Learning to Hypothesize with Confidence through Sudoku Game Play

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 1 featuring a mountain in Hawaii

According to the author, the game Sudoku offers a useful way to teach students in an EFL environment. Students learn the important words and grammar connected to language functions of confident hypothesizing and making logical conclusions. When students solve the Sudoku puzzles, they are asked to use modal verbs of certainty (e.g., must, can) and colloquial phrases such as "I bet that..." to communicate. The author provides lesson templates.

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Y.L. Teresa Ting

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 1 featuring a mountain in Hawaii

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 1 featuring a mountain in Hawaii

English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 1

This issue features Hawaii, and a lesson plan guides teachers in exploring Hawaiian culture, and their own cultures, with their students. Other articles discuss integrating indigenous cultures into English language teaching, integrating critical thinking into language teaching, using story boxes in