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1. The Blue Hotel

   In: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories Format(s): Text

   In this story from The Red Badge of Courage, four men stay at the famous Palace Hotel.

2. Full Novel: The Red Badge of Courage

   In: Four Skills: Reading Resources Format(s): Text

   The title story from The Red Badge of Courage is about a soldier named Henry who flees from his regiment during the Civil War.

3. The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories

   Format(s): Text

   This collection of short stories by O. Henry gives the reader a wonderful selection of characters from the United States of 100 years ago.

4. Promoting Reading Fluency with the ACTIVE Framework

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

   This session, “Promoting Reading Fluency with the ACTIVE Framework,” explores the six elements of the ACTIVE reading framework, designed to systematically enhance reading skills in the EFL classroom.

5. The Art of Imitation: How to Use Outlines to Teach Rhetorical Prosody and Structure

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The authors provide detailed guidance, with examples, for using outlining strategies to develop learners’ rhetorical prosody and ability to structure talks.

6. Notes for Teachers

   In: Why English? Comics for the Classroom Format(s): Text

   This section includes a table of contents, information about the project, and how teachers can use these comics in their classrooms.

7. Alternatives to Current Pedagogy for Teaching the Present Perfect Progressive

   In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   These researchers collected 250 samples of spoken and written American English from high-level communicators and analyzed the use of the present perfect progressive tense. They compared these samples to five leading ESL and EFL grammar textbooks. This article reviews the research and findings. The five leading textbooks provided good overall structure for teaching the present perfect progressive tense, but the use of the tense was critically influenced by broad context, adverbs, temporal context and the uses of other tenses including the present and present perfect tense.

8. Developing Voice by Composing Haiku: A Social-Expressivist Approach for Teaching Haiku Writing in EFL Contexts

   In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses Haiku as a simple way to use poetry to help students develop voice and audience in their writing. The author gives an explanation and example of Haiku and gives step-by-step instructions for how Haiku may be taught, from interpretation to composition to publication.

9. Establishing Textual Authority and Separating Voices: A New Approach to Teaching Referencing

   In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article provides practical reasoning and tools for the ESOL teacher to better teach source referencing. The author argues that students from around the world are taught different concepts for using sources. Students often assume texts present truths that do not require analysis. Many cultures teach students to memorize texts and repeat them to show mastery and shared knowledge. The author addresses plagiarism and provides classroom exercises.

10. Building Fluency through the Repeated Reading Method

    In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    This article discusses the success of Repeated Reading (RR) within EFL classrooms, illustrating three techniques of RR that can be used to develop students’ fluency, comprehension skills, and reading self-esteem. After providing a background on the RR method, the author explains the techniques step by step and suggests activities. The techniques include classic oral repeated reading (ORR), Paired repeated reading (PRR), and Reader’s Theater (RT).

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