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1. Exploring Contexts: A Tense and Aspect Activity for Online and In-Person Instruction

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author carefully explains how to carry out a clever but easy-to-implement activity that helps students increase their facility with tense and aspect in fun, collaborative, and creative ways.

2. On Native Language Intrusions and Making Do with Words: Linguistically Homogeneous Classrooms and Native Language Use

   In: English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 4 Format(s): Text

   Should L1 use be avoided in an EFL context, where classrooms tend to be linguistically homogeneous and where students have little opportunity to use English outside the classroom? This article reviews research on native language use in the classroom, how it is used (or not used), and the effects. It addresses topics such as impact on learning, teacher guilt, “covert use,” affective and processing benefits, validating the students’ own language, and solidarity with the instructor. The author concludes that a trend toward what Atkinson calls “judicious use” is reasonable.

3. Integrating Authentic Materials and Language Skills in English for Science and Technology Instruction

   In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article describes how a unit in an English for Science and Technology (EST) course integrated three learning materials: a research article from a scientific journal, an article from a magazine that reports on the scientific journal article, and an instructional video with its script. Instruction was focused on both content and rhetorical functions. The author shows how the language skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening were used for each of the three materials.

4. Teaching Techniques: Running for Your Words!

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In Swiss schools, English language textbooks for eight- to thirteen-year-old children contain many arts-and-crafts and science-experiment lessons.

5. How Many Words is a Picture Worth?

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” indicates that a complex idea can be communicated by a single image.

6. The Rio–Warsaw Connection: Encouraging Interculturalism among Students

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   It all began in Norwich. As they do every year, teachers from different parts of the world went in July 2012 to that beautiful little city in the east of England to take part in one of the two-week professional development courses offered by the Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE).

7. Ready-to-use Methodology Materials: Breaking the Teacher-Fronted Cycle in the Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article describes the use of loop input and reflective journals to create a more effective way of teaching and preparing teachers of English-as-a-second-language in Slovakia. The authors of this article, who are also the designers of the technique, discuss how they handled challenges to the course, which included poor student motivation and attendance, and students who expect a teacher-fronted classroom rather than a learner-centered one.

8. Classroom Techniques: Romeo and Juliet in One Hour

   In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article describes the use of drama activities to motivate students, to teach vocabulary and pronunciation, and to enhance cooperative learning. The author describes in five steps the classroom procedure of an activity based on the play of Romeo and Juliet. The author discusses the results of the activity and its implications. Play scripts used in the activity are included.

9. The Lighter Side: The “Best” Puzzle

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Can you complete these sentences that contain the word “best”? And can you match each completed sentence with its meaning?

10. The Lighter Side: Reduce, Reuse, Re____

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

    This puzzle features words that begin with the letters ”re” … and similar words without “re” as the first letters. Can you find them all?  

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