On How Thinking Shapes Speaking: Techniques to Enhance Students’

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English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Front Cover

This article presents thinking routines that help English learners organize their ideas and structure spoken responses. Through explicit, repeatable techniques for answering questions, supporting opinions, sustaining discussions, and taking turns, students can build fluency, confidence, strategic competence, and oral-exam performance.

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Myrian Casamassima; Florencia Insua

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English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Front Cover

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English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Front Cover

English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2

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...