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English Teaching Forum Volume 56, Number 2
This issue features articles on helping students recognize and avoid plagiarism, create original radio dramas, write and perform movie trailers, and more.
This article gives detailed practical suggestions for helping students recognize and avoid plagiarism, use paraphrasing and summarizing effectively, incorporate direct quotes into their writing, and cite sources.
Find ideas for having students create and perform original radio dramas in the classroom; the article includes tips for helping students read with emotion, use sound effects, and work collaboratively.
This Teaching Technique describes how teachers can use mini-workshops in place of student writing conferences and explains potential benefits of doing so.
This Teaching Technique gives suggestions for using pictures and other images to give students practice in the “four skills” and using authentic English to communicate.
This is a step-by-step guide for having students create a basic idea for their own movie and then write and perform a “movie trailer” to promote their movie.
This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.
This Teaching Technique shows how languages found on public signs can help students practice English and understand the use of languages spoken in their context.
