Journals and Subscriptions
Subscription-based online resources may be attached to publisher sites, but the quality if often very high and materials are usually worth the investment.
Subscription-based sites
English-4U
(http://www.english-4u.com/index.html)
This site offers very slick downloadable PDFs of lesson materials (in both student and teacher versions, the latter including a lesson outline and answer key); while these colour materials may lose some impact when printed in monochrome, they do look appealing provided that teachers can locate the right theme to match their educational plans. Much of the material on the site is not free, but there is a good deal that can be accessed either by any visitor or by those who register for free, without a paid subscription. Individual subscriptions cost $29.00 USD per year, and institutional subscriptions are available for $114.99 USD per year for up to 50 teachers.
English To Go
(http://www.english-to-go.com/)
A subscription website (from $24.99 USD to $150.00 USD per year) with many testimonials and resources including samples of lessons based on articles from Reuters® News Agency at 5 levels (Beginner to Advanced), instant workbooks, grammar help, “weekly warmers”, etc. Not CLB-referenced, and probably most useful for teachers of young adult learners.
English-Zone
(http://english-zone.com/index.php?ID=8)
A membership site ($30 per year) for students and teachers. The student page contains zones for grammar, reading, verbs, basic skills, fun stuff, pronunciation, idioms, spelling, writing, dictionaries, holidays, study skills, vocabulary, and conversation, while the Teacher Zone
covers topics such as Forms and Rubrics, Language Fun, Oral Drills, In-class Games and Activities, Life Skills and Printable Pronunciation and Grammar Worksheets. Some activities are free to download, but others are for members only.
Onestopenglish – Resources for Teaching English
(http://www.onestopenglish.com/)
A terrific site with over 6,500 resources, including lesson plans, worksheets, audio, video and flashcards, onestopenglish from Macmillian bills itself as “the world’s number one resource site for English language teachers”. Individual subscriptions are available for $64 USD, but institutional subscriptions can also be purchased on a sliding scale based on the number of teachers.
Free online journals
ESL teachers are busy professionals. We have pressing day-to-day commitments that must remain our first priority. However, like medical practitioners, engineers and many others, we can benefit overviews of recent research to help us keep up with developments relevant to our hands-on work.
As a membership benefit, all members of TESL Canada have password access to TESL Canada Journal; moreover, all book reviews in TCJ are open-access for any user, and every issue older than 24 months is entirely open-access for any user.
- TESL Canada Journal (http://journals.sfu.ca/tesl/index.php/tesl/login)
Other free, open-access online journals are listed below. Each hyperlink leads to the home page of the journal in question; from there, you can move either to the most recent issue or to an archive of back issues. Usually, these journals have a system for easily searching back issues by topic; if so, that information is provided in the listing.
- Asian EFL Journal http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/index.php (to search, click on the ‘Key Word Index’ in the right-hand menu).
- The Chinese English Foreign Language Journal http://www.chinese-efl-journal.com/index.php (to search, click on the ‘Key Word Index’ in the right-hand menu).
- English Language Teaching http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt/index (to search, click on ‘SEARCH’ in the top-of-page menu, for a varied of search options)
- English Teaching Forum http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum-journal.html (to search at least somewhat effectively, enter chosen term in the top-right ‘Search’ box)
- English Teaching: Practice and Critique http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/view.php?current=true&p=1 (to search, click on ‘Search Journal’ in the right-hand menu, and then enter a term in the ‘Keywords’ box)
- Horizons http://www.eltworld.net/journal/journal.html
- Humanizing English Language Teaching http://www.hltmag.co.uk/ (to search, click on ‘Previous Editions’ at the top of the page, and then select one of the search options provided)
- The Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/ (to search, click on area of particular interest in the top-of-page menu)
- The Iranian EFL Journal http://www.iranian-efl-journal.com/ (to search, click on the ‘Key Word Index’ in the right-hand menu).
- Journal of Language and Learning http://www.shakespeare.uk.net/journal/jllearn_home.htm
- Novitas-ROYAL http://www.novitasroyal.org/index.htm
- Reading in a Foreign Language [URL: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/ (to search, go to ‘Past Issues’ in the bottom-of-page menu, and then click on ‘Sort by topic’)
- The Reading Matrix http://www.readingmatrix.com/about_journal.html (to search, click on ‘Index for Researchers’ in the top-of-page menu)
- TESL-EJ http://tesl-ej.org/about.html (to search, either click on ‘Index’ in the top-of-page index, and scan alphabetically, or enter a term in the ‘Search TESL-EF’ box at the top right)
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