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ELT Matters
(including
IELTS and Other Assessment
Sites)
Selected web sites
for English language teaching (ELT) and learning in
the Chinese Context arranged in 25 categories and
in alphabetical order for your easy reference. The
purple dot 
means recommendation. The more dots, the higher the
recommendation. If
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ELT Matters arranged in groups
and in alphabetical order for your easy
reference.
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D
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G
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A
Associations related to
ELT
Local Organizations with
online resources for ELT
International Organizations with
online resources for ELT
B
Bible and Religious Materials for ELT
D
Dictionaries and
Theasuruses (and Encyclopaedias)
E
Electronic
Journals
Evaluting Web
Resources
Electronic
Citations
F
Films and
Movies
G
Games
Grammar
- Cobuild
Concordancer and Collocation Samplar -
An excellent tool for grammar checks online.
- Common
Errors in English by Paul Brians,
Department of English, Washington State University
- Digital
Education Network - where you can
find answers to difficult grammar questions and some useful
grammar practice activities, together with a grammar clinic and a
comprehensive on-line grammar of English
- English
Grammar Links for ESL Students - by
Karen Hartman of the University of Maryland.
- ESL
Grammar Notes #1-3
- ESL
Helper Center - from Dave's ESL Cafe
- Help for students from international ESL/EFL teachers
- Guide
to Grammar and Writing - This is a
web resource to which English teachers love to refer their
students. There you can find an archive of over 2,000 grammar
questions and a grammar clinic. The site is user-friendly and well
laid out. There is a text-only version and some interesting and
useful Powerpoint files on Grammar.
- The
Grammar Exchange - a moderated
newsgroup for EFL teachers on grammar questions. Response to
questions on grammar usually within a day. Speedy and reliable
source for clarification of grammar queries.
- Grammar
Quizzes - part of The Internet TESL
Journal's Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students. Start with an Easy
Quiz in the multiple choice format, quizzes on article, cloze,
conjunctions, dialogue, plurals, prepositioins, pronouns, sentence
structure, tag questions, verbs, word order, and many other
quizzes. All ready-made for grammar teachers and students who want
grammar practice. http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/grammar.html
- Grammar
Safari - from LinguaCenter
- HyperGrammar
- by the Writing Centre at the University of Ottawa.
- LinguaCenter
- includes a 'Grammar Safari", reading texts, interactive
listening exercise and 'Ex*Change', good for vocabulary
development and grammar practice.
- Online
English Grammar - by Anthony
Hughes
- Spelling
Test - a test of 50 commonly
misspelt words with which students can check their
answers
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Idioms
- Animal
Idioms - from Digital Education
Network
- Fluency
Through Fables - from the Comenius
Group
- Heinemann
English Language Teaching - Idioms,
activities,and teacher tips from Heinemann
- Toon
in to Idioms - Cartoon and audio
from Adam Rado's English Learning Fun site (a commercial
site)
- The
Weekly Idiom - from the Comenius
Group (Look for the Weekly Idiom Index)
- Quote-a-Day
- where you can subscribe to a free daily service and receive a
quote or "words that inspire, provoke, and entertain." Sometimes,
they send some really nice quotes that you can recommend to
others.
L
Lesson
Plans
- AskERIC
Lesson Plans - over 1,000 lessons
plans, and curriculum units submitted by US teachers to
Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC)
- English
Teaching/Learning Materials - by
Kathleen Kitao and Kenji Kitao
- Lessons,
Lesson Plans & Handouts for the ESL
Classroom - from the
The
Internet TESL Journal
- EFL
and ESL Lessons, Games, Songs - a
commercial site
- Teams
Distance Learning K-12 Lesson Plans
- from the Los Angeles County Office of Education, USA
- Lesson
Plans and Resources for ESL, Bilingual, and Foreign Language
Teachers - by Marty Levin of
California State University, Northridge, USA.
- Photocopiable
Worksheets - Samples of worksheets
produced by Heinemann ELT. Registration requiried
- TESL:
Teaching English as a Second Language
- by Maria Hernandez, including lesson plans and
links.
