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1. The Dialogue Journal: A Tool for Building Better Writers

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Using dialogue journals gives English language learners valuable writing practice. This article explores topics such as audience, fluency, teacher-student relationships, empowerment, and making the connection to academic writing. And the author gives practical advice on how teachers can institute dialogue journals in their classrooms and how best to respond to students’ journals.

2. Tasks for Integrating Language and Culture Teaching

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses the role of culture in language teaching and provides activities for introducing culture in the classroom, focusing on teaching context and methodology to integrate culture. The authors outline five activities that can be adapted to the language level and interests of students. Instructions for each activity include language points and intercultural points.

3. Teaching English for Science and Technology: An Approach for Reading with Engineering English

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Recognizing the relevance of English for Specific Purposes, this article outlines an approach for using authentic readings in a course in Engineering English. The article describes the importance of needs analysis, rhetorical focus, and reading for content; it suggests content for 15 lessons and provides a sample worksheet and other suggestions for assessment.

4. Create to Communicate: Mixed Media

   In: Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the EFL Classroom Format(s): Text

   Mixed media, an art technique that combines two or more art media, can provide students with many avenues for expression, exploration, and experimentation while using English.

5. Exploring Children's Picture Storybooks with Adult and Adolescent EFL Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The author presents a theoretical framework for using picture storybooks in teaching EFL to adults, suggesting that the storybooks are helpful in teaching both mechanics and culture. The article provides activities and resources and suggests themes that can be explored through the picture storybooks.

6. Using Raphael's QARs as Differentiated Instruction with Picture Books

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   A differentiated instruction technique this author uses is Question Answer Relationships (QARs), a strategy to aid reading comprehension. The article describes four QAR types and demonstrates them in differentiated reading and writing lessons, with accompanying worksheets, based on a children’s book, The Carrot Seed.

7. Teaching Story without Struggle: Using Graded Readers and Their Audio Packs in the EFL Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The authors developed the Bimodal Narrative Approach (BNA), which expands the extensive reading approach by adding listening activities. The authors, who used this approach with teacher trainees, outline the use of a graded reader novel and audio pack in BNA reading and listening classes. Video-based activities and evaluation are also discussed.

8. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 3 Format(s): Text

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

9. Raising Cultural Awareness in the English Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses how teachers can incorporate cultural knowledge into English language classes, exploring elements of culture, intercultural phenomena, and high-context and low-context cultures.

10. Teaching Beyond the Test: A Method for Designing Test-Preparation Classes

    In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    Test-preparation classes that focus on skills will benefit students beyond the test by developing skills they can use at university. This article discusses the purposes of various tests and outlines how to design effective test-prep classes. Practice activities included.

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