EFL/ESL Articles & Research Papers
From The Internet TESL Journal

Becoming a Better Teacher

• Language Learning Strategies: An Overview for L2 Teachers
  By Michael Lessard-Clouston
• Improving Teacher-Student Interaction in the EFL Classroom: An Action Research Report
  By Jonathan Snell
• Using Volunteers in Your ESL Classroom: Suggestions for Newer Teachers
  By Kate Singleton
• How Can a Chinese Teacher of English Succeed in Oral English Classes?
  By Zhou Jie
• How Native English Speakers Can Be Better English Teachers in Russia
  By Radislav Millrood

CALL - Computer Assisted Language Learning

• English Teachers' Barriers to the Use of Computer-assisted Language Learning
  By Kuang-wu Lee
• A Hypercard Random Sentence Generator For Language Study
  By Charles Kelly
• CALL is not a Hammer and not Every Teaching Problem is a Nail!
  Changing Expectations of Computers in the Classroom
  By Judy F. Chen
• Using Microsoft Word to Generate Computerized Tests
  By Frank Tuzi
• Word Processors' Grammar and Spelling Assistance: Consequences for Second Language Learning and Teaching
  By Ingrid Fandrych
• Developing Global Connections through Computer-Mediated Communication
  Developing and implementing a collaborative Internet project between two universities
  By Myra Shulman

Children

• Raising Bilingual Children
  By Marsha Rosenberg
• A Child's First Steps in Language Learning
  By J. Doug McGlothlin

Communication

• Communicating in English: Flexibility Within a Norm
  By Mark Offner
• Easy English Communication At The Secondary Level:
  Easy Ways Teachers Who Are Non-Native Speakers Can Use More English in Class
  By James R. Welker
• English Communication through Practical Experiences
  By Judith D. DeRolf
• Code Switching as a Countenance of Language Interference
  By Richard Skiba
• The Role of English and Other Foreign Languages in Japanese Society
  By R. Jeffrey Blair

Conversation / Oral English / Speaking

• College Conversation Classes: Beyond Survival
  By Craig Smith
• Teaching English Conversation in Japan: Teaching How to Learn
  By Mark D. Offner
• A Role Play Activity with Distance Learners in an English Language Classroom
  By Pramela Krish
• Recording Speaking Tests for Oral Assessment
  By Iain Lambert
• Promoting Learners' Speaking Ability by Socioaffective Strategies
  By Chou, Yen-Lin

Culture

• Becoming a Cultural Insider: How Holidays Can Help ESL Students' Acculturation and Language Learning
  By Natasha Lvovich
• Towards an Understanding of Culture in L2/FL Education
  By Michael Lessard-Clouston
• Mentality Awareness - A Key to Personal Success in International Business Contacts
  Russian vs British mentality in business contacts
  By Pavel V. Sysoyev
• The Place of "Culture" in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Reflection
  By Ramona Tang
• Coping with Problems Caused by Stereotypes in Japan
  By Mario McKenna
• Facing Up to Stereotypes in the Second Language Classroom
  By Dilys Karen Rees
• Understanding Chinese Names: Cross-Cultural Awareness in the EFL Classroom
  By Christine Savvidou
• The ESL Teacher's Role in Heritage Language Maintenance
  By Pamela L. Anderson-Mejías

ESP - English for Special Purposes

• Key Issues in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Curriculum Development
  By Kristen Gatehouse
• What Are We Doing When We "Talk Science"?
  By Jack Kimball
• A Description of the Skill-based EAP Training for Pre-departure Students at the British Council in Jakarta
  By Tim Bell
• Do EAP Teachers Require Knowledge of Their Students' Specialist Academic Subjects?
  By Timothy Bell

Grammar

• Teacher's Tips: Online Grammar Teaching and Learning
  By Caroline Ho Mei Lin
• Passive Grammar: We've Got It, Let's Use It!
  By Michaela Borova and Bryan Murphy
• Integrative L2 Grammar Teaching: Exploration, Explanation and Expression
  By Pavel V. Sysoyev

