Highlights from Previous Issues
2003

December 2003

• Teaching Techniques
  • Teaching Business Communication to LEP Students
    By Ken Lau
  • Using News Stories in the ESL Classroom
    By Robin Antepara
• Articles
  • Integrating English into an Elementary School Life Course
    By Grace Chin-Wen Chien

November 2003

• Teaching Techniques
  • Getting Students Actively Involved Using "The Mistake Buster" Technique
    By Hai K.P. Huynh
  • Helping EFL/ESL Students by Asking Quality Questions
    By Nasreen Hussain
  • Listening Activities for Effective Top-down Processing
    By Ji Lingzhu
• Lessons
  • Classroom Handout: The Order of Descriptive Adjectives
    By Yen-Ling Teresa Ting
• Articles
  • Learner Empowerment - A Perspective
    By Stephen R. Shrader
  • A New Perspective on the Goals of TEFL in China
    By Lianzhang Liu

October 2003

• Teaching Techniques
  • Frameworking in Business English Classes
    By John Adamson
  • Providing Feedback on ESL Students' Written Assignments
    By Jason Gordon Williams
  • Video Production in the Foreign Language Classroom: Some Practical Ideas
    By Sebastian Brooke
• Lessons
  • Invitations and Requests in a Restaurant
    By David Dockhorn
• Articles
  • Mentoring Mainstream Teachers of ESL Students
    By Rosalie Mittica

August 2003

• Teaching Techniques
  • Participation Points System to Encourage Classroom Communication
    By David McLachlan Jeffrey
  • Five Minute Lesson Fillers
    By Shelley A. Spencer
  • Motivation and Learner Training Through Oral Quizzing
    By Joshua Kurzweil
• Lessons
  • Telling True Stories: Blending Multimedia in a Task-based Activity
    By Aiden Yeh
  • Playing with Questions-A Game for Young Learners
    By Rania Bekiri
• Articles
  • Writing Scientific Project Applications for Peer Review
    By Catherine Histon

July 2003

• Teaching Techniques
  • Building Vocabulary Through Prefixes, Roots & Suffixes
    By William Pittman
  • Using Pictures from Magazines
    By Joep van der Werff
• Lessons
  • Two Activities for Fostering Autonomous Learning
    By Galina Kavaliauskiene
• Articles
  • Roles and Competencies of Online Teachers
    By Vera Queiroz and Pollyana N. Mustaro

June 2003

• Teaching Techniques
  • Teaching Search Engines to ESL Students: Avoiding the Avalanche
    By Kirsten Lincoln
  • Enhancing Critical Thinking with Structured Controversial Dialogues
    By Hanizah Zainuddin & Rashid A. Moore
• Lessons
  • A Lesson on Food Idioms
    By Yen-Ling Teresa Ting
• Articles
  • Why Teachers Should Use Timed Reading in ESL Classes
    By Jeremy Browning

May 2003

• Teaching Techniques
  • Simple Steps to Successful Revision in L2 Writing
    By Catherine Coleman
  • Using Expectations to Improve Learning
    By Gena Bennett
  • Successful Classroom Discussions with Adult Korean ESL/EFL Learners
    By Hye-Yeon Lim & W. I. Griffith

April 2003

• Teaching Techniques
  • Teaching TESOL Undergraduates to Organize and Write Literature Reviews
    By Roberto Criollo
  • Integrating Language Learning Strategy Instruction into ESL/EFL Lessons
    By Catherine Y. Kinoshita
  • Using PowerPoint for ESL Teaching
    By Don L. Fisher
  • Communicative Grammar -- It's Time to Talk.
    By Noriko Nishiguchi
  • Increasing Authentic Speech in Classroom Discussions
    By Georgia Smyrniou
• Lessons
  • Activities for the ESL Classroom Incorporating Reality-based TV
    By R. Alan Davis
• Articles
  • Multiple Intelligence Theory and the ESL Classroom -- Preliminary Considerations
    By Karen L. Currie
  • Recording Speaking Tests for Oral Assessment
    By Iain Lambert

March 2003

• Teaching Techniques
  • A Group Introduction Activity to Create a Safe Atmosphere
    By Clay Bussinger
  • Empowering English Teachers to Grapple with Errors in Grammar
    By Caroline Mei Lin Ho
  • Helping Prospective EFL Teachers Learn How to Use Songs in Teaching Conversation Classes
    By Natalia F. Orlova
  • Teaching Tips for ESL University Business English Instructors
    By William Brooks
  • A Practical and Effective Way to Enhance the ESL Students' Oral Competence
    By Yichu Qi
• Lessons
  • Topic Based Lesson: All Kinds of Failure
    By Rhett Merz
• Articles
  • Letterland Pictogram Concept in EFL Teaching of Young Children
    By Oksana Yaverbaum
  • Corpus Linguistics: What It Is and How It Can Be Applied to Teaching
    By Daniel Krieger
  • Using Technology to Help ESL/EFL Students Develop Language Skills
    By Renee Ybarra and Tim Green
• Word List
  • List of High-Frequency Baseword Vocabulary for Japanese EFL Students #2
    By Frank E. Daulton

February 2003

• Teaching Techniques
  • Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes
    By Aaron Patric Campbell
  • Using Picture Dictation Exercises for Practising All Four Skills
    By Sylvia Sao Leng Ieong
  • Using Checklists to "Standardise" Content
    By Chien-Ching Lee
• Lessons
  • ESL Lessons Using Non-ESL Websites
    By Bruce Vorland
  • A Story Building Activity Using "Not Enough" and "Too Many"
    By Michael Lovett
• Articles
  • Online File Storage for Teachers
    By Kosta Dimeropoulos
  • Content-Based Instruction in EFL Contexts
    By Stephen J. Davies
  • Improving Text Flow in ESL Learner Compositions
    By Isabel Alonso and Anne McCabe

January 2003

• Articles
  • An Overview of The Internet TESL Journal's Things for ESL Teachers and Activities for ESL Students
    By Charles Kelly
    Originally published in Using IT to Improve Language Teaching.