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1. Managing Volunteers in Language Teacher Associations

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

   Author Nikki Ashcraft gives background information about language teacher associations (LTAs), then presents a detailed guide for managing volunteers, including analyzing needs, recruiting, matching volunteers with tasks, orienting and training, supervising and evaluating, and acknowledging volunteer contributions.

2. Curriculum Revisions in Teacher Education during COVID-19: The Critical Reflections of Two Professors

   In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Elena King and Molly Riddle narrate the decision-making processes they applied as they revised their curricula for in-service and licensure-candidate teachers during the pandemic. The authors offer examples of how to use the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) framework and provide key takeaways from their experience that can be applied productively in a variety of contexts.

3. Developing an International Multilingual Writing Center: Lessons Learned

   In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Authors Andrea Mason Garner and Courtney Scarborough recount their experiences developing academic writing centers at two locations in Indonesia, then show how the lessons they learned can help other teachers start and operate a writing center successfully. The authors present tips for writing centers in various contexts, including those with low resources and a limited budget.

4. Collaborating Online: The Affordances of Online Word Processors with Students

   In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   With the Interactive-Constructive-Active-Passive (ICAP) framework as a foundation, author Robby Robinette presents two activities that teachers can use to incorporate collaboration into their online (and in-person) classes. The activities make use of students’ prior knowledge. The author suggests sources where teachers can find reading texts that are appropriate for the activities.

5. 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.

6. The Lighter Side: Scrambled Lyrics

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

   In this puzzle, you are given the first lines to songs, but the second lines to those songs are not only scrambled—they are also out of order. Your job is to unscramble each of the second lines and then match it with the first line that it follows. If you and your students are feeling creative, after solving the puzzle you can continue the songs with your own ideas and even make up melodies and sing them.

7. Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Working Together to Achieve Shared Goals

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

   Authors Lộc Thị Huỳnh Nguyễn and Fredricka L. Stoller share their own experiences as collaborators working together in person and on two distant continents, and they offer specific, detailed tips for others who are involved in cross-cultural collaborative projects or who may have the opportunity to collaborate in the future.

8. 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.

9. The Collaborative Scaffolding Model of Teaching Speaking

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

   This article, by Krishna Prasad Parajuli, describes a step-by-step activity in which students work in groups to begin, develop, and share stories they create. Teachers can also use the approach with debates, speeches, interviews, and other speaking genres as students enhance their speaking, listening, and collaborating skills.

10. Ten Characteristics of a Good Teacher

    In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    The author, an experienced English teacher, combines her professional experience with her language learner experience to identify her ideal language teacher. Her top ten characteristics focus on four areas: affective characteristics including humor and enthusiasm; skills such as the use of creative tools; classroom management styles and academic knowledge. The author claims motivation thrives on success, and by adopting these characteristics, students will react positively.

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