Highlights from Previous Issues
2000

December 2000

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Ten Conversation Lessons with Stories, Vocabulary Practice, Questions and Activities
    By Farzad Sharifian
• Teaching Techniques
  • Redesigning Non-Task-Based Materials to Fit a Task-Based Framework
    By Kevin Rooney
  • Practical Techniques for Teaching Culture in the EFL Classroom
    By Brian Cullen and Kazuyoshi Sato
  • Learner-centered Vocabulary Building Practice
    By Sadia Yasser Ali
• Articles & Research Papers
  • English Teachers' Barriers to the Use of Computer-assisted Language Learning
    By Kuang-wu Lee
  • Developing Intercultural Awareness and Writing Skills Through Email Exchange
    By Caroline Mei Lin Ho
  • Lexical Attrition of Some Arabic Speakers of English as a Foreign language: A Study of Word Loss
    By Hassan Al-Hazemi
  • Becoming a Cultural Insider: How Holidays Can Help ESL Students' Acculturation and Language Learning
    By Natasha Lvovich

November 2000

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Conversation Topic: Work
    By Jack Bradshaw
  • Grammar Teaching Plan: Real Conditional Sentences
    By Jungok Bae
• Teaching Techniques
  • Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction
    By Jarek Krajka
  • Getting the Most from Textbook Listening Activities
    By Thomas Lavelle
• Teacher Aids
  • Speech Evaluation Form
    By Eric Pollock
• Articles & Research Papers
  • Issues Affecting On-line ESL Learning: A Singapore Case Study
    By Jaya Kannan and Cynthia Macknish
  • What is Learner Autonomy and How Can It Be Fostered?
    By Dimitrios Thanasoulas
  • Evaluating Sustained Silent Reading in Reading Classes
    By Chow, Ping-Ha and Chou, Chi-Ting
  • Using the Community Language Learning Approach to Cope with Language Anxiety
    By Naomi Koba, Naoyoshi Ogawa, and Dennis Wilkinson
  • Teaching GMAT in an ESL Environment
    By Stephan Langdon and Tom Williford
  • Practical Aspects of Using Video in the Foreign Language Classroom
    By Christine Canning-Wilson

October 2000

• Teaching Techniques
  • A Learner-Centred Approach to Vocabulary Review Using Bingo
    By Galina Kavaliauskienë
  • Songs, Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar
    By Arif Saricoban & Esen Metin
  • Deductive & Inductive Lessons for Saudi EFL Freshmen Students
    By Mohammed Y. Al-Kharrat
  • Warm-up Exercises in Listening Classes
    By Zhang Yi Jun
  • Getting Japanese Children to Make Use of Naturally-sounding English in the Classroom
    By Junko Yamamoto
• Articles & Research Papers
  • 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

August 2000

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • The Outside World as an Extension of the EFL/ESL Classroom
    By Mark A. Pegrum
• Articles & Research Papers
  • 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

July 2000

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • An Information-Sharing Puzzle Activity
    By Bob Gibson
• Teaching Techniques
  • Teaching EFL/ESL Students How to Read Time and Newsweek
    By J. Ignacio Bermejo
• Articles & Research Papers
  • Content Based Academic Writing
    By Birsen Tan Tütünis

June 2000

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Six Games for the EFL/ESL Classroom
    By Aydan Ersöz
  • Write-to-Learn: Geography Strategies
    By Daniel Teng-Lung Peng
• Teaching Techniques
  • Creative and Critical Thinking in Language Classrooms
    By Muhammad Kamarul Kabilan

May 2000

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Vocabulary Lesson: If a Runner Runs, Does a Sweater Sweat?
    By Rolf Palmberg
• Articles & Research Papers
  • Technical Correspondence: What Professionals Need to Learn
    By Ted Knoy
  • Integrating CALL into the Writing Curriculum
    By Kevin Cunningham

April 2000

• Articles & Research Papers
  • Energizing the ESL/EFL Classroom through Internet Activities
    By Kuang-wu Lee
• Teaching Techniques
  • Encouraging English Expression through Script-based Improvisations
    By Manette R. Berlinger
  • Some Possibilities for Using On-line Newspapers in the ESL Classroom
    By Jarek Krajka

March 2000

• Teaching Techniques
  • Developing Film Study Guides
    By Donna Hurst Tatsuki
  • Developing an English for Specific Purposes Course Using a Learner Centered Approach: A Russian Experience
    By Pavel V. Sysoyev
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Teaching Culture in Literature in the ESL/EFL Classroom
    By Anna Franca Plastina
• Articles & Research Papers
  • 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

February 2000

• Teaching Techniques
  • Boosting Speaking Fluency through Partner Taping
    By David E. Kluge and Matthew A. Taylor
  • Overcoming Chinese-English Colloquial Habits in Writing
    By Ted Knoy
  • Communicative Language Teaching in a Multimedia Language Lab
    By Shih-Jen Huang and Hsiao-Fang Liu
• Handouts
  • Evaluation Sheet for ESL/EFL Speech Practice
    By Connell Wayne Regner

January 2000

• Teaching Techniques
  • Perpetual Motion: Keeping the Language Classroom Moving
    A technique that allows students to practice with as many different partners as possible.
    By Christopher Kelen