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1. Purposeful Language Assessment: Selecting the Right Alternative Test

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article, originally published in 2000, looks at various instruments, procedures, and practices for language testing and offers strategies for determining which assessment options are most appropriate in various contexts.

2. Getting Teens to Really Work in Class

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article explains the brain development and behavior of teenagers as well as their special needs. The authors offer English language learning activities that meet the need for physical movement, social interaction, and reduced stress.

3. Teaching Communication: Back to the 60s

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This piece, a preface to a reprinted 1971 article on communication practice, focuses on the need for real communication in the language classroom.

4. Communication Practice vs. Pattern Practice or A Live Teacher Is Absolutely Necessary

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article, originally published in 1971, posits that the main goal of language learning is communication and that classroom work should concentrate on developing students’ communication skills. Communication-practice drills are presented and discussed.

5. Your Most Essential Audiovisual Aid - Yourself!

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Acknowledging that an interested and enthusiastic teacher can create excitement for students and promote learning, this article (reprinted from 1981) offers concrete suggestions for the teacher to be a “visual aid” and an “audio aid” in the classroom.

6. The Lighter Side: "Listen Up!"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This activity sheet presents a listening exercise based on rhymes.

7. Helping Metaphors Take Root in the EFL Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article explores why metaphors challenge learners and presents ways to incorporate metaphors into EFL instruction to help learners understand figurative speech.

8. The Lighter Side: Train of Thought

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This activity sheet focuses on phrasal verbs in a context of train rides.

9. English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 2

   Format(s): Text

   Cars are the focus of the feature article, Classroom Activities, and The Lighter Side in this issue.

10. Cars, Cars, Cars

    In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 2 Format(s): Text

    Cars are the focus of this feature article, which explores such topics as the history of cars in the United States, the national highway system, classic car shows, and the road trip in American literature and film.

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