Some Useful ESL/EFL Bookmarks
Compiled by Deborah Healey
Professional interest
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TESOL online
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http://www.tesol.org/
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Internet TESL Journal
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http://iteslj.org/s/
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CALL Interest Section
Software List
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http://www.eltexpert.com/softlist
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Project Gutenberg - free texts
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http://www.gutenberg.org
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Hot Potatoes authoring for the Web
- http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
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Make your
own online quizzes (Javascript)
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http://a4esl.org/q/h/project.html
Teacher-oriented sites
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DEN - The Digital Education
Network
- http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/
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A Place to Start in
Selecting Software - an article to help teachers and lab planners get
started with software
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https://deborahhealey.com/cj_software_selection.html
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Wandering the
Web
by Christine Meloni, from TESOL Matters
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http://www.tesol.org/pubs/magz/wanweb/index.html
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Keypals
for students from Kenji Kitao
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http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/keypal.htm
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Tech Tips
- helpful hints for teachers who use technology
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https://deborahhealey.com/techtips/
- Web developer
information at WebMonkey - useful, but lots of ads.
- http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
- Extensive list
of creativity techniques by Mycoted.
- http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/index.php
- Online Surveys
- Getfast
- http://www.getfast.ca - free survey maker
- Surveys
online
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http://www.opinionpower.com/startSurvey.html- a variety of free
surveys
- Response-o-Matic
- www.response-o-matic.com - add
a survey to your existing webpage
- Survey Central
- http://surveycentral.org - see a collection of survey results,
many of them quite odd, as well as create your own survey
- Puzzlemaker
- http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/- like quia, lets you have
an
online classroom and make different puzzles. Not as elaborate,
though.
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Pizzaz
from Leslie Opp-Beckman - links to lots of ideas and activities for the
writing classroom
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
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E.L. Easton's material for teaching
English - lots of good links for language teachers
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http://eleaston.com/
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Online
Writing
Lab - information for students and ready-made handouts for writing
teachers
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/index.html
Student Interest
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DAVE'S ESL CAFE ON THE WEB
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http://www.eslcafe.com
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Learning Oral English
Online
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http://www.rong-chang.com/book/
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Pronunciation
practice - some student-oriented links.
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http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/138/pronlinks.html
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ESL/Topic pages, etc.
from Leslie Opp-Beckman
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/
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Internet TESL Journal links
for students, with quizzes and crossword puzzles.
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http://a4esl.org
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ESL Gold links for students
organized by skill area and level; also has links for teachers.
- http://www.eslgold.com
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Holidays
pages
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http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/holidays/
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Michael
Krauss's ESL Independent Study Lab - annotated links designed for student
use
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http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
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ELC Study Zone
- annotated links for students at the University of Victoria
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http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm
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Writing Den - part
of the Digital Education Network
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http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/index.htm
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Online mysteries to read and
solve
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http://www.mysterynet.com/
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Knock-knock jokes and
riddles
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http://www.bayne.com/kaitlyn/
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Research-It,
a site with links to a dictionary, thesaurus, translating dictionary, maps,
and many other resources.
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http://www.itools.com/
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Cobuild Word Watch page
(list of previous words)
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http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/
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Cobuild
Concordancer demo
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http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/direct_demo.html
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Magazine Rack
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http://www.magazine-rack.com/
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The White House
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/
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The Smithsonian Institution
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http://www.si.edu
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CNN Online
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http://www.cnn.com
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See the related exercises put together by Brigham Young University - Hawaii's
Language Center at CNN
Newsroom and Worldview for ESL, http://lc.byuh.edu/cnn_n/cnnhome.html
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Time magazine online
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http://www.time.com/time/
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NPR - National Public Radio- with audio
files
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http://www.npr.org
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Lightly updated 13 April 2010 by Deborah Healey