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Webliography for TESL 410: Curriculum
and Materials Development
By: Brandy Hudson, Rebecca Irvin, and Christy Littleton
June 22, 2001
Frankie's ESL Worksheets
http://www.geocities.com/frankie_meehan
This site offers worksheets for
grades 6-10 on different areas of English. There are worksheets that offer
help in writing essays, writing short stories, and worksheets that will help a
student understand various literary works. These worksheets can be used
along with a lesson. They are very practical and useful for a teacher
looking for extra practice for his or her students.
Multiculturalpedia
http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~tokyo3/e/
This is a site where students and teachers can learn fun facts about other
cultures. It gives interesting and fun information about various countries
and their customs.
Caroline's ESL Web Site
http://members.aol.com/Ccochran50/novaesl.htm
This site offers games, quizzes, and reading tests for ESL students.
The activities can be used for beginning to intermediate level students.
Teachers who want to give their students extra practice should look into this
site.
Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes
This site is a collection of over 1,000 quizzes and activities. They
are for beginning to intermediate level students. The quizzes cover many
different areas of grammar.
Assessment in ESL and Bilingual Education
http://www.nwrac.org/pub/hot/assessment.html
This site answers questions about how to assess an ESL student. It covers
areas such as what types of questions to ask, when to assess the student, and
what courses of action to take while assessing a student.
Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for
ESL
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/practical.assessment.4.html
This site gives many alternatives for assessing ESL students. Some of
the strategies are non-verbal, K-W-L charts, oral presentations, written
products, and portfolios. A teacher looking for new ways to assess their
ESL students will find this site very useful.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
http://www.esl-lab.com/
This site offers listening quizzes for all levels of language acquisition.
The student can listen to a conversation and then take a quiz on the
conversation. The listening stories are on several different topcs that
are geared toward the level of student listening. The listening samples
include several different media such as answering machine, telephone call, radio
broadcast, etc.
The ESL Study Hall
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gwvcusas
This site links you to other sites that help with the following areas:
reading, writing, vocabulary, conversation, grammar, listening, and
discussion. With this site, you can go to numerous other sites that will
give you practice in all of these areas. George Washington University
hosts this site.
Karin's ESL PartyLand
http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/Tinitial.htm
This is a very helpful site for teachers of ESL students with at least eight
linking pages of useful information. Each linking page is complete with
resources, materials, lesson plans, and links to other sites. Some of the
pages include information on teaching grammar to ESL students, teaching with the
Internet, teaching with music, teaching conversation, teaching writing skills,
and many more. There is also an interactive discussion forum and also a
lesson plan exchange page. Also, there is a page for ESL students to link
to in which they can expand their use of the English language.
eViews - Listening activities and lesson plans
for English students
http://www.eviews.net/
This website would be an excellent source for teachers who wish to have a way
for their ESL students to be able to listen to authentic native English-speakers
speaking and pronouncing English words and phrases correctly. It also has
links to ESL lesson plans. There are over 50 exercises in the site's
library with new exercises and activities added every month. Students can
listen to what native English speakers are saying and read their words at the
same time. Real Audio and MP3 is required to listen.
Instructor - Unbeatable Ways to Reach Your LEP
Students
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/specialneeds/lepstudents.htm
This is another great web site that is absolutely perfect for the regular
classroom teacher who wants to find ways to reach his or her ESL students.
It includes special advice sections of experienced teachers who have had ESL
students in the regular classroom. On teacher who wrote about her
experiences on the web site has had 43 different ESL students who spoke 21
different languages! There are specific strategies for ways in dealing
with students from each different cultural background. Also, it lists
universal ways of communication that will show an ESL student that he or she is
special.
EverythingESL.net
http://www.everythingesl.net/
This is an extensive web site which features over 100 downloadable classroom
activities, over 250 discussion topics, along with a good collection of lesson
plans and teaching tips. The teaching tips link would be extremely helpful
for the regular classroom teacher with an ESL student because it offers great
links to articles on topics such as how to develop question and learning
strategies, how to make your classroom more multicultural, and how to teach to
specific learning styles of students from other cultures. However, the
site could use more grade-oriented information.
Many Languages, Many Cultures
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/teachstrat/manylanguages.htm
This web page would be excellent for a teacher who is looking for ways to better
communication with his or her ESL students and the students' families. It
lists four specific strategies of working with students from other cultures and
their parents. Because parental involvement is so important in any child's
education, this page would be a priceless resource; however, the page could have
used more real-life scenarios and actual experiences from teachers who have had
ESL students.
Interesting Things for ESL Students
http://www.manythings.org/
Many teachers that we researched mentioned that they would like to see a website
from which the student is able to access and work independently. This site
offers quizzes, word games, word puzzles, slang expressions, anagrams, a
random-sentence generator, and other study materials. All of these
activities are completely interactive and would be endlessly useful for the
English learner; however, for a student to use the interactive quizzes, the
teacher would first have to download the Flash Player plug-in. The Flash
Player is free and does not take very long to download.
Commonly-used American Slang
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/slang/
Several of the teachers that we interviewed mentioned that idioms and slang were
a problem which many of their ESL students struggled to overcome. This web
site directed toward ESL students offers over 280 commonly used American slang
expressions and their literal meanings. The expressions are sorted in
alphabetical order of the confusing word in the expression; however, it seems
that the site strongly needs a way to type in a specific phrase and search for
the meaning.
Caught in the Web - Your Link to Technology in
the ESL Classroom
http://www.sfsu.edu/~english/esl/present.htm
Technology in the classroom was one of the most important topics that we came
across in our research. This site was put together by Liz Schuler and Lisa
Evans for a TESOL Conference presentation. By far, this is the most
extensive technology-related ESL site that we have found in our research.
It includes links for both students and teachers. Under the students'
links, there are links to different online tutorials for the students to work
with. It also has a wonderful link called SchMOOze University in which ESL
students can talk to other ESL students around the country in "real"
time. Overall, this is a must-see for any teacher with ESL students!
The Internet TESL Journal
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/
This is a major site for teachers of ESL and would also prove useful to regular
teachers with ESL students in the classroom. This site contains articles,
research papers, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and
links. It is being constantly updated and has a good on-site search engine
in which a teacher can search for ideas on how to teach specific concepts to ESL
students. It has links to sites for teachers of ESL and for
students. There are also links to interactive quizzes and games for the
ESL student.
Dave's ESL Cafe
http://www.daveseslcafe.com
This site is one of the most comprehensive sites available on the web for
students and teachers. The site is constantly updated and the discussion
forums are always active. There are also several helpful sections on FAQs,
idioms, phrasal verbs, and links to numerous other ESL sites that a teacher or
student would find useful. There are several easy-to-use interactive
quizzes on this site in which a student could independently practice his or her
English skills. There is also a nice list of common American slang and the
literal translation which would help an ESL student's English comprehension.
ESL Lessons
http://www.esllessons.com
This is an excellent site for a teacher who wishes to search for a specific
lesson plan. The topics can be browsed by categories such as grammar,
speaking, listening, testing, writing, etc. Or, if preferred, the teacher
can search for a specific lesson to use in the classroom. The site has
several good links. Overall, this is a great site, providing lesson author's
name/e-mail in case you would want to contact the author for more information
about the lesson plan. A strength of this site is that there is a link
that takes you directly to the newest lessons that have been posted to the site.
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