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1. Teaching Students How to Write a Description with Photos

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique explains what the author describes as a pre-task for teaching students to write descriptively about a photo diary that students create themselves.

2. My Classroom: Philippines

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article profiles the two teaching contexts in which Edgar Manaran has taught English by using creativity, dedication, and perseverance to overcome unique challenges and meet the needs of his students.

3. Service Learning and Community Engagement for English Classes

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

   The author uses her own experience with using service learning to give advice to others interested in creating and making use of service-learning projects in their own schools and communities.

4. 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.

5. Try This: Go for the Grit!

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

   This step-by-step activity teaches students the meaning and importance of grit and provides two case studies that are ready to use in the classroom.

6. The Lighter Side

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

   This puzzle is called Mountain Climbing, with clues for words that give encouragement to people climbing a mountain or taking on other difficult challenges.

7. I Raise My Voice: Promoting Self-Authoring through a Curriculum-Based Project

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this article, the author describes a study on the use of a self-designed ESL online curriculum to cultivate self-authoring.

8. Improving Cohesion in L2 Writing: A Three-Strand Approach to Building Lexical Cohesion

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article presents a three-strand approach to help L2 writers in EFL and English as a second language (ESL) instructional contexts achieve greater cohesion in their written work.

9. Evaluating Communicative Language by Using Creative Dialogues

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this article, the author presents an interactive evaluation method for use with upper-beginner and intermediate students in communicative English courses.

10. TRY THIS Guess Who?

    In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    In this activity, students discuss one of their favorite topics—themselves! The activity involves listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and it can be adapted for almost any language feature.

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