Mark Shrosbree
English Teaching
Online Lesson Ideas
Useful Stuff for Teachers
1. Twenty Questions
This is a guaranteed computer-room favourite for all students.
1. IPA Typerwriter
Great site which lets you type the IPA phonetic script, and then paste it into any document.
2. British National Corpus
Easy-to-use online concordancer.
3. VLC Edict Concordancer
Another web concordancer.
4. Compleat Lexical Tutor
An amazing range of free vocabulary tools by Tom Cobb.
5. Online Text Profiler
Copy and paste a text into this free online text profiler, and a colour-coding system will show the frequency of all the words in the text.


Teaching Materials
TESOL Research
1. Guardian Weekly 'Learning English'
Downloadable lesson materials based on a reading from the news (simplified, and at differing levels), along with comprehension questions and discussion activities.
1. The Linguist List
Large linguistics resource, including numerous papers.
2. My Dissertation!
"Turn-Taking Behaviour of Non-Native and Native Speakers of English in Communicative Pairwork Activities: A Study from Japan"
3. Online Bibliography
Vivian Cook's huge SLA bibliography.
CALL & Technology
English Language
1. CALL 4 All
Amazing collection of links to all kinds of language learning websites.
2. Computers for English Teaching
An online guide I made with lots of ideas for using computers for English teaching.
3. Digital Video
Various guides and lesson handouts for digital video pedagogy.
1. Word 4 Word
BBC Radio 4 project to investigate language use in the UK.
2. Ethnologue
Comprehensive and fascinating database of all the languages in the world, including the 8 mutually unintelligble, surviving Okinawan languages.
3. Online Etymology Dictionary
Check the origins of words.
4. Living Languages
Language distribution around the world.
TESOL in Japan
Presentations
1. Job Interview Questions
Here is a  list of questions commonly asked during job interviews at a Japanese university.