Dave's ESL Café
Although catering primarily to the K-12 ESL field, the greatest virtue of this site derives from the ease with which teachers and learners have chances to communicate online. Granted, many of the correspondents appear to be, ah, amorous teenagers, but two features have ready applicability for the adult ESL program: the ESL Idiom Page and the ESL Cafe Bookstore.

Educational Resources Information Center
Funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI, part of US DOE), the ERIC system consists of 26 clearinghouses devoted to abstracting and indexing the world of education-related knowledge. From the main ERIC site, you may search the ERIC database (nearly a million entries and growing), print off ERIC Digests and connect to the two clearinghouses nearest and dearest to the adult literacy field: the Clearinghouse on Adult, Career and Vocational Education (ACVE) and the National Clearinghouse on ESL Literacy Education (NCLE).

Employment and Training Administration
If "workforce development" is your mantra, this US Department of Labor site is definitely a place to stop, as it offers various and sundry factsheets, profiles, contacts and all the SCANS reports you'll ever need.

ESL Home Page
Welcome to the English as a Second Language website, which is a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English through the World Wide Web. Many people have created ESL learning materials for the Web. This website links you to those good and free ESL places. The variety of materials will allow you to choose something appropriate for yourself.

Grants and Funding through the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)

US Department of Education
Education news, financial assistance, learning centers, statistics, school information and the National Library of Education.

Grass Roots Press
Grass Roots Press provides a full line of literacy materials and resources for practitioners and students. Our catalogue includes family literacy, workplace literacy and adult literacy resources as well as the sections listed below: Adult Basic Education; ESL; Tutor Training; Assessment; Students with Disabilities; Plain Language; Youth and Family Literacy; Employment/Workplace Literacy; Reading, Writing; Science, Social Studies and Math; and Program Administration.

 

National Institute for Literacy
The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) is an independent federal organization leading the national effort toward a fully literate nation in the 21st century. NIFL's mission is to ensure that the highest quality of literacy services is available to these adults. By fostering communication, collaboration, and innovation, NIFL works to build and strengthen a comprehensive, unified system for literacy in the U.S. NIFL has a "listserve," or discussion forum for electronically discussing ESL literacy instruction and policy issues. Click here for the NIFL-ESL Listserve.

Teaching Multi-level Adult ESL Classes
In multilevel adult English as a second language (ESL) classes, teachers are challenged to use a variety of materials, activities, and techniques to engage the interest of the learners and assist them in their educational goals. This digest recommends ways to choose and organize content for multilevel classes; it explains grouping strategies; it discusses a self-access component, independent work for individual learners; and it offers suggestions for managing the classes.

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