Number 1
This issue spotlights stories and storytelling. Individual articles focus on storytelling and the art of teaching, story theater, enhancing English teaching with Caldecott Award (illustrated) books, conflict and role play in narrative writing, and the story “Hatim’s Hill.”

Number 2
The articles deal with teaching English through the content of business and commerce. Topics include entrepreneurial English, integrating student projects into ESP classrooms, using mazes for teacher training, distance in-service training, company course design, and business correspondence by fax.

Number 3
The theme is the potential of literature to enhance an EFL program. Articles discuss sound in meaning, semantic mapping, developing appropriate materials, the causal mechanism of hyperbole, African American women in literature, and a discussion of what is (and what isn’t) an “error.”

Number 4
Authors look at what language teachers are discovering as they explore cyberspace. Topics include “modem” times (how electronic communications are changing people’s lives), revisiting McLuhan’s thesis that the medium is the message, literary portfolios and ESP, and structuring scientific discourse.

Number 1
This issue spotlights stories and storytelling. Individual articles focus on storytelling and the art of teaching, story theater, enhancing English teaching with Caldecott Award (illustrated) books, conflict and role play in narrative writing, and the story “Hatim’s Hill.”

Editorial: Connecting Through Stories | Download as PDF (373K)

Storytelling and the Art of Teaching | Download as PDF (296K)
E. Martin Pedersen

Story Theater | Download as PDF (333K)
Mary Hines

Enhancing English Teaching: Caldecott Award Books | Download as PDF (301K)
Patience Lea McGuire

Whose Story is it? Conflict and Roleplay in Narrative Writing | Download as PDF (304K)
Wayne Amtzis

Storytelling | Download as PDF (370K)
Joseph Stockdale

"I can try it at least": A Strategy for Effective Inter-Class Oral Communication | Download as PDF (291K)
Dong Taiqin
Including Graphic(s)

Using Titles and Lyrics of Songs as Warm-Ups | Download as PDF (289K)
Gilberto Díaz Santos

Foreign Language Curriculum Organization | Download as PDF (116K)
John R. Aydelott

Teaching Grammar Inductively: Tag Questions | Download as PDF (224K)
Judy Sharkey

Summer Workbook Project: A Purposeful Way to Exploit Student-Generated Exercises | Download as PDF (224K)
Daniela Villani

Creative Games for the Language Class | Download as PDF (224K)
Lee Su Kim

From Poetry to EAP | Download as PDF (224K)
Gilda Pimenta

Storytelling in Early Language Teaching | Download as PDF (224K)
Natasha Malkina

American Gossip: Authentic Language Material for Engineering Students | Download as PDF (224K)
Tatiana Slobodina

Designing an Advanced Speaking Course | Download as PDF (224K)
Linda Bawcom

Integrating Grammar into the Teaching of Paragraph-Level Composition | Download as PDF (224K)
Nurdan Özbek

Crossword Puzzles: One Way to Improve Communication Strategies | Download as PDF (224K)
Glenn Wharton

Construct Validity in Reading Tests | Download as PDF (224K)
Wilfredo Sequera

Number 2
The articles deal with teaching English through the content of business and commerce. Topics include entrepreneurial English, integrating student projects into ESP classrooms, using mazes for teacher training, distance in-service training, company course design, and business correspondence by fax.

Editorial: The English of Business/The Business of English | Download as PDF (373K)

Entrepreneurial English: Teaching Business English through Simulation | Download as PDF (296K)
Mary C. Black

Guidelines for the Integration of Student Projects into ESP Classrooms | Download as PDF (333K)
Ken Sheppard and Fredricka L. Stoller

Using Mazes in a Teacher-Training Course | Download as PDF (301K)
Jill Cadorath

Distance Inservice Training for Language Teachers: A Suggested Approach | Download as PDF (304K)
Roger C. G. Barnard

Tweedledum and Tweedledee: Problems In Company Course Design | Download as PDF (370K)
Massimo Mangilli-Climpson

Business Correspondence by Fax: Some Ideas on Why and How to Teach it | Download as PDF (291K)
Barry Warwick and Sonya Bertini

You are an Expert: A Communicative Activity for Large Classes | Download as PDF (289K)
Annaliese Hausler-Akpovi

A Plan for an Enjoyable Reading Lesson | Download as PDF (116K)
Liliana do mara Meneses

Making Mini-Speeches and Editing "Magazines": Two Ways to Develop Productive Language Skills | Download as PDF (224K)
Jiashu Wang

What Works: Table Topics | Download as PDF (224K)
Edward Tanguay

Using Reading Logs for Business English | Download as PDF (224K)
Vicki Yung

A Model for Developing Coherence and Authenticity in ESP Materials | Download as PDF (224K)
Patrisius Djiwandono