Internet

• Developing Intercultural Awareness and Writing Skills Through Email Exchange
  By Caroline Mei Lin Ho
• Issues Affecting On-line ESL Learning: A Singapore Case Study
  By Jaya Kannan and Cynthia Macknish
• Energizing the ESL/EFL Classroom through Internet Activities
  By Kuang-wu Lee
• Guidelines for Designing a Good Web Site for ESL Students
  By Charles Kelly
• What Do EFL Students See in Introductory Sequences of Movies
  By Gordon B. Liversidge
• E-mail Activities in the ESL Writing Class
  Ron Belisle
• Copyright Issues on the Web
  By Kristina Pfaff-Harris
• The Design and Utilisation of an Internet Resource for Business English Learners
  By Michael Vallance
• The Internet for English Teaching: Guidelines for Teachers
  By Mark Warschauer & P. Fawn Whittaker
• The Internet and Foreign Language Instruction: Practice and Discussion
  By David A. Trokeloshvili and Neal H. Jost
• Virtual Realia
  By Bryan Smith
• Online Quizzes - Are they Worthwhile?
  By Vera Mello
• The Internet and Foreign Language Education: Benefits and Challenges
  By Meena Singhal
• How to Make a Successful ESL/EFL Teacher's Web Page
  By Charles Kelly
• The Internet: Making it Work in the ESL Classroom
  By Gerald Fox
• Gender Differences in E-mail Communication
  By Paolo Rossetti
• Online Strategic Interaction: ESL Role-Playing via IRC
  A description of an Internet-based exercise that uses Strategic Interaction over an IRC network to practice writing.
  By Christopher M. Colburn
• Thriving on Screen: Web-Authoring for L2 Instruction
  By Jack Kimball
• E-mail in the Virtual ESL/EFL Classroom
  By Pieter S. Nagel
• Real Linguistic Experiences using Chat Sessions or Videoconferencing
  By Josu Sierra
• An Account of a Pilot Key Pal Project for Korean Children
  By Jaehee Choi and Hilary Nesi
• E-mailing to Improve EFL Learners' Reading and Writing Abilities: Taiwan Experience
  By Chao-chih Liao
• Evaluation Considerations for On-line ESL Courses
  By Shawn Moote
• Focus Discipline Research and the Internet: Literacy for College ESL Students
  By Loretta F. Kasper
• Roles and Competencies of Online Teachers
  By Vera Queiroz and Pollyana N. Mustaro
• Online File Storage for Teachers
  By Kosta Dimeropoulos
• Using Online Grammar Quizzes for Language Learning
  By Thevy Rajaretnam

Language Acquisition

• Employee Skills and Attitudes Utilized in Workplace ESL Training
  A description of how the author facilitated English language acquisition in the workplace.
  By Izabella Horvath

Learner Autonomy

• What is Learner Autonomy and How Can It Be Fostered?
  By Dimitrios Thanasoulas

Listening

• The Teaching of Listening
  An article with a sample lesson plan.
  By Arif Saricoban

Materials Development

• Making the Textbook More Communicative
  By Judith M. Lamie
• Selecting and Developing Teaching/Learning Materials
  By Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao
• Universal Characteristics of EFL/ESL Textbooks: A Step Towards Systematic Textbook Evaulation
  By Hasan Ansary and Esmat Babaii
• An Introduction to Syllabus Design and Evaluation
  By Roberto Rabbini

Motivation

• Motivation as a Contributing Factor in Second Language Acquisition
  By Jacqueline Norris-Holt
• Personalizing Language Learning in Large Classes
  By Chao-ching Lin
• Motivation and Motivating in the Foreign Language Classroom
  By Dimitrios Thanasoulas

Music and Songs

• Reasons for Using Songs in the ESL/EFL Classroom
  By Kevin Schoepp

New Technology

• An Experiment Using Electronic Dictionaries with EFL Students
  By Robert Weschler and Chris Pitts
• Language Learning Strategies in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
  By Murat Hismanoglu
• Electronic Dictionaries in the Classroom!? Bah, Humbug!
  By Dawn Yonally and Susan Gilfert

Pronunciation

• Teaching English Intonation with a Visual Display of Fundamental Frequency
  By Richard Stibbard
• Pronunciation: What Are the Expectations?
  By Marcus Otlowski
• Reflective Practice in Pronunciation Learning
  By Gergana Vitanova and Ann Miller

