Reading Up-Close and Personal: Connection-Making and the Classic American Short Story

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The cover of English Teaching Forum. The painting, titled simply Abstract, is by Carl Newman.

Authors Spencer Salas and Bernadette Musetti use the O. Henry story “Transients in Arcadia” (available on the American English website) to illustrate how readers can make a text more meaningful by connecting it to themselves, to other texts, and to the world.

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Spencer Salas; Bernadette Musetti

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English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 4

Among the topics in this issue: helping students make connections between the texts they read and their lives … awareness of and use of inclusive language … improving English proficiency in professional training … describing objects in a fun, interactive way … practicing speaking through collaborati
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