• Book publishers often have useful sites, many with online resources, activities and magazines: Macmillan onestopenglish.com, Oxford, Cambridge and Longman for example.
• The Internet TESL Journal is a monthly web journal carrying articles "which are of immediate practical use to ESL/EFL teachers" rather than theory: handouts, lesson plans, teaching techniques etc., plus literally thousands of links, all categorised. Highly recommended.
• Teaching English is a co-production of the BBC and the British Council, to act as a resource for materials, activities and ideas, and as a forum.
• ESL Lounge specialises in easy lesson plans for ESL teachers. There are student surveys, jigsaws, flashcards, games, discussion prompters, role cards, readings, pronunciation activities, board games, songs, grammar summaries and more.
• Boggle's World is a resource site for teachers of English, focusing on classroom activities for kids, though there are adult activities too. Loads of downloadable worksheets to print and use.
• ELT Newsletter has weekly articles for teachers of English.
• Online Materials for Language Teachers - loads of links from E.L. Easton.
• Top English Teaching is a guide to ELT resources on the Internet: games, songs, activities, worksheets, books, videos, printables, ideas, etc.
• Ted Power is a Brighton-based teacher who offers many worksheets and lesson plans plus lots of useful material on phonology and an excellent section on Common Mistakes in English by Language Background.
• Resources for teachers of English for Science and Technology - lots of useful stuff, including details of the EST-L discussion list related to the teaching of scientific and technical writing. See also Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students which includes some exercises.
• The Academic Word List - 570 word families most used in academia; there's also a Highlighter and Gapmaker online for use with your own texts.
  
• English Direct takes the angle of bringing German EFL teachers abroad up to date on various corners of English life and language. (Run by a former Sussex student)
  
  
• Communicating with other language learners by e-mail (the electronic equivalent of pen pals) can be a rewarding use of the Internet. The SL Lists provide several forums for cross-cultural discussion and writing practice for college and university students in English language programs around the world. Ruth Vilmi's International Writing Exchange is a slightly different, more structured concept for writing classes.
• There's a wealth of great literature on the Internet. The University of Sussex Library is a good point from which to dive in, or try the Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
• Frequency Level Checker can be used to analyse the vocabulary level of a text to see whether it is appropriate for a certain group of learners, or to predict words that might cause difficulty for a certain group of learners.
  
• NETEACH-L is a mailing list for international EFL/ESL teachers to discuss issues related to using the Internet as an educational tool.
• ELT, Linguistics, and Communication - online resources and journals from Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao.
• The Usenet newsgroup misc.education.language.english has a useful FAQ with details of teacher training courses.
• InTuition offer 'English in a Teacher's Home' courses - a possible job opportunity for trained teachers.
  
• IATEFL - The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
• BALEAP - The British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes.

Journals available to Sussex staff and students

Please note that for full-text access to subscription journals off campus, you may need to go via the Electronic Library.

• ELT Journal seeks to bridge the gap between the everyday practical concerns of ELT professionals and related disciplines such as education, linguistics, psychology, and sociology that may offer significant insights. NB: We have an archive on CD for 1981-2002 in the Language Learning Centre.
  
• English for Specific Purposes journal.
• TESOL Quarterly journal, and its sister publication Essential Teacher (free access for the latter).
• Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real world problems.
  
• Assessing Writing frequently publishes articles about the assessment of writing in the fields of composition, writing across the curriculum, and TESOL.
• Journal of Second Language Writing publishes theoretically grounded reports of research and discussions of central issues in second and foreign language writing and writing instruction.
• TESL-EJ, being the Electronic Journal of the mailing list for Teachers of English as a Second Language.
• The Internet TESL Journal is a monthly web journal carrying articles "which are of immediate practical use to ESL/EFL teachers" rather than theory.
• The Reading Matrix - an international online journal on the teaching and learning of reading, the application of technology to literacy instruction, and issues in second language learning and teaching.
• More journals and organisations for CALL and general language teaching.
  
• Teachers of Japanese learners of English might find Jon Clenton's MA dissertation Learning Styles and the Japanese useful and informative.
• For a brief overview of some core issues in English for Academic Purposes, see Jon Clenton's MA essay Academic Writing: towards an integrated approach?