Listening Skills
- Alice
in Wonderland - Audio drama with
Lili Taylor
- A
Tribute to My American Friends - A
pictorial summary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade
Centre. More than 80 photos accompanied by Michael W. Smith's song
"Hello. Goodbye" ("See you on the other side." 5 min.5 sec.)
- BBC
News - BBC Radio News, World News
Summary (audio) BBC ONE TV news and BBC News 24 Bulletin (video).
Realplayer plug-in required. There is a launch console for latest
audio/video news.
- CNN's
Interactive Learning Resources -
from CNN. You can hear and read top news stories from this CNN
site.
- Deep
Listening and Quantum
Listening: From theory to practice -
by Pauline Oliveros. From the latter link you can listen to her
talk at the Congress 2000: The future of human values and
humanities delivered in Hong Kong on January 8, 2000.
- Interactive
Listening Comprehension Practice -
from the Intensive English Institute of the University of
Illinois.
- Interactive
Learning of the Internet - Excellent
narration with multimedia presentation on the Web. Good for
listening comprehension practice and learning of the Internet.
- an innovative course on the Internet
designed by the Information Engineering Department of The
Chinese University of Hong Kong in the summer of 1998 for
non-science first year college students.
- comprises 8 lectures and 16 hours of
web-based instruction.
- includes 9 lessons and a quiz at the end
of each lesson.
- will be made available to Form Six and
Form Seven students in Hong Kong.
- Randall's
Cyber Listening Lab - by Randall
Davis.
Including short and long listening exercises at three levels:
easy, medium and difficult level. Each exercise has a multiple
choice quiz. Users can check the score when finished and see the
correct answers.
- RTHK
on Internet - by RTHK and CUHK
including 24-hour radio, News Update, Radio-on-Demand, and
TV-on-Demand.
- Seeing
Ear Theatre - A site for science
fiction audio drama by The Sci-Fi Channel Dominion.
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Mass Media
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Oral English (HKCEE
Level)
- The
Alphabet in English - by Anthony
Hughes. Including sound files of the English alphabet. Good for
pronunciation learning.There are also subject index and grammar
clinic.
- Did
the Cat Get Your Tongue? - Fact
Sheet No.4 of the English Language Teaching Unit of The Chinese
University of Hong Kong. It is a humorous article on how to
improve spoken English.
- Learning
Oral English Online - by Rong-Chang
Li of the University of Illinois
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Poetry
Publishers
- Amazon
- the biggest on-line bookstore in the world where you can order
books with pretty good security.
- Bookstores
On-line
- Publishers
On-line - Searchable database of all
major publishers in alphabetical order. Produced by the University
Library of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Pretty
comprehensive.
- Some examples
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Reading
Skills
- Aesop's
Fables - Online Exhibit - contains
the full public domain texts of 655 fables. Several fables include
RealAudio and illustrations
- Animated
Stories by Prof. P.C. Wong - Flash
needed in order to read, to watch and to listen.
- Becoming
a Historical Detective: Archive.
Interesting puzzles of American history.
- English
Mosaic - an on-line English magazine
from the British Council that complements the British Council's
student magazine, Ho Yeah, and is especially good for students
studying English. It includes the Quiz Corner, Photo Gallery,
Letters and Stuff, examination tips, and some articles of general
interest to people studying English.
- Fluency
Through Fables
- from the Comenius Group
- Interactive
Learning Resources - by Cable News
Network (CNN)
- Instant
Lessons - Including reading
exercises, and free English as a second language lessons ready to
photocopy. Articles from Reuters.
- Learning
Resources: Reading - by
EXCHANGE
- National
Geographic
- Reader's
Digest World - by Reader's Digest.
Including an interesting section "Word Power"
- Soon
On-line Magazine - like the Reader's
Digest, this contains interesting stories from around the world.
The English is simplified for younger students. There are great
visual puzzles in the "Magic Tricks" and "Stereograms".
- Whoowhoonet
- inspirational and funny stories aimed "to bring smile to your
face" with Sing-A-Long musics. Excellent encouragement for
teachers and students.
