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1996
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December 1996
- Articles
- Site Review
- Dave's ESL Cafe on the Net: A Site
Review
Dennis Oliver
- Dave's ESL Cafe on the Net: A Site
Review
November 1996
- Articles & Research Papers
- The Implementation of a First Year English Placement System
Anthony Mills, Lillian Swain and Robert Weschler
- The Implementation of a First Year English Placement System
- Teaching Techniques
- Classroom Techniques for
Contextualization:
How to make "This is a pen." a pragmatically motivated utterance.
Yoshinori Sasaki
- Classroom Techniques for
Contextualization:
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- Country Presentations
An oral presentation assignment for second or third-year university speaking classes of 20 - 40 students.
Lillian Swain - Global Warming: A Cause and Effect Writing Lesson
Amy Ogasawara
- Country Presentations
October 1996
- Articles & Research Papers
- Copyright Issues on the Web
Kristina Pfaff-Harris - The Design and Utilisation of
an Internet Resource for Business English Learners
Michael Vallance - Gender Differences in Taiwan Business
Writing Errors
Judy F.Chen
- Copyright Issues on the Web
- Teaching Techniques
- Videotaping an English Mini-drama in Your Classroom
David G. Magnusson
- Videotaping an English Mini-drama in Your Classroom
September 1996
- Articles & Research Papers
- Marking Student Work on
the Computer
This article describes a method by which macros attached to toolbar buttons in a word-processor can be used to improve marking of students' writing assignments.
Martin Holmes
- Marking Student Work on
the Computer
- Teaching Techniques
- Graffiti for ESL Readers
Describes an activity using content-based articles.
Brent Buhler - Training for Impromptu Speaking and
Testing Active Listening
With a Focus on Japanese Students
Cecilia B-Ikeguchi - Getting Your Class Connected
Some ideas on using e-mail and homepages.
Dennis E. Wilkinson
- Graffiti for ESL Readers
August 1996
- Articles & Research Papers
- A Review of TOEIC
Susan Gilfert - What Are We Doing When We "Talk
Science"?
Jack Kimball - Teaching English Intonation
with a Visual Display of Fundamental Frequency
Richard Stibbard
(This article includes tables and 11 images.)
- A Review of TOEIC
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- Teaching Awareness of
Stereotyping
Asako Kajiura Goodmacher
- Teaching Awareness of
Stereotyping
- Teaching Techniques
- Teaching Conversation Skills
With Content Based Materials
Greg Goodmacher
- Teaching Conversation Skills
With Content Based Materials
July 1996
- Articles & Research Papers
- CALL is not a Hammer and not Every Teaching
Problem is a Nail!
Changing Expectations of Computers in the Classroom
Judy F. Chen - Easy English Communication At The
Secondary Level:
Easy Ways Teachers Who Are Non-Native Speakers Can Use More English in Class
James R. Welker - Testing Listening
S. Kathleen Kitao & Kenji Kitao
- CALL is not a Hammer and not Every Teaching
Problem is a Nail!
- Handouts
- Getting to Know You (A handout
to use for the first day of class)
Henry Reese
- Getting to Know You (A handout
to use for the first day of class)
- Teaching Techniques
- Secret Partner Journals for
Motivation, Fluency and Fun
Timothy Stewart
- Secret Partner Journals for
Motivation, Fluency and Fun
June 1996
- Articles & Research Papers
- Raising Bilingual
Children
Marsha Rosenberg - Testing Grammar
S. Kathleen Kitao & Kenji Kitao
- Raising Bilingual
Children
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- A Way to Teach Culture: Guns or No
Guns
Yoshiyuki Nakata
- A Way to Teach Culture: Guns or No
Guns
- Teaching Techniques
- Reading and Writing through
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Tom Maguire - How to Read Nonfictional
English Text Faster and More Effectively
Helmut Stiefenhöfer
- Reading and Writing through
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Reports
- CALL: Its Scope and Limits
A speech by Frank Berberich
- CALL: Its Scope and Limits
May 1996
- Articles & Research Papers
- Potentially Confusing and
Embarrassing Differences between American and British English
(Humourously written by) David Barton - TEFL Labour Issues in
Japan
Brett Reynolds - Testing Communicative
Competence
S. Kathleen Kitao & Kenji Kitao
- Potentially Confusing and
Embarrassing Differences between American and British English
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- Choosing and Summarizing
Internet Resources
Amy Ogasawara - A Way to Teach Culture: Large cups,
small cups, whose cups?
Yoshiyuki Nakata
- Choosing and Summarizing
Internet Resources
April 1996
- Articles & Research Papers
- Why Do We Teach English?
Kenji Kitao - Advertising and Language: The War of
Words Between Copywriters and Language Purists
Joseph W. Sheperd - Points to Consider when
Evaluating Interactive Multimedia
Warwick J. Thorn
- Why Do We Teach English?
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- Teaching Techniques
- Handouts & Other Classroom Materials
March 1996
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- A Simulation for Business English
Students (A Six-Unit Course)
Heather Hanson - Teaching the English Newspaper
Effectively
Kenji Kitao
- A Simulation for Business English
Students (A Six-Unit Course)
- Teaching Techniques
- Teaching Conversation
Strategies Through Pair-Taping
Nancy Washburn and Kiel Christianson - A Peer Review Activity for Essay
Organization
Bob Gibson
- Teaching Conversation
Strategies Through Pair-Taping
- Handouts & Other Classroom Materials
- Contrast in Transport
Quiz
Fahrettin Sirin
- Contrast in Transport
Quiz
February 1996
- Articles & Research Papers
- English Communication through
Practical Experiences
Judith D. DeRolf - Loanwords - A Pitfall for All
Students
Joseph W. Sheperd
- English Communication through
Practical Experiences
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- Ideas on Using Videos
Donna Tatsuki - Using a TV Matchmaking Format in
the Classroom
Richard Humphries
- Ideas on Using Videos
- Teaching Techniques
- Handouts & Other Classroom Materials
- Essay Evaluation
Form
Alice Delaney Dana Walker
- Essay Evaluation
Form
January 1996
- Articles & Research Papers
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- Innocents Abroad: Training Japanese
for Travel
Eugene Trabich
- Innocents Abroad: Training Japanese
for Travel
- Teaching Techniques
- Dictation Drawing
Brian Grover - Using Postcards in the
Classroom
Peter Lobell - Interesting Ways to Call Roll in
Japan
Lawrence Klepinger
- Dictation Drawing
- Handouts & Other Classroom Materials
- A Practical Guide For Japanese
Traveling to the USA
Lawrence Klepinger
- A Practical Guide For Japanese
Traveling to the USA