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December 1998
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- The International Potluck: An Integrated-Skills Cross-Cultural Activity
By Terry N. Williams - Activities for Conversation Classes
By Gerard Counihan
- The International Potluck: An Integrated-Skills Cross-Cultural Activity
- Articles & Research Papers
- Extensive Reading: Why? and How?
By Timothy Bell - Literacy Development Through Peer Reviews in a Freshman Composition Classroom
By Julia Gousseva
- Extensive Reading: Why? and How?
November 1998
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- Activities for Conversation Classes
By Gerard Counihan
- Activities for Conversation Classes
- Teaching Techniques
- Communicating Success
By Trevor Sargent - Using E-mail in EFL Writing Classes
By Eui-Kap Lee
- Communicating Success
- Articles & Research Papers
- Comprehension Hot Spots in Movies: Scenes and Dialogs Which Are Difficult for ESL/EFL Students to Understand
By Donna Hurst Tatsuki - Using Films to Develop Learner Motivation
By Stephen Ryan - Crossing Cultural and Spatial Boundaries: A Cybercomposition Experience
By Julia Gousseva
- Comprehension Hot Spots in Movies: Scenes and Dialogs Which Are Difficult for ESL/EFL Students to Understand
- Teaching Tips
- My Philosophy for Teaching English for Business
By Lawrence Baron
- My Philosophy for Teaching English for Business
October 1998
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- A Man for Every Purpose - Increasing Learners' Vocabulary Awareness
Activities for the ESL Classroom using the numerous compound words in English that end in 'man'.
By Rolf Palmberg
- A Man for Every Purpose - Increasing Learners' Vocabulary Awareness
- Teaching Techniques
- Music and Song in Discussion
By Brian Cullen
- Music and Song in Discussion
- Articles & Research Papers
- Different Attitudes Among Non-English Major EFL Students
By Hsiu-Ju Lin and Clyde A. Warden - A Comparison of L1 and L2 Reading: Cultural Differences and Schema
By Meena Singhal - One Benefit of Monolingual Dictionaries in the Writing Classroom
By Randall Martin
- Different Attitudes Among Non-English Major EFL Students
September 1998
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- Student-Led Lesson: Vacation Commercials
By Carol Fritsch - Three Classroom Activities
By Gerard Counihan
- Student-Led Lesson: Vacation Commercials
- Classroom Handouts
- Literary Terms - What's the Secret Message?
A handout for upper-level students which reviews words such as 'alliteration', 'assonance', 'metaphor' and 'onomatopoeia'.
By Janice Weiss
- Literary Terms - What's the Secret Message?
- Teaching Techniques
- The Talking Stick: An American Indian Tradition in the ESL Classroom
By Kimberly Fujioka
- The Talking Stick: An American Indian Tradition in the ESL Classroom
- Articles
- The Internet: Making it Work in the ESL Classroom
By Gerald Fox - A Description of the Skill-based EAP Training for Pre-departure
Students at the British Council in Jakarta
By Tim Bell - Employee Skills and Attitudes Utilized in Workplace ESL Training
A description of how the author facilitated English language acquisition in the workplace.
By Izabella Horvath
- The Internet: Making it Work in the ESL Classroom
August 1998
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- Talking Cards
A conversation activity using a deck of playing cards.
Michael J. Brown - Two ESL Listening & Speaking Games
"Name That Thought" and "What Is That Sound"
Kimberly Davison-Fujioka - Headline Completion
An activity for conversation classes.
Gerard Counihan
- Talking Cards
- Classroom Handouts
- Making an English Web Page with Netscape Gold
A handout which can be downloaded, slightly edited and used with your own students.
Mark Peterson
- Making an English Web Page with Netscape Gold
- Teaching Techniques
- Role Playing/Simulation
Patricia K. Tompkins
- Role Playing/Simulation
July 1998
- Articles
- Gender Differences in E-mail Communication
Paolo Rossetti - The Development and Maintenance of The Internet TESL Journal
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
- Gender Differences in E-mail Communication
- Teaching Techniques
- Brainstorming Before Speaking Tasks
Brian Cullen - Learner Training for Learner Autonomy on Summer Language Courses
Ciarán P. McCarthy - Teach Students to Interact, Not Just Talk
Gerard Counihan
- Brainstorming Before Speaking Tasks
June 1998
- Articles
- Online Strategic Interaction: ESL Role-Playing via IRC
A description of an Internet-based exercise that uses Strategic Interaction over an IRC network to practice writing.
By Christopher M. Colburn
- Online Strategic Interaction: ESL Role-Playing via IRC
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- The "Tuning In" Listening Activity
An activity aimed at constructing solid bottom-up skills while developing student self-reliance and confidence.
By Jeff Leinaweaver - Teaching the Movie "Men in Black" to ESL Students
By Letitia Bradley
- The "Tuning In" Listening Activity
- Book Review
- A Book Review of Dave Sperling's Internet Guide, Second Edition
By L. M. Dryden
- A Book Review of Dave Sperling's Internet Guide, Second Edition
May 1998
- Articles
- Mentality Awareness - A Key to Personal Success in International Business Contacts
Russian vs British mentality in business contacts
By Pavel V. Sysoyev
- Mentality Awareness - A Key to Personal Success in International Business Contacts
- Teaching Techniques
- Activities for Using Junk Email in the ESL/EFL Classroom
Suggested ways to use junk mail and some ready-to-use handouts for the classroom.
By Michael Ivy
- Activities for Using Junk Email in the ESL/EFL Classroom
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- What's the Truth?
A good activity for the first class session.
By Carole Allen Poppleton - An Activity for Teaching the Purposes of Discourse
By Carole Allen Poppleton
- What's the Truth?
April 1998
- Teaching Techniques
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- An Activity for Teaching Prepositions Associated with Time
Lily Vered - Accidents in the Home
Gerard Counihan
- An Activity for Teaching Prepositions Associated with Time
- Classroom Handout
- Crossword Puzzle of Commonly-Used Similes
Charles Kelly
Here are the answers if you need them.
- Crossword Puzzle of Commonly-Used Similes
March 1998
- Teaching Techniques
- Captioned Video: Making it Work for You
Randall S. Davis - Real Audio to Augment Real Listening in the ESL Classroom
Frank Tuzi
- Captioned Video: Making it Work for You
- Lessons & Lesson Plans
- Bringing Culture into the Classroom
Chad Fryer and Lily Wong - ESL/EFL Lessons Using Movies
Donna Hurst Tatsuki
- Bringing Culture into the Classroom
- Classroom Handout
- Crossword Puzzle of Common Masculine and Feminine Words
Charles Kelly
Here are the answers if you need them.
- Crossword Puzzle of Common Masculine and Feminine Words
February 1998
- Articles & Research Papers
- Thriving on Screen: Web-Authoring for L2 Instruction
Jack Kimball
- Thriving on Screen: Web-Authoring for L2 Instruction
- Classroom Handout
- Useful American Idioms
Lawrence Klepinger
- Useful American Idioms
January 1998
- Articles & Research Papers
- Pronunciation: What Are the Expectations?
Marcus Otlowski - A Product-Focused Approach to Text Summarisation
Esther Uso Juan and Juan Carlos Palmer Silveira
- Pronunciation: What Are the Expectations?
- Teaching Techniques
- Discussion Forums for ESL Learning
Peter Connell - Report on a Penpal Project, and Tips for Penpal-Project Success
Vera Mello
- Discussion Forums for ESL Learning