ESL Special Collection: Teacher/Tutor

Teacher/Tutor

Curriculum and Instruction
Journals and Research
Resources
Miscellaneous

Curriculum and Instruction

The Project Based Learning Place
This page highlights resources, projects and techniques for integrating project based learning in an ESL class. It includes a downloadable PowerPoint presentation on project-based learning.

Seattle Times Civil Rights Photo Gallery
This is a web site devoted to the civil rights movement and the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Instructors will find the photo gallery very useful for teaching ESL students about the civil rights movement.

The Study Place
The Study Place is a Web-based authoring tool that offers adult educators a way to create and deliver online learning activities to their adult learners The Study Place offers forms to create lessons and quizzes, an archive of teacher-created lessons, and a resources guide that includes state and national competencies. Instructors can register their classes to take online lessons and quizzes.

Foreign Language Periodicals
Locate newspapers (daily, monthly) and magazines in these foreign languages from countries around the world: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese. These materials can be used for translation practice as well as current events discussion.

Discovery Channel’s Quiz Center
The Quiz Center allows instructors to create, edit, and manage quizzes, without any necessary web publishing experience.

The Change Agent
The Change Agent is a newspaper with articles on news, issues, ideas, and teaching resources that help educators and learners to make civic participation and social justice related concerns part of their teaching and learning. This web-based supplement to the journal utilizes the interactivity of the Internet to provide additional teaching activities for the classrooms.

The Change Agent–Immigration Issue
The Change Agent is a newspaper with articles on news, issues, ideas, and teaching resources that help educators and learners to make civic participation and social justice related concerns part of their teaching and learning. This issue of The Change Agent focuses on immigration, with articles and classroom activities that explore the history of immigration, the pros and cons of becoming a citizen, language issues, immigrants in the labor force, and other issues. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, free and downloadable via the Web Tools button.

Web Power: Enhancing classroom lessons with the Internet
This website illustrates lessons on using the Internet both as a classroom resource from home and in the classroom as a classroom tool. The resources include a downloadable handout on using the Web in the classroom. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, free and downloadable via the Web Tools button.)

Journals and Research

Literacy Across Cultures
Literacy Across Cultures is an annual publication dedicated to issues regarding the learning and teaching of reading and writing in a foreign or second language. It is published in print, on-line, and e-mail versions in association with the Foreign Language Literacy Special Interest Group (FLL SIG) of The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) .

Annotated Bibliography of Research on Reading and Adults Learning English as a Second Language
A bibliography and webliography of research on reading and adults learning English as a second language by NCLE.

Resources

ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education (ERIC/ACVE) is located at the Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE), The Ohio State University. ERIC/ACVE provides comprehensive information services in these areas:

Adult and Continuing Education
Career education, childhood through adult
Vocational and technical education including employment and training

Miscellaneous

ESL Starter Kit
The ESL Starter Kit helps new teachers and tutors with most aspects of the ESL teaching experience. The six sections of the Kit include Assessment, Lesson Planning, Classroom Management, and Accessing Resources.

Tools for Teachers: Internet Evaluation Web Quest
This article by Kathleen P. King, EdD, Fordham University Graduate School of Education discusses internet evaluation and provides a detailed outline of a lesson plan for teachers or tutors to teach adult learners to analyze and evaluate the "inundation" of information on the Internet. Some of the elements of the lesson plan include: Objectives, Action Plan, Webquest Worksheet Questions and Sites (includes hot links to sites that students can visit to evaluate on their own), Webquest Class Discussion Questions, Website Assessment Questions.

E-Square
This link, at the Adult Literacy Resource Institute in Boston, brings you to an "electronic town square," where you'll find storefront entrances to a civic center, a health center, an early childhood center, a job center, and a library, among others. Each center gives you access to lessons, teacher reflections, and information related to the topic.

The Internet ESL Journal
This is a monthly web-based journal of articles, research papers, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching techniques and ideas, and links for the ESL/EFL classroom teacher. It contains search capability both for this website (for contents of previous monthly publications since 1995 as well as for lesson plans and classroom handouts) and for general ESL/EFL web links.

Activities for Integrating Civics in Adult English Language Learning
The suggestions for activities listed below come from years of practice in adult ESL where teachers were successfully able to integrate language and civics content. To assist practitioners to develop activities that will serve their classroom needs, NCLE is putting together a collection of activities for integrating English and civics.

NCLE Resource Collections: Assessment and Evaluation in Adult ESL
This resource collection provides materials about testing issues, standardized tests currently in use by adult education programs, and standards initiatives. Although most of the resources focus on assessment and evaluation in the United States, relevant documents from Canada, Australia, and Europe are also included. While this is not a definitive list of assessment and evaluation materials, it is representative of what is readily available online and in print.

Frontier College: A Toolbox for ESL Tutors
This book is designed for tutors or teachers of English as a Second Language. It provides lesson plans based on thematic units. The Toolbox activities provide tutors/teacher with ideas for lessons that can be adapted and or expanded depending on the student’s interest, goals and prior knowledge. The activities refer to a on one-to-one learning context but can be easily adapted to a group situation. Frontier College is a Canadian educational Institution whose goal is providing non-traditional educational alternatives to the urban and rural communities."

NCSALL Research Reports
The goal of NCSALL's research is to improve practice in programs that provide ABE, ESL, and ASE services. NCSALL has undertaken the ten research projects listed on this page. Each project has several studies that build on the same theme.

Plot thickens: Beginning level English language learners as strategists
This essay details one teacher’s efforts to identify and incorporate low level ESL students’ learning strategies into her teaching. The teacher identifies some areas for further research in how language learning strategies are developed, supported, and used by adult ESL learners. The essay is a good introduction to the area of learning strategies.

Wimba
This site is a voice mail board and very easy voice email interface. It can be helpful for students who are practicing their listening and speaking skills. Language learning with this site requires a microphone and speakers for your computer. The language teaching can be asynchronous, meaning that the teacher and learning do not need to be on the computer at the same time.

Research Agenda for Adult ESL
This paper, prepared by the National Center for ESL and Literacy Education in collaboration with the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy with support from TESOL, outlines a research agenda for the field of adult ESOL. The paper has three major purposes: to provide funders with clear priorities for funding; to provide researchers with support for proposing specific projects, and to provide a focus for discussion about how to improve adult ESOL programs.

OTAN For Teachers Area
This site is open to teachers who register for free with Outreach & Technical Assistance Network. It contains lesson plans, monthly Internet in the Classroom updates, and teacher-related news for adult education teachers.

Learning Resources: CNN/SF
The CNN San Francisco bureau and the Western/Pacific Literacy Network (Western/Pacific LINCS) have partnered to develop an online adult literacy site for learners and instructors. The Learning Resources site offers web-delivered instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories. Each story module includes the full text of each story and interactive activities to test comprehension. The learner can choose to read the text, listen to the text, or view the broadcast through streaming video.

Education World's ESL Center
This site includes a searchable Tool Box of resources as well as links to lesson plans and learning sites. Many of the lesson plans were designed for use with children, and need slight adaptation for use with adult learners.

Englishpage.com
This site contains free online English lessons and ESL resources. The site includes an online newsletter, grammar review, bookstore and 15 English-foreign language dictionaries (including Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic).

Valuing Our Differences: Celebrating Holidays: If you concentrate on holidays in the United States that may relate to your students, The University of Kansas has a Web site, Valuing our Differences: Celebrating Diversity, which concentrates on Ethnic, National, Religious, and Other Holidays in the United States.

A Picture is Worth A 1,000 Words