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41 Results Match Your Criteria
  1. A Questionnaire Project: Integrating the Four Macro Skills with Critical Thinking

    In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 1 Format(s): Text
    This article describes the steps of a questionnaire project that uses listening, speaking, reading and writing while developing interpretation skills and self-regulation. The project creates survey questions, collects and analyzes data, and reports results. While students work in groups, they have opportunities to brainstorm, express opinions, and ask for clarification. The article includes tips on time constraints, evaluation of data, participation, and topic selection.
  2. Using Practice Posters to Address EFL Challenges

    In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    Practice posters, with pictures and captions, are useful for controlled practice of vocabulary and structures in an EFL context. The author has found many advantages of using posters with beginners in a high school setting. Student led review gets students active, increases autonomy and improves confidence. The use of small groups is effective with multi-language classes and frees the teacher to monitor interactions. Other benefits include increasing English use, limiting mistakes, decreasing discipline issues, helping with pronunciation and appealing to a variety of learning styles.
  3. English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 4

    Format(s): Text
    This issue has articles on communicative language teaching, project work, team teaching, interactive grammar, creative writing techniques, and a feature article on a popular American sport.
  4. The Joy of Watching Others Learn: An Interview with Diane Larsen-Freeman

    In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 4 Format(s): Text
    This interview shares insights from Diane Larsen-Freeman, who has written numerous books and articles on language teaching methodology, second language acquisition, English grammar, and teacher education. It touches on topics including Larsen-Freeman's beginning in EFL, advice for new teachers, Larsen-Freeman's teaching methodology books, and her views on the state of English language teaching and its future.
  5. Integrating Pronunciation Across the Curriculum

    In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video
    This webinar introduces content-based pronunciation activities that could be used in a reading, writing, or grammar course.
  6. Using Original Video and Sound Effects to Teach English

    In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text
    This article outlines a lesson plan for teaching modals of speculation that express degrees of certainty, using audio-visual techniques. It identifies the teacher's lesson preparation, required materials, and specific ways to engage students in the special interactive environment. It highlights the effectiveness of audio-visual resources to represent and illustrate abstract concepts. The article also provides ideas for variations of the lesson plan, employing video and sound effects to teach grammar, vocabulary, and creative writing.
  7. English Prime as an Instructional Tool in Writing Classes

    In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    This article discusses a variety of ways to incorporate E-Prime, the idea that all forms of the verb “to be” need to be replaced in writing and speaking. The author shows how this can force ESL and EFL students to improve their writing and make them to spend more time with their essays, to think critically about acceptable grammar and vocabulary, and to search for new vocabulary.
  8. Classroom Activities

    In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    This section presents three stand-alone language-learning activities for different level classrooms. The interactive activities focus on skills that familiarize students with simple sentence structures, present tense, grammar review through group work and games, a vocabulary review, and an activity to help students understand the concept of metaphors and use them in their writing.
  9. Using Story Boxes in Language Learning

    In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 1 Format(s): Text
    This article outlines how to bring stories alive through the use of story boxes (or bags). The author suggests that teachers use easy-to-find materials such as shoeboxes or pizza boxes. These can be filled with a variety of small surprise items related to the content. The teacher or the students can find items for these boxes. Story boxes can easily be moved and stored. They can be used in identifying themes or for vocabulary and grammar exercises, and they work well with learners of all ages.
  10. Learning to Hypothesize with Confidence through Sudoku Game Play

    In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 1 Format(s): Text
    According to the author, the game Sudoku offers a useful way to teach students in an EFL environment. Students learn the important words and grammar connected to language functions of confident hypothesizing and making logical conclusions. When students solve the Sudoku puzzles, they are asked to use modal verbs of certainty (e.g., must, can) and colloquial phrases such as "I bet that..." to communicate. The author provides lesson templates.

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