English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3

This article presents principles and practices of effective assessment, outlining seven key concepts—usefulness, reliability, validity, practicality, washback, authenticity, and transparency—and demonstrating how to apply them in creating an exam blueprint.

This feature article highlights dog breeds that are popular in the United States and explores the health benefits and services that dogs provide to people. The article also discusses dog shows and dogs in popular culture.

This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to dogs.

This article describes a three-week project-based unit on entrepreneurship conducted with students in communications classes in an Academic English context.

This article presents five categories of authentic materials and sources for materials along with ways to use them in the EFL classroom.

In this puzzle, readers use clues to fill in commands that someone might give to a dog.