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ESL Links

Teaching English as a foriegn (or second) language in Japan, Korea & Taiwan. Online Certificate Courses, TESOL - TEFL - TESL - TEAL - CELTA. Certification Online. Jobs & Resumes for English Teachers.

What children may learn from an American tragedy, September 11, 2001 http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/library/tolerance.htm

For a complete one-stop federally supported site all about ESL and bilingual education click, National Clearinghouse for English Acquisition http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/

"ESL Survival Packet" on survival Spanish, and language acquisitions communicating with LEP students, modifying instruction and assessment, and culture considerations in teaching LEP students. (Kentucky Migrant Technology Project ) http://www.migrant.org/esl/survival_packet/index.cfm

For technical assistance in ESL/BE in New England, click, New England Comprehensive Technical Assistance Center http://www.edc.org/NECAC

To access Maine's regional laboratory for cultural diversity and the broad-based services of its Education Alliance, click Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University http://www.lab.brown.edu/

For the premier organization for bilingual education click, National Association for Bilingual Education http://www.nabe.org/

Free Curriculum Guide for Teaching Tolerance Focusing on the Uniqueness of the Vietnamese (Grades 7 and up): www.teachingtolerance.org/vietnamese

To access a range of links from early childhood to fine arts to multicultural websites to technology and ESL, click The Diversity Bookmarks Collection. http://diversitybookmarks.homestead.com/index~ns4.html

For education guides for Hispanic children as well as a "kids' zone" primarily for bilingual children on this website www.YesICan.gov

To access research specific to ESL and bilingual education, click The Center for Applied Linguistics http://www.cal.org/

ESL Center for employment opportunities, chat, links, games, facts, and lots of resources http://www.1-language.com/

To join an international network of ESL educators with lots of resources for your classroom, click, Dave's ESL Cafe http://www.eslcafe.com/

For coursework in ESL across Maine, click on Project Mainstay http://www.ume.maine.edu/mestay/

For ESL lesson plan samples, teaching tips, resources, and ESL national news, click on everythingESL.net http://www.maine.gov/education/esl/everything.htm

A terrific resource that you may wish to consider is ESL Magazine. The May/June 2003 edition is especially comprehensive about some of the best resources about the web for ESL, such as ESL textbook companion websites, writing resources, Internet teaching, and others noted below. You can access parts of that periodical at http://www.eslmag.com/

To learn more about ESL on the web (for both teachers and ESOL students), click English as a Second Language (Rong-Chang Li) http://www.rong-chang.com/main.htm

For links to lots of ESL resources and curriculum, point to www.schackne.com/Languageteaching.htm.

For the premier organization of ESL professionals click, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages http://www.tesol.edu/index.htm

Want to start your own ESOL /multicultural library? The mulilingual/multicultural libary for the Portland Public Schools has a terrific collection of instructional resources for second language learners and for professionals interested in this profession. Thousands of titles are housed there, including all the ESL/culture/assessment resource materials once housed at the Maine Department of Education. Accessing that library, especially as a vehicle for creating your own, has never been easier. Look it over at the following URL: http://multilingual.portlandschools.org/library.htm

For Foundations that may provide grants to support immigrants and refugees. http://www.gcir.org/

For the nation's longest running support center for all aspects of Franco- Americans (French and English), click Franco-American Center of the University of Maine (In French and English) http://www.francoamerican.org/

Guidance and information for parents on a range of school issues is worth taking a look at: http://www.ed.gov/Family/agbts/Questions/

Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine http://www.hhrc.org/

International Volunteers Speaking Bureau (Free Multicultural School Presentations, Grades 4-12): www.unitedplanet.org

Click here to access LEP students grades 6-12 to on line courses in English and a basic module course in ESL/Spanish. (Kentucky Migrant Technology Project ) http://www.migrant.org/courses/departments.cfm?category=2

Lesson Plans on Domestic and International Events, Conflict Resolution, and Intercultural Understanding (Grades k-12): www.teachablemoment.org

Meaningful Access for People Who Are Limited English Proficient http://www.lep.gov/

Maine Acadian Culture (National Park Service) http://www.nps.gov/maac/

To acquire English as your second or new language at Maine's flagship university campus, click, The Intensive English Institute at the University of Maine http://www.umaine.edu/iei/default.htm

For Maine's service center that supports Maine's Wabanaki tribes and others interested in Indian education and issues, click The Wabanaki Center at the University of Maine http://www.ume.maine.edu/~NAP/wabanaki.html

ESCORT is a uniquely valuable site to visit. It is the Migrant Education National Support Center for Migrant Limited English Proficient Students. http://www.escort.org.

Multicultural Resources, Services, and Diversity Initiatives of the Maine Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services http://www.state.me.us/bds/mhservices/MulticulturalResource/Contents.html

National Immigration Forum - Model Programs and State/County Census Data http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/statemap.cfm#

An organization of advocates for language minority students nationwide has formed a National Limited English Proficient Advocacy Task Force. Find out about their work, including a model policy from Portland, ME Public Schools on accessing parents to school matters in their native language. Click on www.leptaskforce.org/LEP%20Home%20Page.htm

Successful School Environments for Spanish-Speaking Parents: www.colorincolorado.org

TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links

http://iteslj.org/links/

This site offers nearly 10,000 links separated by topic area and for audience (one for ELLs and one for the teachers of ESL), where you may browse link after link to your delight. Called TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links, this is a free site maintained by the Internet TESL Journal.

