Job links

TEFL job boards

Dave's ESL Cafe http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/: Dave's Worldwide job board. High quality. Post at US$75 per ad. Read for free.
TEFL.COM "TEFL Professional Network" http://tefl.com: Worldwide job board. They will help you find a job if you pay them a fee but you can do as well yourself for free by reading their job ads and those of other sites linked here.
TEFL.NET http://www.tefl.net/esl-jobs/: Worldwide job board.
Dave's ESL Cafe China job board http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/china/: Dave's China job board. High quality. Post at US$75 per ad. Read for free.
TEFLNC.COM "Cathay Teacher" http://www.cathayteacher.com/jobs: China job board.
TEFL.CC http://www.tefl.cc: China job board.
China TEFL http://www.chinatefl.com/teach.asp: China job board.

Job search related

English First (EF) franchise school jobs http://www.englishfirst.com/trt/teaching-english-in-china.html: EF franchises exist in many cities in China.
Teach-in-China http://www.teach-in-China.com: A job search links page.
China Association for International Exchange of Personnel (CAIEP) http://www.caiep.org: Not much here yet but sounds officially supported by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. Chinese language site. For English pages Google 'caiep' - I found some under-construction pages for Provincial CAIEP offices around China that at least had contact phone numbers at page bottoms.
China-TESOL http://www.china-tesol.com: Sponsored by State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA)(formerly called State Bureau of Foreign Experts). Has a Copy of SAFEA Employment Contract and other odds and ends including a teaching position application form. The official SAFEA site is more general and less usefull for job seakers.
Two Cents Cafe http://www.geocities.com/twocentseltcafe/: (A proxy is needed to reach Geocities sites from within PR China.) Has Susan Simerly's Teach-in-China FAQ for newbies.
Appalachians Abroad http://www.marshall.edu/gochina: Info about Appalachians Abroad's Go China training and placement program for people going to teach English in China. Plus an outstanding Links page to more excellent teach-in-China organizations -- organizations are invaluable in the Asia teaching job market because they bring together the experiences and insights of numerous foreign teachers over the years.

Training links

China specific TEFL training could be a valuable asset to you teaching in China.

Boland - China www.boland-china.com: Boland offers a 150 hour, four and 1/2 week TEFL training course in China. Boland is located in Haimen, Jiangsu, China.
Global Language Viliage - China www.glvchina.com/english/TEFL/TEFL.php: Glabal Language Village offers a four week TEFL training course in China. GLV is located in Zhuhai, China.
English First - Boston (USA), Sydney (Oz), Manchester and Brighton (UK) http://www.englishfirst.com/trt/tefl-certificate.html: 120 hour, 4 week TEFL Certificate.

Life links

China

Raouls China Saloon http://raoulschinasaloon.com: Forum with some knowledgeable folks. The drinking theme turns me off. You decide.
Xianzai.com http://www.xianzai.com: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Dalian oriented expat scene -- weekly email newsleters.
Beijing Community Forum http://www.beijingcommunity.com/: Online Community for Expats and Chinese people in Beijing.
That's Beijing http://thatsbj.com: Beijing events and expat scene. « This is a new site. My understanding is these are the locals who ousted the former That's sites and magazines. There it is, gone. OUCH!
Asiaxpat http://asiaxpat.com: Former That's Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou sites and user accounts are now hosted by
beijing.asiaxpat.com · shanghai.asiaxpat.com · guangzhou.asiaxpat.com
Do NOT put an 's' on xpat (that's a different site!)
Enjoy Shanghai http://www.enjoyshanghai.com: Shanghai events and expat scene + Discount card you might want to buy if you are a big spender.
Fred Gale's teaching and living in China http://members.aol.com/lumabner/china.htm: Eye opening introduction to life as an English teacher in China. Fred's photos illustrate life as a China English teacher in 1991. Has Fred's bibliography on living in China, culture shock etc. and Fred's links re living and teaching in China.
Chuck in China http://chake.chinatefl.com: Chuck's home page chronicles his travels in China
AmoyMagic http://amoymagic.com: Susan Brown's Xiamen site
Chinese Business World http://www.cbw.com: Some general info about China. Has a Foreigners In China diary by two "laowai" in China, and "Academia and You," Gail Westbrook's experiences teaching English in China.
University of Texas Library maps of the world http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/: Online maps of the word, including Asia, China and a few Chinese cities.
Unites States Embassy in China http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn: US Embassy in China Web site - Embassy and consulate addresses, phone numbers and more:
- US Citizen's services: Register your passport for easier replacement should you loose it; Voting info, etc.
- Visa info for Chinese citizens visiting the USA

Asia

The Asian Trail http://www.asiantrail.com: Travel scene in Asia.

