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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.
Cathay Teacher http://www.cathayteacher.com: China job board.
ESL China http://www.eslchina.cc: China job board.
China TEFL http://www.chinatefl.com/: China job board.

Job search related

Middle Kingdom Life

http://middlekingdomlife.com/guide/

Job choice and life in China advice.

English First (EF) franchise school jobs http://www.englishfirst.com/trt/teaching-english-in-china.html

EF franchises exist in many cities in China.

China Association for International Exchange of Personnel (CAIEP) http://www.caiep.org

Mostly a Chinese language website, it has some English language pages. Sounds officially supported by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. For more 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

Has a Copy of SAFEA Employment

Contract and other odds and ends including a teaching position application form.

SAFEA http://www.safea.gov.cn/english/

China's State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs website is official (.gov.cn).

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 Village - 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

Middle Kingdom Life http://middlekingdomlife.com/guide/: Job choice and life in China advice.
Xianzai.com http://www.xianzai.com: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Dalian oriented expat scene -- weekly email newsleters.
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.
Chuck in China http://chake.chinatefl.com: Chuck's home page chronicles his travels in China
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://beijing.usembassy-china.org.cn: US Embassy in China Web site - Embassy and consulate addresses, phone numbers and more:
- US Citizen's services; Voting info, etc.
- Register your passport for easier replacement should you loose it.

Asia

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

Speaking-class materials

Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/Lessons/: So much teaching material it is hard to believe.
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

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.

Education research

Full articles on-line

Forum http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum-journal.html: 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://iteslj.org/: 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.
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://mlj.miis.edu/: MLJ has a searchable archive of abstracts.
Applied Linguistics Research Group http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ALRG/resources.html: This site produced by the University of Surrey in England boasts one of the best links pages for research available. A real must.
TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal and 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

Ken Losey's blog http://kenlosey.blogspot.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
Thor May's Diary http://thormay.net/chinadiary/diarysite.html
Everything ESL http://everythingesl.net
Taiwan Teacher http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1979
Taiwan-Teachers http://www.taiwan-teachers.com
Lisa & Lara's adopt in China story http://www.tussah.com
Eva Easton's links links and links http://eleaston.com
TESOLTeachers.org http://tesolteachers.org
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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