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English Teaching Forum 1997, Volume 35

  • Forum 1997
  • Number 1
  • Number 2
  • Number 3
  • Number 4

Number 1
Articles in this issue address writing for the reader, motivating learners, guidelines for writing teacher-comments between essay drafts, building fluency, and more.

Number 2
Assessment is the overall theme of this issue. Article topics include continuous assessment in the ESL classroom, portfolio assessment and the role of learner reflection, current proficiency testing, testing spoken ESL, evaluating reading comprehension in EFL, as well as an introduction to portfolio development.

Number 3
Articles in this issue highlight how to develop adult EFL students’ speaking abilities, ESL with children’s literature, adapting ESL methodology to the EFL environment, and classroom strategies for developing critical literary awareness.

Number 4
Articles in issue Number 4 focus on ways to help learners recognize links between language and content through content-based instruction. Read about a project to help students understand U.S. elections, developing content-based material, heightening students’ awareness, and using models in EST.

Number 1
Articles in this issue address writing for the reader, motivating learners, guidelines for writing teacher-comments between essay drafts, building fluency, and more.

Editorial: The Knowledge Revolution | Download as PDF

Writing for the Reader: A Problem Solution Approach | Download as PDF
Tom Miller and Dee Parker

Motivating Learners At South Korean Universities | Download as PDF
Janet S. Niederhauser

Praise-Question-Encourage: Guidelines for Writing Teacher-Comments between Essay Drafts | Download as PDF
Ellen Lipp and Debbie Davis-Ockey

The infiNET Possibilities: English Teachers on the Internet | Download as PDF
Anthea Tillyer

Building Fluency: A Course for Non-native Speakers of English | Download as PDF
Moh-Kim Tam

Language vs. Literature: in English Departments in the Arab World | Download as PDF
Marwan M. Obeidat

Native and Non-native Teacher: A Matter to Think Over | Download as PDF
Andrea Machado de Almeida Mattos

Speak Out: A Step-by-step Fluency Activity for English Learners in China | Download as PDF
Leng Hui

Intensive Reading: Getting Your Students to See the Forest as well as the Trees | Download as PDF
Zhang Zhenyu

De-Mystifying Literature | Download as PDF
Michael Daniel Ambatchew

Using E-mail in the EFL Classroom | Download as PDF
Orly Sela

Shadowing | Download as PDF
Keiko Adachi

The Facilitative Role of Written Language in Speaking: Using Writing Activities to Improve L2 Speaking | Download as PDF
Toshiyuki Takagaki

Using Local Materials to Teach Writing | Download as PDF
Verna M. Ness

Learner-Centered Grammar Instruction | Download as PDF
Abdulmoneim M. Mohammed

Teaching Methodology with Easily Available Resources | Download as PDF
Krzysztof Strzemeski

Computer Assisted Instruction in Language Teaching | Download as PDF
Simona Mirescu

Teacher Initiated Research: Action Research | Download as PDF
Zeynep Onel

Number 2
Assessment is the overall theme of this issue. Article topics include continuous assessment in the ESL classroom, portfolio assessment and the role of learner reflection, current proficiency testing, testing spoken ESL, evaluating reading comprehension in EFL, as well as an introduction to portfolio development.

Editorial | Download as PDF

Develop, Not Judge: Continuous Assessment in the ESL Classroom | Download as PDF
Carol A. Puhl

Portfolio Assessment and the Role of Learner Reflection | Download as PDF
Maricel G. Santos

Current Proficiency Testing: A Reflection of Teaching | Download as PDF
Christine Irvine-Niakaris

Testing Spoken English: As a Second Language | Download as PDF
Shreesh Chaudhary

English Proficiency Test: The Oral Component of a Primary School | Download as PDF
Ishbel Hingle and Viv Linington

A Taxonomy: Evaluating Reading Comprehension in EFL | Download as PDF
Cheryl L. Champeau De Lopez, Giancarla Marchi B., and Maria E. Arreaza-Coyle

