ITAP Resources

• The CFT's Teaching Resources for International TAs and Faculty page includes information such as academic culture in the US, second language anxiety and coping strategies, and common student questions.

• Language Resources:
  • English as a Second Language (includes a variety of activities)
  • Listening Comprehension
  • Slang and Idioms
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar

• Dave's ESL Cafe has a variety of activities, including quizzes, quotes, slang, idioms, and "today in history."

• BBC World Service: Learning English includes listening materials and a variety of language activities.
• ESL Partyland includes interactive quizzes, discussion forums, a chat room, various other links.

• Interesting Things for ESL Students is a study site for students of English as a Second Language, featuring word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, and proverbs

• Activities for ESL Students includes quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles.

• Listen and respond to common student questions (Univ. of MN)

• Randal's ESL Cyber Listening Lab has lots of listening exercises and quizzes.

• About.com provides listening practice links of varying levels.

• Internet TESL Journal's website includes a long list of helpful links for slang, idioms, and phrasal verbs.

• Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, and Slang Quizzes (also from the Internet TESL Journal) provides self-study quizzes.

• The College Slang Page has "the 411 on the hip talk in the hallowed halls."

• Internet TESL Journal includes hundreds of self-study vocabulary quizzes organized by level and a list of many other vocabulary links.

• Internet TESL Journal includes self-study grammar quizzes and a list of other grammar links.

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