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1. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to horses.

2. Assessment Literacy: Building a Base for Better Teaching and Learning

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article presents principles and practices of effective assessment, outlining seven key concepts—usefulness, reliability, validity, practicality, washback, authenticity, and transparency—and demonstrating how to apply them in creating an exam blueprint.

3. A Paragraph-First Approach to the Teaching of Academic Writing

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article begins by evaluating how academic writing is taught in EFL/ESL contexts—historically, the sentence has been seen as the basic element of written communication.

4. Entrepreneurship and Student Motivation

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article describes a three-week project-based unit on entrepreneurship conducted with students in communications classes in an Academic English context.

5. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to dogs.

6. Personal Learning Environments for Supporting Out-of-Class Language Learning

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

   A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a combination of tools and resources chosen by a learner to support the learning process.

7. Classroom Activities

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

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to fish.

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. Teacher's Corner: Classroom Management

   Format(s): Text

   This month in the Teacher’s Corner, we will take a closer look at classroom management topics related to establishing class routines, grouping students, and creating positive rapport with students.

10. The Lighter Side: Stage Directions

    In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text

    Stage directions describe characters’ emotions or actions; they help actors interpret scripts.

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