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Becoming a Better Teacher
- Language Learning Strategies: An Overview for L2 Teachers
- Improving Teacher-Student Interaction in the EFL Classroom: An Action Research Report
- Using Volunteers in Your ESL Classroom: Suggestions for Newer Teachers
- How Can a Chinese Teacher of English Succeed in Oral English Classes?
- How Native English Speakers Can Be Better English Teachers in Russia
CALL - Computer Assisted Language Learning
- English Teachers' Barriers to the Use of Computer-assisted Language Learning
- A Hypercard Random Sentence Generator For Language Study
- CALL is not a Hammer and not Every Teaching Problem is a Nail!
- Using Microsoft Word to Generate Computerized Tests
- Word Processors' Grammar and Spelling Assistance: Consequences for Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Developing Global Connections through Computer-Mediated Communication
Children
Communication
- Communicating in English: Flexibility Within a Norm
- Easy English Communication At The Secondary Level
- English Communication through Practical Experiences
- Code Switching as a Countenance of Language Interference
- The Role of English and Other Foreign Languages in Japanese Society
Conversation / Oral English / Speaking
- College Conversation Classes: Beyond Survival
- Teaching English Conversation in Japan: Teaching How to Learn
- A Role Play Activity with Distance Learners in an English Language Classroom
- Recording Speaking Tests for Oral Assessment
- Promoting Learners' Speaking Ability by Socioaffective Strategies
Culture
- Becoming a Cultural Insider: How Holidays Can Help ESL Students' Acculturation and Language Learning
- Towards an Understanding of Culture in L2/FL Education
- Mentality Awareness - A Key to Personal Success in International Business Contacts
- The Place of "Culture" in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Reflection
- Coping with Problems Caused by Stereotypes in Japan
- Facing Up to Stereotypes in the Second Language Classroom
- Understanding Chinese Names: Cross-Cultural Awareness in the EFL Classroom
- The ESL Teacher's Role in Heritage Language Maintenance
ESP - English for Special Purposes
- Key Issues in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Curriculum Development
- What Are We Doing When We "Talk Science"?
- A Description of the Skill-based EAP Training for Pre-departure Students at the British Council in Jakarta
- Do EAP Teachers Require Knowledge of Their Students' Specialist Academic Subjects?
Grammar
- Teacher's Tips: Online Grammar Teaching and Learning
- Passive Grammar: We've Got It, Let's Use It!
- Integrative L2 Grammar Teaching: Exploration, Explanation and Expression
Internet
- Developing Intercultural Awareness and Writing Skills Through Email Exchange
- Issues Affecting On-line ESL Learning: A Singapore Case Study
- Energizing the ESL/EFL Classroom through Internet Activities
- What Do EFL Students See in Introductory Sequences of Movies
- E-mail Activities in the ESL Writing Class
- Copyright Issues on the Web
- The Design and Utilisation of an Internet Resource for Business English Learners
- The Internet for English Teaching: Guidelines for Teachers
- The Internet and Foreign Language Instruction: Practice and Discussion
- Virtual Realia
- Online Quizzes - Are they Worthwhile?
- The Internet and Foreign Language Education: Benefits and Challenges
- The Internet: Making it Work in the ESL Classroom
- Gender Differences in E-mail Communication
- Online Strategic Interaction: ESL Role-Playing via IRC
- Thriving on Screen: Web-Authoring for L2 Instruction
- E-mail in the Virtual ESL/EFL Classroom
- Real Linguistic Experiences using Chat Sessions or Videoconferencing
- An Account of a Pilot Key Pal Project for Korean Children
- E-mailing to Improve EFL Learners' Reading and Writing Abilities: Taiwan Experience
- Evaluation Considerations for On-line ESL Courses
- Focus Discipline Research and the Internet: Literacy for College ESL Students
- Roles and Competencies of Online Teachers
- Online File Storage for Teachers
- Using Online Grammar Quizzes for Language Learning
Language Acquisition
Learner Autonomy
Listening
Materials Development
- Making the Textbook More Communicative
- Selecting and Developing Teaching/Learning Materials
- Universal Characteristics of EFL/ESL Textbooks: A Step Towards Systematic Textbook Evaluation
- An Introduction to Syllabus Design and Evaluation
Motivation
- Motivation as a Contributing Factor in Second Language Acquisition
- Personalizing Language Learning in Large Classes
- Motivation and Motivating in the Foreign Language Classroom
Music and Songs
New Technology
- An Experiment Using Electronic Dictionaries with EFL Students
- Language Learning Strategies in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
- Electronic Dictionaries in the Classroom!? Bah, Humbug!
Pronunciation
- Teaching English Intonation with a Visual Display of Fundamental Frequency
- Pronunciation: What Are the Expectations?
- Reflective Practice in Pronunciation Learning
Reading
- Evaluating Sustained Silent Reading in Reading Classes
- Teaching Japanese-English Bilingual Children to Read English at Home
- Extensive Reading: Why? and How?
