Links I have found useful along the way

Below are links to resources that have helped me in teaching English as a second language, and in teaching teachers. I hope they are of service to you too.

If you have any suggestions for links to add to categories that exist, or don’t yet, please comment below.

*Topics are in alphabetical order.

Adult Learning Theory

• Malcolm Knowles http://infed.org/mobi/malcolm-knowles-informal-adult-education-self-direction-and-andragogy/  

Assessment

• Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding (formative assessment strategies) 
• TEFL Assessment Sheets (very comprehensive) http://www.finchpark.com/courses/sheets.htm
• Ways to Assess Student Learning During Class  http://tep.uoregon.edu/pdf/assessment/Ways_to_Assess_Student_Learning_During_Class.pdf

Body Language

• Secrets of Body Language (History Channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWm52oqDvPU and/or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aUyKs1rOiQ

Teacher burnout (2015)

• http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/31/four-in-10-new-teachers-quit-within-a-year
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2015/02/03/education-reform-is-driving-teachers-out-of-the-classroom/#2715e4857a0b215382653c17
• http://www.cea-ace.ca/blog/grant-frost/2015/01/3/teachers-crisis-crisis-teaching
• http://news.ubc.ca/2015/04/22/why-are-so-many-new-teachers-burning-out/
• http://blog.parentpaperwork.com/tag/canadian-teachers-federation/
• http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/why-do-teachers-quit/280699/
• http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/03/30/395322012/the-hidden-costs-of-teacher-turnover  
• http://www.mindgarden.com/117-maslach-burnout-inventory (Inventory)

Job Satisfaction

• http://www.oecd.org/korea/TALIS-Country-profile-Korea.pdf
• http://www.koreabang.com/2015/stories/20-of-teachers-in-korea-regret-choosing-their-profession.html

Cognates

• False cognates :) http://www.careeraddict.com/en/16695/avoid-these-20-english-words-when-in-other-countries

Cognitive skills

• Cognitive skills http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2006/12/18/what-are-cognitive-abilities/
• Thinking Skills http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/rod-bolitho-thinking-skills

Communication

Nonverbal

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihKXQbYeV5k

Miscommunication

• (profain but funny) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaGpaj2nHIo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ScJhlW0N4
• http://www.skillkey.com/courses/view/3
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T3X0hRbTek
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T3X0hRbTek  

Community (dynamics and rhythms)

Classroom Community

• Forming Relationships WITH Students – Michigan State University
• Forming Relationships AMONG Students – Michigan State University
• Dawn Wink – Teaching – Freedom Within Structure and Teaching with Stones
• Community
• Parker J. Palmer talks about six tensions or paradoxes that need to be built into learning spaces. http://infed.org/mobi/parker-j-palmer-community-knowing-and-spirituality-in-education/

Communities of Practice

“…communities of practice are everywhere. They are a familiar experience, so familiar perhaps that it often escapes our attention. Yet when it is given a name and brought into focus, it becomes a perspective that can help us understand our world better. In particular, it allows us to see past more obvious formal structures such as organizations, classrooms, or nations, and perceive the structures defined by engagement in practice and the informal learning that comes with it.”

“The term community of practice was coined to refer to the community that acts as a living curriculum for the apprentice.”

• from http://wenger-trayner.com/introduction-to-communities-of-practice/

• Communities of practice presentation by Etienne Wenger-Trayner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn3joQSQm4o
• Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner’s website http://wenger-trayner.com/etienne/

Competence

• Conscious Competence Learning Model http://www.businessballs.com/consciouscompetencelearningmodel.htm
• Intercultural Competence in English http://www.elc-consult.com/49601/105701.html

Complexity Theory

• Scott Thornbury https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/tag/complexity-theory/

Corpus

• Asian Corpus of English http://corpus.ied.edu.hk/ace/
• Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English https://www.univie.ac.at/voice/

Critical Incidents

• John Hughes http://elteachertrainer.com/2011/02/14/c-is-for-critical-incidents/
• Thomas S. C. Farrell http://www.reflectiveinquiry.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ELT-J-Farrell-08.pdf
• Willy Cardoso https://authenticteaching.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/initial-teacher-training-valuing-and-creating-opportunities-for-critical-incidents/

Critical reading and thinking

• Texts http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/student-opinion/?_r=0
• How to develop critical thinking http://lifehacker.com/how-to-train-your-mind-to-think-critically-and-form-you-1516998286?disableinsets=on&utm_expid=66866090-49.VYy4WCNHSyuP6EmjnM93MQ.2&commerce_insets_disclosure=on&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Fhow-to-train-your-mind-to-think-critically-and-form-you-1516998286%3Fcommerce_insets_disclosure%3Don

