Highlights from Previous Issues
1997

December 1997

• Articles & Research Papers
  • Language Learning Strategies: An Overview for L2 Teachers
    Michael Lessard-Clouston
  • Teacher's Tips: Online Grammar Teaching and Learning
    Caroline Ho Mei Lin
• Teaching Techniques
  • Let Your Students Teach Their Class
    Naoyoshi Ogawa and Dennis Wilkinson
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Student Created Crossword Puzzle Exercise
    Greg Goodmacher
• Classroom Handouts
  • Crossword Puzzle of Common Irregular Verbs
    Charles Kelly
    Here are the answers if you need them.

November 1997

• Articles & Research Papers
  • Uses of Japanese (L1) in the English Classroom: Introducing the Functional-Translation Method
    Robert Weschler
  • Using Microsoft Word to Generate Computerized Tests
    Frank Tuzi
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Communicative Reading Activities
    Greg Goodmacher
    • Read Aloud and Spot the Differences
    • The Newspaper Scavenger Hunt

October 1997

• Articles & Research Papers
  • The Internet for English Teaching: Guidelines for Teachers
    Mark Warschauer & P. Fawn Whittaker
  • Code Switching as a Countenance of Language Interference
    Richard Skiba
  • A Child's First Steps in Language Learning
    J. Doug McGlothlin
  • Teaching ESL at Kuwait University
    Jeffrey L. Martin
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • A Fun Reading Comprehension Activity
    Mehmet Ali Akgün

September 1997

• Articles & Research Papers
  • David Kolb, The Theory of Experiential Learning and ESL
    Curtis Kelly
• Teaching Techniques
  • Less Is More: Summary Writing and Sentence Structure in the Advanced ESL Classroom
    George L. Greaney
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Bones of Contention: "Listed" Role Plays for Students of Oral English
    Stewart Wachs

August 1997

• Articles & Research Papers
  • The Internet and Foreign Language Instruction: Practice and Discussion
    David A. Trokeloshvili and Neal H. Jost
  • Passive Grammar: We've Got It, Let's Use It!
    Michaela Borova and Bryan Murphy
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Teaching the Short Story, "Flowers for Algernon," to College-Level ESL Students
    Loretta Kasper

July 1997

• Articles & Research Papers
  • The Role of English and Other Foreign Languages in Japanese Society
    R. Jeffrey Blair
  • Virtual Realia
    Bryan Smith
  • Online Quizzes - Are they Worthwhile?
    Vera Mello
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • The Adjective-Noun Game
    Scott Greene
  • Car Budget Activity
    Lawrence Klepinger

June 1997

• Articles & Research Papers
  • The Internet and Foreign Language Education: Benefits and Challenges
    Meena Singhal
  • A Scheme for the Obtaining of Language Skills
    Gong Xue-Ping
  • How to Make a Successful ESL/EFL Teacher's Web Page
    Charles Kelly
  Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Projects Using the Internet In College English Classes
    Victoria Muehleisen

May 1997

• Articles & Research Papers
  • Towards an Understanding of Culture in L2/FL Education
    Michael Lessard-Clouston
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • A Four-Unit EFL Course for Adults
    A Complete Set of Handouts to Use in the Classroom.
    Bruce Vorland

April 1997

• Articles
  • "Chicken Meets on Rise": Meaning in Decline Lexical Havoc in L2
    Yvonne Stapp
  • The Practice of TESOL & The Effect of Individual Variables Upon TESOL Students
    David Kent
  • Selecting and Developing Teaching/Learning Materials
    Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao

March 1997

• Articles
  • Teaching English Conversation in Japan: Teaching How to Learn
    Mark D. Offner
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Using University Catalogues as a Pedagogical Tool
    Paul Borg
• Teaching Techniques
  • BaFa BaFa: Does it Work with University EFL Learners?
    Donald Glenn Carroll
  • Teaching Integrated Writing Skills
    Cecilia B-Ikeguchi
• Book Reviews
  • The Internet Guide for English Language Teachers
    A review of a book by Dave Sperling
    Reviewed by Sheryl Olinsky
• How I Use the Web
  • The Daily Word on the Web: How I Use It
    Tomoyasu Kimura

February 1997

• Teaching Techniques
  • Using CNN News Video in the EFL Classroom
    Alan S. Mackenzie
  • Correcting Students' Writing
    Bryan Murphy
  • Using Pair Taping
    Peter H. Schneider
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Travel Advice Bureau
    A classroom activity in which students act as travel agents.
    Kate Allen
  • Is the Movie the Same as the Book?
    A classroom activity comparing novels and movies
    Donna Hurst Tatsuki
  • The Love Clinic: Using Advice Columns in the Classroom
    Richard Humphries

January 1997

• Teaching Techniques
  • Some Techniques for Teaching Pronunciation
    David F. Dalton
  • Content Video in the EFL Classroom
    Michael Furmanovsky
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Using Posters in Content Courses
    Michael Furmanovsky & Marc Sheffner
• Projects
  • Teacher & Class Evaluation Questionaires
    A collection of questionaires from various schools.