About: English as a 2nd Language
http://esl.about.com/

Part of the About.com network, this site offers an interesting blend of original content and links to related resources useful to both teachers and students of English as a second language. the site's guide, Kenneth Beare, lives in Italy where he teaches English to Italian students. The site's features include a monitored discussion forum, a handy two-way translation tool between common English and American usage, and an argument for using principled eclecticism in setting goals for ESL classes. You'll also find links to a variety of online ESL resources. RealPlayer plug-in is required. Commercial content may distract some visitors.

BRJ Online: Bilingual Research Journal
http://brj.asu.edu/

A joint project of the National Association for Bilingual Education and the Southwest Center for Education Equity and Language Diversity at Arizona State University, this online edition of Bilingual Research Journal offers abstracts of articles from the publication's print edition. Full-text copies of the articles are available in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). In addition to commentary on such varied topics as English-language learners, bilingual education policies, and children of migrant workers, the site offers links to related online resources.

Dave's ESL Cafe
http://www.eslcafe.com/

Dave Sperling, a teacher, lecturer, and author of Dave Sperling's Internet Activity Book, created this English as a second language (ESL) site. Here you'll find an Idea Cookbook that has teaching tips; pages on idioms, slang, and other tricky areas of English; a useful Help Center (with quick responses from an ESL teacher); and test preparation advice, You can take quizzes on various history subjects and link to other ESL sites. Note that the bulletin board and chat room are unmonitored.

DEIL/IEI Lingua Center
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/free.html

The Lingua Center site, a gateway from the university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides links to reading, listening, test preparation, and other general resources for English as a second language (ESL) students and teaches. But it also provides other clever features itself such as the Grammar Safari, a game of searching for examples of grammatical structures on the Web. The Safari covers topics that include verb tenses, noun clauses, and gerunds and infinitives. Each lesson includes a Grammar Safari journal assignment to be completed. The site also provides some introductory activities for teachers to use in the classroom on top[ics such as passive verbs and quantifiers.

ED.gov: U.S. Department of Education: ORLA: Office of English Language Acquisition
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/ index.html?src=mr

An agency of the U.S. Department of Education, The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) is responsible for identifying major issues affecting the education of English-language learners and assisting and supporting state and local efforts at reform in this area of education. OELA's Web site offers detailed information related to the No Child Left Behind statute, specifically Title III: Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students. The site also features current information on grants and annual performance reports.

English as a Second Language
http://www.rong-chang.com/

In recent years, the number of Web sites offering assistance to those who would like to learn English as a second language (ESL) has increased. This site provides an excellent gateway to worthwhile ESL sites in a variety of subject areas. The links are organized under the following categories: Listening; Reading; Writing; Grammar; Lesson Plans; Kids' English; Newspapers; Magazines; Business English; ESP (English for specific purposes); Pronunciation; Quizzes; Games; Dictionaries; ESL Schools; and ESL jobs. The site is the work of Rong-Chang Li, author of Finding ESL Treasures on the Internet.

ERIC Digests: Ten Common Fallacies About Bilingual Education
http://www.cal.org/resources/ digest/crawford01.html

Presented by the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, this 1998 article considers some of the myths and misconceptions about bilingual education. Written by James Crawford, an author who specializes in the politics of language, the article examines arguments that English is losing ground to other languages in the United States and "total immersion" is the best way to learn a new language. Other ERIC digests, including "Why Bilingual Education?" (http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/
ed403101.html) and "A Global Perspective
of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education": (http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/
ed435168.htmll) offer further insights.

HABE.org
http://www.nabe.org

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) is a professional organization concerned principally with the education of language-minority students in U.S. schools. A strong advocate for bilingual education, NABE not only represents English as a second language and English as a foreign language teachers, but also actively lobbies to prevent the erosion of bilingual language programs. The association's site offers up-to-date information on the state of bilingual education in America, including a frequently asked questions section that addresses such issues as parents' rights and the effectiveness of bilingual education.

The Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org/

The Internet TESL (teaching english as a second language) Journal is packed with ESL resources for students and teachers. Visitors will find articles, conversation questions for the classroom, and links to related resources. Browse the site's archive by topic or by date back to 1995. Other useful sections of the site include Things for ESL/EFL Teachers (http://iteslj.org/t/), which provides a variety of resources to use in the classroom. and Activities for ESL Students (http://a4esl.org/), which offers more than 1,000 activities, quizzes, and puzzles.

John's ESL Community
http://www.johnsesl.com/templates/

This site by John Erskin, a teacher at Hannam University in south Korea, provides a plethora of English as a second language resources. In the Teacher Resource Center area, educators will find some clever lesson plans and activities to incorporate into the classroom; book recommendations and links to professional resources are featured, too. For students, the Language Skills section covers reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, idioms, and quotes. The Quizzes and Fun Stuff areas offer more than 300 quizzes, games, and puzzles. For those interested in chat and message boards, visit the Community section.

www.ManyThings.org: Interesting Things for ESL Students
http://www.manythings.org/

You will find interesting quizzes, puzzles, and games at this English as a second language site created by Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly, instructors as the Aichi Institute of Technology in Japan. Activities here are grouped into such sections as grammar, vocabulary, reading, word puzzles, sentence puzzles, and quizzes. some of the games require the Macromedia Flash Player plug-in. ESL students and teachers, as well as native English speakers, will find this site useful and entertaining.

NCELA: National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA) is operated by George Washington University in Washington, D.C. NCELA collects, assesses, and disseminates information related to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the United States. Its Web site offers a wealth of information about the current state of bilingual education, covering such topics as literacy. curriculum, and assessment.