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  1. Using VOA Special English to Improve Advanced English Learners' Productive Use of High Frequency Words

    In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    This article focuses on advanced ESL learners’ acquisition of the spelling, pronunciation, and comprehension of high-frequency words at the productive skill level rather than at the receptive skill level. It discusses the use of the Voice of America (VOA) Special English program to expose learners to different activities requiring productive skills. The article offers examples of how the VOA program exposes learners to comprehensible input through high-frequency words and helps them produce these words both in writing and speaking.
  2. Activate Games for Learning American English: Board Games

    Format(s): Text
    Activate Games for Learning American English is a collection of games for the language classroom. The board games offer interactive English language practice in a learner-centered, low-stress environment.
  3. Teacher's Corner: A Story of Design Thinking in the Classroom

    Format(s): Text
    Design thinking is a concept that has received growing attention in the United States in recent years. This approach to problem-solving is also valuable for turning our classrooms into spaces that prepare our students to solve meaningful challenges in the world in addition to learning English language skills. In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we explore the concept of design thinking and consider how we can implement it in our teaching and classroom.
  4. Teacher's Corner: Setting Up For Business English Success

    Format(s): Text
    This month in Teacher’s Corner, we look at how to teach grammar in ways that help students to build their communicative competence. A communicative grammar lesson gives students the opportunity to practice the target grammar item through specific communicative tasks and activities.This month’s article is filled with ideas and resources to help students use the language they are learning.
  5. Materials for Learning English

    Resources for Learning English

  6. Teaching the Native Speaker How to Teach English

    In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 2 Format(s): Text
    This article offers guidelines for non-native-speaker teachers of English sharing teaching contexts with native speakers of English who have no teaching experience.
  7. Activate: Games for Learning American English

    In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video
    This webinar introduces teachers to the Activate resource, demonstrates classroom management techniques for playing games in the classroom, and offers tips on how teacher's can create their own games that match their curriculum objectives.
  8. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Business English and Entrepreneurship

    Format(s): Text
    Within the field of English Language Teaching, the area of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is increasingly popular. Students around the world are seeking the English language skills they need to succeed in their areas of study and work.
  9. About English Teaching Forum

    English Teaching Forum is a quarterly journal that supports the teaching of American English around the world through the publication of innovative, practical ideas. It is published by the U.S. Department of State. 

  10. Teaching Vocabulary to English Teacher Trainees

    In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 4 Format(s): Text
    Non-native English-speaking teachers in a foreign context will sometimes experience difficulty with the words used in their training courses. This article presents a six-step method for helping these teachers learn new, relevant vocabulary. The method is effective but does not require a large amount of class time. Once words have been selected, individual students are each given a word for which to create a word profile. Presentation and review follows.

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