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Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Online Materials on EFL and Related Topics
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Teaching Pragmatics, our first online book. |
The Office of English Language Programs produces a wide variety of print materials, which are available to teachers and students outside the United States.* Over 80 books and materials developed by the office are included in our English as a Foreign Language Publication Catalog. The English Teaching Forum magazine has been in print since 1963 and has a worldwide readership of over 60,000 in more than 100 countries.
The Office of English Language Programs is pleased to provide interested readers overseas with a growing collection of online materials. These materials include Journals and Magazines, Books and Pamphlets, and Archives from Online Courses conducted by highly qualified EFL professionals.
The following journals are published by the Office of English Language Programs or another office at the U.S. Department of State.
Electronic
Journals from the State Department's International Information Programs
The State Department's International
Information Programs office publishes five electronic journals (Economic
Perspectives, U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, U.S. Society & Values, Global
Issues, and Issues of Democracy) on an irregular, rotating
cycle, with a new journal appearing every three weeks.
English
Teaching Forum Online
Full text of Forum articles
since 1993 are available online. The site is also fully searchable by
topic and author.
Forum
Electronic Journals: Language
and Civil Society; Language and Life Sciences
Each journal contains content reading and background information on a
specific issue, classroom-ready activities related to the issue, and references
to more resources for teachers to go to for more information or to design
their own activities.
The following books were developed by the Office of English Language Programs or another office at the U.S. Department of State.
Basic
Readings in U.S. Democracy by Melvin I. Urofsky
This volume is a collection of 73 historical documents and other readings
which were important to the development of democracy in the United States
or which are representative of the way American history, culture, and
political thought have been shaped throughout the centuries. Each reading
includes an introduction and interpretation by the editor.
Basic
Readings in U.S. Democracy A Teacher's Guide by Melvin I. Urofsky
Companion volume for Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy. The teacher's
guide provides a summary statement of the major themes to be found in
each unit in Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy and includes a series
of discussion questions. It also offers two or more scenarios and/or exercises
per unit, in which the students can try to apply the basic ideas of the
unit to particular fact situations. Finally, the guide provides a suggested
bibliography for supplemental reading for students.
Celebrate!
Holidays in the USA
Celebrate! is a high-intermediate/advanced level EFL reader on American
holidays and the ways that they are commemorated. This html version of
the book was developed and is maintained by the U.S. Embassy in Sweden.
Dictation Updated
for Teacher Trainers
This is from a 17-page handout that was originally written by English
Language Officer Ruth Montalvan. It provides materials for teacher trainers
conducting a workshop on teaching techniques in the use of dictation.
Functional
Approaches to Written Text edited by Thomas Miller
This book attempts to bridge the gap between theory and practice
in applying discourse analysis in the classroom. Leaders in the field
introduce 18 approaches to discourse analysis, apply the approach to a
sample text, and provide classroom suggestions. Chapters include applications
of contrastive rhetoric, pedagogical summaries, information transfer,
critical discourse analysis, hedging, the voices of discourse, concordancing,
genre analysis, and various functional approaches to grammar such as functional
sentence perspective and systemic linguistics.
Internet
for English Teaching by Mark
Warschauer, Heidi
Shetzer, and Christine Meloni
By special arrangement with Teachers of English to Speakers of
Other Languages (TESOL ) and the three co-authors, the Office of English
Language Programs has published an edition of Internet for English
Teaching. This edition is distributed through Public
Affairs offices of American Embassies. We are pleased to offer
chapter 7
of the book online.
Martin
Luther King Holiday From Celebrate!
Celebrate! is a high-intermediate/advanced level EFL reader on
American holidays and the ways that they are commemorated. This version
for the web has glossary links for students learn from, as well as links
to outside websites on one of the most significant Americans in this century.
Online
Publications from the State Department's International Information Programs
This collection of online publications includes the popular Outline
Series (American History, American Literature, American Economy, American
Government, American Geography) and other titles on American studies,
politics, and economics.
Teaching
Pragmatics by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and Rebecca Mahan-Taylor, Editors
Teaching Pragmatics is a collection of 25 lessons that can help English
language learners use socially appropriate language in a variety of informal
and formal situations.
The Great
Preposition Mystery by Lin Lougheed
From one of the Office's all time, best-selling titles, this is the first
chapter of the student book that gives students readings and practice
in meaningful context. Learn more about the printed version in our
catalog.
The following courses were funded by the Office of English Language Programs and conducted by EFL professors who teach at a variety of institutions in the U.S. and overseas. Many of the courses were conducted via email discussion list (listserv), and most of the links below are to the Web archives of the course discussions.
Africa
Online Home Page
This 10-week on-line course, entitled English Language Education:
Using Web Resources to Develop Classroom Content-Based Materials,
ran from October-December, 2001. This course highlighted the thematic
priorities in sub-Saharan Africa of HIV/AIDS awareness, entrepreneurship
and civics education. English language teaching materials were developed
using these themes as the content for instruction. Over 50 educators from
eleven countries in Africa actively participated, earning four continuing
education credits (CEUs) from the University of Oregon's American English
Institute. This course was organized by Regional
English Language Officer George Scholz, and funded by the Public Affairs
Cultural Section of the U.S. Embassy in South Africa and the Office of
English Language Programs. Instructors: Leslie Opp-Beckman and Peggy Dame
(University of Oregon).
EFLCOURSE
This course, entitled Toni Morrison's Beloved, A Slave Narrative,
ran during February and March, 2000 in honor of Black History Month. 57
educators from around the world participated in the course and collaborated
on the course site. Course Instructors: Marion Tangum and Deborah Zippe.
TEFLTECH
This list was used for many courses on using technology in the EFL classroom.
Course participants were educators from East and Central Europe. Course
Instructors: Deborah Healey, Tom Robb, and Michael Krauss.
Other Materials
An
Essential Bibliography for English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
This bibliography was compiled by professors from the applied linguistics
faculty at Northern Arizona University and is available for downloading
in three different formats.
Civic
Education Lesson Plans
From an Office of English Language Programs Online Workshop for teacher
trainers, this collection of materials gives teachers the chance to use
English when discussing the realities of a Civil Society -- respecting
rights, the cost of free speech, and perceptions of right and wrong. Course
Instructor: Andrew Lakritz, Fall 1997.
*Please note that the Office of English Language Programs is prohibited from distributing its materials in the United States by the Smith-Mundt Act. (The Smith-Mundt Act made a specific exception in the case of the English Teaching Forum, which is available for purchase in the United States.)
This site is maintained by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Links to other sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein.