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- 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
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