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1. Word Salad: Vocabulary Reinforcement for Kinesthetic and Visual Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 3 Format(s): Text, Video

   This fast-moving game, played in teams, has three rounds; each round gives learners a different way to review and recall recently learned vocabulary.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Inquiry Notebooks for Twenty-First-Century Skill Development

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   One way to incorporate inquiry-based learning and develop twenty-first-century skills is through inquiry notebooks. The article gives suggestions for using the notebooks in courses and provides a range of specific prompts designed to help learners think more critically and carefully over time.

6. Engaging Students as Tutors, Trainers, and Leaders

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   While starting a tutoring program may seem like a daunting and time-consuming task, it does not have to be. The best way to approach the creation and development of a tutoring service is with a list of clear objectives. In this article, I describe the process I used to create a tutoring program with my English as a foreign language university students.

7. My Classroom: Kyrgyz Republic

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Learn how teacher Mukadas Tashieva, a faculty member at Osh State University, has established herself as an important contributor to the field of English language teaching in the Kyrgyz Republic.

8. Applied Theatre, Adolescent English Learners, and the Performance of Literacy

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Youth in middle and secondary grades, between childhood and the adult world, sometimes struggle with their identities as readers and learners. Too many describe themselves or are described by their teachers and parents as “reluctant, disengaged, and/or unmotivated” by classroom texts or by the rows of books in school libraries.

9. Listening Cloze Meets Info-Gap: A Hybrid Activity to Exploit Listening Materials

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In twenty-first-century language teaching, the class should be student-centered and provide learners with skills that empower them in real-life situations.

10. Try This: Listening and Logic

    In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    This section presents a stand-alone language-learning activity emphasizing listening, critical thinking, and teamwork, along with five ready-to-use examples.

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