The Internet TESL Journal
For Teachers of English as a Second Language

Vol. XV, No. 3, March 2009

Teaching Techniques

• Vocabulary Teaching: Effective Methodologies
  By Naveen Kumar Mehta

Lessons

• Bringing Gatsby into the EFL/ESL Classroom
  By Heather Lynn Doiron
• ESL/EFL Listening Comprehension Lesson for the Movie Super Size Me
  By Alenka Blake
• Motivating ESl/EFL Students to Write a Complaint Letter
  By William Hay

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Vol. XV, No. 2, February 2009

Teaching Techniques

• A Task-Based Approach to Entrance Exam Essay Question Preparation
  By Peter Hourdequin
• Support for Deaf Students in ESL/EFL Conversation Classes
  By Steve T. Fukuda
• Using Origami and Magic Tricks to Teach English
  By Vichea In
• Five Steps to Creating an Effective Team-teaching Relationship
  By Yuan Yuan
• Utilizing Film to Enhance Student Discussion of Sociocultural Issues
  By Richard J. Sampson

Lessons

• Issues Analysis Tasks for Year 12 ESL Studies in the South Australian Curriculum
  By Anne-Marie Morgan
• Using the E-Mail Précis for Advanced Learners: Teacher-Student Interactions
  By William C. McDonald

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• A Different Perspective on Plagiarism
  By Dahlia Syahrani Md. Yusof

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Commonly-used Acronyms

• CALL = Computer Assisted Language Learning
• EFL = English as a Foreign Language (Studying English in non-English-speaking countries)
• ELT = English Language Teaching (or sometimes Training)
• ESL = English as a Second Language (Studying English as a non-native speaker in a country where English is spoken. Depending on where you are from, the term ESL may be more inclusive and includes EFL. For some people the reverse seems to be true.)
• ESOL = English to Speakers of Other Languages (Note: ESL and EFL are often used interchangeably. This acronym is an attempt to make a generic term and then assign more limited meanings to ESL and EFL.)
• L1 = "Language 1" = the student's native (primary or first acquired) language.
• L2 = "Language 2" = the language being learned or studied
• TEFL = Teaching English as a Foreign Language
• TESL = Teaching English as a Second Language
• TESOL = Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (It is also the name of an association, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.)
• TOEFL = Test of English as a Foreign Language
• TOEIC = Test of English for International Communication