ESL Teaching Resources

A large collection of articles, tips, and ideas to help teachers structure lessons, develop curricula, manage classrooms, and keep lessons interesting.

A large collection of articles and research on teaching ESL, from classrom-specific subjects such as grammar and vocabulary, to broader classroom approaches and teaching methodologies such as CALL (Computer Assited Language Learning) and ESP (Education for Special/Specific Purposes).

An outline of the most prominent behaviorist, cognitivist, constructivist, design-based, and humanist research into how people learn and develop.

A brief summary of some of the most popular teaching approaches, along with some hints and tips for applying them in the classroom.

Adam Simpson of Bilgi University provides an overview of the teaching approaches he has used in the classroom. This site provides some valuable insight into an experienced teacher's progression through the various methods and approaches used in second language classrooms.

Based on Stephen Krashen's research and theories, this page contains a discussion of how to use psycholinguistics when teaching a second language.

Children and adults learn language in different ways. This page outlines some of the key differences between these two age groups as well as some teaching suggestions to create engaging, effective lessons.

Explanation and description of the concepts behind audiolingual teaching, as well as activities and tasks that fit within this teaching approach.

Multiple Intelligence Theory (MIT) has become very prominent in educational fields as teachers are expected and encouraged to take into account the diverse strengths of the students in their classrooms. This site contains information on the different intelligences identified by psychologists as well as ways to make use of MIT in ESL lessons.

Stephen Krashen is perhaps the most famous language acquisition theorist in the world today. His theories have influenced classroom teaching and approaches all around the globe.

Everyone speaks in a dialect of some kind. While "standard" English does exist to an extent, more often speech is marked by regional, ethnic, and class variation that colors the various dialects across the country and around the world. ESL teachers should be aware of dialectic variation when teaching.