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1. Teacher's Corner – Teaching with Authentic Materials

   Format(s): Text

   This month in the Teacher’s Corner, we will discuss different types of authentic materials and the benefits and challenges of using them.

2. Try This: Luck of the Draw (Pragmatics)

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This activity will allow students to practice using greetings by creating a brief skit.

3. Teaching Techniques: Group Grammar

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Before becoming a teacher of English to speakers of other languages, I taught French, and too often I saw that impersonal grammar exercises about “Jacques” and “Nathalie” were meaningless to the students. Worse, those exercises led to apathy and stagnation. So I decided to do grammar activities in which students used each other’s names, instead of random ones, and used the grammar to express ideas about their own lives.

4. Universal Design as a Tool to promote inclusivity in the Language Classroom

   In: Teacher's Corner: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Format(s): Text

   This month in Teacher’s Corner, we talk about designing lessons and activities so that students of all abilities can participate and learn in ways that work best for them.

5. Formative Assessments: Part 2

   In: Teacher's Corner: Collecting and Using Data Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner discusses three additional types of formative assessments as well as how to use assessment data to have the greatest positive impact on student learning.

6. Backward Design and Alignment of Assessments

   In: Teacher's Corner: Collecting and Using Data Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine ways to ensure your students have learned the target content. This week, we look at backward design of lesson planning.

7. Reader's Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue.

8. Week 3 - Celebrity Interview

   In: Teacher's Corner: Journalism Format(s): Text

   Looking for a fun way to teach reported speech? In this activity, students take part in a role play and then use reported speech to write a story about a celebrity interview.

9. Teacher's Corner: Collecting and Using Data

   Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine ways to ensure your students have learned the target content.

10. Poetry for the People

    In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    This article starts with the view that most poets believe that poetry should be understandable and accessible to everyone. The article then introduces the poetry and ideas of Ted Kooser, a famous poet born in Iowa. Following the stories of Ted Kooser, the article introduces what a poet laureate is, how long they serve, how they are chosen, how much pay they get, what they do, and six poet laureates of the past two decades. The history of the Library of Congress is introduced at the end.

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