To access the nationally developed TESOL standards in use across most states with TESOL students, click ESL Standards http://www.tesol.org/assoc/k12standards/index.html

For the US Department of Education's office that has oversight over Title III of No Child Left Behind, click on the U.S. Office of English Language Acquisition at http://www.ed.gov/offices/OBEMLA.

To learn more about the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services, click The INS National/Customer Service Center http://www.maine.gov/education/esl/The INS National Customer Service Center.htm

Words borrowed from other languages might be fun to share with your students--might perk them up socially about their L1. Examples: Slim is from Afrikaan; satin is from Arabic as boondocks is from Tagalog. Click: http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html

A free locale on the web for posting ads or exploring ESL positions for ESL teachers worldwide is

http://marksesl.com

Instructional Resources

Two-Level Current Affairs Lesson Plans for English Language Learners:

All lessons have a current affairs focus. Each contains a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. Classroom handouts are reproducible in Word and PDF. http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

Learn English

Learn English is a free, on-line, educational resource helping ESL and EFL students to learn English words. The flash site incorporates 40 topics, along with over 1,500 English words and phrases. When you click on a word or phrase you can hear it spoken. The high quality audio was created in a sound studio.

The site is multilingual. The menus, transliterations and translations are in four languages: French, Hebrew Russian and Spanish.
There is an English Only menu, for those who prefer not to use language translations and transliterations.

Both students and teachers will find the site easy to use and very educational.

This site describes a web-based glossary for mathematics with several languages - Arabic, Bengal, Chinese, Spanish, Haitian, Hmong, Korean, Russian, Tagalog Urdu, Vietnamese. This is not an exhaustive list, but it appears to be a good start!! Use with caution, you want to make sure the definition used is the one you want. Contrary to public belief, thee are a variety of definitions around the world for some terms. These seem to be the "standard" US definitions so there should not be many issues. Here is the URL http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/mlg/mlg.php

itools is a useful intenet tool to help English language learners to look up words, check out computer terms, or to translate text (taken from freetranslation.com). all in one site: http://www.itools.com

"In The Classroom Toolkits on Research and Best Practice for English Language Learners" http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/practice/itc

"Creative Use of web logs (BLOGS) In the Second Language Classroom" http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html

"On Line Links to Newspapers Around the World: http://www.thepaperboy.com

Successful School Environments for Spanish-Speaking Parents: http://www.colorincolorado.org

Free Curriculum Guide for Teaching Tolerance Focusing on the Uniqueness of the Vietnamese (Grades 7 and up): http://www.teachingtolerance.org/vietnamese

Lesson Plans on Domestic and International Events, Conflict Resolution, and Intercultural Understanding (Grades k-12): http:// www.teachablemoment.org

International Volunteers Speaking Bureau (Free Multicultural School Presentations, Grades 4-12): http://www.unitedplanet.org

Want to start your own ESOL /multicultural library?

The mulilingual/multicultural libary for the Portland Public Schools has a terrific collection of instructional resources for second language learners and for professionals interested in this profession. Thousands of titles are housed there, including all the ESL/culture/assessment resource materials once housed at the Maine Department of Education. Accessing that library, especially as a vehicle for creating your own, has never been easier. Look it over at the following URL: http://multilingual.portlandschools.org/library.htm

Cultural Dictionary Network offers Somali-to-English and English-to-Somali translations. http://www.hickorytech.net/~cdn/somali.htm

Here are interactive websites that allows dialoguing between computer and students. The "half baked" site is the "hot potato" for activities that teachers may create around a given subject: http://www.itg.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/dissect.htmlhttp://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked

Here are lesson plan sites that provide an easy way to connect technology with content and language teaching materials: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Displaying student work to a real audience is a self-esteem builder. This URL makes having a class web site easy: http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/

Help build a student's cognitive skills in Spanish. http://www.elsabio.com/

Texts and help kits are available for low density populations of students for whom English is a new language, particularly for migrant students: http://www.escort.org/

Add to your existing resources at the Diversity Bookmarks Collection: http://diversitybookmarks.homestead.com

Take a virtual field trip and build experiences for your students. Walk a mile in someone else's shoes: http://www.gsn.org/expeditions

CyberMoose invites all kids under the age of 16 to submit their own web site, right here on this page! http://www.cybermoose.ca/Kids/kdhmpgs/kdhmpgs.htm

Check out this NEA recognized ESL site, with many lesson plans and activities, resource picks, and teaching tips.

http://www.everythingESL.net/

For the English Language Learners' Knowledge Base on OCR Compliance, effective practice, and sound policy.
http://www.helpforschools.com/ELLKBase/knowledgebase.shtml

To find out about the geographic distribution of 2000 living languages or a listing of all the languages by country across the world. http://www.ethnologue.com

