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1. Teacher's Corner: Comic Books for Learning

   Format(s): Text

   Comic books are a pleasure to read, but they can also be a great resource in the English classroom!

2. Making Learning Fun: Interactive Activities To Build Student Motivation and Engagement In Your Classroom

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This webinar demonstrates how to spark students’ intrinsic motivation in the English language classroom.

3. The Single-Point Rubric to Simplify Student Feedback and Assessment

   In: English Teaching Forum 2025, Volume 63, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this article, author Melanie C. González explores single-point rubrics, a simple, adaptable assessment tool that can offer student-friendly formative and summative feedback in many ELT contexts. Single-point rubrics use one list of evaluative criteria to describe how learners can demonstrate proficiency or success; this flexible rubric style also provides space for individualized, growth-focused instructor feedback in relation to each success criterion.

4. Environmental Student Center

   Format(s): Website

   The Environmental Protection Agency provides information, games, videos, quizzes, and short films for students.

5. Encouraging Student Voices in a Chinese Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author shares two activities she developed to promote student participation and encourage candid feedback. The first strategy involved having a student "facilitator" play the role of the teacher in small group discussions, providing an alternative to teacher-centered classrooms. To receive candid feedback from students, the author developed a system called no-fuss feedback. Students drew a large circle on a piece of paper and, as they listened to a list of class activities, they wrote the name of the activity in the circle if it helped them, and outside the circle if it did not.

6. Fostering Student Motivation: Self-Directed Learning with the "Reading Train"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation Format(s): Text

   This week’s teaching tip demonstrates how to use a combination of student choice, friendly competition, fun visuals, and rewards to motivate students to read more in English.

7. Testing Writing in the EFL Classroom: Student Expectations

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

   This article reports on the inconsistency between the expected and actual grades of learners of English as foreign language in freshman English writing classes. It discusses the differences between students’ and instructors’ perceptions of acceptable essay writing. It suggests that teachers develop valid and reliable testing procedures and help students to increase their awareness and understanding of the proficiency levels required to write essays.

8. Error Correction and Feedback in the EFL Writing Classroom: Comparing Instructor and Student Preferences

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

   This article discusses what EFL instructors and their students like and dislike about error correction and paper marking and discusses what this means for classroom teaching. The article lists the benefits and drawbacks of error correction for students’ writing and argues for the need to look at preferred methods for both teachers and students. It reports on a study of university EFL instructors and discusses these teachers’ beliefs regarding important aspects of writing and their preference for paper-marking techniques.

9. Increasing Student Talk Time in the Online Classroom

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Increasing Student Talk Time in the Online Classroom," discussed benefits of increasing student oral language use in virtual environments, and explored routines, activities, and tools that gave students a voice in their online classrooms.

10. Graphing Activity Student Survey

    In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    This article shows how a learner poll can become a graphing activity for students. The author gives the reasons for using graphing activities as well as instructions for warm-up activities, graphing, and follow-up activities for a unit on sports. The author also provides ideas for using graphs with other themes.

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