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1. Classroom Activities

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

   This section presents two stand-alone language-learning activities related to cars.

2. The Readers Club Handbook

   Format(s): Text

   This handbook provides specific instructions, activities, and reading materials for participants wanting to improve their English reading abilities. Topics include strategies before reading, while reading, and after reading, strategies for viewing images and interpreting visual texts, and suggested topics for English Club settings.

3. Using Graphic Organizers to Promote Students’ Academic Language Production

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

   This session introduces the graphic organizer as a tool to help students understand difficult concepts and produce related, meaningful academic English.

4. Listening to Diverse English Voices through Podcasts

   In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Authors Tabitha Kidwell and Hanung Triyoko explain how they introduced their students to diverse English voices from around the world by making use of freely available podcasts. The article includes descriptions of pre-listening, while-listening, and post-listening activities, a detailed sample lesson, and suggestions for free apps and podcasts from global contexts.

5. Getting Teens to Really Work in Class

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article explains the brain development and behavior of teenagers as well as their special needs. The authors offer English language learning activities that meet the need for physical movement, social interaction, and reduced stress.

6. My Classroom: Colombia

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Learn how teacher Yurany Monsalve commutes (by plane!) between two teaching sites yet manages to provide her students with English skills and opportunities for learning and growth.

7. My Classroom: Uzbekistan

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Learn how teacher Mamura Alimova, through her involvement in countless projects, has established herself as an important contributor to the field of English teaching in Uzbekistan.

8. Using a Case Study in the EFL Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Case studies give students the opportunity to put their knowledge (including their English skills) to use in solving a problem and/or taking action about an issue. The author provides specific advice and works through a sample case study.

9. Creating a Storytelling Classroom for a Storytelling World

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article explores the value of storytelling in English language learning. Strong emphasis is placed on the role that stories of personal experience play in human interaction and how these natural conversations foster a better language learning experience. The author outlines a four-step approach to help students develop conversational skills as storytellers, including techniques for improving fluency and honing listening skills.

10. The Dialogue Journal: A Tool for Building Better Writers

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

    Using dialogue journals gives English language learners valuable writing practice. This article explores topics such as audience, fluency, teacher-student relationships, empowerment, and making the connection to academic writing. And the author gives practical advice on how teachers can institute dialogue journals in their classrooms and how best to respond to students’ journals.

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