English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3
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Creating a storytelling classroom and teaching listening skills to young learners through songs are the topics of the lead articles in this issue. The “Reflections” section, which opens with “The Author as Reader and Writer,” includes reprints of 1997 articles on a problem-solution approach to writing and on motivating learners; commentary on the roles of assessment accompanies reprints about common testing mistakes to avoid (1982), progress testing (1995), and purposeful language assessment (2000). Summertime photos and Classroom Activities follow a seasonal theme.
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This "Classroom Activities" features three stand-alone language-learning activity related to the theme of summer.
Location:
USA
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Individual Work; Pairwork and Groupwork
Author:
Heather Benucci and Jacqueline Gardy
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50_3_12_classroom_activities.pdf
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Progress testing is often neglected in communicative language teaching; yet it has a crucial role. This article, originally published in 1995, offers a rationale for testing and presents guidelines for designing app
Author:
Carmen Perez Basanta
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50_3_9_basanta.pdf
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This article explores the value of storytelling in English language learning. Strong emphasis is placed on the role that stories of personal experience play in human interaction and how these natural conversations foster a better language learning experience. The author outlines a four-step approach
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Individual Work
Author:
Robert E. Jones
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50_3_2_jones_0.pdf
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Using a problem-solution format, this article (originally published in 1997) discusses cultural and educational factors that affect language learners’ motivation and offers strategies to raise motivation.
Author:
Janet S. Niederhauser
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50_3_6_niederhauser.pdf
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This article, originally published in 2000, looks at various instruments, procedures, and practices for language testing and offers strategies for determining which assessment options are most appropriate in various contexts.
Author:
John M. Norris
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50_3_10_norris.pdf
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This article, which examines the use of songs to improve the listening skills of young learners, contains a lesson plan and follow-up activities and a list of online resources for songs.
Author:
Mustafa Sevik
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50_3_3_sevik.pdf
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This introduction presents contemporary commentary on the previously published articles “Writing for the Reader: A Problem-Solution Approach” and “Motivating Learners at South Korean Universities.
Author:
Tom Miller
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50_3_4_reflections_miller.pdf
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This puzzle, “Speak and Spell,” is an exercise in homophones, or words that are spelled differently but pronounced the same
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50_3_13_lighter_side.pdf
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This piece makes a case for using assessment to understand and identify the needs of learners and introduces the three reprints that follow: “Twenty Common Testing Mistakes for EFL Teachers to Avoid,” Coming to Grips with Progress Testing: Some Guidelines for Its Design,” and “Purposeful Language As
Author:
Jerrold Frank
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50_3_7_frank.pdf
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This article, originally published in 1982, is designed to help EFL teachers prepare effective selection, diagnostic, and evaluation instruments by avoiding common testing mistakes. Such mistakes are discussed under the categories of general examination characteristics, item characteristics, test-va
Author:
Grant Henning
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50_3_8_henning.pdf
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A “how to” piece on using the problem-solution approach to writing academic articles, this article explores (originally published in 1997) defining the audience, defining the author, and evaluating the structure of an article, and it outlines helpful questions for writers and readers.
Author:
Tom Miller and Dee Parker
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50_3_5_miller_parker.pdf
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