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

Vol. XVI, No. 1, January 2010

Teaching Techniques

• Promoting Positive Attitudes in ESL/EFL Classes
  By Iakovos Tsiplakides and Areti Keramida
• Using ‘Text’ to Promote Communicative Language Learning
  By Oliver Dammacco
• Warm Downs: Effectively Ending ESL/EFL Lessons
  By James Andrew Farmer
• Using Advice Columns in ESL/EFL Classes
  By Shu-min Hsieh
• Making the News: A Motivating Writing Skills Project for ESL Students
  By Clare Wardman

Lessons

• Ten Task-Based ESL/EFL Video Lessons
  By David Graham McGill
• Content-based Business English Course for EFL
  By Yi-chen Chen
• An Icebreaker Activity for ESL Students
  By Errol Pitts
• Teaching Slang to ESL/EFL Students Using the TV Series Prison Break
  By Jennifer Louise Teeter

Articles

• The Benefits of Using Drama in the ESL/EFL Classroom
  By Chris Boudreault

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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