Research

Some sites with both practical and theoretical approaches to IT and FLT including software archives

NEW!	If you can stand disorderliness, there is a fairly large collection of resources such as scientific journals, Cybereculture, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Artificila Life etc collected on my "ILS Bookmarks" page. Help yourself. I may even tidy the place some day.

Constructivism. In my mind one of the most exciting theories of learning around. Here is a list of material that will enlighten any teacher. Perhaps even rethink her/his whole practice. That's what happened to me, anyway. Library of Constructionist resources From the University of Colorado, Denver. Constructivism Web Pages Compiled by Dr. John Kachurick, College Misericordia, Dallas. Essays on constructivism and education Collected by the Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation. Klaus Schwienhorst's pages with very interesting articles on constructivism.

ICT & Learning. On-line academic (mostly) publications and websites with an ICT perspective on learning (not language learning only). Often offers an educated glimpse of what's to come. Action Research Journal WebNet Journal: Internet Technologies, Applications & Issues Syllabus Magazine TECHNOS Quarterly, Indexed by Issue Language Learning & Technology The Technology Source 21st Century Teachers Network New Horizons for Learning A skyscraper of knowledge concerning learning and Information technology. Essays, Examples of good practice and a future perspective on education. CALICO Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium. Recommended. The Chronicle of Higher Education: Information Technology Computers in language Learning Possible roles outlined by Douglas Mills. See also Approaches to Web Use for ESL by same author. The MASIE Center Technology & Learning Think Tank The Internet for ESL Teachers with a thorough introduction and articles on the Net and education. Using the WWW in Language Teaching Aspects and Examples. CILT Research Forum the NODE learning technologies network

Miscellaneous theory & practice Humanizing Language Teaching Magazine CTI Centre for Modern Languages One of Europe's leading environments, from the University of Hull, UK. American Language Review "- fastest growing ESL magazine in the United States". ESL Magazine Bi-monthly magazine for ESL professionals. Teacher Magazine Lots of ideas as well as theory and debate. The Internet TESL Journal Articles, Research Papers, Lesson Plans and more. Global English From Rita Raley, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara. Pages from a dissertation. Krashen's "Natural Approach" An Interactive view! ESL/EFL Articles (Many TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ELT Links). English Language Teaching Resources A very impressive site devoted to the concerns of ESL/EFL teachers. It includes Organizations (e.g. British Council, TESOL), Publications, Technology for teaching, Jobs, Resource links etc. Newsgroups too. Give this one a try! EFL/ESL research Mainly linguistic and CALL sources The Language Centre of the University of Sussex Resources around the Internet. The Virtual CALL Library Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archives. Freeware and shareware. Technology Tip of the Month is very useful. From Deborah Healey, Oregon State University. Computer Assisted Language Learning CALL Reviews from the Language and Technology Centre, at the Centre for Language Teaching and Research, The University of Queensland. Also, see On-CALL, The Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education and the CALL database for language software. You can also go direct to English titles. Cafeteria! Online Resources Lots of useful material made available by Kenji Kitao. Centre for Language Teaching and Research The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Courses, Papers, CALL reviews etc. Finally, here is a newsgroup devoted to the changing English language. Discussion brings up new stuff all the time. Click alt.usage.english, take a look and subscribe.