Resources and
Databases
- BAMBOO
- A digest of English Language Education and Applied Linguistics
Research from Asia
- CELIA
- Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archives
- CRUCIAL
- The Centre for Resources and Understanding in Cross-curricular
Instruction and Learning
- Dave's
ESL Cafe - Probably the most popular
ESL/EFL web site by far
- EFL
- by Nikki Bennett and others. Including slang, grammar, news,
exercises, and activites for EFL teachers and
learners.
- ESLoop
- A collection of over 100 sites relevant to English Language
Teaching and Learning on the World-Wide Web.
- English
as a Second Language Home Page - by
Rong-Chnag Li of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
- English
Language Teaching Resources - from
Ohio University
- English
Section, Independent Learning Centre,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Foreign
Language Teaching Resources - from
Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon
- Frederal
Resources for Educational Excellences
(FREE) - Language Arts.
Authoritative, useful resources on language arts, history,
literature, reading and writing contributed by agencies across US.
The website is hosted by the US Government Department of
Education.
- The
Gateway to Educational Materials -
Developed and maintained by the US Government Department of
Education in December 1999, it aims to help teachers find
educational materials, lesson plans, instructional units, graded
and searchable. Currently over 7,000 items. "The key to one-stop,
any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and
other education resources on the Internet!"
- Hong
Kong Language Education Research Database
- a comprehensive database on language education research in Hong
Kong in both English and Chinese sponsored by Standing Committee
on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR).
- Linguistic
Funland TESL - by Kristina
Pfaff-Harris
- LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic Universe - Searchable
full-text databases of 5000 news, business and legal resources.
Available to subscribers and license holders only.
- LEARNET
- by Ednovation. Development of a large existing multimedia
resources - Rueters - into new curriculum. "The resource-rich
environment for creative teaching and learning.
- Resources
for English Language and Culture -
from Ohio University
- Teachers
Helping Teachers - teaching tips and
ideas
- The
International Lyrics Server
- Virtual
English Center - from the Comenius
Group. Including E-mail Key Pal Connection, Fluency Through Fables
and the Weekly Idiom.
- VOLTERRE-FR
- by Linda Thalman from France.
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Search
Tools
- Google
- Selected as the No.1 search engine of the world in January 2001
by Online Today, a German Web magazine, in terms of clarity,
speed, accuracy, and searching power. It stands out among 15 top
search engines. It can search one billion home pages per second.
On the average, it enjoys 500,000 hits a day from people all over
the world. Google was developed by two students of Stanford
University, Larry Page and Sergey Brim in their mid-twenties.
Larry Page said they developed the search engine to make it more
advanced and more available to people. So far, they have refused
to sell Google.com for money.
- WiseNews
- Powerful search engines of Hong Kong headlines from local
newspapers and magazines. Users can access it through the
Electronic
News of The
Chinese University of Hong Kong Library home
page.
- Alta
Vista - one the most powerful search
engines. Allows search in 25 languages
- Askjeeves
- a natural language search engine good for searching
well-organized and well-established knowledge
- Deja
News Research Service
- Excite
- How
to Search Internet Resources -
Expert advice and search tips offered by the Reference Library of
CUHK.
- Infoseek
- Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe - Searchable
full-text databases of about 5000 sources covering a wide range of
news, business and legal information including journals,
magazines, and newspapers. Very often gives better results than
any search engines in the sense that users get less "noise" and
more directly related information.
- Lycos
- NLIGHTN
- Savvy
- a meta search engines that enables users to search with several
search engines at the same time.
- Searching:
Saving Time, Not Wasting Time - by
Deborah Healey on efficient search strategies.
- Search
Engine Watch - a list of 23+ search
engines with individual descriptions where you get the latest
information such as coverage and size of the search engines.
- Webcrawler
- Web
Tools
- Web archives
and search engines for ESL teachers and students: why? what? how?
and why not?
- Yahoo
- probably the most popular search engines to date. There are 14
main subject headings, or top level categories: Arts and
Humanities, Business and Economy, Computers and Internet,
Education, Entertainment, Government, Health, News and Media,
Recreation and Sports, Reference, Regional, Science, Social
Science, and Society and Culture.
- Yahooligans
- a search engines for kids.
