English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 1
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This issue of English Teaching Forum explores ways to expand meaningful listening and communication through mobile messaging, focused listening tasks, guided meditation, and interactive vocabulary practice. It also features a university classroom profile from Indonesia, a listening-and-logic teamwork activity, a Reader’s Guide, and a listening-themed puzzle.
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This article explains how free messaging apps can extend spoken-English practice inside and outside the classroom through text, audio, and images.
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Andrew Pollard
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This profile explores Alief Noor Farida’s English classroom at Universitas Negeri Semarang in Indonesia.
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Erica Balazs
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53_1_my_classroom_indonesia.pdf
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This article helps teachers distinguish genuine listening practice from activities that merely surround a listening text.
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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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53_1_readers_guide.pdf
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This article presents a brief guided-meditation routine designed to reduce anxiety, improve focus, and prepare students for language learning.
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Amy Jenkins
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This article presents a fast-paced partner drawing game that helps beginning and intermediate learners retain vocabulary.
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Sara Hendricks
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This word puzzle presents five quotations about listening, each containing one misplaced word.
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53_1_lighter_side_youre_not_listening.pdf
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This collaborative information-gap activity uses logic-grid puzzles to develop listening for details, speaking, vocabulary, critical thinking, and teamwork.
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Heather Benucci
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53_1_try_this_listening_logic.pdf
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