English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 1
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On the Cover: Daughter in a Rocker is a painting by Henry Lyman Saÿen, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1875 and passed away there in 1918. According to the website americanart.si.edu, Saÿen spent time in Paris and was known for his vibrant images; he was also an inventor who acquired patents for an X-ray tube and a steel billiard ball. This painting is part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, which features more works by Saÿen and by thousands of other artists.
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This issue includes a unique bonus: four completely new Activate board games that you and your students can begin playing immediately. The directions may be self-explanatory, but detailed instructions and tips can be found in the article “Let Them Play: Board Games for Language Practice,” also in th
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Authors Kevin McCaughey and Rick Rosenberg demonstrate techniques for using board games to stimulate student-centered language practice that is flexible, productive, engaging, and fun. The article includes tips for efficient game play and for using games with a variety of levels and class sizes. The
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Author Kevin McCaughey takes game-boarding to another dimension by showing how teachers and students can turn part of a classroom into a board game that the entire class can play. Step-by-step instructions ensure that teachers will know exactly how to apply the idea of vertical games in their own cl
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Kevin McCaughey
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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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Authors Adrienne Lee Seo and Tozagul Nasrullaeva brought student-centered learning into their classes in Uzbekistan by introducing project-based learning (PBL) projects; in this article, they present a detailed example of how to use the Seven Wonders (Ancient, Natural, and Modern) of the World in a
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Adrienne Lee Seo; Tozagul Nasrullaeva
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These two puzzles are based on new Activate games found in this issue of English Teaching Forum (Volume 62, Number 1), but the game boards are not necessary for solving the puzzles: (a) unscrambling a board-games conversation between two students and (b) using logic to find out which games four frie
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This article uses the Stephen Crane story “The Open Boat” (freely available on the American English website) as an anchor text to demonstrate how teachers can apply Raphael’s Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) technique to a text that students might be assigned to read. The article includes numerous
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Spencer Salas; Maryann Mraz; Susan Green; Brian Keith Williams
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In this article, author Aljohn Francis Ruiz Flores presents a clever and easy-to-apply technique that helps students engage with texts they are reading in an enjoyable way: they show their comprehension by generating tweets (or posts or texts), using their own words to retell events and characters’
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Aljohn Francis Ruiz Flores
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