Speaking Skills (A-Level and
above)
Student Projects & E-mail
Penpals
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Teachers'
Corner
- BBC
World Service Learning English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
Excellent resources for learning English with You Me Us, In the
News, For Work, with Music and Through Sport.
- ELTU Fact Sheets: Useful tips and
guidelines created by the English Language Teaching Unit, CUHK for
teaching students. Teachers can print them out and uses them for
teaching and discussion in classes.
Fact
Sheet No.1. SO YOU WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR
ENGLISH?
- What You Can Do to Become a Better Language Learner
Fact
Sheet No.3. GIVE YOURSELF A CHANCE!
-What you Can Do to Upgrade Your Listening Ability in English
Fact
Sheet No. 4. DID THE CAT GET YOUR TONGUE?
- What You Can Do to Improve Your Spoken English
- Enhancing
Your English Telephone Skills - an
online course for adults offered by Learn On the Net (Hong Kong).
Password required.
- ESLgold
- www.eslgold.com. Free resources for learning and teaching
English.
- Grammatical Explanations
- Phrases for Conversations
- Ideas for Teaching
- Tons of ESL links and more.
- ESL
Teachers Home Pages - A collection
of home pages of ESL/EFL teachers from different parts of the
world.
- ESLoop
- A collection of over 100 sites relevant to English Language
Teaching and Learning on the World-Wide Web.
- Fifties
- An interesting pop music web site where teachers can accesss
music and televsion classics of the '50s and download the lyrics
with midi music for teaching purposes. Examples include "Happy
Days", Teen Tunes like, "Rock Around the Clock", etc.
- The
British Council in Hong Kong -
English
Language Teaching & Learning Links
- Hong
Kong Polytechnic University - Virtual Language
Centre - excellent website for
self-access English learning. There are plenty of useful resources
available to ESL learners including:
- Glatt
Plagiarism Service - Three
commercial programs to help deter plagiarism and encourage
academic honesty. They include a Teaching Program, a Screening
Program, and a Self-Detection Program. They can serve as
deterrants to plagiarists and help students avoid
plagiarism.
- Internet
Detective - an interactive Web-based
tutorial on evaluating information found on the Internet. Users
can do it in their own time and at their own pace. There are
quizzes and exercises to engage the learner and deepen the
learning.
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
- The
Internet TESL Journal's Quiz Projects
- an excellent site developed by Larry and Charles Kelly for ESL
teachers
- Self-Study
Quiz 1 - an example of a
self-study grammar quiz created by George Jor on Hong
Kong.
- Self-Study
Quiz 2 - Hong Kong (a 10-question
Flash Quiz on grammar with automatic calculation of
scores)
- Self-Study
Quiz 3 - Hong Kong Story (A
20-question Flash Quiz on vocabulary)
- How
to create a Flash Quiz for your students
- Send your quiz in simple text format to Charles Kelly at
iteslj@ge.aitech.ac.jp. Use a subject line like
"SUBMISSION-Flash Quiz"
Details available at the Quiz Writer's URL -
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/c/qw/qw-ckqm-index.html
- Grammar
Quizzes - Start with an Easy Quiz
in the multiple choice format, quizzes on article, cloze,
conjunctions, dialogue, plurals, prepositioins, pronouns,
sentence structure, tag questions, verbs, word order, and many
other quizzes. All ready-made for grammar teachers and students
who want grammar practice.
- Fill in the Blanks - Interactive
Javascript Quiz (For details contact - itselj@ge.aitech.ac.jp)
- Matching- Interactive Javascript Quiz
(For details contact - itselj@ge.aitech.ac.jp)
- New
York Times Learning Network
(www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html). For Grades 3-12
News connections for students, teachers and parents.
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- Longman
English Langauge Teaching - gateway
to a wealth of ELT resources for teachers and students.
- onestopenglish.com
- by Macmillan Publishers. Lots of FREE, photocopiable resources
and lesson plans for teachers.
- Purde
University OWL on plagiarism -
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
- Quote-a-Day
- where you can subscribe to a free daily service and receive a
quote or "words that inspire, provoke, and entertain." Sometimes,
there are some nice quotes that you can teach your students.
