Fast Order Links - Teaching-1 Index - self help esl courses

Our website focuses on ESL courses for Spanish-speakers, but in addition it also provides links to other ESL courses for many other languages; and, it provides links to language courses available to assist you in teaching virtually any other language now spoken world-wide. We also target Spanish courses for English-speakers.

On our website you can find catalog lists of the best-of-the-best self-instruction type language courses for teaching either English or Spanish — to go now to these courses, click on:
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To go to catalog lists and ordering links for over 950 other languages, click on the animated link above right "Ultimate Language Website", which also includes ESL courses written for over 100 different language-speakers!

Our website promotes specifically self-instruction type language courses, which make available to you not only the tools, but a rationale and philosophy for helping you teach clients who are unable to attend schools about learning to teach themselves in an effective and enthusiastic manner, and therefore help you to lead them to expect success in their studies as well as fulfillment of their dreams for progress in life.

We also provide a short list of well-established in-depth and expansive teaching and research aids for teaching ESL and for teaching languages in general — look over our "Other Teaching Materials" list featured below.

Beginning teachers might consider very seriously using self-instruction styled courses as their teaching platform at first to take advantage of their built-in lesson plans and structured syllabuses. Some ESL teachers use self-help courses for all their teaching in order to give students a maximum effort strategy for language study outside the classroom. It is a matter of preference and also philosophy as to the value or correctness of a bilingual approach to teaching language — self-help courses are, of course, by design bilingual instruction. It is a matter of record that learning a language from a bilingual approach can be extremely successful for some students, and self-help type language courses are "hands-down" without question the most wonderful language learning aids known for people who cannot attend schools and/or use the Internet for reasons of location, personal responsibilities, or financial limitations.

For general ESL teaching there are literally hundreds of useful ESL teaching texts now in print. Two well-known series, however, represent some of the best of all published courses for use as primary source materials for beginning ESL teachers. These are "monolingual", or all-English, courses, and are designed for
use in teaching speakers of any language -- and they are also designed to be
used with a teacher who teaches the ESL course. Self-help courses are usually
"bilingual" by design, permitting the user to teach themself a language without
necessarily utilizing a teacher.

For such general ESL situations there are two well-known and well-respected series, which are the (1) "Side by Side" series - Prentice Hall, and (2) "Interchange" and / or "New Interchange" series (— original series "Interchange" now partially out-of-print) from Cambridge University Press. These two series can answer that agonizing question, "...Where do I begin?", in all ways, and provide a completely authoritative basis for start-up training. From there it becomes the preference of an individual teacher as to what materials they can utilize or adapt best to an ESL need. These two series are suggested as "best" from the standpoint of time in publication, completeness of scope, updated revisions, availability, and general utilization world-wide. They are perhaps the most well-known and used teaching series existing for general ESL, and receive favorable comment on a continuous basis. Without doubt they can serve as a basis for any effective ESL program, as a platform on which teachers can customize easily to meet specific and local needs. It is worth noting, however, that experienced ESL teachers usually know how to work with almost any materials available, and will have no trouble adapting to whatever comes to their hand.

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New Interchange Series, and Side-By-Side Series

"New Interchange" Series —

(warning! -- there are many product entries in this series which must be researched)

published by Cambridge University Press

"Side by Side" Series —

(warning! -- check out all product
entries available for this series)

published by Prentice Hall

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Other Teaching Materials for the Beginning Teacher

It would be irresponsible to claim a working knowledge of all ESL teaching materials available. And, thus, equally irresponsible to advocate some materials over others by reason of certain qualities making some better than others. But, to help you start your search, we give you here a few suggestions:

See: Other Teaching Materials, below

Books and other learning aids for language study are on the market largely due to demand or lack of demand, that is, it is a sales scenario and not a value contest.

