Advanced Search: Resources

1. The Pragmatics of Greetings: Teaching Speech Acts in the EFL Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article will provide background information on this important speech act and instructional strategies for use in the classroom to help teachers equip their students with a critical component to successful interactions.

2. Listening Journals for Extensive and Intensive Listening Practice

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Articles provide practical, innovative ideas for teaching English, based on current theory.

3. FORUM City Poster Show (Set 1, 12 posters - Full Set)

   Format(s): Text

   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.

4. The Color Vowel Chart

   Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This is a powerful tool for teaching spoken English. It helps teachers incorporate pronunciation into lessons. Check out the chart, the teacher’s guide, and the webinar on how to teach with The Color Vowel Chart.

5. Full Novel: The Red Badge of Courage

   In: Four Skills: Reading Resources Format(s): Text

   The title story from The Red Badge of Courage is about a soldier named Henry who flees from his regiment during the Civil War.

6. U.S. Citizen and Immigration Center

   Format(s): Website

   A comprehensive U.S. Citizenship guide, study materials, and welcome kit for those wishing to become American citizens.

7. Beyond Film: Exploring the Content of Movies

   In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article looks at the use of movies in the language-learning classroom. The author promotes the use of the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” due to its content, which involves poverty, racial inequality and mental illness, and to the availability of websites related to its use in English classrooms. The author highlights six scenes for understanding the movie, pre-viewing, while viewing, and post-viewing activities, as well as suggestions for Internet follow-up. An example WebQuest is included.

8. Open Classroom Communication and the Learning of Citizenship Values

   In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses the importance of fostering citizenship values in language classrooms around the world, and specifically in Morocco. Class content, student-teacher roles, classroom activities, and teacher education can promote civic values of equality, respect, responsibility, tolerance, and compassion. A learner-centered environment where there is group work, open communication, and participation, models these values. By including cultural content and engaging students with meaningful issues, teachers can increase interest and motivation.

9. The Lighter Side: A Maps Mind Map

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The Lighter Side features an English language–based puzzle that can be photocopied and given to students to solve individually or collaboratively.

10. Cops and Robbers: "We Were Watching a Movie at the Movie Theater"

    In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

    In this week’s Teacher’s Corner activity, students practice the past progressive during a role play in order to solve a crime.

Pages