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Automatic Language Growth (ALG) applys the way children naturally learn their native language to adults who desire to learn a second language.

Learning resources for English language and literature

From a knowledge and respect of the past moving towards the Asian TEFL future.

If the Silent Way is a method for teaching foreign languages,it is a most unusual one, for its inventor, Dr. Caleb Gattegno of Alexandria, Egypt, repeatedly insisted that "the Silent Way is not a method at all."

CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition) supports the professional development of second language teachers through an annual summer institute program and a wide array of international conferences and regional seminars.

Articles and materials for English language teaching (ELT/TESOL), applied linguistics and language teacher education/development.

Cultural Diversity: Managing Same-Sex Orientation In The Classroom by Henny Burke

This site is mainly about learning and teaching at college, university and professional levels. It concentrates on underlying principles, values and analytical tools and the synthesis of odd ideas.

Education Week News and information about issues in education for educators.

The EL Gazette is the international trade newspaper of the English Language Industry. News and great resources for ELTeachers.

A lampoon on English language teaching.

Welcome to the Theory Into Practice (TIP) database! TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.

A resource for FL teachers, including an extensive list of links

This is a limited sampling of the resources available on gays, lesbians and bisexuals.

Whenever I am introduced to someone who then learns that I am an English teacher, the person frequently comments that English was his worst subject when he was in school. If my new acquaint­ance then learns that I spend most of my time teaching grammar, he usually remarks that he had better watch the way he talks, as if I were a “grammar cop” waiting to issue a summons to illiteracy court at the mention of a split infinitive or the drop of a dang­ling modifier.

An exchange of news and views on English Only legislation, bilingual education, endangered languages and related issues of U.S. language policy.

A refereed journal for second and foreign language educators

The Australian National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research. NCELTR is the centre for English Language at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

"Nexus" is an annual, peer-reviewed, online journal for teacher educators, developers, and trainers working in the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages.

For twenty-five years, a Bulgarian doctor and psychiatrist, Georgi Lozanov, has been studying the link between perception and learning. The result is a new approach to teaching based on new insights into how the human mind really functions. The fruit of Lozanov's findings is a teaching system called Suggestopedia. After twenty years of using this approach and experimenting with its tenets, I am convinced of its effectiveness, and would like to share my enthusiasm.

A wide selection of articles and resources.

This website has articles designed primarily for ESL teachers. Specialty areas include applied phonology and cross-cultural communication for ESL instructors and their students.

"The Dichotomy of NSs of English versus NNSs of English in EFL settings: Who Do We Mean By Native Speakers (NSs) of English?"

If you want to get started incorporating the lexical approach into your teaching but don't have time to read a whole book on the topic, here are some suggestions.

Originally published by Collins, this text is available online and looks at the lexical syllabus in detail.