English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2
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This issue features articles on using applied theater to engage adolescent English learners in literacy, developing student tutoring programs, and helping students organize oral discourse. Other pieces offer techniques for teaching noun position and descriptive writing, profile an English classroom in Peru, and include a stage-directions puzzle.
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The author describes how she created a student tutoring program that gave English as a foreign language university students meaningful teaching experience while providing support to younger English learners. The article outlines seven practical steps for developing a tutoring program while showing how tutoring can build students’ confidence, leadership skills, and love of teaching.
Author:
Deirdre Derrick
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53-2_4_derrick.pdf
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This article shows how applied theatre can engage adolescent English learners, particularly reluctant readers, in meaningful literacy experiences.
Author:
Beth Murray; Spencer Salas; Michele Ni Thoghdha
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This profile explores Angela Huanca Barrantes’s student-centered English classroom in Ilo, Peru, where mutual respect, empathy, and cultural pride shape learning.
Author:
Deanna Paglia
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53-2_9_myclassroom_peru.pdf
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This article presents thinking routines that help English learners organize their ideas and structure spoken responses.
Author:
Myrian Casamassima; Florencia Insua
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53-2_5_casamassima_insua.pdf
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This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.
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This article uses a job-market analogy to teach learners how nouns function as subjects, objects, and complements in sentences.
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Sandra Tompson Issa
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53-2_7_tt_issa.pdf
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This article presents a visualization technique that uses the five senses to help learners generate ideas and details for descriptive writing.
Author:
Katherine Carter
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53-2_8_tt_carter.pdf
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This word puzzle introduces stage directions through a short script titled “The Lost Ring.”
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53-2_11_lighterside.pdf
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