Cuisenaire Rods

• Christina Rebuffet-Broadus https://ilovetefl.wordpress.com/?s=cuisenaire
• John Hughes http://elteachertrainer.com/2013/05/24/cuisenaire-rods-in-elt/
• Sandy Millin and CeriJones https://sandymillin.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/cuisenaire-rods/
• Scott Thornbury https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/tag/cuisenaire-rods/

Culture

• https://writingcu.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/cultural-dimensions/
• Barnga –  a culture game http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/interculture/pcat6.htm
• https://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/modules/culture/
• http://www.educ.ualberta.ca/staff/olenka.bilash/best%20of%20bilash/culture.html
• The Place of “Culture” in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Reflection http://iteslj.org/Articles/Tang-Culture.html
• Culture Matters: The Peace Corps Cross-Cultural Workbook http://www.smith.edu/studyabroad/docs/T0087_culturematters.pdf
• http://carla.umn.edu/culture/index.html (Thanks to Pat Moran’s suggestion :) )
• School girls around the world http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/50-captivating-photos-of-girls-going-to-school-around-the-world_us_56d61a7de4b0871f60ed1fce

Crosscultural Misunderstandings

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOHvMz7dl2A
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdeFdFEbuqk

• Norms http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/movies/cultural-differences-ggtu

• http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2012/03/160_107527.html

Deductive learning (see Inductive learning)

Discussions (facilitating discussions)

• http://assist.educ.msu.edu/ASSIST/classroom/leads_discussions/index.htm

Ecological Approach

• http://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/ecological-approach-english-language-teaching/

Emotions

Emotional intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence Needs a Moral Rudder http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/emotional_intelligence_needs_a_moral_rudder

Emotions and language

• Effect of written emotional expression on immune function in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15039514
• Emotionally Expressive Coping Predicts Psychological and Physical Adjustment to Breast Cancer https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ccp685875.pdf
• Feelings Into Words: Contributions of Language to Exposure Therapy http://www.scn.ucla.edu/pdf/Kircanski(inpress)PsychSci.pdf (most recent http://pss.sagepub.com/content/23/10/1086  )
• Putting Feelings Into Words Affect Labeling Disrupts Amygdala Activity in Response to Affective Stimuli http://www.scn.ucla.edu/pdf/AL(2007).pdf
• Unlocking Past Emotion: Verb Use Affects Mood and Happiness http://www.bama.ua.edu/~wphart/Social_Cognition_Lab/Publications_files/verbaspectaffect.pdf
• You Are What You Speak https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/talking-apes/201504/you-are-what-you-speak
• How Language Shapes Thought https://psych.stanford.edu/~lera/papers/sci-am-2011.pdf (More by Lera Boroditsky https://scholar.google.co.kr/citations?user=8mm3GBsAAAAJ&hl=en)
• Emotional literacy

Neuroscience

• Antonio Damasio http://bigthink.com/experts/antoniodamasio

Empowerment

• Divya Madhavan http://divyamadhavan.com/2015/03/31/empowerment/

English (lingua franca, international, dialects…)

• 21 accents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k
• 31 accents of love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBtLxuv0-u8
• History of English
  • History of the English Language (British Council) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJiHmR85cU
  • http://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/english-language/the-history-english-ten-minutes?dontmisslangbar=
  • Adventures in English –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihoYL-dUK1g

Experiential Learning Cycle

• Zhenya Polosatova https://wednesdayseminars.wordpress.com/category/reflection-through-elc/page/8/

Feedback

Writing

• Joanna Makefaki https://myeltrambles.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/feedback-on-writing/

Fluency and Coherence (Speaking)

• IELTS (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SI0twnNEN8

Focus on form

• Scott Thornbury https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/tag/focus-on-form/

Goals

• http://jamesclear.com/goals-systems
• http://jenniferlouden.com/art-of-building-your-truer-life/

Grammar (with bonus humor because we all need to lighten up about grammar)

Adverbs

• Emphasizing adverbs (adding that extra little kick to your adjectives)
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv143.shtml
  • http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/05/an-extremely-most-unique-opportunity/

Adjectives

• Gradable or non-gradable (just HOW pretty are you really?) http://www.onestopenglish.com/methodology/ask-the-experts/grammar-questions/grammar-gradable-and-non-gradable-adjectives/146353.article

Complement

• http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/complement.htm
• Subject complement http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/subject_complement.htm
• Object complement http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/object_complement.htm

Function words

• http://www.pronuncian.com/Lessons/Default.aspx?Lesson=58 

Object

Direct

• http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/object.htm
• http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/direct_object.htm

Object Complement

• http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/object_complement.htm

