________________________________________________________________
TESL-L Archives
14 Articles on Testing by S. Kathleen Kitao and Kenji Kitao
______________________________________________________________________________
http://ietn.snunit.k12.il/newslet5.htm#whytest
Why Do We Test? (1996) [TESTING WHY]
An article that discusses why we test students. by S. Kathleen Kitao
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Testing Speaking (1996) [TESTING SPEAKING]
An article that discusses ways to test speaking skills.
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Kitao-Testing.html
Testing Communicative Competence (1996) [TESTING COMMCOMP]
An article on how to test communicative competence.
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Kitao-TestingGrammar.html
Testing Grammar (1996) [TESTING GRAMMAR]
How to test discrete grammatical items
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Testing Vocabulary (1996) [TESTING VOCAB]
How to test ESL/EFL students' vocabulary
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Kitao-TestingListening.html
Testing Listening (1996) [TESTING LISTENIN]
How to test listening skills
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Testing Reading (1996) [TESTING READING]
How to test reading skills
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/writing.htm
Testing Writing (1996) [TESTING WRITING]
How to test the writing of ESL/EFL students
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http://ietn.snunit.k12.il/newslet5.htm#evaluating
Evaluating the Test Results (1996) [TESTING EVAL]
How to evaluate test results
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/design.htm#validity
Validity and Reliability (1996) [TEST DESIGN]
An article on validity and reliability
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/design2.htm#good
Writing a Good Test (1996) [TEST DESIGN]
An article on writing a good test
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Some Common Problems with Test Items (1996) [TEST DESIGN]
An article on common problems with test items
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/design.htm#item
Item Analysis (1996) [TEST DESIGN]
An article on item analysis
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/design2.htm#standard
What You Need to Learn about Standardized Tests (1996) [TEST DESIGN]
An article on standardized tests
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Selected Publications on WWW by Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Lessons/Kitao-Newspaper.html
Teaching the English Newspaper Effectively
The Internet TESL Journal, Vol.
2, No. 3 (March, 1996) [Japan]
Kenji Kitao
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Kitao-WhyTeach.html
Why Do We Teach English?
The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4 (April,
1996) [Japan]
Kenji Kitao
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http://ietn.snunit.k12.il/newslt6b.htm#harnessing
Harnessing Competitiveness to Interest Students in Computer Assisted
Instruction: Holding CAI Contests
English Teachers' Electronic Newsletter, No. 6 (May, 1996) [Israel] by
Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.schoolnet.ca/sne/snenews/volume1/issue2/iweb.html#kitao
On-line Resources for ELT and Linguistics
The SNE News, Vol. 1 Issue 2 (May
25, 1996) [Canada]
by Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao
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http://www.agoralang.com:2410/agora/agoranews_current.html#article
Testing Writing
Agora Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 7 (July, 1996)
S. Kathleen Kitao and Kenji Kitao
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English Teaching/Learning Materials
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http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/material.htm
English Teaching/Learning Materials by S. Kathleen Kitao and Kenji Kitao
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The contents of these web pages were updated on November 25, 1996, and they are slightly different from the original web pages constructed at Lancaster University.
I made a mirror site at http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/teacher.htm. I will update only this site.
If you find any problems, let me know.
Copyright (1997) by Dr. Kenji KItao