professional development (teacher toolbox)

The teacher toolbox provides a wide range of information for language teachers across the world including, journals and articles from users of the site, as well as from outside sources. Send in your own story, article, or favourite journal by email.

Language Teachers' Ideas, Stories, Articles

While many of us have successes in the classroom, not all of us are academic writers and able to get our ideas published in refereed journals. Send in your classroom ideas, a review of your favourite teaching resource or technique, your story about how you got into language teachers, anything that may be of interest to other teachers. We want to hear from you!

Article: Why not choose an easy language as a first foreign language? (Nicole E.)
International Mother Language Day at Robina High (Sellina M.)
Quick Ideas from Teachers for International Year of Languages
Flip Bingo: Self-assessing hand-made vocabulary game (S. Mason)
Teacher Ideas: 5 Games for the language classroom (D. Svenson)
Article: Networking for Language Teachers (S. Mason)


Journal and Newspaper articles from various sources

What do we do with an International Year of Languages? (David Crystal) Paper to UNESCOCAT
Primary School Students 'need extra language' (Lucy Hood, Feb 2008)
Minding Our Language (John Tons, Mar 2008)
Myths and Misconceptions and Second Language Learning
The Internet and Foreign Language Instruction: Practice and Discussion
Language Learning Strategies: An Overview for L2 Teachers
Judith Weeldon:Speaking in Toungues
Practical Ways to Help Anxious Learners
Technology and Second Language Teaching Articles


Journals

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
The Modern Language Journal
Good Practice Guide for Learning and Teaching in Language and Linguistics
Japan Association for Language Teaching
The Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics
Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies
Language Learning and Technology Journal
The Internet TESL Journal
Language Teaching: Internatioanl Research Resource

Blogs

International Year of Languages - Australia
The Language Guy


Sites for Linguists and Langauge Educators

Linguist List
Global Language Monitor


Online Media

Lingua Franca Free-to-air weekly radio broadcasts and downloads
Radio Australia Radio stations in Chinese, Indonesian, Khmer, Vietnamese and languages of PNG


Discussion Lists

Language Teachers Discussion List Discussion list for this website
SenseiOnline Active list for Japanese Language Teachers


Reference Tools

English Etymology Dictionary