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ESL/EFL/ELI Stuff
Tutoring Stuff
Dictionaries, Thesauruses, Encyclopedias, Etc.
CALL Stuff
Lessons and Tests
Cloze Stuff
DRP Stuff



ESL/EFL/ELI Stuff


An international listing of EFL, ESL, or other teaching jobs, including some tutoring
Listing of ESL schools in DC
International Language Institute has ESL classes
ICAL has online classes for TESL/TEFL certification
Volunteer jobs in teaching English and inside computer labs are available at Clarendon Education Center and Arlington Mill
SED Center has volunteer ESL teacher aides for latinos and is located in Adams Morgan
The International Rescue Committee has volunteer opportunities for ESL tutors
This Community Service web page has ESL tutor and computer lab volunteer opportunities
LanguageOne is located in Adams Morgan and is a possible source of freelance employment for linguists and translators
Another source of freelance employment for translators and interpreters is Schreibernet Translations, Inc in Rockville, MD
Centre for Applied Language Studies Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group
International Commission on Second Language Acquisition
Unconventional Hints for Job Seekers of ESL teaching positions in Japan



Tutoring Stuff


How to Find Work as a Deaf Tutor
Links to Deaf Tutors
Deaf Tutors Found in Yahoo, Google, and MSN groups
Deaf Tutors found with Google Search
Deaf Tutors Found with information.com
Deaf Tutors Found on AllDeaf.com
How to search for international Deaf tutors
Tutor Directory for Sign Language
Tutors4me.com has a section called "Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education One-on-One Tutoring"
Deaf Tutoring Literary References
Deafness About article on Deaf Immigrant Students
Tutoring Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students article
Effective Tutoring Practices with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students PPP
Training the Trainers of the Trainers PPP has some good information about BSL and Deaf tutoring
This CALL Bibliography has 10 references to cloze stuff
"clues to meaning in language" talks about cloze testing in the army
Seven additional references for tutoring ASL signers found on the ICICLE system
NTID has tutoring services
The Lab School of Washington charges $70/hr for tutoring
Ivy League Tutoring Connection, Inc. in Bethesda pays their tutors about $22-$30/hr
Tutor Nation
Tutor 2000
Paper Tutors
Trust Tutoring, located in MD, DC, and VA
Washington DC based Smart Thinking offers online tutoring for a fee or through TIP at Gallaudet University
Another online tutoring service for children
Study Zones tutoring resource
About.com Homework/Study tips
English Tutor CD-ROM
English Tutor for Windows
Tutor Central is a franchise
Tutor Bug is another franchise that believes in the financial philosophy presented in "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" book
Wealthy Tutor helps with your tutoring business with forms and paperwork stuff that you might need



Dictionaries, Thesauruses, Encyclopedias, Etc.


Cambridge Online Dictionary
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
WordSmyth, The Educational Dictionary - Thesaurus
Roget's II, The New Thesaurus
Thesaurus/Dictionary
Britannica Encyclopedia
Merrian-Webster Dictionary Online
Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Spark Notes
Turn It In helps to find Internet plagiarism
Hatchet Student Survival Guide
Find ezine articles here



Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)


Listing of CALL programs, including Tense Buster
Tense Buster was used at Gally ELI computer lab, listed here
A Web Resource for CALL Lab Managers
TESOL CALL-IS
Gramster



Tests and Lessons


Happy New Years! (for 5 calendars)
The Ordering of Determiners
Vocabulary tests
Test on This, That, These, and Those
Adjective or Adverb?
Is the Sentence Correct? (infinitives included)
Gerund or Infinitive?
Verb Forms Quiz - Gerund or Infinitive?
Tenses and Complex Sentence Structure
Verbs with Prepositions or Phrasal Verbs with a Focus on Going



Cloze Stuff


How to take Cloze tests By TIP
How To Take a Vocabulary Cloze Test by About.com
English Works! Cloze exercises (at bottom)
Gallaudet's ESL lessons includes quite a few cloze tests
More Cloze exercises
More Cloze stuff
My own dasher cloze exercise about my Alaska trip
Another one of my own dasher cloze exercises about Bible verses with the word "deaf"
My own propositions JavaScript cloze test about group tutoring
Another one of my own JavaScript cloze tests about my Toronto trip
My own Cloze Maker text about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves with feeling verbs



DRP Stuff


Table 4 near bottom has DRP and grade level chart
Guidelines for Selecting Primary and Standard DRP Test Forms Table looks like the same thing as a DRP grade level chart