Introduction

The Internet Resources

Electronic Journals and Magazines

• The Internet TESL Journal - This is a monthly Web journal launched in 1995 by Chrales and Lawrence Kelly. It has a practical bend. It offers a great collection of thousands of links both for students and teachers.

• Language Learning and Technology: A journal for second and foreign language educators - This journal was made to encourage research on the use of technology in language learning and make this research available for educators throughout the world.

• ELT Journal - this is a quarterly publication for all those involved in the field of teaching English as a second or foreign. There is also a CD-Rom ELT Journal.

• Hello Online: E-Journal for Learners of English - This site is produced by Russian teachers of English, who would like to contribute to successful cross-cultural communication not only by teaching students English, but also by telling the English-speaking world more about Russia - in English. A wealth of information for cross cultural studies related to being Russian and being American.

Popular ESL/EFL sites

• BBC World service - A comprehensive site for teachers and students offering on-line courses, news stories and a discussion forum.

• Onestopenglish.com - This site offers teachers lots of free resources and lesson ideas.It has its own Onestop magazine, forum, Site Search and lots of other useful rubrics.

• EnglishCLUB.net - A great site with exercises on variuos language points.You may enjoy playing games,too.

• ESL Independent Study Lab - This site consists of over 150 annotated links to high-quality websites, organized by topics and graded by language ability.

Other useful resources

• Ask Jeeves - This is a friendly, real-language search tool. It is easy and fun to navigate.

• Teenadvice Online - The site has an enormous breadth of scope for teenagres. It has great opportunities for interaction. It is clean and fast. The information is updated weekly.

• Crayon: Create Your Own Newspaper - It is a special interactive site for those who want to be creative and make something new. Students may select the content from a great variety of sources.