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1. Meeting EFL Learners Halfway by Using Locally Relevant Authentic Materials

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article presents five categories of authentic materials and sources for materials along with ways to use them in the EFL classroom.

2. A Paragraph-First Approach to the Teaching of Academic Writing

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article begins by evaluating how academic writing is taught in EFL/ESL contexts—historically, the sentence has been seen as the basic element of written communication.

3. Entrepreneurship and Student Motivation

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article describes a three-week project-based unit on entrepreneurship conducted with students in communications classes in an Academic English context.

4. Canine Companions and Helpers

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This feature article highlights dog breeds that are popular in the United States and explores the health benefits and services that dogs provide to people. The article also discusses dog shows and dogs in popular culture.

5. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to dogs.

6. The Lighter Side: "Dog Tricks"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, readers use clues to fill in commands that someone might give to a dog.

7. English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4

   Format(s): Text

   Fish are the subject of the feature article and the Classroom Activities section of this issue.

8. Spoken Grammar and Its Role in the English Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Spoken grammar has an important role in communicative English language teaching, and teachers who understand how to teach it can improve their students’ fluency.

9. Personal Learning Environments for Supporting Out-of-Class Language Learning

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Website

   A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a combination of tools and resources chosen by a learner to support the learning process.

10. Integrating Environmental Education into a Genre-Based EFL Writing Class

    In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    This article offers practical ways to integrate environmental education into English language teaching by using the genre-based approach to teaching writing. The authors present a four-stage process for each of three types of writing—descriptive, narrative, and procedure—focusing the content of each type of writing on the environment.

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