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1. Using the Linguistic Landscape to Bridge Languages

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique shows how languages found on public signs can help students practice English and understand the use of languages spoken in their context.

2. Using Songs to Teach English

   Format(s): MP3, Video

   This webinar, “Using Songs to Teach English” explores the myriad of ways songs and music can help create a classroom that is happy, interactive, and intellectually challenging. The presenter will introduce some effective techniques for incorporating music and song in the EFL and ESL classroom.

3. Coming to Grips with Progress Testing: Some Guidelines for Its Design

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Progress testing is often neglected in communicative language teaching; yet it has a crucial role. This article, originally published in 1995, offers a rationale for testing and presents guidelines for designing app

4. 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.

5. Misconception Analysis: A Necessary Complement to Foreign Language Teaching

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

   This article draws on findings from cognitive psychology that emphasize learners and their learning needs. The author proposes a solution for dealing with language learning problems, called misconception analysis (MA). The article explains MA, its usefulness, and language classroom applications. The author classifies misconceptions about language learning into four groups: misconceptions about the goals of language learning, the nature of language, the processes and strategies of language learning, and language elements.

6. Learn it! Share it! Using a Variety of Tools for Sharing Best Practices and Materials across Continents

   Format(s): Text, Video

   This webinar explores implications of information sharing on teacher professional development and educational sustainability measures.

7. Lesson Observation: The Key to Teacher Development

   In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author describes teacher training and teacher development as separate concepts through descriptions of how observation occurs in Cameroon. While training is a planned event that gives novices ready-made answers, development is an ongoing, organic process that values teacher innovation and reflection. Observers interested in development may use of a lesson observation cycle that includes pre-observation and post-observation meetings. The role of inspectors and peers in observation is also discussed.

8. Around Town

   In: Everyday Conversations: Learning American English Format(s): MP3

   Around Town

9. Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids

   Format(s): Website

   For kindergarten through high school curriculum. From the U.S. Government Printing Office.

10. Week 3 - Celebrity Interview

    In: Teacher's Corner: Journalism Format(s): Text

    Looking for a fun way to teach reported speech? In this activity, students take part in a role play and then use reported speech to write a story about a celebrity interview.

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