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Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (TESL-EJ) is an online peer-reviewed, freely-distributed electronic academic journal based out of the University of California at Berkley. The journal covers a wide range of articles that address pedagogy, history of TESL, and a list of recently-released books discussing the subject as well as reviews. You can access TESL-EJ at .

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc., is a global education association with over 13,500 members who share the mission of ensuring “excellence in English language teaching to speakers of other languages.” The website offers free resources to teachers and learners as well as additional resources which are included with the price of membership. TESOL offers an annual conference, a news feed of current news related to the teaching of English as a second language and a book store. You can access TEOSL at .

The Internet TESL Journal is an online journal designed for teachers of English as a Second Language. The website offers teaching techniques, lessons, articles and archived issues of past journals, all of which are offered to English as a Second Language teachers at no cost. You can access The Internet TESL journal is available at .

Dave’s ESL Café is a website created by Dave Sperling who started off in ESL after college during a stint teaching English at a college in Tokyo. Dave’s ESL Café has over 1 million hits per month and offers a variety of resources for ESL instructors including job announcements, a bookstore, a help center for students, thousands of ideas for teachers in a well-organized and easily navigable menu on the welcome page. To reach Dave’s ESL Café, go to .

The ESL Gold website offers English study and learning materials for students and instructors. Organized by level of instruction, the website is easy to navigate and filled with excellent resources. Visit to view the website.

Karin’s ESL PartyLand is also an excellent resource for ESL teachers and has a special part of the website designed to help ESL instructors use conversation in their language classrooms. To visit this website go to .

The Writing Center at George Washington University offers a link to a Writer’s Workshop for ESL Students created by Ruth Luman which leads students through the writing process from getting ready to write, understanding the parts of an essay to revising and the final draft. To review this resource, please visit .

Books:

Planning Lessons and Courses: Designing Sequences of Work for the Language Classroom, (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) by Tessa Woodward is a book about how to plan lessons and courses teaching language to English language learners. The book is filled with ideas for activities and includes suggestions on how to sequence activities in order to make them meaningful to learners. You can review this book and look inside of it at Amazon by following this link .

Language Assessment – Principles and Classroom Practice by H. Douglas Brown is a book that helps to make what is often an overwhelming topic, the assessment of language learners, easier for instructors. Offering tips and techniques for assessing language learning, this book is a combination of theory and pedagogy intended to assist new and experienced language teachers alike. You can review this book on Amazon by following this link .

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