Advanced Search: Resources

1. Strategies for Managing Large Classes

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

   This session, "Strategies for Managing Large Classes," introduces strategies for building community, making it possible to take advantage of big opportunities for learning.

2. What Happened to Listening? Practical Tips for Increasing Listening Time in Your Classroom

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): MP3, Text, Video

   This webinar explores why listening sometimes gets short shrift in English classes and provides tips for bringing fun, low-preparation listening tasks to your lessons.

3. Folger Shakespeare Library

   Format(s): Website

   Home to the world's largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the Folger serves a wide audience of researchers, visitors, teachers, students, families, and theater- and concert-goers.

4. Hey, Little Minivan

   In: American Rhythms Format(s): MP3, Text

   The Texas-based bluegrass-folk group Austin Lounge Lizards sing about the passing of time and of our young years, and the new responsibilities that come with having a family.

5. FORUM City Poster Show (Set 2, 4 posters - Forum Covers)

   Format(s): Image / Poster / Maps

   These poster sets are a great, flexible classroom resource for information and discussion—each set of three posters corresponds to a city spotlighted in Forum vol. 46 and the feature article about that city, available online.

6. FORUM City Poster Show (Set 3, 3 posters - New York)

   Format(s): Image / Poster / Maps

   These poster sets are a great, flexible classroom resource for information and discussion—each set of three posters corresponds to a city spotlighted in Forum vol. 46 and the feature article about that city, available online.

7. FORUM City Poster Show (Set 4, 3 posters - Seattle)

   Format(s): Image / Poster / Maps

   These poster sets are a great, flexible classroom resource for information and discussion—each set of three posters corresponds to a city spotlighted in Forum vol. 46 and the feature article about that city, available online.

8. Teaching Students to Categorize TOEFL Essay Topics

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author maintains that categorizing TOEFL iBT writing topics helps test takers because they will be more familiar with the topics and thus better able to write about them and because categorizing topics requires critical thinking about the topics. Using some of the 185 TOEFL prompt questions and 10 additional prompts, the article explores ways to code and analyze the prompts, illustrating the process with tables.

9. Martin Luther King Day

   In: Celebrate! Holidays in the U.S.A. Format(s): Text

   Martin Luther King Day honors the life and legacy of one of the visionary leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Peace.

10. Being People

    Format(s): Text

    Being People is a collection of short stories and poems that draws upon the multicultural nature of American society.

Pages