Links to ESL Resources on the Internet

A resource made available for the ENG 730 case study presentation by Alex Hosmer, Akio Takahashi and Luis Poza.

Discussion Lists

Discussion lists are discussions that take place over e-mail; you receive all messages from the group as email, and send them to the group in the same way.

To subscribe to ACW-L (Alliance for Computer and Writing), email them and make the email consist of only: "subscribe ACW-L FirstName LastName" to be subscribed to the list.

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To subscribe to INTCOLED (all teachers using Internet in classroom), email them and make the email consist of only: "SUB INTCOLED"

To subscribe to NETEACH-L (Internet as an educational tool), email them and make the email consist of only: "subscribe NETEACH-L FirstName LastName"

Newsgroups

These sites are accessable if you have Netscape. To set yourself up, go to the OPTIONS menu in Netscape and select MAIL AND NEWS PREFERENCES. You will be presented with a window which has several tabs at the top; click on the one titled "Server." You will then be presented with a window that has Email preferences at the top and a small News preference box at the bottom. In the News preference box, in the space provided for "News (NNTP) Server" type in "news.csus.edu" and click on "OK." This will tell Netscape to connect to the CSUS (Sacramento State Univ.) news server. After doing that, just click on onw of the newsgroup links below:

misc.education.language.english: a newsgroup where we can discuss topics of interest to teachers of English to speakers of other languages.

bit.listserv.tesl-l is also a discussion of TESL/FL. It is a moderated discussion and to participate you must first subscribe to theTESL-L mailing list.

bit.listserv.slart-l is also a discussion of TESL/FL.

comp.edu.languages.natural is devoted to software for assisting language instruction.

alt.education.email-project

alt.education.research is a newsgroup about studying about studying

uk.education.misc is a newsgroup of interest to those involved in education in the United Kingdom.

alt.flame.spelling is the place to criticize other people's spelling.

alt.usage.english is a newsgroup where discussion is about the English language.

alt.usage.english.neologism is described as being for "meaningless words coined by psychotics". Not many sites carry it, and it has had little traffic so far; the people who do post to it are more positive about neologisms than the quoted description would indicate.

misc.education.adult is devoted to adult education issues.

k12.lang.art is for K12 teachers of language arts

k12.chat.teacher is for K12 teachers, in general.

k12.ed.art Arts & crafts curriculum in K-12 education.

k12.ed.business Business education curriculum in grades K-12.

k12.ed.comp.literacy Teaching computer literacy in grades K-12.

This web page was authored by Luis Poza. Last update: 12/4/96

Links to ESL Resources on the Internet

World Wide Web Sites

Discussion Lists

Newsgroups