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A collection of the best ESL teacher blogs on the Internet. These sites provide insightful information, lesson plans, local cultural information on the countries they teach in, as well as reflections on teaching English as a second or foreign language.
An ELT Notebook
An ELT Notebook is written by an EFL teacher and teacher trainer for over thirty years now who has lived and worked in a variety of European and Asian countries. She's the author of a number of published courses, and runs a small language training business in Italy. This blog is for EFL teachers of all levels of experience.
English Studio Lessons
Great blog that offers practice exercises for your students. If you are looking for a blog that provides opportunities to practice listening, reading and watching video in English, then check this out.
University English
University English is dedicated to helping English learners with academic English required at university level courses. The blog is provided by Patrick McMahon a university lecturer in the UK teaching English for Academic Purposes to overseas students.
EFL Geek
Written by a Canadian teaching EFL in Korea, this blog offers keen insights, truly useful links, great teaching ideas and much more. It's an especially interesting blog for anyone who is teaching or interested in teaching in Korea.
Grammar Guy
How can a fat chance and a slim chance mean the same thing? Is there a difference between He has gone and He is gone? Join Richard Firsten, TESOL Grammar Guy, in his cyber-living room to find out and exchange ideas about the English language. Richard promises you a stimulating, innovative, anything-but-ordinary experience at The Grammar Guy Blog. He's waiting for you. So surf on over and join in!
ESL Lesson Plan
ESL Lesson Plan provides information on everything in the ESL teaching industry: lesson plans, certification, information on industry events and much more. It's a great blog to stay up to speed on what's going on in ESL / EFL around the world.
English360
English360's blog provides the personal thoughts of Cleve Miller a business English teacher and consultant who runs a software start-up. He's very well connected and offers a great overview of what's happening in the online English teaching world.
Autono Blogger
A Japan-based native-speaking English teacher (and compulsive diarist) blogs on the subject of autonomous EFL learning (aka angst-ridden self-doubting under the guise of professional inquiry).
Pain in the English
Not strictly an English teaching blog, PainInTheEnglish.com encourages discussions of gray areas of English language, for which you would not find answers easily in dictionaries and other reference books.
Teacher in Development
Written by Aaron Nelson a business English teacher in Mexico city. The blog is dedicated to exploring student centered learning with thoughtful posts regarding teaching in the 21st century and encouraging learner autonomy.
APCAMPBELL
Written by Aaron Patric Campbell who teaches English as a Foreign Language at Kyoto Sangyo University. He also spends time with students at Friends World Program’s East Asia Center. His research interests are in personal webpublishing, P2P learning, experiential education, learner autonomy, intercultural communications, and qualitative research methodologies.
Dekita.org - P2P in EFL/ESL
Dekita.org highlights the Web-publishing work of EFL (English as a Foreign Language)/ESL (English as a Second Language) students, showcases the classroom Web-publishing projects in EFL /ESL and introduces links relevant to personal Web-publishing in language learning contexts.
Effortless Language Acquisition
AJ Hoge provides a detailed account of his experiences in teaching English. At times outrageous, always challenging the status quo, this blog is a great place to look into cutting edge ideas in practice from a very subjective point of view.
Institute of Visionary Language Art and Design
The Institute of Visionary Language Art and Design provides non-traditional approaches to English and language instruction in general. It's an interesting blog for new ideas to spice up your teaching.
Dear Ai
Dear Ai provides excellent advice for ESL students - especially for students coming to Canada to study English. Well worth a visit for tips on everything surrounding your time spent studying abroad.

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