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Suggested Links for TEFL Professionals

Office of English Language Programs
Online English Language Center

Links to online publications, learning and
teaching resources, and popular sites for
content-based learning.



Up-to-Date Listings of TEFL Resources

Maintaining a list of Internet resources in TEFL is made easier by the open and generous nature of the profession, where dozens of listings exist for the benefit of others.

Dave's ESL Cafe on the Web
One of the best-known ESL Internet resources, Dave's ESL Cafe offers materials for students as well as teachers, and has an engaging atmosphere. If you have a question in the ESL/EFL field, you can submit it to this site and have it answered by a professional in the field. Provides information on teaching positions. Updated regularly and fully searchable. Allows users to submit new links.

ESL Independent Study Lab
Contains over 225 Internet resources for ESL/EFL students. All Web sites are clearly annotated. Organization is by skill area and language level.

Federal Resources for Education Excellence
A collection of resources for teachers and students from various US Government agencies on classroom subjects like foreign languages, the arts, mathematics, and social studies, to name a few.

Linguistic Funland
More serious than the name implies, this site is a useful collection of web sites related to applied linguistics and TEFL/TESL.

TESL Links: From the Internet TESL Journal
This is a well-known 'meta-site,' a collection of other websites indexed and categorized for instructors to find Internet resources quickly. Updated regularly and fully searchable. Allows users to submit new links.

Voice of America Special English
This site has a wide variety of resources for ESL/EFL teachers and learners. Webcasts can be downloaded from the site; there are online listening exercises from VOA broadcasts and radio English teaching programs. Young learners can find topics of interest by clicking on the turtle.

Volterre-Fr – Learn and Teach English
This site has a wide variety of links to resources for learners and teachers of English.


Resources for Specific Countries

Canada - TESL Canada

France - TESOL France and Volterre-Fr

Israel - Israeli English Teachers Network

Italy - TESOL Italy

Japan - Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT)

Korea - KoTESOL

Mexico - Mexico TESOL

New Zealand - TESOL Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (TESOLANZ)

Poland - FLaTTiC

Spain - TESOL-Spain

Thailand - ThaiTESOL

Turkey - INGED, the English Language Teachers' Association

United Arab Emirates (and Arabian Gulf, the Middle East, North Africa) - TESOL Arabia


ESL/EFL Publishers Catalogs

    Addison Wesley/Longman
    Alta Book Center Publishers
    Delta Systems
    Heinle & Heinle
    Intercultural Press
    McGraw-Hill
    Prentice Hall Regents
    Pro Lingua Associates
    The University of Michigan Press

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