- A Comparison of L1 and L2 Reading: Cultural Differences and Schema
- A Product-Focused Approach to Text Summarisation
- Reading Theory as a Microcosm of the Four Skills
- Helping ESL Students Become Better Readers: Schema Theory Applications and Limitations
- Helping Children Learn to Think in English Through Reading Storybooks
- Why Teachers Should Use Timed Reading in ESL Classes
Reports
Tests
- Teaching GMAT in an ESL Environment
- The Implementation of a First Year English Placement System
- A Review of TOEIC
- Testing Listening
- Testing Grammar
- Testing Communicative Competence
- Aligning Learning Activities and Assessment Strategies in the ESL Classroom
Video
- Practical Aspects of Using Video in the Foreign Language Classroom
- Comprehension Hot Spots in Movies: Scenes and Dialogs Which Are Difficult for ESL/EFL Students to Understand
- Using Films to Develop Learner Motivation
Vocabulary
- Lexical Attrition of Some Arabic Speakers of English as a Foreign language: A Study of Word Loss
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Is Gairaigo English? (Are English Loan-words Into Japanese Really English?)
- Use/Misuse of Loan-words in the English Language in Japan
- Potentially Confusing and Embarrassing Differences between American and British English
- Advertising and Language: The War of Words Between Copywriters and Language Purists
- Loanwords - A Pitfall for All Students
- "Chicken Meets on Rise": Meaning in Decline Lexical Havoc in L2
- One Benefit of Monolingual Dictionaries in the Writing Classroom
- English Loanwords in Japanese -- The Built-In Lexicon
- Using the Lexical Approach for the Acquisition of ESP Vocabulary
- Advanced Vocabulary Instruction in EFL
- Interlingual Transfer of Idioms by Arab Learners of English
- Corpus Linguistics: What It Is and How It Can Be Applied to Teaching
- Considerations of Choosing an English-English Dictionary for ESL Students
- Definition Plus Collocation in Vocabulary Teaching and Learning
Writing
- Learning Contracts and Team Teaching in a University ESL Writing Class
- How Communicative Language Teaching Became Acceptable in Secondary Schools in China
- Content Based Academic Writing
- Technical Correspondence: What Professionals Need to Learn
- Integrating CALL into the Writing Curriculum
- Gender Differences in Taiwan Business Writing Errors
- Marking Student Work on the Computer
- Literacy Development Through Peer Reviews in a Freshman Composition Classroom
- Crossing Cultural and Spatial Boundaries: A Cybercomposition Experience
- Preparing ESL Students for College Writing: Two Case Studies
- Let's Write In English: Teacher, We Never Learned That
- Writing Scientific Project Applications for Peer Review
- Improving Text Flow in ESL Learner Compositions
Other
- Towards International English in EFL Classrooms in Japan
- New Ways of Studying Fluency in English
- Second Language Literacy Through Student-Centered Learning
- Using the Community Language Learning Approach to Cope with Language Anxiety
- The Australian/Japanese Homestay Program and its Positive Contribution to Cross-Cultural Understanding
- A Scheme for the Obtaining of Language Skills
- The Practice of TESOL & The Effect of Individual Variables Upon TESOL Students
- Different Attitudes Among Non-English Major EFL Students
- 20/20 Hindsight: Teacher Change and Advice
- Teacher Perceptual Comparisons toward Two Specific Communicative and Whole Language Dimensions in ESL Instruction
- David Kolb, The Theory of Experiential Learning and ESL
- Uses of Japanese (L1) in the English Classroom: Introducing the Functional-Translation Method
- Basic Assumptions in Teaching English as an International Language
- Why Do We Teach English?
- The Development and Maintenance of The Internet TESL Journal
- Overcoming the Fear of Using Drama in English Language Teaching
- Virtual Reality for ESL Students
- Integrating English into an Elementary School Life Course
- Learner Empowerment - A Perspective
- A New Perspective on the Goals of TEFL in China
- Mentoring Mainstream Teachers of ESL Students
- Multiple Intelligence Theory and the ESL Classroom -- Preliminary Considerations
- Letterland Pictogram Concept in EFL Teaching of Young Children
- Using Technology to Help ESL/EFL Students Develop Language Skills
- Content-Based Instruction in EFL Contexts
- Practical Ways Brain-based Research Applies to ESL Learners
- Creating New Names for Common Things in Cameroon English
- Scaffolding Academic Learning for Second Language Learners
- Creating a Healthy Learning Environment for Student Success in the Classroom
- Perceptions and Stereotypes of ESL Students
- Ideas for Developing a Personal EFL Teaching Curriculum
- Aspects of Nonverbal Communication
Old, Outdated?
- Guidelines for Designing a Good Web Site for ESL Students
- How to Make a Successful ESL/EFL Teacher's Web Page
- How to Make a Startup Page for Internet Browsing
- TEFL Labour Issues in Japan
- Points to Consider when Evaluating Interactive Multimedia
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