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1. Fostering Student Motivation: Reflection and Self-Assessment with "I Can" Checklists

   In: Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation Format(s): Text

   This week's teaching tip illustrates how to use an objectives-based checklist that asks students to reflect on and assess their progress.

2. Writing Consultations

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing Format(s): Text

   Conducting teacher-student consultations during the writing process can be valuable to student. In this week’s Teachers Corner, we offer a template for conducting a successful teacher-student writing consultation.

3. Integrating Multimedia Technology in a High School EFL Program

   In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The author describes a Technologically Enhanced Language Learning program in Venezuela and how it helped improve high school EFL instruction. The author presents six challenges of teaching EFL and describes the context for the program. The author then provides a rationale for using multimedia in language teaching, based on theoretical frameworks. Following that, the author describes the English Learning Center, its materials, activities, and evaluation. The students’ perceptions of the center are also addressed.

4. Total Physical Response (TPR) and Miming with "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Listening Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps

   This meaning-focused listening activity uses the song “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” from Sing Out Loud-Children’s Songs.

5. Story 17: Studying English is Good

   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.

6. Memorial Day

   In: Celebrate! Holidays in the U.S.A. Format(s): Text

   Memorial Day is a holiday to honor the men and womn who have died in wars or in the service of their country.

7. Labor Day

   In: Celebrate! Holidays in the U.S.A. Format(s): Text

   Labor Day was established as a holiday for workers, both as a tribute to their contributions to the nation, and as a means of bringing more public awareness to their struggles.

8. Softening Short Requests

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This lesson aims to introduce students to a range of different ways in which native speakers soften their requests and to develop their awareness of how these are used by different speakers and in different situations within the speech community.

9. Readers’ Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   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.

10. Reader's Guide

    In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    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.

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