English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4
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This issue of English Teaching Forum explores ways to promote learner autonomy and active participation through student-created materials, visual prompts, and an innovative listening activity. It also features classroom perspectives from Ethiopia and practical techniques for speaking, vocabulary, creative writing, and community building.
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Student-produced materials are a powerful tool for promoting learner autonomy.
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Veronika Moiseenko
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etf_53_4_pg14-23_508.pdf
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The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” indicates that a complex idea can be communicated by a single image.
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Lottie Baker
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etf_53_4_pg02-13_508.pdf
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This article presents a hybrid activity that combines listening cloze exercises with information-gap tasks to make listening practice more interactive and student-centered.
Author:
Juan Pablo Zúñiga Vargas
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etf_53_4_pg24-32_508.pdf
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This profile explores Dawit Negeri’s English classroom at Ambo University in Ethiopia.
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Matthew Jellick
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etf_53_4_pg43-47_508_0.pdf
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This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue.
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etf_53_4_pg33-34_508.pdf
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This teaching technique uses a timer to challenge students to sustain an English-language group discussion for progressively longer periods.
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Alexis Cullerton; Inés Torres de Muñoz
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etf_53_4_pg37-42_508_0.pdf
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In Swiss schools, English language textbooks for eight- to thirteen-year-old children contain many arts-and-crafts and science-experiment lessons.
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Laura Loder Büchel
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etf_53_4_pg37-42_508.pdf
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This article describes how Storybird, an online platform combining artwork and writing, can engage young English learners in creative storytelling.
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Laura Giacomini
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etf_53_4_pg35-37_508.pdf
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This classroom-themed word puzzle asks learners to unscramble nouns, verbs, and phrases connected to a photograph.
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etf_53_4_the_lighter_side_w_answer.pdf
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This beginner-level activity uses family photos or drawings to practice family vocabulary, numbers, pronouns, and comparative and superlative adjectives.
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Amy Hanna
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etf_53_4_pg48-52_508.pdf
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