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1. English for Specific Purposes: Negotiating Needs, Possibilities, and Promises

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

   The authors espouse the need for negotiation in designing and delivering English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programs. Such negotiations take into account learners’ needs as well as structural limitations of the context and candid assessment of ESP providers. The article explores lessons from the field and the importance of needs analysis.

2. 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.

3. Classroom Activities

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

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

4. Shaping the Way We Teach English: From Observation to Action

   Format(s): Text

   Shaping the Way We Teach English: From Observation to Action is a series of video-based training materials for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) educators.

5. Digital Stories: A 21st-Century Communication Tool for the English Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article lays out a 12-week digital storytelling project, describing the process in detail, including assessment, and pinpointing issues and challenges as well as benefits the project affords English language students.

6. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 1 Format(s): Text

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

7. Teaching the Native Speaker How to Teach English

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

   This article offers guidelines for non-native-speaker teachers of English sharing teaching contexts with native speakers of English who have no teaching experience.

8. Integrating Language Skills through a Dictogloss Procedure

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

   The co-authors of this article present interactive and student-centered dictogloss activities as alternatives to dictation exercises.

9. Mingles in the Foreign Language Classroom

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

   Mingles allow a student to speak to several classmates in succession, giving participating students practice in speaking and listening as they work to fill a gap in information, experience, opinion, or knowledge. This article outlines procedures for mingles and provides detailed information on specific mingles tasks.

10. 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.

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