ESL etc.

Below are some journals, newsletters and article collections that are available online. The first two lists deal with English teaching, while the others contain journals dealing more generally with teaching about global issues, social justice and environmental issues. All of them have extensive, free online archives. If you find another that you feel should be added to this list, please email me.

ESL/EFL and Global Issues

JALT’s global issues special interest group publishes a wonderful newsletter. The online archives are great, but they seem to be currently unavailable as the site is being redesigned. JALT also publishes The Language Teacher, a very practical language teaching journal. I highly recommend the 2003 and 1996 issues dedicated to global issues in language teaching.

KOTESOL’s global issues special interest group also has a newsletter. It’s new, and includes a variety of articles and lesson plans.

ESL/EFL

TESL-EJ - A freely-distributed fully-refereed electronic academic journal dealing with teaching English as a second or foreign language.

Internet TESL Journal - Has a lot of articles, materials and lesson plans.

The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching - A free on-line quarterly journal dedicated to communicating research, articles and helpful information regarding language acquisition to support language teachers.

Reading in a Foreign Language - A fully-refereed free online journal on the theory and practice of reading in a foreign language.

Language Learning & Technology - A refereed journal with extensive online archives available in PDF format.

Asian Journal of English Language Teaching - Published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, it has a good free online archive of articles.

Language and Environment

C. A. Bowers’ website has a lot of great articles dealing with the greening of education and critical pedagogy.

EcoJustice Education - An online journal that is just getting underway, cofounded by C. A. Bowers.

Language & Ecology is dedicated to research which analyzes language not only within a social context, but also within an ecological context. The main focus is on the links between discursively constructed social reality, ecological sustainability, and environmental justice.

Critical Education

Rethinking Schools is a great magazine with extensive archives dealing critically with education, testing and immigration.

The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies is an e-journal featuring a Marxist analysis of education policy, theory and ideology.

Henry A. Giroux’s website has a great archive of articles dealing critically with education.

Alfie Kohn’s website has several articles dealing with education, standards and testing.

Stephen Krashen’s website features articles looking critically at current issues in literacy education and testing.

Online Center for the Study of Migrant Education and Labor has a number of articles on decolonizing education.

Social Justice

The Social Justice Newsletter is published by British Columbia’s Teacher Federation.

The Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence is a monthly newsletter focused on overcoming “the patriarchal mindset” that underlies many forms of violence.