English Education and Applied Linguistics in Asia

Conferences

• TESOL Conference Calendar Page

Mailing Lists

• The Linguist (Web site for the grand daddy of linguistics lists)

• eltasia-l: list on English language teaching in Asia
  Send list commands to Majordomo@nucleus.nectec.or.th

• eng-ed2002: list designed to increase communication between Japanese and Korean English teachers.  To join, please e-mail the list owner: fouser{the-at-mark}yuldo.net

• List of TESOL and Applied Linguistics Lists (fairly complete list of lists)

• Search for Other Lists using Liszt

Professional Organizations

• AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics)

• Asia TEFL (new organization for English education in Asia)

• ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)

• TESOL (Teachers of English to Students of Other Languages)

• IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language)

• International Phonetic Association (includes chart and fonts for IPA)

• LSA (Linguistic Society of America)

Selected Research Centers

• CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition University of Minnesota

• CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics)

• Center for Multilingual and Multicultural Research (University of Southern California)

• CILT (Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research)

Immersion and Bilingual Language Education, and Language Policy

• Annotated Bibliography for Immersion Language Teaching (from CARLA at the University of Minnesota; a good place to start)
• James Crawford's Language Policy Web Site (excellent collection of links)

Multimedia and Technology in Foreign Language Education

• ERIC Clearinghouse site on web-based language learning activities (excellent collection of links)
• EUROCALL (European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning)
• History of CALL (excellent site on history of CALL and technology in language learning)
• Tim Johns CALL Page (site contains interesting downloads)
• Michael T. Smith's Homepage for Multimedia Research
• WELL (Web-Enhanced Language Learning)

Testing Information

• Association of Language Testers in Europe

• Prof Kitao Kenji's Testing Pages

• Online Testing: A New Approach (paper by Bob Po-Yung Lai; includes useful references)

• Resources in Language Testing WWW Page (comprehensive site from Surrey University)

• TOEFL (list of downloadable publications on the TOEFL)

Journals, Magazines, and Other Useful Sites

Journals

• Asian Journal of English Language Teaching

• Comparative Education (access free with registration)

• English Teacher (journal from Australia)

• Language Learning and Technology

• TESL-EJ (online journal)

• The Internet TESOL Journal

Magazines/Newspapers

• New York Times (good section on education in the USA)

• Washington Post (excellent articles on education in the USA)

Link Collections

• English Teachers Page from the UK

• Kitao Kenji's Site (one of the most comprehensive EFL/ESL sites in Japan)

• Word Smart Bibliography of Vocabulary (by Professor Michael Shand; extensive list of references)

Reference and Search Sites

• ERIC Document Reproduction Service (search ERIC)

• Guide to Primary Sources

• Internet Public Library (search selected pages by category)

• University of Oregon Yamada Language Center