English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2 featuring the Space Needle in Seattle

This issue focuses on Seattle, the second city on our tour this year. Complementing the feature article is a lesson plan on “Seeing Seattle.” Additional articles in this issue discuss interdisciplinary collaboration, two approaches to student-produced videos, student documentaries as language learning tools, using teacher-developed corpora in the CBI classroom, and building vocabulary and improving writing while developing a tourist brochure.

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2 featuring the Space Needle in Seattle

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This article describes how creating a tourist brochure can help students improve their vocabulary and writing skills. The author describes how to plan writing lessons based on the creation of a brochure: viewing videos, planning the brochure, writing the brochure, getting feedback and rewriting, and
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Siti Katijah Johari
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This article shares ideas of how English language teaching professionals can collaborate with content-area specialists effectively to create learning opportunities for students. Using nine examples and various metaphors, the authors explain three principles for effective team teaching: initiating an
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Bradley Horn; Fredricka Stoller; and Marin S. Robinson
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08-46-2-a.pdf
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This lesson plan contains four main activities and two optional activities based on the feature article about Seattle.
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08-46-2-g.pdf
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This is an introduction to Seattle, including its history, attractions, geographical characteristics, and interesting facts. The introduction also contains many pictures of local attractions.
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Phyllis McIntosh
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This article describes the reasons for project-based learning and how it better motivates students in an EFL classroom. It illustrates this topic by presenting a documentary film project that was carried out in a high-intermediate EFL class in Saudi Arabia. The article summarizes the theoretical sup
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Linda Adra Yamak
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08-46-2-c.pdf
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This article introduces the idea of using video production to engage second language learners in learner-centered, project-based learning activities to motivate them to learn and participate through writing, directing, acting in, and editing a movie. The authors describe two projects. In the first p
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Nathaniel Carney and Patrick Foss
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This is a crossword puzzle based on facts about Seattle.
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Kate Torre
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This article argues for the use of teacher-generated corpora in content-based courses. Using a content course for engineering and architecture students as an example, the article explains how a corpus consisting of texts from textbooks and journal articles helped students learn grammar, vocabulary,
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Tom Salsbury and Crista Crummer
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