Dave's ESL Cafe (eslcafe.com)

Member Name: starfish2000

Product:	eslcafe.com
Date:	10/11/00 (288 review reads)
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Dave's ESL Cafe can be found at www.eslcafe.com and is the best site for teachers and students of ESL or EFL on the internet. It is run by Dave Sperling, a well known ESL expert from California.

For those who don't know ESL is English as a Second Language and EFL is English as a Foreign Language.

The site is well organised and very easy to navigate. It is split into several sections:

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

These deal with new events and happenings in the world of ESL and on the site.
Details of TESOL conferences, new sections, new books etc.


ADDRESS BOOK

This is usefully split into seperate sections for students, teachers, schools and publishers. You can put in your own email address and details for other people to contact you or search the address book for specific schools, students in certain areas etc.

BOOK STORE

In conjunction with Amazon books you can search for all kinds of books to do with teaching and learning English and order them online.

CHAT CENTRAL

A chat room for teachers and students of English to ask questions, swap ideas or just chat and make friends.

DISCUSSION FORUMS

There are seperate forums for students and teachers. The student forums are on things like learning English, English schools, hobbies, current affairs, movies etc. The teacher forums are on things like jobs, courses, teaching materials, linguistics and there are specific forums for teaching in Korea.

FAQ

Answers to questions all about the Cafe, it's origin and about Dave.

HINT OF THE DAY

A random hint that changes every day to help students improve their English.

IDEA COOKBOOK

Ideas from teachers all over the world on subjects such as teaching grammar, discipline, using the internet, pronunciation, private teaching etc.

JOB CENTRE

With pages for jobs offered, jobs wanted, a job informat
ion file and everything else you need for finding a job abroad.
This particularly useful for people who are teaching in one country and want to move to another, the internet is one of the only ways of finding out about job vacancies on the other side of the world.


There are also photo pages, links to other ESL websites, an interactive pronunciation page for students and lots and lots of other stuff.
For anyone interested in learning or teaching English this is the only place on the web you need to visit, other sites don't even come close to having as much useful information.
I have been visiting this site for about three years and have got many many lesson ideas from here as well as useful information about other countries and teaching courses.
I found my first job in Indonesia after it was advertised on this site and always check the job pages just in case I get itchy feet again sometime soon!

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