CREDE - Center
for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence
CREDE is a federally funded research and development program focused
on improving the education of students whose ability to reach
their potential is challenged by language or cultural barriers,
race, geographic location, or poverty.
>> Web: http://www.crede.ucsc.edu
Lab at Brown: dedicated to enhancing the capacity
of teachers to work effectively and equitably with English language
learners (ELLs). This Web site provides access to information
-- publications, educational materials, and the work of experts
in the field -- that promotes high achievement for ELLs.
>> Web: http://www.lab.brown.edu/tdl/index.shtml
CMC/EBBSS Webliography - offers an extensive
bibliography of links of interest to teachers working with English
language learners.
>> Web: http://libweb.uncc.edu/cimc/ebsscmc/esl.htm
Forum English Teaching: a quarterly journal
published by the U.S. Department of State for teachers of English
as a foreign or second language.
>> Web: http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/
Ohio University ESL: A variety of links to valuable
resources for teachers working with ESL students. Categories include
content based instruction, testing and assessment, lesson plans,
and more.
>> Web: http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/content.html
Everything ESL: Created by Judie Haynes, an
ESL teacher and textbook author from New Jersey with over 24 years
of experience. The site features more than 50 lesson plans, 30
teaching tips, 170 downloads, 450 discussion topics, and 60 resource
picks.
>> Web: http://www.everythingesl.net/
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
CAL is a private, non-profit organization that applies research
and information about language and culture to educational, cultural,
and social concerns. Includes a database of foreign language assessments,
the National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE) clearinghouse,
a database of immersion schools in the country, and digests that
highlight topics of current interest in foreign language education,
ESL, bilingual education, and linguistics.
>> Web: http://www.cal.org/
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
(NCELA)
NCELA (formerly the National Clearing House for Bilingual Education)
is housed at The George Washington University and is funded by
the U.S. Department of Education Office of Bilingual Education
and Minority Language Affairs. NCELA addresses issues dealing
with the education of linguistically and culturally diverse (LCD)
students in the U.S.
>> Web: http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/education/CMMR/Clearinghouse.html
SIOP Institute (Sheltered Instruction Observation
Protocol)
The SIOP is a research-based instrument that has been shown to
be a valid and reliable measure of sheltered instruction
>> Web: http://www.siopinstitute.net/index.html
ESCORT - formerly the Eastern Stream Center
on Resources and Training, located at the State University of
New York at Oneonta, is a national resource center dedicated to
improving the educational opportunities for migrant children.
Contains links to materials containing practical classroom strategies
and resources for use with Migrant English language learners.
>> Web: http://www.escort.org/
Instructional Strategies Online
A comprehensive repository of various instructional strategies
with links to many useful descriptions and teaching tools, including
graphic organizers.
>> Web: http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/index.html
Project More: an initiative funded through the
Training All Teachers Program for the Office of English Language
Acquisition (OELA, U.S. Department of Education). Offers pedagogical
materials and identifies teaching and learning strategies and
resources for mainstream and ESL teachers to use with ELL students
in grades K-12.
>> Web: http://education.uncc.edu/more/
Bilingual Research Journal Online
>> Web: http://brj.asu.edu/
National Association for Bilingual Education
(NABE)
NABE is the national organization for bilingual educators. NABE
produces a journal and a newsletter. The website has a page on
Frequently Asked Questions in bilingual education.
>> Web: http://www.nabe.org/
Teachers of English to Students of Other Languages
(TESOL)
International professional organization for those concerned with
the teaching of English as a second or foreign language. TESOL
members receive the bimonthly newspaper TESOL Matters, as well
as the scholarly research journal TESOL Quarterly and/or the practitioner's
magazine, TESOL Journal. Each journal is published four times
per year.
>> Web: http://www.tesol.org/
