English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4
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Find strategies for using questionnaires to help learners create knowledge, think critically, and develop language skills ... learn how language teacher associations can recruit and manage volunteers and become effective advocates ... use Norman Rockwell’s art to prompt discussion and critical thinking ... celebrate the authors, teachers, readers, and learners who have contributed to English Teaching Forum ... turn logic-grid puzzles into communicative speaking, listening, and thinking activities ... and much more.
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Using a case study and inviting reader reflection, Luis Javier Pentón Herrera presents four types of advocacy used by language teacher associations (LTAs) and demonstrates how those types play out in proactive by giving real-world examples; the author also proposes and explains three steps LTAs can
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Luis Javier Pentón Herrera
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60_4_pg21-29_advocacy.pdf
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Author Nikki Ashcraft gives background information about language teacher associations (LTAs), then presents a detailed guide for managing volunteers, including analyzing needs, recruiting, matching volunteers with tasks, orienting and training, supervising and evaluating, and acknowledging voluntee
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Nikki Ashcraft
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60_4_pg10-20_managing_volunteers_0.pdf
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Christopher Strelluf and Eric Ekembe explain potential benefits of learner-created knowledge which can be particularly valuable in low-resource contexts, and present a detailed, adaptable approach for using questionnaires to create knowledge, inspire critical thinking, and develop language skills.
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Christopher Strelluf and Eric Ekembe
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60_4_pg02-09_questionnaires_0.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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60_4_pg30-31_readers_guide.pdf
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This is the fourth of four articles examining various aspects of Forum as the journal moves through its 60th year of publication. This article expresses appreciation for the ingenuity of authors who have written articles for Forum, the teachers who read the articles, and the learners who benefit fro
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Tom Glass
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Author Piero Carlini demonstrates how teachers can use specific works of art by Norman Rockwell, in addition to recurring themes in the artist’s work, to spur critical thinking and productive discussion beyond the artwork itself. The article gives suggestions for using the art with learners who have
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Piero Carlini
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60_4_pg32-35_art_of_discussion.pdf
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In this puzzle, your job is to solve a logic-grid puzzle that is based on elements of sentences that three students have written. After you have solved the puzzle, you must determine the sentence that each student wrote from a list of choices.
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60_4_ibc_w_answer_lighter_side.pdf
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The author, Gavin Young, offers a detailed guide showing how to create custom-made logic-grid puzzles and how to present and use them in class to promote learners’ speaking, listening, and thinking skills. The author uses an original puzzle he created as a working example throughout the article.
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Pairwork and Groupwork
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Gavin Young
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60_4_pg41-48_try_this_logic_grid_puzzles.pdf
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