This paper describes successful strategies based on research and practical applications used in the Greater Clark School Corporation in bringing many languages and cultures together. The most reasonable and correct course of action for teachers to take is to include the students in all class activities that will be enhanced by cooperative…

Provides fun ideas for filling in time gaps in the English-as-a-foreign language classroom. (Author/VWL)

Argues for using a variety of dictionaries in the second-language classroom, identifies some criteria to consider when selecting a dictionary, and suggests activities that teachers may use in their second-language classes. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the use of humor in the English-as-a-Foreign-Language classroom. Suggests that when student laugh they learn better. Highlights ways to make learning activities fun and provides a humor questionnaire. (Author/VWL)

Presents a rapid memory game that allows students of Spanish to distinguish promptly between the uses of the prepositions "por" and "para." Explains the game and various accompanying activities. (AS)

Recommends the study of "La Symphonie pastorale," a novel by Andre Gide, for moderately advanced students of French as a second language. Presents various activities to be performed before, during and after reading the story, a pastor's journal, to help students understand the ironic aspects and ambiguities of the book. (AS)

Discusses the importance of correct translation to preserve the spirit and intent of the original language. The article notes that incorrect translations have been a source of embarrassment, a reason for a lack of sales, an urge for incitement, and a cause for destruction of human lives. Some humorous mistranslations are listed. (CK)

It is argued that, although materials are an important form of support to language classroom activities, they also constitute a constraint that can undermine the value of those activities for the processes of learning. (three references) (LB)

Provides ways teachers can help English-as-a-Second-Language students connect the acquisition of English to tasks or activities related to their daily lives. Specific activities are described. (Author/VWL)

Proposes the use of the song "Deportees," by Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffmann in the English as a Second Language classroom. (IFS/WGA)

Discusses how linguistic comparisons can be incorporate into foreign language classroom activities. draws on Slobin's (1996) experimental study, which demonstrated the existence of "the thinking for speaking" form of thought and argues that teaching foreign language entails teaching novel "thinking for speaking operations. (Author/VWL)

Discusses how the use of folders and kits provides effective ways of promoting conversational practice within small groups in beginning Spanish classes. The types of tasks used simulate the circumstances found in most language learning outside the classroom. (one reference) (Author/CK)

This article questions the presentation of rules in the classroom and explores some of the different senses of the term "rule." After making some basic distinctions, the article considers implications for the classroom and suggests there is no single approach to the presentation of grammar rules, and that learners should be encouraged to…

Makes the case for the reintegration of literature within language learning. Suggests that its appeal to imagination and creativity, its links with emotional intelligence and to real-world uses of language make it eminently suitable as a component of language teaching. Offers two practical examples of activities used in the…

Argues in response to Nassaji (1999) that although the article contains useful suggestions for communicative activities, it is vulnerable to serious criticism in terms of an incoherent theoretical justification, a failure to provide a promised discussion of relevant empirical evidence, and an unmotivated restriction on the nature of the tasks…