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1. Practical Tips for Increasing Listening Practice Time

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article help teachers of English reconsider how to think about listening tasks. It provides guidance for increasing classroom listening practice through short, dedicated tasks, with an emphasis on the practical business of setting up and “class-managing” listening activities in order to give students more practice.

2. An American Poetry Project for Low Intermediate ESL Adults

   In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses the author’s poetry unit, developed to expose her ESL students to American literature. Students wrote journals about poems they read and were assigned a poem about which to write a composition. The author required her students to memorize and perform one poem. While teaching the unit, the author and a colleague kept a dialog journal of their experience and insights. Both the student reactions and their dialog journals yielded positive results, allowing the author to make several recommendations for using poetry in the ESL classroom.

3. Learner Perspectives

   English language learners share how they use American English resources and materials to take their English language skills to the next level. Find out how American English has opened doors for language learners of all levels.

4. Encouraging Learners to Create Language-Learning Materials

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Student-produced materials are a powerful tool for promoting learner autonomy.

5. Poems About Places

   In: Poems About Places Format(s): Text

   Learn about places – cities, provinces, villages, countries – that are special to the students who wrote poems about them. Read or download the poems!

6. Reader's Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue.

7. Health Information

   Format(s): Text, Website

   Special English news stories about health for English language learners. Text and audio, Voice of America.

8. Science and Technology

   Format(s): Text, Website

   Special English news stories about science for English language learners. Text and audio, Voice of America.

9. 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.

10. Women in Sports

    In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    This article outlines the history of women in sports. It includes a discussion of important female athletes, female participation in the modern Olympics, and Title IX in the United States. The piece concludes by giving sketches of the accomplishments of several important female athletes-- "Babe" Didrickson Zaharias, Wilma Rudolph, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Jackie Joyner-Kersey.

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