Operators (do, do, do…because we always need a little back-up when being negative, inquisitive, or emphatic)

• http://www.linguisticsgirl.com/the-operator-in-english-grammar/

Particles (pesky little things)

• http://www-01.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryoflinguisticterms/WhatIsAParticle.htm

Phrasal verbs (all of them…the ones that love splitting too)

• http://www.dailywritingtips.com/3-types-of-phrasal-verbs/
• Follow on Twitter @phrasalverbdmon or go to their website http://www.phrasalverbdemon.com/

Predicate (no use in denying this part of this sentence. It’s affirmed and here to stay)

• http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/predicate.htm

Prepositional phrase (wordy adjectives or adverbs)

• http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/prepositional_phrase.htm
• https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/preposition/prepositional-phrases/

Sentences

• Conditionals (bribery might be involved here) http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/conditionals-1 and http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conditional2.htm

Speaking

• Grammatical range and accuracy – IELTS (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGviA4pDHoI and http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/IELTS%20Speaking%203%20-%20Grammatical%20range%20&%20accuracy.pdf

Symbols

• http://www.montessorialbum.com/montessori/index.php?title=Grammar_Symbols

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8kKAg2S5Co

Verbs

• Dummy-do (d-uh!) http://www.linguisticsgirl.com/using-auxiliary-verbs-as-operators/
• Copular (stop with the dirty thoughts!) verbs http://www.englishgrammar.org/copular-verbs/
• Intransitive and Transitive Verbs (could we make these terms less memorable?) Grateful for Grammar Girl – http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/transitive-and-intransitive-verbs “The tip for remembering the name is to think of transitive verbs as transferring their action to the object. Transitive and transfer both start with the prefix trans-.”
• Predicate verb phrases (maybe we should call the “predictable” verb phrases.) http://www.linguisticsgirl.com/grammatical-functions-of-verbs-in-predicate-verb-phrases/

Ice-breakers

• http://www.icebreakers.ws/small-group/never-have-i-ever.html

Inductive and deductive learning

• Jon Hird, inductive grammar deductive grammar
  http://oupeltglobalblog.com/2015/04/24/inductive-and-deductive-grammar-teaching/

Integrated skills

• http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/integrated-skills/topics/
• http://busyteacher.org/11703-focus-integrating-skills-integrated-skills-class.html

Learning-centered education

• https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/educational-malpractice-the-child-manufacturing-process/

Learning Challenges (Disabilities)

• Dear teachers… (with good subtitles)  https://www.facebook.com/Upworthy/videos/1125589420815248/

Learning Modalities

• VAK Learning styles Assessment http://www.kings.k12.ca.us/EdServices/Learning%20Styles%20Assessment/Grades%203-6%20VAK%20Learning%20Styles%20Assessment.pdf
• Multiple Intelligence Assessment http://www.nb.lung.ca/FFL/pdf/mii.pdf or http://www.collegesuccess1.com/instructormanual4thed/learning%20style/mi_quiz.pdf
• Self-generating test http://www.businessballs.com/howardgardnermultipleintelligences.htm#multiple intelligences tests (highlight and copy everything you see here)
• Are ‘Learning Styles’ a Symptom of Education’s Ills? http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/are-learning-styles-a-symptom-of-educations-ills/?smid=fb-nytimes&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&bicmp=AD&smtyp=aut&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&_r=0

Lexical Approach

• http://www.hltmag.co.uk/jun08/idea.htm
• http://www.hltmag.co.uk/dec13/index.htm

Lexis

• IELTS Speaking (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQQE2hWrl98

Listening

• Listening in the Language Classroom by John Field (book link) http://www.amazon.com/Listening-Language-Classroom-Cambridge-Teaching/dp/0521685702
• Listening Myths by Steven Brown (book link) https://www.press.umich.edu/2132445/listening_myths
• Rachael Roberts on listening skills http://elt-resourceful.com/tag/listening-skills/
• Teaching and Researching: Listening by Michael Rost (book link) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teaching-Researching-Listening-Applied-Linguistics-ebook/dp/B00GXBCLA2/ref=pd_sim_351_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=02F1ESMY16CVQWSX6FP0

Listening (Good listeners)

• Listening is an Act of Love http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/gg_live/science_meaningful_life_videos/speaker/jon_kabat-zinn/jon_kabat_zinn_listening_is_an_act_of_love/
• Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_5_ways_to_listen_better?language=en#t-11914
• Listen up! TED talks playlist https://www.ted.com/playlists/92/listen_up
• 9 Things Good Listeners Do Differently
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/habits-of-good-listeners_n_5668590.html
• Bad listeners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TeOGJP5vGA&feature=youtu.be
• Learning to Listen http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-taft/learning-to-listen_b_912046.html
• The Art and Practice of Mindful Listening http://www.chopra.com/ccl/the-art-and-practice-of-mindful-listening
• Compassionate Listening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUxYflkhzo&feature=youtu.be
• Brene Brown on empathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw&feature=youtu.be
• It’s Not About The Nail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