Reading

• Evaluating Sustained Silent Reading in Reading Classes
  By Chow, Ping-Ha and Chou, Chi-Ting
• Teaching Japanese-English Bilingual Children to Read English at Home
  By Craig Smith
• Extensive Reading: Why? and How?
  By Timothy Bell
• A Comparison of L1 and L2 Reading: Cultural Differences and Schema
  By Meena Singhal
• A Product-Focused Approach to Text Summarisation
  By Esther Uso Juan and Juan Carlos Palmer Silveira
• Reading Theory as a Microcosm of the Four Skills
  By Ciarán P. McCarthy
• Helping ESL Students Become Better Readers: Schema Theory Applications and Limitations
  By Nigel Stott
• Helping Children Learn to Think in English Through Reading Storybooks
  By Patricia F. Neyman
• Why Teachers Should Use Timed Reading in ESL Classes
  By Jeremy Browning

Reports

• Teaching ESL at Kuwait University
  By Jeffrey L. Martin

Speaking

Tests

• Teaching GMAT in an ESL Environment
  By Stephan Langdon and Tom Williford
• The Implementation of a First Year English Placement System
  By Anthony Mills, Lillian Swain and Robert Weschler
• A Review of TOEIC
  By Susan Gilfert
• Testing Listening
  By S. Kathleen Kitao & Kenji Kitao
• Testing Grammar
  By S. Kathleen Kitao & Kenji Kitao
• Testing Communicative Competence
  By S. Kathleen Kitao & Kenji Kitao
• Aligning Learning Activities and Assessment Strategies in the ESL Classroom
  By Robert F. Tambini

Video

• Practical Aspects of Using Video in the Foreign Language Classroom
  By Christine Canning-Wilson
• Comprehension Hot Spots in Movies: Scenes and Dialogs Which Are Difficult for ESL/EFL Students to Understand
  By Donna Hurst Tatsuki
• Using Films to Develop Learner Motivation
  By Stephen Ryan

Vocabulary

• Lexical Attrition of Some Arabic Speakers of English as a Foreign language: A Study of Word Loss
  By Hassan Al-Hazemi
• Is Gairaigo English? (Are English Loan-words Into Japanese Really English?)
  By James B. Brown
• Use/Misuse of Loan-words in the English Language in Japan
  By Andrea Simon-Maeda
• Potentially Confusing and Embarrassing Differences between American and British English
  (Humourously written by) David Barton
• Advertising and Language: The War of Words Between Copywriters and Language Purists
  By Joseph W. Sheperd
• Loanwords - A Pitfall for All Students
  By Joseph W. Sheperd
• "Chicken Meets on Rise": Meaning in Decline Lexical Havoc in L2
  By Yvonne Stapp
• One Benefit of Monolingual Dictionaries in the Writing Classroom
  By Randall Martin
• English Loanwords in Japanese -- The Built-In Lexicon
  By Frank E. Daulton
• Using the Lexical Approach for the Acquisition of ESP Vocabulary
  By Galina Kavaliauskienë and Violeta Janulevièienë
• Advanced Vocabulary Instruction in EFL
  By Aly Anwar Amer
• Interlingual Transfer of Idioms by Arab Learners of English
  By Abdulmoneim Mahmoud
• Corpus Linguistics: What It Is and How It Can Be Applied to Teaching
  By Daniel Krieger
• Considerations of Choosing an English-English Dictionary for ESL Students
  By Lindsay Taylor
• Definition Plus Collocation in Vocabulary Teaching and Learning
  By Joseph G. Stockdale III