Portfolio Development: An Introduction | Download as PDF
Eryln Baack

Those Ten Minutes Left! | Download as PDF
Verónica de la Vega

Teaching with Video in English Class | Download as PDF
Jiang Hemei

Using VOA News Items | Download as PDF
Hu Xiaoqiong

Testing Deviant! Are You One Also? | Download as PDF
Wade Rand

A Way to Improve All Facets of English Langauge Learning | Download as PDF
Yoshio Okita

The Radio in the Language Classroom | Download as PDF
Suzelina M. Sakia

Revising the ENS Curriculum for Development | Download as PDF
Mamadou Gueye

The Sound of Phonetics | Download as PDF
Anabel A. Cunado

Dramatising a Poem | Download as PDF
Ovaiza Sally

Number 3
Articles in this issue highlight how to develop adult EFL students’ speaking abilities, ESL with children’s literature, adapting ESL methodology to the EFL environment, and classroom strategies for developing critical literary awareness.

Editorial: Literature, Drama, & Language Teaching | Download as PDF

Let's Not Show the Teacher: EFL Students' Secret Exchange Journals | Download as PDF
Lynn Worthington

Factors to Consider: Developing Adult EFL Students' Speaking Abilities | Download as PDF
Kang Shumin

ESL with Children's Literature: The Way Whole Language Worked in One Kindergarten Class | Download as PDF
Irma K. Ghosn

The Best of Both Worlds: Adapting ESL Methodology to the EFL Environment | Download as PDF
Mary C. Black

Some Classroom Strategies: Developing Critical Literacy Awareness | Download as PDF
Chitra Varaprasad

An EFL Theater Festival: After the Ball is Over | Download as PDF
Elliott Swift

How We Proceed with Fables | Download as PDF
Azzeddine' Bencherab and Ahmed Tahar Berrabah

Tape Recorders, Role-Plays, and Turn-Taking in Large EFL Listening and Speaking Classes | Download as PDF
Xiao Haozhang

At the Beginning and the End: Two "Memorable" Activities | Download as PDF
Susan L. Schwartz

Another of My Ideas Bites the Dust | Download as PDF
Viola Wong Yuk-yue

Fifty Words to the Wise: The Mini-Saga in Class | Download as PDF
Anna Luczak and Danuta Stanulewicz

Developing Speech Habits with the Help of Songs | Download as PDF
Natalia Orlova

Role-Playing for Inhibited Students in Paternal Communities | Download as PDF
Abdullah I. Al-Saadat and Elhami A. Afifi

Using Film Posters in the Classroom | Download as PDF
Carmen Perez Basanta

Jigsaw Stories: A Motivating Way of Reading | Download as PDF
Carmen Pilar Serrano Boyer

Developing Speaking Skills by Creating Our Own Simulations for the EFL Courses | Download as PDF
Beatriz Chelle de Porto

 

Number 4
Articles in issue Number 4 focus on ways to help learners recognize links between language and content through content-based instruction. Read about a project to help students understand U.S. elections, developing content-based material, heightening students’ awareness, and using models in EST.

Editorial: Linking Language & Ideas | Download as PDF

Project Work: A Means to Promote Language Content | Download as PDF
Fredericka L. Stoller

Into, Through, and Beyond: A Framework to Develop Content-Based Material | Download as PDF
Donna M. Brinton and Christine Holten

Understanding Cause-Effect: Learning through language | Download as PDF
Bernard Mohan and Margaret van Naerssen

Using Models in EST | Download as PDF
Peter Master

New Bottles, Old Wine: Communicative Language Teaching in China | Download as PDF
Leng Hui

Classroom Surveys | Download as PDF
Susan Niemeyer

Index Cards: A Natural Resource for Teachers | Download as PDF
M. Martha Lengeling and Casey Malarcher

The Need to Revise Handwriting Systematically | Download as PDF
Roger Barnard

Summarizing Success | Download as PDF
Alexandra Durning

Same Old Dog, New Tricks: Lesson Planning as Friend Not Foe | Download as PDF
David Propst

Lessons from Language for Mainstream Lecturers | Download as PDF
Maria Snarski

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