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1. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.

2. Getting Young Learners to Stick to English

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The author provides a number of creative ideas that can help learners “stick to English” as they communicate, build confidence, and have fun.

3. Developing Fluency through Oral Reading

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The author presents sets of easy-to-incorporate activities designed to improve reading fluency at the word-, sentence-, and passage-level.

4. “What Should I Do?”: Three-Part Role Plays

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This is a step-by-step guide to offering role plays that give learners practice in describing a problem, asking for advice, giving advice—and giving and receiving feedback from peers. The article includes numerous sample prompts.

5. The Lighter Side: Medical Mix-Ups

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Oops! In each of these sentences, related to medicine and health, one word is misused and needs to be replaced with a word it rhymes with. Can you solve this fun puzzle?

6. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.

7. Media Circles: Lively, Learner-Led Lessons

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article gives suggestions for applying the concept of literature circles to audiovisual media rather than to literary works as a way to support learner autonomy and interaction with the target language.

8. Story Retelling with a Twist

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is a step-by-step guide to carrying out a versatile, well-scaffolded activity that can improve learners’ speaking skills and keep them engaged through the use of stories and jokes with surprising and unexpected endings.

9. The Lighter Side: Q & A Search

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle is similar to a word search, but instead of looking for individual words, you look for complete questions and answers. Can you find them all?

10. 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.

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