ESL Web Resources for Teacher Education and Staff Development

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ESL Web Resources for Teacher Education and Staff
Development

• R. L. Erion
• South Dakota State University
• ralph.erion_at_sdstate.edu
• http//learn.sdstate.edu/erionr/eslweb/

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Overview

• Intended Audience Those who teach preservice
  teachers and those who are involved in staff
  development in helping people work with students
  with limited English proficiency.
• Areas to be discussed
• Resources for Staff Development/Teacher Education
• Online Journals
• Resources for Working with Students with Limited
  English Proficiency

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Resources for Staff Development/Teacher Education

• As will be true for other sections, this is not
  comprehensive.
• Will look at some particularly rich sites. All
  links and many others are found on the links page
  for this presentation.

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Content Area and ESL

• Strategies and Resources for Mainstreamed
  Teachers of English Language Learners
  http//www.nwrel.org/request/2003may/index.html
• An excellent resource from NWREL that includes
  information on NCLB, methodology, and second
  language acquistion theory as well as examples of
  the ways some specific school systems in the
  northwestern US have undergone meeting the needs
  of English language learners.

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ESL and Culture

• Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
  (USC) http//www-bcf.usc.edu/cmmr. See resources
  at http//www.usc.edu/dept/education/CMMR/home.htm
  l
• Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate
  Services http//clas.uiuc.edu provides a number
  of resources that are specifically for early
  childhood educators.
• Table of Contents for Online Readings in
  Psychology and Culture http//www.ac.wwu.edu/cult
  ure/contents_complete.htm Extensive collection
  maintained by the Center for Cross-Cultural
  Research at Western Washington University
  appropriate for readings for advanced
  undergraduates and graduate students. As the
  title says, it is more concerned with psychology
  and culture, but many of the papers are on topics
  of interest.

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Linguistics

• Language Linguistics http//www.nsf.gov/news/sp
  ecial_reports/linguistics/index.jsp This
  resource from the National Science Foundation
  that provides an overview of linguistics and some
  of the science of language development.
• Center for Applied Linguistics
  http//www.cal.org/
• Many useful links for both graduate and
  undergraduate courses as well as staff
  development. See in particular the digests which
  include What Teachers need to know about Teaching
  Language by Snow and Filmore (http//www.cal.org/e
  riccll/teachers/), What is Linguistics
  (http//www.cal.org/resources/digest/cal00001.html
  ), Grammar and Its Teaching by Larson-Freeman
  (http//www.cal.org/resources/digest/larsen01.html
  ),

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Application Videos

• These two sites have videos of teachers using
  strategies.
• Reading Rockets http//www.readingrockets.org/
  has a wealth of resources on reading. Some
  videos are available on Google Video from which
  they can be downloaded. They have streaming
  video resources particularly aimed at ESL and
  staff development http//www.readingrockets.org/we
  bcasts/ondemand
• Drama Stategies http//www.prel.org/eslstrategies
  /drama.html Includes brief videos of the
  strategies being used.

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Broader Perspectives

• The New Zealand Ministry of Education
  http//www.minedu.govt.nz/ provides a number
  resources of interest for English for Speakers of
  Other Languages including
• Ellis, R. (2005). Instructed Second
  Language Acquisition
• The Refuge Handbook for Schools
• Improving English Language Outcomes for
  Students Receiving ESOL Services in New Zealand
  Schools, with a Particular Focus on New Immigrants

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Students At Risk

• Center for Research on the Education of Students
  Placed at Risk (CRESPAR) http//www.csos.jhu.edu/c
  respar/
• Not specifically for ESL, but has a number of
  useful papers. See Effective Reading Programs for
  English Language Learners by Slavin and Cheung
  (http//www.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/techreports/repor
  t66.pdf) and Trends in Two-Way Immersion
  Education (http//www.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/techRep
  orts/Report63.pdf).

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Online Journals

• These journals and magazines provide academic
  papers, reports of teacher experiences, and
  materials for teaching.
• They are not the only journals that look at ESL,
  but they are all accessible to everyone. As
  such, they are resources that can be used by
  teachers of teachers as well as resources for
  teachers of ESL.

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Sample Journals

• Teaching English as a Second Language
  http//www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/
• Reading in a Foreign Language
  http//nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/
• Language Learners and Technology
  http//llt.msu.edu/default.html

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More Sample Journals

• The Internet TESL Journal http//iteslj.org/.
• ESL Magazine http//www.eslmag.com/
• Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics
  http//www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/tesol/Webjourn
  al/

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Resources for Working with Students with Limited
English Proficiency

• This is a very small subset of what is available.
• I have tried to include sites that provide a
  number of resources for a broad spectrum of
  levels and content areas. I have also provided
  resources that could lead to more innovative
  instructional approaches.

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Lesson Plans and Instructional Materials

• Everything ESL http//www.everythingesl.net/.
  Judie Haynes. This site contains tips for
  teachers as well as a number of lessons (see
  http//www.everythingesl.net/lessons/) and
  resources (http//www.everythingesl.net/resources/
  ) for ESL teachers.
• Dave's ESL Cafe (http//www.eslcafe.com/) See
  the Idea Cookbook http//www.eslcafe.com/ideas/
  for ideas for teachers.

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Lots of Things for Teachers

• The Internet TESL Journal (again)
  (http//iteslj.org/) Regularly includes lesson
  plans and teaching materials. See links for
  teachers (http//iteslj.org/links/TESL/) and
  links for students (http//iteslj.org/links/ESL/).
  The latter includes lots of links to Podcasts
  at http//iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/Podcasts
  / and links to video at http//iteslj.org/links/E
  SL/Video/. The section on using humor in ESL is
  also worth noting http//iteslj.org/links/TESL/H
  umor/

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Music and Photography

• ESL through Music http//www.caslt.org/research/
  music.htm Links to many online resources
• EFL/ESIL/ESL Songs and Activities from Songs for
  Teaching http//www.songsforteaching.com/eslefles
  ol.htm
• Literacy through Photography http//literacythro
  ughphotography.fotofest.org/ltp_curric.htm

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Journaling

• Creating a Learning Community through
  Electronic Journaling by Anne Bollati
• http//iteslj.org/Techniques/Bollati-Journaling.h
  tml.
• See also An interview with Kristan Taylor from
  Tolerance.org on the use of journaling in the ESL
  classroom http//www.tolerance.org/teach/activit
  ies/activity.jsp?ar707

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Online Language Resources

• Dictionaries, Grammars, and Other Online Language
  Resources http//www.elite.net/runner/jennifers/l
  anguage.htm See "I don't understand" in over 255
  languages at http//www.elite.net/runner/jennifer
  s/understa.htm

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Videos Podcasts

• Many sources such as Google Video that provide
  videos of lots of people doing things and
  talking. Must select with care.
• If there are issues with streaming video, see
  http//learn.sdstate.edu/erionr/video/ for
  information on embedding or downloading video.
• What follows are a few of the almost limitless
  sources of video that are of possible interest to
  ESL teachers.

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Sources of Useful Video and Audio Online

• American Rhetoric Video and audio speeches at
  http//www.americanrhetoric.com/. Includes many
  very well known speeches.
• NPR Podcasts http//www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podca
  st_directory.php
• Internet Archive Movies Need to look, but lots
  of video (http//www.archive.org/details/movies)
• YouTube Math Tutor Group (http//youtube.com/group
  /MathTutor)