English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3
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This issue of English Teaching Forum explores practical approaches to unit design, literature circles, and intercultural exchange. It also features classroom techniques for developing better questions, using storytelling, personalizing grammar practice, and building conversational skills, along with a teacher profile from Moldova and a small-talk puzzle.
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This article presents a ten-step, backward-design process for creating and revising teaching units that address local learner needs.
Author:
Geoffrey Butler; Simon Heslup; and Lara Kurth
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02_etf_53-3_2_butler_heslup_kurth.pdf
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This article explains how student-led literature circles with rotating group roles can support English-language development.
Author:
Mohamed Elhess and Joy Egbert
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03_etf_53-3_3_elhess_egbert.pdf
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This profile explores Aliona Podolean’s student-centered English classroom at Shevchenko State University in Moldova.
Author:
Eve Smith
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09_etf_53-3_9_myclassroom_moldova.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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05_etf_53-3_5_readers_guide.pdf
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This article presents a collaborative technique that teaches students to create open-ended questions that generate meaningful discussion.
Author:
Lynn W. Zimmerman
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06_etf_53-3_6_tt_zimmerman.pdf
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This article presents an adaptable introductory activity in which learners personalize a fill-in-the-blank story with references to their culture, interests, and experiences.
Author:
Matthew Jellick
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07_etf_53-3_7_tt_jellick.pdf
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This article presents collaborative grammar activities that replace impersonal exercises with meaningful sentences about students’ own lives.
Author:
Karen Adams
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08_etf_53-3_8_tt_adams.pdf
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This language puzzle introduces nine common questions used to begin small talk.
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11_etf_53-3_11_lighterside_smalltalk.pdf
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This article describes a ten-week online exchange connecting intermediate English learners in Rio de Janeiro and Warsaw through weekly social-media activities.
Author:
Hugo Dart
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04_etf_53-3_4_dart.pdf
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This mingle activity gives learners repeated practice asking and answering the small-talk question “How was your weekend?”
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10_etf_53-3_10_trythis_weekend.pdf
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