Thursday, 30 July 2009

Useful online journals

Asian EFL Journal
The ELT Professional's Written Forum' A free refereed and indexed journal of research and practical articles, dissertations, reviews and forums with special relevance to Asia. Volumes 2002-2006 are available in full.

Humanising Language Teaching
A free e-zine edited by Mario Rinvolcri of Pilgrims and a sister to the Teacher Trainer. There are articles, course and lesson outlines, and inks to sources of other free materials. You can download every issue (or the parts you want) from 1999 to the present.

Internet TESL Journal
A leading free monthly web journal offering articles, research findings, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and many instant links. The archives go back to 1995. You can ask to be e-mailed whenever a new issue goes online.

Reading Online
Published by the International Reading Association (to which we belong), with thousands of visitors each month. Features practice and research related to both primary and secondary teaching. Besides peer-reviewed and printer-ready articles there are sections on the Electronic Classroom, New Literacies . International Perspectives, Book Reviews and Online Communities.

Reading in a Foreign Language
The online journal Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) is a scholarly international refereed journal originally founded as a print journal in 1983 at the University of Aston, Birmingham, England. The journal moved to the University of Hawai‘i in 2002 under the co-editorship of Richard R. Day and Thom Hudson, and Reviews Editor Anne Burns, Macquarie University, Australia.

Useful links for you

BBC World Service: Learning English
Programme information and many features, e.g. Words in the News, English by Radio, Grammar and Vocabulary, Quizzes.

ESLFlow
Lessons, activities and resources for Elementary, Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate levels.

Linguistic Funland
Now in its 7th year. Links to resources for the teaching of English, exercises and activities for students of English, online journals and linguistic databases and corpora as well as for linguistic study, computer-mediated communication and the study of other languages.

Breaking News English
Over 800 Free English language lessons based on current downloadable world news stories. Several new lessons each week at two levels. with reproducible classroom handouts which can be adapted for your class.

MacMillan One Stop English Magazine
One of the best of publishers' sites, this monthly online magazine offers hundreds of free resources: professional support, lesson plans, lesson sharing at all levels plus a new Forum section. Recent and current features include practical teaching ideas on grammar and speaking, teaching with minimal materials (e.g. using timetables, role play), drama activities, using songs with young learners, reading lessons on topics of global interest, business and ESP, exams and assessment plus a warmers and icebreakers section and links to other ELT sites.

Oxford University Press Teachers' Club
This is the Oxford site tailor-made for teachers, dedicated to providing information, resources, support materials, and ideas for teachers and students. There are sections for Young Learners, Teenage Learners and Adult Learners, each with activities and exercises for practising English plus a free online Teachers Club with tips, articles, downloadable teaching materials and links.

Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
OWL stands for Online Writing Lab. This URL takes you to ESL Resources for Teachers which gives access to a number of useful pages: handouts on grammar points, online journals, help with research and documentation, writing across the curriculum and links to ESL resources. Also check out the Internet Resources section.