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1. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4 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. The Lighter Side: "An English Class Logic-Grid Puzzle

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, your job is to solve a logic-grid puzzle that is based on elements of sentences that three students have written. After you have solved the puzzle, you must determine the sentence that each student wrote from a list of choices.

3. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, 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.

4. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 3 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.

5. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 4 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.

6. English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 2

   Format(s): Text

   The spotlight is on New Mexico. Accompanying the feature article is a lesson plan designed to teach students about the state’s climate and energy issues. Other articles focus on World Englishes, organizational skills that aid language learning, public speaking tasks in English language learning, ways to make university English classes more interactive, and video recording in teacher training.

7. English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2

   Format(s): Text

   This issue focuses on Seattle, the second city on our tour this year. Complementing the feature article is a lesson plan on “Seeing Seattle.” Additional articles in this issue discuss interdisciplinary collaboration, two approaches to student-produced videos, student documentaries as language learning tools, using teacher-developed corpora in the CBI classroom, and building vocabulary and improving writing while developing a tourist brochure.

8. English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 4

   Format(s): Text

   A feature article called “Newspapers in America” headlines this issue. That article is complemented by a lesson plan on “Using Journalism Skills in the Language Classroom.” Also included in this issue are articles on creating positive attitudes toward EFL, constructivism, teacher research, translation and foreign language reading comprehension, and a classroom activity using Romeo and Juliet.

9. CAR: A Means for Motivating Students to Read

   In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article addresses the relationship between motivational approaches and second language reading development. It discusses competence, autonomy, and relatedness (CAR) as instructional strategies to teach reading. Competence is established when learners feel they can do the task, autonomy is established when they feel they have the control over it, and relatedness is established when tasks are related to each other. The article suggests ways to use these ideas in the classroom.

10. El Paso

    In: American Rhythms Format(s): MP3, Text

    In the song El Paso, folk/indie singer, songwriter and internet sensation Danielle “Ate the Sandwich” Anderson thinks back on the experiences she had in El Paso. Listen online or download the MP3.

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