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1. Integrating Multimedia Technology in a High School EFL Program

   In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The author describes a Technologically Enhanced Language Learning program in Venezuela and how it helped improve high school EFL instruction. The author presents six challenges of teaching EFL and describes the context for the program. The author then provides a rationale for using multimedia in language teaching, based on theoretical frameworks. Following that, the author describes the English Learning Center, its materials, activities, and evaluation. The students’ perceptions of the center are also addressed.

2. Beyond Film: Exploring the Content of Movies

   In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article looks at the use of movies in the language-learning classroom. The author promotes the use of the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” due to its content, which involves poverty, racial inequality and mental illness, and to the availability of websites related to its use in English classrooms. The author highlights six scenes for understanding the movie, pre-viewing, while viewing, and post-viewing activities, as well as suggestions for Internet follow-up. An example WebQuest is included.

3. Reader's Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Reader's Guide corresponds to the articles in each issue and can guide your own understanding as well as discussions with colleagues.

4. English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2

   Format(s): Text

   Find strategies for selecting and adapting open educational resources (OERs) ... responding to emergencies and student crises … using double-communication lines when teaching online … conducting peer collaboration and correction in writing with Big Paper … using group progress charts with young learners … and much more.

5. Reader's Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue.

6. Tea Time

   In: English Teaching Forum 2002, Volume 40, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article is about tea, the world’s most popular drink. It presents the stories, descriptions, recipes, and poems submitted by Forum readers all over the world in response to a tea survey conducted by Forum.

7. Coming to Grips with Progress Testing: Some Guidelines for Its Design

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Progress testing is often neglected in communicative language teaching; yet it has a crucial role. This article, originally published in 1995, offers a rationale for testing and presents guidelines for designing app

8. Boats, Boats Everywhere

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

   Boats are the subject of this feature article, which explores such topics as the age of steamboats, commercial boats, recreational boats, boating vocabulary, and the Mississippi River in American literature.

9. English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 3

   Format(s): Text

   Find tips for conducting an ELT workshop, starting a community-based English club, and making sense of English homework.

10. English Homework: What Makes Sense

    In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    The purpose of this article is to persuade English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and teacher trainers that homework is indeed beneficial by presenting multiple examples of high-quality homework assignments, as Dettmers et al. (2010) found in mathematics

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