A Middle Way Video Approach to EFL Teaching | Download as PDF (224K)
Radu Alexandrescu

Spontaneous Writing: Letters to the Teacher | Download as PDF (224K)
Gary P. Barkhuizen

Labels: Motivation from the Very First Day | Download as PDF (224K)
Bernardo Rodríguez Caparrini

Business Communication and Public Relations for ESL Students | Download as PDF (224K)
Mark McElreath and Valeria Shadrova

Number 3
The theme is the potential of literature to enhance an EFL program. Articles discuss sound in meaning, semantic mapping, developing appropriate materials, the causal mechanism of hyperbole, African American women in literature, and a discussion of what is (and what isn’t) an “error.”

Words Like Silver Fish: The Affective Component of Sound in Meaning | Download as PDF (373K)
Mary Mahir
Including Graphic(s)

Semantic Mapping: In Communicative Language Teaching | Download as PDF (296K)
Mohammed Abdullah Zaid
Including Graphic(s)

Developing Appropriate Materials: The Vietnam Project | Download as PDF (333K)
Ursula Nixon
Including Graphic(s)

On the Causal Mechanism of Hyperbole | Download as PDF (301K)
Liu Baiyi and Xiao Aili
Including Graphic(s)

What is An Error? | Download as PDF (304K)
Nsakala Lengo

Black English (modified for electronic text) | Download as PDF (370K)

An Integrated Approach to Language Programme Development | Download as PDF (291K)
Brian Paltridge

Reading and Writing Letters In Class | Download as PDF (289K)
Mario Rinvolucri

Culture Clash in the Classroom: How to Minimize Cheating in a Face-Saving Culture | Download as PDF (116K)
Bruce T. Sidebotham

Teaching Reduced Forms: Putting the Horse before the Cart | Download as PDF (224K)
Robert W. Norris

Evaluating Materials for Teaching English to Adult Speakers of other Languages | Download as PDF (224K)
Carol Griffiths

The Importance of the Beginning | Download as PDF (224K)
Zofia Chlopek

Using Newspapers and Radio in English Language Teaching: the Sierra Leone Experience | Download as PDF (224K)
Joe Pemagbi

Coming to Grips with Progress Testing: Some Guidelines for its Design | Download as PDF (224K)
Carmen Perez Basanta

In Search of an Effective Grammar Teaching Model | Download as PDF (224K)
Tsai-Yu Chen

Number 4
Authors look at what language teachers are discovering as they explore cyberspace. Topics include “modem” times (how electronic communications are changing people’s lives), revisiting McLuhan’s thesis that the medium is the message, literary portfolios and ESP, and structuring scientific discourse.

Editorial: Journey into Cyberspace and Back to the Classroom Again | Download as PDF (373K)

"Modem" Times: How Electronic Communications Are Changing Our Lives | Download as PDF (296K)
Anthea Tillyer

Revisiting McLuhan's Thesis: The Medium is the Message | Download as PDF (333K)
Richard Loring Taylor

An Excellent Match: Literacy Portfolios and ESP | Download as PDF (301K)
Ann M. Johns

Structuring Scientific Discourse: Using the "Given-New" Perspective | Download as PDF (304K)
Kevin Ngozi Nwogu
Including Graphic(s)

Putting the Computer in its Proper Place: Inside the Classroom | Download as PDF (370K)
Luis Reis

Toward Student Autonomy in Reading: Reciprocal Teaching | Download as PDF (291K)
Gerry Hewitt

Ten Ideas for Creative Writing in the EFL Classroom | Download as PDF (289K)
Rigoberto Castillo and Grady Hillman

Materials Production in EFL: A Team Process | Download as PDF (116K)
Lindsay Miller

Selecting, Organizing, and Presenting Reading Materials by Genre | Download as PDF (224K)
Marsha Syrquin

Language Teacher Preparation in Developing Countries: Structuring Pre-Service Teacher Training Programmes | Download as PDF (224K)
David Cross

Expanding Vocabulary Through Reading | Download as PDF (224K)
Fukuji Maruyama

Meaningful Communicative Repetition | Download as PDF (224K)
Tim Murphey

Conversation Classes or Discussion Classes: Which Do We Teach? | Download as PDF (224K)
William Bickerdike

The Remedial English Project | Download as PDF (224K)
A. Augusto Lescano

Learner Autonomy and Cooperative Learning | Download as PDF (224K)
Mary Jo Rendon

The Roles of the Teacher in the Reading Classroom | Download as PDF (224K)
Arunee Wiriyachitra