Teaching English in Japan

1-10-19 Kita, Okegawa-shi, Saitama-ken, 363-0011. Phone 048-772-7724

Theme-based conversations and language practice for students of English (EFL, ESL, ESOL). The dialogs have two or more speakers. Read transcripts and listen to mp3 files.

The Asian EFL Journal is a refereed and indexed online journal for teaching and learning English, a (free) forum devoted to discussions on research and development of English as an International Language.

Grammar Advisor is the grammar resource for TEFL teachers. Part online course, part reference guide, and part personal grammar consultant, Grammar Advisor is dedicated to answering the most common questions teachers encounter in the EFL/ESL classroom.

Selected resources of games, grammar activities and language practice resource books.

DLTK's Crafts for Kids features a (free!) variety of fun children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes. Lots of printable templates suitable for ages 2 and up (for native speakers; appropriate for older children in EFL classrooms).

An up-to-date listing of Japan-based language teaching jobs (eikaiwa, university, high school, etc.). Active since 1991, it's probably the most famous EFL jobs directory for Japan in English.

Like all professions, the profession of teaching English is full of acronyms. Some you'll come across freqently, such as ELT, EFL and TEFL. Others are less common, or perhaps only common in writing (such as NNS). Two of the unofficial acronyms listed here are EDNAS and TENAR.

An internationally-respected, fully-refereed electronic journal for ESL and EFL instructors and researchers established in 1994. Mirrored on four servers, the link above brings you to the Berkeley server, which contains a Google search at the top of the page; select "www-writing.berkeley.edu" to search only TESL-EJ.

EFL Unit, Department of Educational Studies, University of York. Distance mode.