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 Journals & Magazines

Keep up to date with the ELT profession through these ELT journals and magazines. Browse through and search for the right articles to help you write more informed assignments with a wider range of background reading. Do also try the Google Scholar search tool and let us know if you found it useful (in which case we'll keep it!).

• THE ASIAN EFL JOURNAL is a useful online journal with many interesting articles on the topic of teaching adults.

• PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT, RESEARCH & EVALUATION - a journal including articles of broader educational value but including some articles on L2 testing

• THE READING MATRIX - AN INTERNATIONAL ONLINE JOURNAL " is a peer-reviewed professional journal with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. The journal seeks to disseminate research to educators around the world. It is interested in exploring issues related to L2 reading, L2 literacy in a broader sense, and other issues related to second language learning and teaching."

• TESOL International Newsletter The page contains a topic list of all articles published but you can also perform individual searches.

• CAL Centre for Applied Linguistics  Contains a wealth of articles on various topics and many links to other useful sites. Use its search engine to find articles of interest to your research.

• Education Guardian TEFL has the latest ELT news, very interesting articles and of course international job listing. A "must read" for English Language Teachers across the world.

• EL Gazette online is the electronic version of the well known monthly EL Gazette. Again, good articles, news on new publications and events and plenty of job adverts.

• English Teaching Forum a quarterly journal published by the U.S. Department of State for teachers of English as a foreign or second language.This site contains articles from issues of the Forum dating back to 1993. Previous issues can be found in the CELT Athens library.

• English Teaching Professional This is the home page of this very popular monthly magazine for English Teachers. A small selection of articles is available on line but to read the full issues you must subscribe for the print copies - issued six times a year.

• The English Language Teaching Journal  (ELTJ) is perhaps one of the most respected journals in the profession and you can access articles only by subscribing. Copies of the print version are available in the CELT library. You can buy all the back issues on CD ROM.

• English Today This is not a fully on-line version of the popular English Today journal but it does have articles from previous issues.

• Longman ELT Addison Wesley Longman's on-line magazine. It has been re-organised and is now quite user-friendly. It contains a product list, odd articles and ELT information and a link to the Longman dictionaries site. There are also new book related sections such as the Go! Cafe and Cutting Edge which contain worksheets and articles and advice. Links to a forum for teachers run by Jeremy Harmer at http://www.eltforum.com/

• Teachers' Club The on-line magazine from Oxford University Press has some very good articles as well as some downloable worksheets for various OUP books. You have to register as a member but once you do this you can log in free..

• TESOL Quarterly is a high quality journal on language teaching and applied linguistics published by TESOL International. You can subscribe to the online version or the print version - better rates available if you are also a member of TESOL International.

• Humanising Language Teaching - A free web magazine for teachers with a huge searchable archive of articles and ideas. Visited by thousands of teachers worldwide every week (their words!!!). Edited by Mario Rinvolucri, one of the humanistic gurus(my words!!).

• Internet TESL Journal (Japan) An excellent on-line journal packed with articles, lesson plans, teaching ideas, on-line projects and a comprehensive set of links for ESL Teachers. Archives going back to 1995 make this one of the largest and most active EFL sites on the Web.

• Language Learning Technology Journal An American journal containing interesting papers on the impact of IT on ESL and ELT. Edited by IT guru Mark Warschauer.

• TEACHING UNPLUGGED a site with many interesting articles run by Scott Thornbury - in his own words "We are teachers of English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) who are committed to promoting a 'poor' pedagogy, that is, a pedagogy unburdened by an excess of materials and technology, a pedagogy grounded in the local and relevant concerns of the people in the room." A list of topics appears in the VOICES section.

• TEFL Connection Newsletter Free advice and information for prospective and practising EFL teachers. There is a bookstore with articles about teaching experiences, information on professional organisations and useful links.

• TESL-EJ Fully on-line, referred academic journal for ESL, appearing quarterly. Mirrored at various universities. Useful reviews, but not so many articles.  Back Issues freely downloadable into your hard drive through the University of Latrobe in Australia at ftp://ftp.latrobe.edu.au/pub/CELIA/tesl-ej/