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1. My Classroom: Zanzibar

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

   Learn how Muhaymina Omar and her students on Unguja, one of the two main islands in Tanzania’s Zanzibar Archipelago, have come together in regular classes and in a special Saturday class to study English, collaborate to solve problems, and learn about themselves and the world around them.

2. Crowdsourced Language Learning: Lessons for TESOL Educators from Online Language-Learning Enthusiasts

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Online language-learning sites have multiplied over the years, and this article offers suggestions for evaluating and getting the most out of them.

3. Rapport-Building Activity

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This engaging activity gives students a chance to use playdough in a creative way in order to express themselves, practice using English, and build rapport with their peers and the teacher.

4. My Classroom: Ecuador (Galápagos Islands)

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Learn how Sandra Urgilez meets the challenges of transitioning to online teaching while incorporating content and issues relevant to her students in the unique environment in which they live and learn.

5. An American Poetry Project for Low Intermediate ESL Adults

   In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses the author’s poetry unit, developed to expose her ESL students to American literature. Students wrote journals about poems they read and were assigned a poem about which to write a composition. The author required her students to memorize and perform one poem. While teaching the unit, the author and a colleague kept a dialog journal of their experience and insights. Both the student reactions and their dialog journals yielded positive results, allowing the author to make several recommendations for using poetry in the ESL classroom.

6. Trees

   In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is a thematic lesson plan for young learners about palm trees and the importance of taking care of them. The two part lesson teaches listening, reading and speaking skills. The lesson includes parts of a tree; the modal auxiliary, can; dialogues and a role play activity.

7. English Prime as an Instructional Tool in Writing Classes

   In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses a variety of ways to incorporate E-Prime, the idea that all forms of the verb “to be” need to be replaced in writing and speaking. The author shows how this can force ESL and EFL students to improve their writing and make them to spend more time with their essays, to think critically about acceptable grammar and vocabulary, and to search for new vocabulary.

8. My Classroom: India

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article profiles the teaching context at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science and describes how educator Santosh Kumar Mahapatra develops creative lessons to motivate his students to learn and achieve success both in and out of the classroom.

9. My Classroom: Madagascar

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Learn how teachers Niry Razafimamonjy and Josiana Andriantsalama, at the Lycee Jacques Rabemananjara beside the Indian Ocean in Taomasina, support their students’ learning and contribute to the field of English language teaching in Madagascar.

10. My Classroom: Indonesia

    In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    Alief Noor Farida is a junior lecturer at Indonesia’s Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES). Now teaching her fourth semester and an alumna of the English Education program at UNNES, Ms. Farida is an especially motivated and dedicated educator. She teaches 18 hours per week, specializing in grammar and writing-skills courses. The Intensive Course she teaches, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and grammar skills, serves as a foundation for incoming English Department students.

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