Writing

• Learning Contracts and Team Teaching in a University ESL Writing Class
  By David Schwarzer, Robert E. Kahn, and Kristi Smart
• How Communicative Language Teaching Became Acceptable in Secondary Schools in China
  By Xiao Qing Liao
• Content Based Academic Writing
  By Birsen Tan Tütünis
• Technical Correspondence: What Professionals Need to Learn
  By Ted Knoy
• Integrating CALL into the Writing Curriculum
  By Kevin Cunningham
• Gender Differences in Taiwan Business Writing Errors
  By Judy F.Chen
• Marking Student Work on the Computer
  This article describes a method by which macros attached to toolbar buttons in a word-processor can be used to improve marking of students' writing assignments.
  By Martin Holmes
• Literacy Development Through Peer Reviews in a Freshman Composition Classroom
  By Julia Gousseva
• Crossing Cultural and Spatial Boundaries: A Cybercomposition Experience
  By Julia Gousseva
• Preparing ESL Students for College Writing: Two Case Studies
  By Laureen A. Fregeau
• Let's Write In English: Teacher, We Never Learned That
  By Susan Gilfert, Shigenobu Niwa and Shunichi Sugiyama
• Writing Scientific Project Applications for Peer Review
  By Catherine Histon
• Improving Text Flow in ESL Learner Compositions
  By Isabel Alonso and Anne McCabe

Other

• Towards International English in EFL Classrooms in Japan
  By Chiaki Yamaguchi
• New Ways of Studying Fluency in English
  By Harold Smith
• Second Language Literacy Through Student-Centered Learning
  By Yoko Watanabe and Mark Caprio
• Using the Community Language Learning Approach to Cope with Language Anxiety
  By Naomi Koba, Naoyoshi Ogawa, and Dennis Wilkinson
• The Australian/Japanese Homestay Program and its Positive Contribution to Cross-Cultural Understanding
  By Lawrence Klepinger
• A Scheme for the Obtaining of Language Skills
  By Gong Xue-Ping
• The Practice of TESOL & The Effect of Individual Variables Upon TESOL Students
  By David Kent
• Different Attitudes Among Non-English Major EFL Students
  By Hsiu-Ju Lin and Clyde A. Warden
• 20/20 Hindsight: Teacher Change and Advice
  By Robert Long
• Teacher Perceptual Comparisons toward Two Specific Communicative and Whole Language Dimensions in ESL Instruction
  By Mi-Young Kim and Charles E. Heerman
• David Kolb, The Theory of Experiential Learning and ESL
  By Curtis Kelly
• Uses of Japanese (L1) in the English Classroom: Introducing the Functional-Translation Method
  By Robert Weschler
• Basic Assumptions in Teaching English as an International Language
  By Mohammad Reza Talebi Nezhad and Mohammad Aliakbari
• Why Do We Teach English?
  By Kenji Kitao
• The Development and Maintenance of The Internet TESL Journal
  By Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
• Overcoming the Fear of Using Drama in English Language Teaching
  By Judith Gray Royka
• Virtual Reality for ESL Students
  By Hee-Jung Jung
• Integrating English into an Elementary School Life Course
  By Grace Chin-Wen Chien
• Learner Empowerment - A Perspective
  By Stephen R. Shrader
• A New Perspective on the Goals of TEFL in China
  By Lianzhang Liu
• Mentoring Mainstream Teachers of ESL Students
  By Rosalie Mittica
• Multiple Intelligence Theory and the ESL Classroom -- Preliminary Considerations
  By Karen L. Currie
• Letterland Pictogram Concept in EFL Teaching of Young Children
  By Oksana Yaverbaum
• Using Technology to Help ESL/EFL Students Develop Language Skills
  By Renee Ybarra and Tim Green
• Content-Based Instruction in EFL Contexts
  By Stephen J. Davies
• Practical Ways Brain-based Research Applies to ESL Learners
  By Judy Lombardi
• Creating New Names for Common Things in Cameroon English
  By Eric A. Anchimbe
• Scaffolding Academic Learning for Second Language Learners
  By Karen Sue Bradley & Jack Alden Bradley
• Creating a Healthy Learning Environment for Student Success in the Classroom
  By Bahaudin Mujtaba and Lisa Mujtaba
• Perceptions and Stereotypes of ESL Students
  By Shirley A. Wright
• Ideas for Developing a Personal EFL Teaching Curriculum
  By Joe Drakos
• Aspects of Nonverbal Communication
  By Steve Darn

Old, Outdated?

• How to Make a Startup Page for Internet Browsing
  By Charles Kelly
• TEFL Labour Issues in Japan
  By Brett Reynolds
• Points to Consider when Evaluating Interactive Multimedia
  By Warwick J. Thorn