QUICK RESOURCE SHEET #3

Online discussion groups for English teachers

Do you have a suggestion for your colleagues who teach English? Or perhaps you’re searching for information and don’t know where to find it. Maybe you have a concern about something happening in your classroom and you’d like to discuss it with other professionals. Help may be around the corner, or halfway around the world, but with a few mouse clicks you can find like-minded teachers to chat with on virtually any topic.

Below I’ve listed a few examples of education-oriented discussion groups (listservs). They welcome your contributions, regardless of your level of computer experience.

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/~tesl-l/

This listserv with about 30,000 members also has six special-interest branches, including those devoted to ESP and ICT.

http://www.alt-usage-english.org/

As the URL suggests, this is devoted to questions of usage in English.

http://lists.topica.com/dir/?cid=2196

This is a master list of discussion groups for English teachers.