Welcome to English Teaching Forum, a quarterly journal published by the U.S. Department of State for teachers of English as a foreign or second language. Over 85,000 copies of the magazine are distributed in more than 130 countries. This site contains articles from issues of English Teaching Forum dating back to 2001.

We welcome submissions from English language teachers around the world. Most of the authors published in English Teaching Forum are classroom teachers.

U.S. Embassies and Consulates distribute copies of English Teaching Forum outside the United States. Questions about subscriptions outside the United States should be addressed to the Public Affairs or Cultural Affairs section of the nearest U.S. Embassy. In the United States, subscriptions are available from the Superintendent of Documents.

Teaching Jazz Chants to Young Learners

Teaching Jazz Chants to Young Learners is a video-based teacher training resource available on DVD that presents one compelling technique for teaching English pronunciation, intonation, and sentence stress: the jazz chant.

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Wordscapes

Wordscapes is a collection of ten full-color illustrations of American landscapes, including the forest, plains, desert, and more. Hidden in each of the illustrations are words identifying the flora, fauna and other elements of each environment depicted. A teacher’s guide included in the file provides suggestions for classroom use.

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