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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Personal Learning Environments for Supporting Out-of-Class Language Learning

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Website

   A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a combination of tools and resources chosen by a learner to support the learning process.

5. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Text

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

6. Teaching Students to Categorize TOEFL Essay Topics

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author maintains that categorizing TOEFL iBT writing topics helps test takers because they will be more familiar with the topics and thus better able to write about them and because categorizing topics requires critical thinking about the topics. Using some of the 185 TOEFL prompt questions and 10 additional prompts, the article explores ways to code and analyze the prompts, illustrating the process with tables.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2

   Format(s): Text

   Find strategies for using outlining to develop students' rhetorical prosody … incorporating Simple English Wikipedia content productively … teaching register … using media circles … playing mingle bingo … and much more.

10. Inquiry Notebooks for Twenty-First-Century Skill Development

    In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    One way to incorporate inquiry-based learning and develop twenty-first-century skills is through inquiry notebooks. The article gives suggestions for using the notebooks in courses and provides a range of specific prompts designed to help learners think more critically and carefully over time.

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