Teaching links

China teaching tips

Kenneth Dickson's Chinese Culture University page http://www.hkjtefl.org: Home page of the Chinese Culture University Language Center, Taipei, Taiwan, with some academic articles about teaching English in Taiwan.

Speaking-class materials

Breaking News English http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com: Lessons ready to use from current events News Items.
Tongue Twisters http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm: Looking for some new and unusual tongue twisters? This Austrian site has the most comprehensive list I have ever seen. Enjoy!
Pronunciation Web Resources http://www.sunburstmedia.com/PronWeb.html: An excellent resource for pronunciation exercises for your students.

Listening-class materials

To be able to access the following listening materials you will need a multimedia computer and a piece of software called RealPlayer which allows audio files to be downloaded and played in a compressed format. You can download RealPlayer free at http://www.real.com

Breaking News English http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com: Lessons ready to use from current events News Items.
BBC World Service - English Learning http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish: There are some great listening materials at this site, all in British English, but of the usual high standard we come to expect of the BBC.
Randall's Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/: This site by Randall David contains graded listening exercises in American English. Very impressive.

Reading-class materials

Breaking News English http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com: Lessons ready to use from current events News Items.
Nature http://www.nature.com/
New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com
Scientific American http://www.sciam.com: All three of the above sites will give you limited access to articles and abstracts on scientific issues. Again, useful authentic source materials for classes.
Why Files http://whyfiles.org: This has to be one of my favourite sites. Based in the States it is designed to interest high school students in the sciences and has a large archive of interesting articles on a variety of subjects. Well worth a look.

Also, if your students have a high enough reading level, they may enjoy reading academic articles in their areas of interest that you can download for them from academic E-journals or news stories from your favorite news sources elsewhere on the Web.

Writing-class materials

Too many to describe in detail, the following are all links to downloadable materials (information and exercises) on all aspects of academic writing. I particularly recommend the Purdue University site which is a treasure trove of valuable materials. These sites should be the first stop for anyone teaching a writing course.

Academic Writing (University of Toronto) http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/advise.html
Writing Center Handouts http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts.html
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant http://www.powa.org/
Purdue OWL Handouts http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts
The Rensselaer Writing Center Handouts http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/handouts.html
Technical Writing (France) http://www.multimania.com/jcviel/: For teaching technical writing
Internet/Computer Writing Resources http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/tesol98/home.html: This page is a list of links to other writing resources not mentioned above. If you found the others useful, why not take a look at the ones mentioned on this page.

Examinations

Often students will ask you for information about English language examinations. Here is a list of links with information.

IELTS http://www.ielts.org: IELTS is the British/Australasian equivalent of the TOEFL exam and is becoming increasingly important for Chinese students wanting to study in Commonwealth countries.
TOEFL http://www.testwise.com/review.html
TOEFL Computer http://www.toefl.org: Both these sites provide detailed information on the (dreaded!) TOEFL exam. The second one gives details of the changes brought about by the switch to computer delivery.
TOEFL online practice http://www.stuff.co.uk/toefl.htm: Online practice for the TOEFL (requires Shockwave plug-in).

CALL software

CELIA http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/education/celia/celia.html: The CELIA archive is based at LaTrobe university in Australia. It is a download centre and ranks as definitely the first stop for any teacher looking for shareware, freeware or demo CALL software.
Clarity Software http://www.clarity.com.hk: Based in Hong Kong, this is the site of the Clarity Software company and the source of some rather interesting demo software particularly suited to the teaching of academic English.
Cutting Edge CALL Demos http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/cuttingedge.html: As its name suggests, this is a site at Berkeley in the States designed to be a showcase for the use of cutting edge technology in language teaching. You can complete the activities online but there is no software to download.
Creative Software http://www.cict.co.uk/software: Martin Holmes has to be one of the most altruistic English teachers on the net! His site is a goldmine of freeware (and some shareware) software tools for English language teachers worldwide. Here you will find software to help you grade wordprocessed text as well as many other things.