Phonology and phonetics

• Minimal pairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrIfQTOl97k

Presentation Skills

Correlations

• https://betterlesson.com/lesson/447814/correlation-and-causation

General

• https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/worksheets/presentations/
• http://lateralaction.com/pathfinder-resources/Pathfinder24Presentations.pdf

Informal and formal (politeness)

• https://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/business-english-presentations-formal-informal.pdf
• https://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/business-english-starting-presentations-politeness-competition-game.pdf

Interviews

• http://www.jobs.ac.uk/careers-advice/interview-tips/1276/top-5-academic-interview-questions-and-answers
• http://www.fehb.org/Classes/AEC/AECCulArts/pdfFiles/Job%20Interviewing%20Skills%20Lesson%20Plan.pdf

Phrases

• https://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/business-english-presentations-prepositions-pairwork.pdf
• https://www.thoughtco.com/language-of-graphs-and-charts-1210184
• http://www.eslflow.com/describinggraphstables.html
• http://www.ieltsbuddy.com/ielts-pie-chart.html
• http://www.dcielts.com/ielts-writing/academic-task-1-pie-charts-2/
• http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/charts.htm – starter phrases

Questions

• https://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/presentations-dealing-with-questions-and-problems.pdf

Surveys

• http://www.tefl.net/teaching/survey-design.htm
• http://www.nctm.org/Publications/Mathematics-Teacher/2015/Vol109/Issue5/Engaging-Students-in-Survey-Design-and-Data-Collection/
• https://thesocietypages.org/teaching/2010/09/16/survey-methods/
• https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/learning-teaching/elearning-staff/core-tools/opinio/survey-design-ideas
• http://uxmastery.com/successful-survey-design/

Survey results

• Survey Results Report: Pie Chart or Bar Graph?
• Presenting Survey Results – Drawing Conclusions

Pronunciation

• http://www.pronuncian.com/Lessons/Default.aspx?Lesson=58
• IELTS (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-uYzReetEI
• Amy Walker accents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJyTA4VlZus  

Reading Skills

• KWL Charts (how to approach them) http://www.nea.org/tools/k-w-l-know-want-to-know-learned.html

Receptive skills (Listening & reading)

• Bottom-up vs. Top-down Processing http://openpsyc.blogspot.kr/2014/06/bottom-up-vs-top-down-processing.html  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLHlfPTRekA  

Reflective Practice

Self and others

“By telling others how we feel and other information about ourselves we reduce the hidden area, and increase the open area, which enables better understanding, cooperation, trust, team-working effectiveness and productivity. Reducing hidden areas also reduces the potential for confusion, misunderstanding, poor communication, etc, which all distract from and undermine team effectiveness.

Organizational culture and working atmosphere have a major influence on group members’ preparedness to disclose their hidden selves. Most people fear judgement or vulnerability and therefore hold back hidden information and feelings, etc, that if moved into the open area, ie known by the group as well, would enhance mutual understanding, and thereby improve group awareness, enabling better individual performance and group effectiveness.”

“As with feedback, some people are more resilient than others – care needs to be taken to avoid causing emotional upset.”

*I can see this as a useful tool for trainers to use when considering the progress of a course, and the various group dynamics at play.

• Johari’s Window – http://www.businessballs.com/johariwindowmodel.htm
  • pdf of the window http://www.businessballs.com/johariwindowmodeldiagram.pdf

Social Change/Justice

 

Task-based Language Teaching (Dogme?)

• Geoff Jordan https://canlloparot.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/task-based-language-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-2616
• Steven Brown https://stevebrown70.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/why-pre-selected-language-aims-are-a-waste-of-time-and-what-we-should-be-doing-instead/
• Willy Cardoso https://authenticteaching.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/initial-teacher-training-do-they-still-teach-ppp/

Team-building

• http://www.businessballs.com/free-team-building-activities.htm
• http://www.wilderdom.com/games/InitiativeGames.html
• Puzzles http://www.businessballs.com/games.htm
• Cooperation based http://www.teambuilding-thailand.com/teambuilding-activities/cooperation-team-building-activities.html
• Six Thinking Hats http://www.debonogroup.com/six_thinking_hats.php – http://www.debonoforschools.com/pdfs/Six_Thinking_Hats_Card_Game_Free_Resource.pdf  

Young Learners