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1. Laughing All the Way: Teaching English Using Puns

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article describes four categories of English puns—soundalike puns, lookalike puns, close-sounding puns, and texting puns—and suggests how they can be incorporated into English language classrooms.

2. Trains across the USA

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This feature article explores the topic of trains from their early history to recent trends in railroading.

3. Back Translating: An Integrated Approach to Focus Learners' Attention on Their L2 Knowledge Gaps

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article describes a three-step process for using back translation in reading classes as a way to help students identify gaps in their English competence.

4. Guess What? Guess the Topic

   In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

   In Guess the Topic, the Describer says the six words below the topic, slowly, one at a time. The Guessers try to guess the topic after each word is read.

5. Chapter 1: Rights of the Individual

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Civic Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on individual rights such as the right to equality and the right to an education.

6. The Resources To Succeed

   Gita realizes how important resources are when it comes to teaching her students and credits the AmericanEnglish website for the endless array of teaching materials available to help her do her job.

7. Story 10: English in the Countryside

   In: Why English? Comics for the Classroom Format(s): MP3, Text

   The stories in Why English? Comics for the Classroom – written by teenagers and young adults – will appeal to learners of all ages. These stories provide an enjoyable opportunity to increase vocabulary, reading comprehension, listening, speaking, and writing.

8. Voice of America's Interactive Learning: The Classroom Official Facebook Page

   Format(s): Website

   The Facebook Page of Voice of America Special English, a component of the interactive VOA experience.

9. Writing for the Reader: A Problem-Solution Approach

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   A “how to” piece on using the problem-solution approach to writing academic articles, this article explores (originally published in 1997) defining the audience, defining the author, and evaluating the structure of an article, and it outlines helpful questions for writers and readers.

10. Learning about other Cultures through the Teaching of English

    As Fethi Çimen looked out the airplane window at Lake Michigan before joining the Engaging M@terials for Global English Summer Workshop he was both excited and exhausted. The joint project by the U.S. Department of State and Iowa State University (ISU) would be a platform for teachers, teacher trainers, and academics from 13 countries to discuss, collaborate, produce, and share our understanding of materials development and technology for English language teaching.

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