ESL Teacher Professional Development Tools -

You will find a complete listing of the top ESL/ELL/ELT Professional Developemnt Tools for Teachers and Program Directors.

These items cover these important topics in particular -

• Special Techniques for Young Learners
• Teaching Pronunciation Effectively
• Teaching Reading
• Teaching as a Linqua Franca
• Strategies to Developing a Teaching Style
• Considerations in Language Testing
• Teaching Communication Skills
• TESOL Research
• Task-Based Teaching
• Teaching Grammar

Side by Side

Side by Side (3rd Edition) is a new and improved version of this dynamic, all-skills program that integrates conversation practice, reading, writing and listening - all in a light-hearted, fun, and easy-to-use format that has been embraced by students and teachers worldwide.

Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive

Introduce beginning English students to a core vocabulary. Includes 3,600 words subdivided into 140 different topics (fruits, anatomy, geography, etc.), with detailed, full-color illustrations. This is a completely interactive software editiion that comes only in a Monolingual edition.

Focus on Grammar Book Series

Introduces beginning English students to a core Grammar English course utilizing an engaging method.

Oxford Picture Dictonary (2nd Edition)

Introduce beginning English students to a core vocabulary. Includes 3,600 words subdivided into 140 different topics (fruits, anatomy, geography, etc.), with detailed, full-color illustrations, and is available in eleven bilingual editions.

Pronunciation Power

Pronunciation Power

Speak To Me

Speak to Me is an ESL DVD series with special versions tailored to speakers of Chinese, German, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese or Vietnamese; a "monolingual" English version that can be used by any speaker is also available. Speak To Me is intended primarily for self-study use, but small classrooms may also use Speak To Me with great effectiveness. Speak To Me is a professional quality production and the methodologies are sound and complete. It is the best DVD course we have ever seen for beginning to intermediate learners of English. The entire course includes 9 DVDs (English only) in 3 sets with corresponding workbooks in the language of the student.

Voyager: Reading and Writing for Today’s Adults

Voyager stands alone in the way it engages and empowers students. Voyager provides a solid foundation of balanced instruction to ensure success and keeps students involved in every lesson. Voyager provides teacher support throughout and meets accountability standards. The best-selling nine-level program combines a contemporary theme-based approach with the best elements from traditional direct instruction.

Azar series is the proven Text and Interactive CD-ROM combination for learning and improving English Grammar for all Levels of students.

Azar series now has three distinct product lines - Basic, Fundamental and Advanced levels, which are listed below as Links for easy reference.

• Basic English Grammar
• Fundamentals of English Grammar
• Understanding and Using English Grammar

Let's Go Series (4th Edition)

NEW Edition !!!!

Let's Go was created just for children beginning their English study, each unit in this full-color program combines a carefully controlled grammatical syllabus with functional dialogues, alphabet and phonics work, reading skills development, listening tests, question and answer forms, pairwork exercises, and communicative games.

Merit ESL Software

Merit Software programs are designed to address the core competencies that students need to succeed.

Oxford Picture Dictionary - Content Areas

NEW Edition !!!!

Introduce beginning English students to a core vocabulary. Includes 3,600 words subdivided into 140 different topics (fruits, anatomy, geography, etc.), with detailed, full-color illustrations, and is available in eleven bilingual editions.