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This page has useful links to ESL websites and other places of interest to language teachers. Please let us know of any corrections or sites worth adding.

Professional Associations - national Professional Associations - international
Employment in the TESOL field TESOL Providers in Australia
ESL Teacher Resources Journals
State Public Education for ESL Refugees


Professional Associations - national
National Education Forum, a coalition of national associations of practising educators and parents created in 1992 with a view to enhancing their individual and collective capacity to respond to national education policy, issues, initiatives and directions.
Australian Education International
Visit the AEI website ans access general information about AEI services and contacts, statistics, publications, coming events, important news and links, and AEI activities.


Professional Associations - international
National Association of Language Development in the Curriculum. UK national TESOL association affiliated to ACTA.
TESOL Inc, in the US has an established site with much to explore.
TESL Canada and the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks - for ESL under the maple leaf.



Employment in the TESOL field
TEFL Professional Network - Jobs, resources, international events and more. ESL employment is a completely free job site for both employer and job seeker. www.teachingenglish.ca is a website dedicated to finding ELS, EFL, TEFL, TESOL teaching positions all around the world.


TESOL Providers in Australia
AEN  Australian Education Network - Learn English in Australia.

ESL Teacher Resources
EdResearch Online at
http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/dbtw-wpd/sample/edresearch.htm

Aardvark's English Forum
Comprehensive web portal with a wealth of resources for students and teachers of English (ESL/EFL). Interactive Exercises, Message Boards, ELT Book Catalog, Good School Guide, Web Directory, World News, Links, Cool Tools and more ...

Language Learning Net offers comprehensive listings for thousands of course ESL providers, associations, credentials, resources/materials etc worldwide.

ESLoop Explore the ESL world using this webring

Yahoos page of ESL sites .  A good starting point for surfing ESL sites

ESL Links & Resources  Perhaps the largest set of links to ESL/TESOL resources.

Virtual CALL Library   With software for Computer Assisted Language Learning 

CELIA . Latrobe University's archive of CALL software

TESOL International with lots to explore.

TEFL/TESL Website Index with 1000s of useful EFL links.

GlobalStudy   English programs around the world, including Australia
9-11peace.org Action for Justice, not War
The 9-11peace Bulletin is a free, weekly email briefing on issues of international relevance.
ESL Digests
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/subject.html#second

Dave's ESL Cafe
  A venerable and mature ESL site well worth visiting
James Christensen's Home Page  A Qld site with a strong focus on Australian ESL
Computer Mediated Communication and Resources , also at the Qld University of Technology. A living ESL site to visit and explore.
Teachers Cyber Centre  A comprehensive site for all teachers
Activities for ESL Students
- Self-study quizzes, interactive JavaScript quizzes, crossword puzzles
and more.

Easy Lesson Plans - a variety of free lessons for your ESL class. .
Interesting Things for ESL Students
- Word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, proverbs and much more.
E-mail and Web projects Ruth Vilmi's guide to net resources and e-mail projects
Linguistic Funland  Another golden oldie

The Slot
for a copy editor's view on all manners of sloppiness
The Linguist List where you can even ask questions on matters esoteric 
MacquarieNet for the latest and best on their great Australian Dictionary
Dictionaries of all kinds. Check out all manners of slang here.
Translation and Conversion Tools. Babylon translates in 12 languages, does currency conversions, searches and more. And all for free.
Ziff Davis Software Library All the software you can download. Also the Ziff Davis University for cheap online computer courses.


Journals
Write Away   Writing by Australian adult migrants learning English, and more
Internet TESL Journal  Highly recommended Educational Resources Information Centre
Journals on the Web - http://ericacve.org/journals.asp



State Public Education for ESL

Refugees
Refugee Council of Australia - http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au
UNIYA - http://www.uniya.org
Department of Immigration Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs - http://www.immi.gov.au/amep/
Australian Refugee Association - refugee@australianrefugee.org.au
Events

Origins and Connections: Linking Theory, Research and Practice
29 Sept - 2 Oct 2006, The Pettigrew-Green Arena and the Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier, New Zealand.

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ESL Indigenous project

The ESL/Indigenous Project is continuing in 2006. We welcome contributions of articles and research papers for the website.

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