ESL Availability of Instructors http://www.maine.gov/education/esl/eslavailability.htm

For "Help Kit" for Secondary Teachers of Migrant English Language Learners:
http://www.maine.gov/education/esl/Kitforsecondary%20Taechers.doc

Free Federal Resources http://www.maine.gov/education/esl/usderesourcesfrom40federalagencies.htm

Catalog of Resources on Language and Culture http://www.maine.gov/education/esl/esltoc.htm

1999 Addendum to Catalogue of Resources on Language and Culture (Adobe Acrobat format)

1998 Addendum to Catalogue of Resources on Language and Culture (Adobe Acrobat format)

Form to be Used in Requesting Free and Loan Materials from the Catalog http://www.maine.gov/education/esl/REQUEST.htm

The Ministry of Education from Mexico has released authentic materials on line for Spanish speakers, Grades 1-6 http://www.sep.gob.mx/wb2

Ideas for Teaching about Diversity http://www.tolerance.org/teach/

On-Line Dictionaries, Serving 6800 known languages in 191 countries http://yourdictionary.com/languages.html

Migrant courses http://www.migrant.org/esl/index.cfm

"ESL Survival Packet" On survival Spanish, and language acquisitions communicating with LEP students, modifying instruction and assessment, and culture considerations in teaching LEP students. (Kentucky Migrant Technology Project) http://www.migrant.org/esl/survival_packet/index.cfm

"Project Happy Child"which is a non-profit organization that links children across the world in 24 languages (free). Lots of educational resources, children's organizations, syndromes links, and sharing of children's literature.

http://www.happychild.org.uk/

Access to commercial products that may permit LEP students to access electronic text to support literacy development. No endorsement by this office is suggested -only an opportunity for you to examine it if you wish.
http://www.cast.org/products/ereader/index.html

ERIC is now available in Spanish and German with More Languages to Follow.

College Park, MD-The ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation and WorldLingo, Inc. announce the formation of a strategic alliance to make the world's largest education database accessible to the non-English speaking world. Effective immediately, teachers, researchers, and members of the public may search the ERIC database at Search ERIC.org in German and Spanish as well as English. Chinese and Japanese translations are expected to become available shortly. Users search by entering keywords in English or their own language and then receive descriptions of relevant journal articles and documents in both languages.To try the new search engine, visit http://www.eric.ed.gov/ select Search ERIC from the home page of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation at http://www.eric.ed.gov/. Select "German" or "Spanish" and insert keywords.The ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation, hosted by the University of Maryland's Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation, is one of 16 subject-area clearinghouses that make up the U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resources Information Center program. More than four million teachers and educators visit ERIC/AE's massive Web
site each year.

Maine Fire Safety Video for NewcomersThe City of Portland Fire Department has produced a fire safety film. It covers topics such as fire and life safety issues --what the fire service calls EDITH. (Exit Drills In The Home). It describes a plan for families on fire safety. The film is available in the 12 most prominent languages spoken in Maine accessible on DVD as well as VHS. The languages are English, Arabic ,Cantonese, Dinka, French, Khmer, Nuer, Russian, Serbo Croation, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese.

The film depicts firefighters as being friendly people that serve to protect the citizens of their community. Since many immigrants and refugees were politically oppressed in their home land, it is important that we make them feel that they are safe in our communities and that the government of their community protects them.The price for the DVD is $50 dollars for all 12 languages plus shipping and handling, The VHS format is $20 a language plus shipping and handling. This film is one of a kind, no other fire department or national organization has produced a safety video in as many languages. If interested, contact John Beatty, Fire and Life Safety Educator III, Portland Fire Department, 380 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101, 207-874-8409.

Translator and Interpreter Services http://www.maine.gov/education/esl/translator_interpreter_services.htm

TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links added 04/05/04

http://iteslj.org/links/

This site offers nearly 10,000 links separated by topic area and for audience (one for ELLs and one for the teachers of ESL), where you may browse link after link to your delight. Called TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links, this is a free site maintained by the Internet TESL Journal.

Maine Fire Safety Video for Newcomers

The City of Portland Fire Department has produced a fire safety film. It covers topics such as fire and life safety issues --what the fire service calls EDITH. (Exit Drills In The Home). It describes a plan for families on fire safety. The film is available in the 12 most prominent languages spoken in Maine accessible on DVD as well as VHS. The languages are English, Arabic ,Cantonese, Dinka, French, Khmer, Nuer, Russian, Serbo Croation, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese.

The film depicts firefighters as being friendly people that serve to protect the citizens of their community. Since many immigrants and refugees were politically oppressed in their home land, it is important that we make them feel that they are safe in our communities and that the government of their community protects them.

The price for the DVD is $50 dollars for all 12 languages plus shipping and handling, The VHS format is $20 a language plus shipping and handling. This film is one of a kind, no other fire department or national organization has produced a safety video in as many languages.

If interested, contact John Beatty, Fire and Life Safety Educator III, Portland Fire Department, 380 Congress Street.
Portland, Maine 04101, 207-874-8409.

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