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1. Mingles in the Foreign Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Mingles allow a student to speak to several classmates in succession, giving participating students practice in speaking and listening as they work to fill a gap in information, experience, opinion, or knowledge. This article outlines procedures for mingles and provides detailed information on specific mingles tasks.

2. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to horses.

3. Assessment Literacy: Building a Base for Better Teaching and Learning

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article presents principles and practices of effective assessment, outlining seven key concepts—usefulness, reliability, validity, practicality, washback, authenticity, and transparency—and demonstrating how to apply them in creating an exam blueprint.

4. A Paragraph-First Approach to the Teaching of Academic Writing

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article begins by evaluating how academic writing is taught in EFL/ESL contexts—historically, the sentence has been seen as the basic element of written communication.

5. Entrepreneurship and Student Motivation

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article describes a three-week project-based unit on entrepreneurship conducted with students in communications classes in an Academic English context.

6. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to dogs.

7. Supporting Language Learning Using Smithsonian Online Museum Resources

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text

   This webinar explores strategies for finding and using visual resources to tell a story.

8. Picture Comparisons

   In: Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives Format(s): Text

   This week's Teacher's Corner activity features the use of pictures to encourage speaking and writing practice while using comparative adjectives.

9. Teaching Techniques: Human Mind Maps

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Teaching Techniques give English teachers the opportunity to share successful classroom practices.

10. The Lighter Side: A Maps Mind Map

    In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 2 Format(s): Text

    The Lighter Side features an English language–based puzzle that can be photocopied and given to students to solve individually or collaboratively.

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