E-journals

If you are teaching non-English major students and would like to use some reading texts from their subject area in your class, check out the following site which includes links to academic e-journals on just about every topic you could imagine.

Scholarly Journals Via the WWW http://info.lib.uh.edu/research/findjournals.html

Education research

Full articles on-line

Forum http://exchanges.state.gov/forum: US Information Agency's quarterly TEFL journal, FORUM, is now online. You'll find lots of pracitcal TEFL articles here. All articles from 1993 to the present are now on-line.
Internet TESL Journal http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/: As far as I am aware this was the first of the online journals devoted to English language teaching.

Abstracts on-line (to read the full articles from these journals you probably need to visit a large western university library)

Applied Linguistics http://www.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/: This is the site of the journal Applied Linguistics.
ELT Journal - Online Search http://www.oup.co.uk/eltj/contents/: This site allows for searching the ELTJ database. Useful if you want to find out if someone has written an article on your research topic already
English Teaching Professional http://www.etprofessional.com/: The site of English Teaching Professional
Language Learning & Technology http://llt.msu.edu: As its name suggests, this online journal is devoted to technological applications in language teaching.
Modern Language Journal http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/mlj/index.html: The site of the MLJ has a searchable archive of abstracts.
Applied Linguistics Research Group http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ALRG: This site produced by the University of Surrey in England boasts one of the best links pages for research available. A real must.
Resources in Second Language Education http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~aweinrib/sle/: A relative new-comer to the Web, this page of links produced by the people at the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education is also extremely valuable.
TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal & TESOL Matters http://www.tesol.org: On this site you can find full versions of TESOL Matters (the TESOL newsletter) and indexes of recent issues of TESOL Journal and TESOL Quarterly. Full articles from TESOL Journal and TESOL Quarterly will eventually be available on-line, but only to dues paying TESOL members.

Concordances (word usage lists)

These sites have searchable databases of real English language usage gleaned from various contexts. These can help you see how a word or phrase has actually been used.

University of Michigan's MICASE concordance (spoken US academic English) http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/
Collins WordbanksOnline English corpus sample (Collins Cobuild - UK and US) http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx
British National Corpus (yes, site hosted in Utah but British data) http://view.byu.edu/
eDict.com.hk Web Concordancer (has some samples of Chinese users of English) http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/
Google (well, actually any modern Web search engine basically - why not?) http://google.com/

Teahouse friends

Raouls China Saloon http://raoulschinasaloon.com
Tom Chambers' Sheng Da Pictorial http://shengdacollege.tomrchambers.com
Larry Rhoe's Harbin blog http://worldtourinchina.blogspot.com
Teach for Friendship Foundation http://teachforfriendship.com -- Willboots
Dave Kees http://www.davekees.com
Teach-in-china.net and Teach-in-zhejiang.com http://teach-in-china.net and http://teach-in-zhejiang.com
Thor May's Diary http://thormay.net/chinadiary/diarysite.html
Tom in Taiyuan, Shanxi http://taiyuan.port5.com
Everything ESL http://everythingesl.net
Taiwan Teacher http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1979
Taiwan-Teachers http://www.taiwan-teachers.com
Dave's ESL Cafe http://eslcafe.com
Fred's Teaching and Living in China story http://members.aol.com/lumabner/china.htm
Lisa & Lara's adopt in China story http://www.tussah.com
Eva Easton's links links and links http://eleaston.com
Appalachians Abroad http://www.marshall.edu/gochina
TESOLTeachers.org http://tesolteachers.org
TEFL.net http://tefl.net
English Club http://englishclub.net
China English Language Education Association (CELEA) http://www.elt-china.org
China Teachers Forum http://www.china-teachers.com
Chuck in China http://chake.chinatefl.com

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