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1. Talking to Learn across Classrooms and Communities

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

   The authors of this article present a model for principled discussion and suggest ways to engage students in focused discussions drawing from their experiences, offering guidance for helping students make the most of the dialogue sessions.

2. Classroom Activities

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

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

3. Tasks for Integrating Language and Culture Teaching

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses the role of culture in language teaching and provides activities for introducing culture in the classroom, focusing on teaching context and methodology to integrate culture. The authors outline five activities that can be adapted to the language level and interests of students. Instructions for each activity include language points and intercultural points.

4. Create to Communicate: Mixed Media

   In: Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the EFL Classroom Format(s): Text

   Mixed media, an art technique that combines two or more art media, can provide students with many avenues for expression, exploration, and experimentation while using English.

5. Task-Based Language Teaching for Designing Grammar-Focused Communicative Activities

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Task-Based Language Teaching for Designing Grammar-Focused Communicative Activities," examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) creates opportunities for students to use and develop language skills in the course of authentic communication.

6. Random or Intentional? Putting Learners in Groups that Work

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, “Random or Intentional? Putting Learners in Groups that Work,” helps participants reflect on and share the different types of EFL group work activities they use as well as the methods they use to create small groups. The session will also explore three grouping strategy categories and will review several fun, creative techniques for establishing effective groups.

7. "Mix It Up! Mingle Away!"

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Laura Loder Buechel presents innovative twists on the familiar technique of “mingling,” suggesting creative ways that you can use mingles to have students tell and listen to jokes, find partners, give compliments, and more—with additional tips for getting the most out of the mingles you use.

8. Turning Logic-Grid Puzzles into a Communicative Activity

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author, Gavin Young, offers a detailed guide showing how to create custom-made logic-grid puzzles and how to present and use them in class to promote learners’ speaking, listening, and thinking skills. The author uses an original puzzle he created as a working example throughout the article.

9. Hidden Pictures: An Integrated Speaking and Listening Activity

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Author Heather Gaddis provides a detailed, step-by-step description of an original activity in which students examine and describe pictures that are similar to one another. The author includes suggestions for adapting the activity for different purposes and for integrating themes—which teachers can choose—into the activity for targeted practice.

10. Matching Auditory Description with Visual Objects in an Interactive Setting

    In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 4 Format(s): Text, Image / Poster / Maps

    Author Monisha Biswas presents an engaging activity that gives students practice in describing objects, listening to classmates’ descriptions, and identifying the objects being described. The article offers options for adapting the activity, which can develop learners’ overall language skills.

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