ELTWeekly Issue#2 – Useful ELT resources
By Tarun Patel
1. ESL.About.com
About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors.
The ESL.About.com is headed by Kenneth Beare who is an ESL Guide at About.com.
ESL.About.com offers free English courses, vocabulary lessons, ready made lesson plans, grammar tips, and various quizzes.
Key topics on the site include:
- Beginning English
- Intermediate English
- Advanced English
- Pronunciation – Speaking
- Lesson Plans
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
- Listening Skills
- Writing Skills
- Teaching English
- Reading Skills
- TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge
- Business English
- Tests and Quizzes
- English Learning Tools
This site provides opportunities to educators to make money online by becoming an ESL.About.com guide.I am sure you will find ESL.About.com worth bookmarking
Access ESL.About.com at http://esl.about.com.
2. Oxford’s ELT Journal
Oxford’s ELT Journal is a quarterly publication for all those involved in the field of teaching English as a second or foreign language. The journal links the everyday concerns of practitioners with insights gained from related academic disciplines such as applied linguistics, education, psychology, and sociology.
ELT Journal provides a medium for informed discussion of the principles and practice which determine the ways in which the English language is taught and learnt around the world. It is also a forum for the exchange of information among members of the profession worldwide.
The Editor of ELT Journal is supported by an Editorial Advisory Panel whose members referee submissions. Their decisions are based upon the relevance, clarity, and value of the articles submitted.
Access Oxford’s ELT Journal at http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/
3. Macmillan’s ELT Website
Macmillan has hosted a unique website exclusively to cater to the teaching/learning needs of English teachers in India.
www.elt.emacmillan.com is rightly called the English teacher’s trusted companion. Every Friday two worksheets and one assignment for each level, from 1 to 12, are put up.
Six teachers from a member school can access the site and download the worksheets and assignments or browse.
You can send your articles and other work done by pupils to be featured on Macmillan’s ELT Website.
Access Macmillan’s ELT Website at http://www.macmillanindia.com/elt-school.asp
free printable worksheets
December 19th, 2008About... Tarun Patel
This author published 569 posts in this site.Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.
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