EnglishPage.com
Free online English lessons & ESL/EFL Resources. Site offers several tutorials featuring interactive activities for students.
The
English Literacy Civics Education Resource Center is made possible through an English Literacy Civics Education Grant funded by the
US Department of Education
and the
Texas Education Agency. The Center is administered by Brenham Community Education (a partnership between
Brenham Independent School District
and
Blinn College), in conjunction with the
Texas Center for Adult Learning and Literacy at
Texas A&M University. You will find loads of resources including - English Language Civics Education-related resources, links to other EL Civics websites, and source materials for students, teachers, and program administrators.
ESL
Plans and Resources
ESL Practitioners can find lesson plans
and engaging activities.
Google Translate
Type in your text, and google will translate it into one of 57 languages. This YouTube video explains how it works.
The
Internet Picture Dictionary is a completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages.
www.pumarosa.com
This is a hands-on site for Spanish speaking students.
Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center
This site has many resources available for ESOL teachers including the multilevel curriculum Building Basics ESOL Toolkit for General Construction, Landscaping, Painting and Plumbing, information on lesson planning and a Health Literacy Toolkit.
The Great Debate: Conscious vs. Unconscious Language Learning
From the ESL MiniConference Archives
In the late spring of 2002, the ESL MiniConference hosted an impromtu exchange of several articles between Robert O'Neill and Stephen Krashen regarding the role of conscious learning in second language acquisition. Bill VanPatten also joined the debate, and a number of ESL MiniConference readers joined the fray, too. In addition, later in the year, the Sendai chapter of the Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT) made the O'Neill-Krashen exchanges the center of their monthly meeting.
How Should Adult ESL Reading Instruction Differ from ABE Reading Instruction?
Miriam Burt, Joy Kreeft Peyton, and Carol Van Duzer
This brief offers insight on how non native English speakers differ in learning styles from native English speakers and offers suggestions on effective instruction.
English Literacy and Civics Education
Hands
On English
Hands-on English provides tips and hints
for teaching English in easier and fun ways.
What
You Need To Know About…
This site illustrates the basic principles
behind planning the curriculum of a new ESL/EFL class.
Thirteen/Ed
Online
WNET Educational Initiative
This site helps students to learn how to utilize real-life materials
that they have to use in their every day lives.
Earth
Renewal
This is useful list of terms and definitions
used by ESOL/ESL teachers, teacher trainers and researchers.
Adult
Literacy Resource Institute (ALRI)
This site provides answers to problems
with integrating technology into the ESL classroom and curriculum.
Ghotit
This is a super-spell-checker that is ideal for very beginning English Language Learners and ELL’s with learning disabilities (as well as native speakers with challenges). It has the ability to help “sleuth-out” words that people are trying to spell - in a much more in depth way than most regular spell-checkers.
The Spoken Sounds of Language
This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, German and Spanish.
Special Podcast for Spanish Speakers of English
This podcast outlines issues that native Spanish speakers often have with pronunciation of English.
Latin American Spanish Pronunciation
AskOxford.com's pronunciation guides.
CAELA Network ESL Resource Database
Start your search by entering the keyword(s) into the Search field and clicking on the Search button. You can view additional detail about a particular entry by clicking on the entry title.
Civics and Citizenship Toolkit
Contains a range of useful materials and is the perfect resource to help your organization begin or enhance a collection for immigrants. Comprises immigration and civics publications, handbooks, guidance on product usage, and multimedia tools.
Education for Adult English Language Learners in the United States: Trends, Research, and Promising Practices
This paper, written by staff of the Center for Applied Linguistics, describes the adult education system in the United States — learner populations, programs serving them, assessment, professional development for practitioners, and research.
CENSUS Refugee Transitions
This is a two-part lesson. Part 1 teaches about the Census and the importance of participating. Part 2 guides the student through filling in the Census form. It is best to teach them on two different days. Part 1 should be taught prior to receipt of the Census Form. Part 2 actually walks the student through completing the Census form.
Adult ESL Training Videos
The Adult ESL Training Video Project shows classes and teachers in action, demonstrating a variety of teaching approaches. The videos can be used for training by individuals, organizations that offer adult ESL programs, and educational institutions. Filming of the first two videos took place in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Alexandria, Virginia, during October 2009. Six more videos will follow later in 2010. The project team includes ESL consultants Betsy Parrish and MaryAnn Florez, with video production by Federico Muchnik.
Significance of the 2010 Census
Say It Visually has created a new video that explains the significance and possible implications of the 2010 US Census.
Serving Non-English Speakers in U.S. Public Libraries
This report is the first national study of library services developed for non-English speakers.
Adult ESL Teacher Credentialing and Certification from CAELA
This brief helps explain the qualifications needed to become an adult ESL educator in the United States and talks about current efforts being made in the area of certification and credentialing.
Pathways and Outcomes: Tracking ESL Student Performance (ESL5)
This brief explains why in adult education especially for those teaching English, the need for professional development is justified. It also analyzes the writings and research available on various types of professional development and how those writings and research impact professional development design.
Professional Development for Adult ESL Practitioners: Building Capacity
This brief explains why in adult education especially for those teaching English, the need for professional development is justified. It also analyzes the writings and research available on various types of professional development and how those writings and research impact professional development design.
The CAELA Guide for Adult ESL Trainers
This is a guide created by the Center For Adult English Language Acquisition to assist in teacher trainings, specifically for those teaching in adult English language classes.
Electronic
Magazine of Multicultural Education
SPRING 2001 Vol. 3, No. 1, Eastern
University
This is the online magazine Multicultural Education.
Conversation
Topic: Work
By Jack Bradshaw
This lesson plan for ESL students includes conversation questions
about work and employment.
Adult
Education ESL Teachers’ Guide
C. Ray Graham and Mark M. Walsh
Adult Education Center, Texas A & I
University
Designed as an introduction to new ESL/ESOL teachers, this site
includes an orientation, beginning and intermediate lessons and
accompanying teacher training modules, and a section on teaching
non-literate adults.
Dave’s
ESL Café
This is a searchable list of American slang
words and phrases with short definitions.
Many
Things
This is a fun study site for students of
English as a Second Language.
Instructions for Administering Native Language Literacy Screening Device
This instrument is used to determine literacy levels in native languages of students being considered for “Literacy for Adult ESOL Learners” course. | 