The truth is that effective ESL teaching, whether in a school, class or personal environment is far more dependent on the teacher than it is on the materials used. The "other" teaching materials beyond the two exhaustive series "Side By Side" and "New Interchange" mentioned above number perhaps into the thousands, and what qualifies their existence is primarily that ESL teachers and schools buy the ones that they like or which work well, and they don't buy the ones they don't like! With this caveat in mind, ESL-English Place provides this small list link below as an aid to the beginning teacher as a place to start - with the concept that once started, beginning teachers should continue to research and find for themselves good working materials and references for extending their education from this "ocean" of published materials available. One hour spent with our ESL Link List, or with Google search engine using keywords like "learn English" will quickly prove what this paragraph means by an "ocean" of materials.

The "Other Teaching Materials" List which follows includes items like on our other lists, which are texts and references that have been around for a long time, and many schools or teachers continue to praise their worth. For example, there are established large ESL schools which base their entire curriculum on the Betty Azar series of ESL studies. The best rule for the beginning teacher is to buy or borrow such materials a little along, all the time, and very soon a fertile working library will be yours, and you can then decide what qualifies as 'good, better, or best' for yourself or for your own situation. The following list will get you started! --

Other Teaching Materials - Our List of other well-known ESL Teaching Materials

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Self-help Language Courses

		This website is devoted to promoting self-taught type teaching materials and to encouraging an attitude, or "'mind-set", on the part of both students and teachers, to learn to acquire language independently, without that often discouraging reliance on waiting for some schooling opportunity to come into our lives. Most of the people in the world who want and need English literacy are prevented from going to a school due to their personal situation of location, responsibilities, or finances, etc. Some of these people may never in their life be able to attend a school. But, they need to realize that there is hope, that they can achieve their goals alone. If you are a teacher, open your thought to this concept. Review this website in its entirety, and try very hard to argue against it's rationale. The harder you try to debunk our concepts the more convinced you will become that we make solid points that if adopted and practiced might encourage someone to become successful beyond their present concept of themselves. With this mind-set, try out some of these texts in our catalog lists to help you help someone, some time and in some way to upgrade their falsely accepted low expectations of themselves and their futures. Need friends? Then love your students! They will never, ever forget you for it, and you will simultaneously enhance the enjoyment of your own life-experiences beyond your fondest dreams!
		·	Fast Order Links - Our Lists of Graded Self-Help Language Courses, Learning Aids
		·	All the world's Languages - ESL and all the world's most used language courses

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Links to important ESL Websites

It would be a full-time occupation to find and keep up with all the ESL websites now on the Internet. There are, however, some very important ESL websites, ones that are well-known and respected, and extremely useful to both students and teachers alike. The business of teaching English is a huge world-wide enterprise, but is not well-known to most people other than the students and teachers who pursue English literacy. Click here to go directly now to our select "Link List to ESL Websites" — If we left off a website you think we should have, please email us to look at and add to our list!

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Teaching ESL World-wide

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to teach ESL, perhaps in some interesting or exotic location you might have dreamed about visiting?

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Hundreds of job opportunities and links to other job sites can be found at:
"Dave's ESL Cafe," which is probably the one single most important ESL website for teachers to know about and to visit regularly. Click to visit.

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Commercial Links for ESL use

No place to study? No time to study? Can't make any noise at home or at the office? And, certainly can't learn much language while having to work ...but what about the car? Look into telling your students about materials that are available and designed to be used without any books at all -- like the Pimsleur series listed in our "Fast-order Links". And then there are wonderful books that are recorded without any commercials -- some people testify that their lives would be empty and a wreck without these wonderful recorded books to play on their car cassettes or CD's on their long commutes to work. Look into these, and also into the wonderful music CD's with songs that inspire you to learn the words because you like the music so much. Here are some sources maybe you didn't know about:

•	"Fast-order Links" on our Website -- look for the Pimsleur series on various lists
•	Hand-held Dictionaries / Translators - various ® ALL LANGUAGES ® Click here ® info:
•	Industrial Client Start-ups	• Industrial Client Texts and Teaching Materials

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