Resources for EFL Educators OTHER RESOURCE PAGES: Two other pages cover Graduate Degrees for TEFL and Getting a Job in Japan. For books, see the extensive listing on ELT Calendar's Book Pages. Some video resources are available here (Totoro site). (Japan uses the same format as the USA and Canada; but DVDs are not the same) Teaching English in Japan is a web site with a large directory of links, and some articles and advice about working in Japan. Contains a good set of conversion tables as well for the expat who is not used to the metric system. For advice and links to finding and purchasing academic articles, see "Using the WWW for EFL Research and Resources" TESL-EJ (Teaching English as a Second Language Electronic Journal) For those in Australasia, a faster link might be TESL-EJ in Kyoto. Teaching tips available from English Resource's on-line newsletter. English as a Foreign Language Magazine The Internet TESL Journal, a monthly web magazine with articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas, hundreds of on-line quizzes for self-study, and links. Learning Resource Server The Language Teacher is JALT's national monthly magazine. EFL Web - an on-line magazine. CALL E-J is the Computer Assisted Language Learning Electronic Journal, the on-line publication of the CALL SIG (one of JALT's Special Interest Groups). Tom Robb has articles and several links on his homepage Wordwatch, updated weekly: "When you're working with the real language of the Bank of English corpus you frequently uncover some interesting details about words and their meanings, and the WORDWATCH feature gives Cobuilder a chance to tell you something, anything, about words." Bilingual Japan newsletter If you are interested in bilingualism, especially if you are raising or teaching bilingual children, "Bilingual Japan," the bimonthly newsletter of Jalt's Bilingualism N-SIG, is a wonderful resource. For a free inspection copy of "Bilingual Japan" or for more information about the other publications of the Bilingualism N-SIG, including monographs on bilingualism and the annual "Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism," please contact Peter Gray by e-mail or fax (011-881-9843 [w], 011-897-9891 [h]). The TESOL, Inc homepage. The School for International Training provides a very extensive list of links related to TESL. Now On - The Educational Technology Journal iT's On-Line, "the e-zine for teachers and students of English." Includes lesson plans, articles. Also has a good section of links for ESL, teachers, and general interest. Journals for ELT professionals We have an on-site listing of various journals you can subscribe to, with contact info and prices for subscriptions from Japan. Go check it out. Hitoshi Goto (Department of Linguistics, Tohoku University) recommends these pages: Linguistics Homepages in Japan (Japanese version) Linguistics Homepages in Japan (English version) Writing Your Own TextBook, an article by Chris Chinnen, is great reading for those of you who are interested in materials design. "Using the WWW for EFL Research and Resources" is an article by Bill Pellowe of ideas and links. Jonathan's Learning & Teaching Page [added 6/6/98]	HOME FUKUOKA JALT Conference: PAC3/JALT2001 November 22 - 25, 2001 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Applied Linguistics English Language Teaching MORE
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