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1. Let's Talk about It: Strategies for Integrating Writing and Speaking in the Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The authors describe a number of strategies for integrating speaking into writing-focused classes, with the goal of increasing students’ competence in both language skills.

2. The Lighter Side: "An English Class Logic-Grid Puzzle

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, your job is to solve a logic-grid puzzle that is based on elements of sentences that three students have written. After you have solved the puzzle, you must determine the sentence that each student wrote from a list of choices.

3. The Line Between Questions, Responses, and Readers

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article uses the Stephen Crane story “The Open Boat” (freely available on the American English website) as an anchor text to demonstrate how teachers can apply Raphael’s Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) technique to a text that students might be assigned to read. The article includes numerous examples and tips that teachers can use to adapt the technique to other texts as a way to enhance student engagement and interest in reading.

4. Ten Helpful Ideas for Teaching English to Young Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article offers ten suggestions for teaching young learners between the age of 7 and 12 based on language-teaching principles. They include supplementing activities with visuals, realia and movement; involving students in making visuals and realia; moving from activity to activity; teaching in themes; using stories and contexts familiar to students; establishing classroom routines in English; using L1 as a resource when necessary; bringing in helpers from the community; collaborating with other teachers in your school; and communicating with other professionals.

5. Creating Positive Attitudes Towards English as a Foreign Language

   In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author reviews research on the connections between attitudes and language learning, and between attitudes and motivation. The article suggests that language learners’ motivation and attitudes can influence learning outcomes, and that effective teaching can change negative attitudes. It describes a classroom action research project that was carried out among 95 students in Turkey to examine attitudes and motivation for English learning. Results and possible factors are discussed with regard to the students’ attitudes and motivation.

6. Reflection as a Necessary Condition for Action Research

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

   This article explores the idea that teachers can improve their practice through reflection and action research. The author discusses the constructivist and socio-constructivist roots of action research. The case study explores the use of a project to improve learner autonomy and cooperation. Students made key decisions about the project content, the size of the groups, and the roles that each member would play. To evaluate the experience, the instructor asked students open-ended questions. A colleague-observer filled out rating scales about instructor and student behaviors.

7. Using Letters to Tell Stories in the EFL Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses how letter writing can be used as authentic language use. An activity for beginners involves an exchange of letters of introduction between the instructor and students. This serves a socially meaningful interactional purpose. The second activity is the construction of an story, one in which the plot is expressed in a series of letters. The writer suggests using letter exchanges for this creative writing project after using books such as The Color Purple. Letter writing is one way to enable and empower students to tell their own stories.

8. Try This: Collaborative Mind Mapping

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

   Try This gives step-by-step instructions for carrying out language-learning activities in your classroom.

9. Teaching Techniques: Human Mind Maps

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

   Teaching Techniques give English teachers the opportunity to share successful classroom practices.

10. English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1

    Format(s): Text

    Trains, the theme of this issue, are highlighted in the feature article, the Classroom Activities, and The Lighter Side.

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