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ACTA publications
ACTA recommendations: teaching tools
ACTA recommendations: research, debate and information
Member recommendations: teaching tools: websites
Member recommendations: teaching tools: books
Member recommendations: teaching tools: CDs andCDROMs
Member recommendations: research, debate and information: websites
Member recommendations: research, debate and information: books
Member recommendations: research, debate and information: CDs and CDROMs
Libraries
Bookshops

ACTA publications

Journal: TESOL in Context

Published twice a year, free to TasTESOL members. TESOL in Context is ACTA’s professional, peer-refereed journal and acts as a forum for ideas on all matters related to TESOL, contributing to the scholarship and pedagogy of TESOL.

Background papers

Titles currently available from ACTA are: Casualisation of the ESL workforce in Australia by Santina Bertone; ESL Teaching in the Global Hypermedia Environment by Chris Corbel; The Distinctiveness of English as an Additional Language published by the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) UK; Literacy ESL Broadbanding Benchmarking by Penny McKay, Joseph Lo Bianco and Dorothy Hoddinott.

Tales out of School (special edition of TESOL in Context)

This special edition of TESOL in Context was published in 2006, bringing together a collection of papers by international scholars and experienced teachers to provide a rich picture of the place of identity in English language teaching and learning. It includes chapters on students with refugee experience, indigenous students, international students, TESOL teacher education, teaching offshore, multiliteracies and ICT.

ACTA recommendations: teaching tools

ACTA recommendations: research, debate and information

Member recommendations: teaching tools: websites

Member recommendations: teaching tools: books

Member recommendations: teaching tools: CDs and CDROMs

Member recommendations: research, debate and information: websites

Member recommendations: research, debate and information: books

Member recommendations: research, debate and information: CDs and CDROMs

Libraries

Several libraries in Tasmania have specialist EAL/D (ESL) collections. The largest collection is in the Department of Education EAL Library. Cultural background materials, bilingual dictionaries and EAL teaching materials including DVDs, CD-ROMs, CDs and videos are located at the EAL Library. Full catalogue details are available through TALIS at http://www.talis.tas.gov.au/EAL.htm

The EAL Library is staffed by a teacher-librarian and a library technician. It offers a state-wide lending and research service to all teachers working with students for whom English is an additional language. A reply-paid postal service is offered to borrowers outside the Hobart CBD.

Contact details:

Location & postal address: 16B Elmsleigh Road, Derwent Park, Hobart, 7000

Website address: www.education.tas.gov.au/school/curriculum/eal/library  

 

Specialist EAL/D (ESL) Bookshops

In TASMANIA

Birchalls has an on-line store and physical outlets in Launceston and Hobart and on most Polytechnic FE campuses.

In MELBOURNE

Bookery
9 Victoria Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065
Tel: 03 9416 2115 - Fax: 03 9416 2209
Email: info@bookery.com.au

TESOL Books
397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne 3000
GPO Box 1438M Melbourne 3001
Tel: (03) 9486 1755

In SYDNEY

Bridge Bookshop
10 Grafton St, Chippendale NSW 2008
Tel: (02) 9211 1660 Fax: (02) 9211 1868

Language Book Centre
131 York St, Sydney NSW 2000
Tel: (02) 9267 1397 Fax: (02) 9264 8993
Email: language@abbeys.com.au

 

 

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