The TESOL Profession

What professional associations and employment opportunities can I access on the web?

The Australian Council of TESOL Associations is a good first point of call at http://www.tesol.org.au it links to each state's branch association and also has links to various ESL resource sites for teachers and learners and there is the mega US-based TESOL organisation at: http://www.tesol.org

• International Assoc. of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
  http://www.iatefl.org/newhome.asp
• Applied Linguistics Association of Australia
  http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/langcent/alaa/
• International Association of Applied Linguistics
  http://www.aila.soton.ac.uk/
• Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association
  http://www.lexised.com/asfla/

Also check out the professional links at the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research: http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/

There are job-search links on many of the esl pages referred to through this site, including The TEFL Professional Network at: http://www.tefl.com

This is a great place to look for a job, as well as a tesol news site. Also try:

• http://www.ihworld.com/recruitment/index.asp
• http://www.jobs.edunet.com

The LINGUIST List has a jobs section: http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-
website/LL-WorkingDirs/jobs/index.html

CATESOL has an extensive list of resources at: http://www.catesol.org/resource.html

Tom Riedmiller offers a step by step guide to using Internet resources for getting a job in ESL: http://www.uni.edu/riedmill/

Last reviewed: 28 September, 2007