- Study
Choice - An all-in-one website to
search for courses and apply to UK universities, colleges and
language schools. Great resources for teachers who need to counsel
students for further studies in UK.
- Teachers
Helping Teachers - teaching tips and
ideas
- TeleNex
- Teachers of English Language Education Nexus. There are 5 major
sections:
- Teaching Ideas Database
- Grammar Database
- News and Messaging,
- SCMP (Not yet available on the
Web)
- Test Bank (Not yet available on the
Web)
- Sending
fax via the Web - by The Phone
Company Remote Printing Service. Global access and free of charge.
Teachers can use fax anywhere with Web access without using any
fax machine.
- Sending
fax by e-mail - by TPC. Free of
charge.
- SurveyAnwhere
- where users can create online questionnaire for student
projects, needs or market survey.
- World
of Language - a multimedia display
centre based in London dedicated to the study of the languages of
the world. Introduced by Prof. David Crystal and Dr. David Drewry,
Director General of The British Council, who described it in this
way, "Language underpins culture and education, science and
technology, and our aspirations for the kind of world we want to
live in. This project offers a unique opportunity to explore the
fascinating world of language."
- TigerNT
Online Tools Collections -
collections of useful tools like English-Chinese dictionaries,
Chinese word processing tools, maps, and so on for quick reference
of English and Chinese teachers.
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Vocabulary
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Workplace
English
Writing Skills
- Academic
Writer - consists of nine sections
(Introductions, Context, Main Body, Argument, Paragraphs, Style,
Tone, Evidence, and Conclusions). There is a quiz for nearly every
sectiion. The website covers important aspects of academic writing
and provides useful feedback for users. It was developed by the
Virtual Language Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechic University.
- Blue
Mountain Cards - Colourful virtual
postcards that students can use to practise their writing and send
them to friends and teachers.
- Card4You.
A free multimedia greeting card service for all occasions.
FREE.
- DaySpring
E-cards - Animated cards with sweet
music for greetings your friends (Great for birthdays and
Christmas).
- Elements
of Style - byWilliam Strunk,
Jr.
- Essay
Writing for Students in Politics and the Social
Sciences - David Lovell's detailed
guide to essay writing.
- GeoCities
- Free web server for students to publish web pages.
- Guide
to Grammar and Writing - where you
can find an archive of over 2,000 grammar questions and a grammar
clinic.
- Internet
Resources for English Teachers and Students
- The English Department at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
- Online
Handbook (for grammar, usage and style)
- University of Illinois
- Online
Writing Lab - Purdue University.
Students can get on-line feedback from ESL teachers of Purdue
University
- Online
Writing Studio - An excellent
showcase on teaching English writing by Gabriel Tan of Ximin
Secondary School in Singapore recommended by the IT Branch of the
Ministry of Education. It includes carefully designed online
writing tasks of describing people, describing character,
describing places, useful links and students' writing samples too.
- Online
Resources for Writers: Writing Center
Online - University of Maine Writing
Center
- On-Line
Resources for Writers - guide to
grammar and writing, writing research papers, online dictionaries,
thesauri and encyclopedias
- The
University of Michigan's On-line Writing
Lab - University of
Michigan
- University
of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Writing Center
Handouts - University of Texas at
Austin Undergraduate Writing Center
- Virtual
Florist - Send someone flowers and
express yourself with a virtual flower bouquet.
- WriteLink,
University of Colorado at Boulder Online Writing Resource
Center
- The
Writing Machines - helps students
with the writing of academic essays
- The
Writing Turbocharger - shows how to
use computers to write essays, assignments and home
pages.
- Writing
Argumentative Essays - Bill Daly's
web textbook on argumentative essays. Exercises
included.
Copyright © Computer-Mediated
Communication for Teaching and Learning in the Chinese
Context (CMC),
The
Chinese University of Hong Kong.
URL: http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~cmc/eltmatters/elt.htm
Created by George
C.K.Jor on January 25, 1999. Last
update: November 19, 2001.
Contact e-mail: george-jor@cuhk.edu.hk