ESL Faculty Resources

Advising ESL Students at MTC

For information on placement, courses, contacts, and help with advising ESL students at MTC, click here.

Placement and Prerequisites for ESL courses at MTC

For information on placement and prerequsites, click here.

Help with ESL Students in Mainstream Classes

You may be teaching a class of both ESL students and native speakers (NS) of English. If so, you will find that many textbooks and handbooks offer special help for the ESL students. However, you may also want to read a little more about the similarities and differences between ESL and NS Students--if so, click here for suggestions and information written for MTC.

Jan Jake
WM 427-A
803-738-7171
jakej@midlandstech.edu

Resources for the ESL Classroom

TESOL's Resource Page

For links to many resources for teachers and students from TESOL, click here.

The Internet TESL Journal Activity Page

For activities for all levels and ages, click here.

ESL Study Hall

For resources in many areas, click here.

Grammar links:

To follow links to sources for grammar help, click here.

Idioms:

For links to many sites on idioms and slang, click here.

Reading Links:

For links to site for various levels of reading, click here.
For sites and activities in vocabulary and reading, click here.

Composition Links:

For information on research papers, click here.
For OWL, the Purdue Online Writing Lab, click here.

Working with Absolute Beginners

For procedures and materials for working with students who have no English at all, click here.
For the ESL Literacy site, click here.

TESL Organizations and Issues

ESLCC Listserv:

The purpose of of the eslcc list (English as a Second Language at the Community Colleges) is to provide community college ESL teachers with an electronic forum for the discussion of instruction-related topics, trends, issues, strategies, and resources. Dramatic enrollment increases in recent years by non-native speakers attending two-year institutions is the justification and provides the impetus for the creation of this specialized list of community college educators. Please note that eslcc is NOT a branch of TESL-L.

To subscribe to the eslcc list, send the following command to

eslcc-request@hcc.hawaii.edu

in the body of e-mail:

subscribe eslcc

TESOL

For information on the international organization, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, click here.

Carolina TESOL

For information on the TESOL organization for North and South Carolina, click here.

Columbia Area ESL Instructors' Group

For information about meeting with other ESL instructors in the Columbia Area, send a message to pkrantz@sc.rr.com

Placement and assessment at other colleges

For information about placement instruments and procedures in other US community colleges, click here.

Adjunct Employment Issues

For information about adjunct employment issues, contact kstanley@charlotte.infi.net

Other ESL Instruction in the Columbia Area

C.R. Neal Adult Basic Education

Phone 803-695-4062

For information on all Adult ESL instruction available in this area, click here.