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Learning English and Other Languages


For ESL Teachers

To explore the many online resources that ESL teachers find so useful, begin with the library's gateway to the Internet, the Virtual Reference Library. Click and go for information about associations, teaching tips, lesson plans and more.


The Toronto Star ESL Kit is designed for teachers with students at level one through level eight of Canadian Benchmarks.

Toronto Star ESL kit (Part 1)

Toronto Star ESL kit (Part 2)

TESL Ontario
The provincial association for ESL teachers. Includes links for both instructors and learners.

The TESL newsletter, called Contact, is yours with membership. It's full of resources, articles and profiles of various languages. The profiles are helpful for raising awareness amongst teachers about the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the languages they teach.

Examples of Languages Profiled in Contact

Persian, Tamil, Arabic, Somali, Spanish, Tgriga, Amharic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Panjabi, Hindi,Tagalog, Albanian, Croatian

Canadian Language Benchmarks

Would you like to learn more about the benchmarks that teachers and assessors use to place students in suitable programs?


The website of the Toronto Catholic District School Board is also quite useful. Click to find out more.


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Updated on: October 17, 2007




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