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Online Materials on EFL and Related Topics

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.

Journals and Magazines

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.

Books and Pamphlets

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This volume is a collection of 73 historical documents and other readings which were important to the development of democracy in the United States or which are representative of the way American history, culture,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.

Archives from Online Courses

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.)

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