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  1. The Lighter Side: Silent Letters

    In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 1 Format(s): Text
    “Silent Letters” expands on the silent “K” in knitting, giving students practice with silent letters. The activity requires students to fill in missing words from a dialogue on the topic of knitting. Some letters of the missing words are provided.
  2. Using Task Journals with Independent Readers

    In: English Teaching Forum 2002, Volume 40, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    This article discusses using journal tasks to help intermediate students with the challenges they face when they do independent reading in ESL/EFL reading classes. It describes the design, implementation, and integration of task journals designed to encourage students to think about content, reflection on the reading process, and vocabulary learning.
  3. The Lighter Side: A Jumble Garden Activity

    In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    This activity, called Jumble Garden, requires students to unscramble letters to make words. The definitions of the 14 scrambled words are provided to aid the students in unscrambling the letters.
  4. Noun Compounds and Compressed Definitions

    In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    This article discusses the difficulty of understanding noun compounds in professional texts in science and technology, business, medicine, law, and other areas of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). It provides techniques and activities to teach students how to decode noun compounds to see the link between definitions, which are usually familiar, and noun compounds, which are usually not familiar. These strategies can help students overcome this difficulty in reading advanced and specialized texts.
  5. The Mediational Role of Language Teachers in Sociocultural Theory

    In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    This article describes a sociocultural view of interaction, in which teachers construct knowledge with learners. Language is a mediating factor in cognitive development. The article discusses Vygotsky and the Zone of Proximal Development. According to Vygotsky, students are capable of doing more with guidance and support than they can alone. This principle leads instructors to scaffold material just beyond the leaner’s level. When teachers and students have meaningful interaction, learning is enhanced.
  6. Lesson Plan: A Letter from Miami: A Telenovela

    In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    This lesson plan contains four activities that can prepare students for the final activity of creating a video or a play. There are also two optional activities to help students learn grammar, and a fact sheet about Miami.
  7. The Use of Ethics in the EFL Classroom

    In: English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 4 Format(s): Text
    If students are not meeting their goals, it may be that the reason is non-linguistic. Motivation is an important factor that teachers need to consider. The writer argues that carefully chosen ethics cases can motivate timid students to speak out by removing their fear of making mistakes and by encouraging them to talk about heart-felt beliefs. Since ethics cases may not have clear right and wrong answers, this sets them apart from other discussion topics. Debate will foster critical thinking skills.
  8. Plays for Reading

    Format(s): Text
    Plays for Reading uses drama as a vehicle for students to practice reading, listening, and speaking. Students become actors interpreting the written text, and the English classroom becomes a rehearsal hall with the focus placed upon putting on a play.
  9. Vocabulary Strategy Work for Advanced Learners of English

    In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 2 Format(s): Text
    This article provides several activities designed to teach strategies for learning vocabulary. The author explains why it is important to teach strategies and offers ways for students to work on strategies, from preparation to experimenting with different methods, to evaluation of the instruction. Examples are given of cognitive, memory, and metacognitive strategies that encourage students to be responsible for their own learning of vocabulary.
  10. A Judicious Lesson: A Whole-learning Reading Activity

    In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 2 Format(s): Text
    This article discusses the use of whole-reading activities in a university level reading and speaking course. The author used a magazine article about a murder and a trial to develop a four-week unit in which students investigated ideas about crime, punishment, rhetorical strategies, idiomatic language, and the United States' judicial system. Through the use of this unit, the author advocates for readings and activities that challenge students to move beyond comprehension of a text.

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