"Scientific" academic writing?

http://www.scoop.it/t/scientific-academic-writing
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http://marialuisaaliotta.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/scientific-academic-writing-new-edition/

"Should you teach online?"

An article in Inside Higher Ed, which was origianlly forwarded by Dr. Horwitz:
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2011/02/24/essay_on_whether_you_should_teach_online

This article introduces some useful resources.
Diana Hacker’s interactive website, A Writer’s Reference, which is meant for both teacher and student:
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/Player/Pages/Main.aspx
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Scott Warnock's book Teaching Writing Online: How and Why:
https://secure.ncte.org/store/teaching-writing-online

The blog of this article's writer, Chloe Yelena Miller, A Writer & Writing Teacher's Blog: Inside Hints:

http://chloeyelenamiller.blogspot.com/

About.com ESL

How could I describe About.com ESL? In a nutshell, it is one greatly comprehensive website for ESL learners and teachers. Learners can subscribe to the beginning level, vocabulary, grammar lessons through emails once a week or to Word of the Day. Teachers can subscribe to newsletters dealing with teaching ideas, tips, and job opportunities. It also provides learning resources according to levels and language skills, teaching resources such as lesson plans, teaching techniques, printables, and quiz and exam samples, and a list of ESL/FL sites. It also provides materials for preparing TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge exminations and lists of other online websites for them. I think this site would be a good starting point for learners or teachers who just began searching for online resources.

Online Language Courses

busuu.com offers free online courses in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, and French. The classes and resources are not totally free, but the free version is quite comprehensive. One of the best appeals of this website is that it has the feature of video-chat between members through which learners can practice speaking with nativer speakers or get help from others as well as help others. This site is great for both self-learners of English and teachers who can get useful teaching ideas from it. Before joining the site, you can make a video tour of its online classes which incorporate great features of computer-mediated learning/teaching.

Essays in both written and listening forms

The online website of National Public Radio (NPR) provides archives of news articles, some of which are accompanied by their radio versions. Although this website is not specifically designed for educators, ESL teachers will greatly benefit from ths site in that it provides authentic reading and listening materials.

Especially, "This I Believe" essays are ample authentic resources for all language skills, namely, listening, writing, speaking, reading, and even pronunciation. Originally, there was a radio program of the same name in the 1950s, and some people revived the program by collecting short essays on personal beliefs and featuring some of them on NPR from 2005-2009. The website has an archieve of the essays both from the 1950s and from the recent. They provide both written and listening formats of each essay. These essays are so widely used for educational purpose around the world that the site provides several tips on how to use the essays For Educators. It provides sample curricula for middle, high, college, and adult learners as well as the brochure and poster containing tips on writing one's own This I Believe essay, all in PDF files, which are just amazing.

I got to know this site from Dr. McGregor's pronunciation class.

A comprehensive online resource website

ESL Monkeys: ESL Online Resources
This site provides quite a great deal of resources for teachers, schools, and students. One interesting tool of this site is that if you double click and one more click on any word, which is not linked, on a page with the "Double Click a Word!" sign  on the top, then, it directs you to the word's definition on an online dictionary. I find the following three sections most useful:

1. Free ESL Teaching Materials: ESL teachers can search lesson plans according to topic, skill, level (elementary, intermediate, advanced, and business), age (chlidren, teens, and adults), and keyword. In the "Reading Materials" section, they provide up-to-date news articles, short, long, and classic English stories, along with tips on teaching reading skills.

2. Free Resources for ESL Learners: this section provides useful resources such as free lessons and free downloadable books for ESL learners. Especially, I like "Word, Idiom, and Quote of the Day."

3. Admissions Essay Guide and Samples: this section provides useful tips and guidelines for writing application essays along with essay samples.

Pronunciation website for advanced learners

Rachel'sEnglish is an amazing pronunciation site! Its uniqueness is that every lesson or blog entry has its own video (YouTube). Every video is just like a mini-lesson. If you go to “Sound Chart” or “Sounds” on the top menu bar, there is a series of videos on how each segmental sound is made in a great detail. Every blog post has its own video as well, dealing with diverse pronunciation features such as contraction, reduction, linking, flap, word stress, connected speech, grammatical endings, etc. And, all the videos are followed by their scripts. Rachel also suggests a good strategy of learning pronunciation. She asserts that “each language really has its own individual musicality to it” and “imitation” is a good way to perceive musicality of American English.
I believe this site is a wonderful web resource for self-study of pronunciation for advanced English learners, especially in EFL settings where there are not many native-speakers around who can help with pronunciation. This site is also great for both native and non-native teachers who need to address pronunciation aspects in their English classes.