New in the TESL Canada Journal

Free access to all issues of the TESL Canada Journal is one of the benefits of membership in TESL Canada. Members can log in to any issue of TCJ (free of charge) and read any of the material there. However, for most of the very recent content (except book reviews, which are all available immediately) other users will either have to join TESL Canada or subscribe directly to theTCJ, or else wait until the 24-month subscription-only period passes.  Issues of the journal more than 24 months old are entirely open-access for all users.

Click here for a list of all article titles and abstracts (both subscription-only and open-access).

For TESL Canada members, a selective preview of comparatively recent articles that may especially interest classroom practitioners:

Perspectives section

Semantic prosody and EFL/ESL vocabulary pedagogy (Weimin Zhang) – A look at the ways in which real-life word associations, which may well not be correctly presented in dictionaries and other teaching tools, are being more accurately understood through the use of concordancing programs; a must-read in particular for teachers of intermediate or advanced students, whose reading, writing, listening and speaking will be very positively impacted by a more sophisticated grasp of word associations.

Revision in second language writing: What teachers need to know (Khaled Barkaoui) – A brief but very useful survey of theories and research dealing with revision by second language writers, noting clear differences between the typical approaches of less and more advanced students, and offering concrete advice for classroom application.

In the Classroom section

Paper Partners: A Peer-Led Talk-Aloud Academic Writing Program for Students Whose First Language of Academic Study is Not English (Andrea Vechter and Christopher Brierley) – An practical and straightforward how-to account of setting up a writing-partner system to link subsequent language with native speaking students in a way that not only provides writing mentorship but also serves a vector for cultural exchanges in both directions; interesting to all, but perhaps especially valuable for teachers at large institutions.

Developing critical consciousness through film (Justin Charlebois) – How content-based instruction (in this case, study of the film The Color Purple) at the university level can be an effective context for helping learners develop a critical perspective on such issues as gender and social justice; a detailed examination of the pre-, while-, and post-viewing stages of a lesson plan.

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