Highlights from Previous Issues
1999

December 1999

• Teaching Techniques
  • What Do We Test When We Test Reading Comprehension?
    By Akmar Mohamad
  • Encouraging Students to Interact with the Teacher
    By Roger Nunn
• Articles
  • The Teaching of Listening
    An article with a sample lesson plan.
    By Arif Saricoban
• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Lesson Plan: My Animal
    A 2nd-5th grade English/Art lesson plan for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students
    By Carolyn Radice

November 1999

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Musical Activities for Young Learners of EFL
    By Abdulvahit Cakir
  • The Human Body - A Vocabulary Awareness Activity in Four Steps
    By Rolf Palmberg
• Teaching Techniques
  • 75 ESL Teaching Ideas
    By Hall Houston
  • Song Dictation
    By Brian Cullen
  • Approaching Writing Skills through Fairy Tales
    By Silvia Bruti
  • Teaching ESL Reading Using Computers
    By Saad AlKahtani
• Articles
  • 20/20 Hindsight: Teacher Change and Advice
    By Robert Long

October 1999

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Video in the Language Lab: Teaching Vocabulary
    By Donna Hurst Tatsuki
  • Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street: Experiencing Poetical Prose
    By Carole A. Poppleton
• Teaching Techniques
  • Teaching ESL/EFL Students to Write Better
    By Yesim Cimcoz
• Articles
  • Do EAP Teachers Require Knowledge of Their Students' Specialist Academic Subjects?
    By Timothy Bell
  • Preparing ESL Students for College Writing: Two Case Studies
    By Laureen A. Fregeau
• Handouts for Classroom Use
  • Two Handouts by Mark Peterson
    • CALL Software Evaluation Questionnaire
      Get feedback from your students.
    • Making an English Presentation with PowerPoint
      Key points in PowerPoint design

September 1999

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • A Story-Telling and Re-Telling Activity
    By Bob Gibson
  • A Pre-departure Program for Students Who Study Abroad
    By Marcel Van Amelsvoort
• Teaching Techniques
  • Encouraging Students to Become Stakeholders in the ESL Classroom
    By Karen Bordonaro
  • A Tutor-Guided Learning Scheme in a Self-Access Centre
    By Lai Lai Kwan
• Articles
  • Aligning Learning Activities and Assessment Strategies in the ESL Classroom
    By Robert F. Tambini

August 1999

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • A Fun Cultural Indoor Rally
    By Angie & Carlos Ruelas
• Teaching Techniques
  • Using Cooperative Learning to Integrate Thinking and Information Technology in a Content-Based Writing Lesson
    By Gabriel Tan, Patrick B Gallo, George M Jacobs and Christine Kim-Eng Lee
  • Improving Science Students' Fluency through Project Work
    By Nebila Dhieb-Henia
  • Testing Some Suprasegmental Features of English Speech
    By Mehmet Celik
• Articles
  • The Place of "Culture" in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Reflection
    By Ramona Tang

July 1999

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Tips and Ideas for the First Day of Classes
    By Shad Schroeder
• Articles
  • E-mail in the Virtual ESL/EFL Classroom
    By Pieter S. Nagel
  • Coping with Problems Caused by Stereotypes in Japan
    By Mario McKenna
  • How Can a Chinese Teacher of English Succeed in Oral English Classes?
    By Zhou Jie
  • Teacher Perceptual Comparisons toward Two Specific Communicative and Whole Language Dimensions in ESL Instruction
    By Mi-Young Kim and Charles E. Heerman
• Word Lists
  • List of High-Frequency Baseword Vocabulary for Japanese EFL Students
    By Frank E. Daulton

June 1999

• Articles
  • Integrative L2 Grammar Teaching: Exploration, Explanation and Expression
    By Pavel V. Sysoyev

May 1999

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Activities for the ESL Classroom
    By Gerard Counihan
    • Finish the Sentence
    • Generalisations
    • Discussion Topic: The Home
    • Discussion Topic: My New Home
• Teaching Techniques
  • Five Steps to Using Your Textbook to Build a More Dynamic EFL Conversation Class
    By Stephen B. Ryan
  • English Writing Program for Engineering Students
    By Hui Mien Tan
  • Self-Instruction by Audio Cassette
    By John Small
• Articles
  • Reading Theory as a Microcosm of the Four Skills
    By Ciarán P. McCarthy

April 1999

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Language Learning Games: Gotcha & The Spelling Officer
    By Joan M. Diez Cliville
  • Reviewing Time with the Song 'Rock Around the Clock'
    By David B. Kent
• Teaching Techniques
  • What to Do with Failing Students
    By Marty Dawley
• Articles & Research Papers
  • Let's Write In English: Teacher, We Never Learned That
    By Susan Gilfert, Shigenobu Niwa and Shunichi Sugiyama
• Reports
  • Improving Teacher-Student Interaction in the EFL Classroom: An Action Research Report
    By Jonathan Snell

March 1999

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Practicing Pronunciation through Proverbs
    By Yi Yang
  • Password Game
    By JoEllen Simpson and Jonathan Deer
  • Developing an ESP Course Around Naturally-occurring Videotaped Medical Consultations
    By Joseph Dias
  • Internet Treasure Hunts - A Treasure of an Activity for Students Learning English
    By Ian Brown
• Teaching Techniques
  • Dialog Performances: Developing Effective Communication Strategies for Non-English Majors in Japanese Universities
    By Susan Gilfert and Robert Croker
  • Using Presentation Software to Enhance Language Learning
    By Miriam Schcolnik and Sara Kol
• Articles & Research Papers
  • Using Volunteers in your ESL Classroom: Suggestions for Newer Teachers
    Kate Singleton
  • 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
• Book Reviews
  • A Review of Untangling the Web: Nonce's Guide to Language and Culture on the Internet by Carl S. Blyth
    Reviewed by L. M. Dryden
  • A Review of Dave Sperling's Internet Activity Workbook
    Reviewed by Letitia Bradley

February 1999

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Activities for the ESL Classroom
    By Gerard Counihan
    • Things That Have Changed the World
    • Giving and Accepting Compliments
    • Election Manifesto
    • The Environment
    • The World Ends in Two Years
    • Are you a Good Socializer
    • New Year's Resolutions
    • Predictions for This Year
• Articles & Research Papers
  • New Ways of Studying Fluency in English
    By Harold Smith
  • Second Language Literacy Through Student-Centered Learning
    By Yoko Watanabe and Mark Caprio

January 1999

• Lessons & Lesson Plans
  • Life
    By Gerard Counihan
  • Times Have Changed
    By Gerard Counihan
• Articles & Research Papers
  • Making the Textbook More Communicative
    By Judith M. Lamie
  • English Loanwords in Japanese -- The Built-In Lexicon
    By Frank E. Daulton
  • How Native English Speakers Can Be Better English Teachers in Russia
    By Radislav Millrood

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