ATEL Newsletter

No. 14 – Issued in March 2005

Table of Contents

SPEECHES by:

- ATEL President: Rene Karam

- Deputy Chairperson: June Antoun

- British Ambassador: James Watt

- Msgr. Camille Zaidan

- Director of Irfan Schools: Sami Abilmona

ARTICLES

- Facilitating Language-Learners’ Vocabulary Development Through Extensive Reading (Peter Davidson)

- The Career Objective as Source: Implications for Motivation and Pedagogy

(J. Peter Fallon)

- Cementing Vocabulary (Dr. Joe Helou)

- The Value of Written Feedback in Practitioner Research (Cindy L. Gunn)

- L1 and the L2 Classroom (Josephine O’Brien)

- Using the Limerick as a Tool in the Teaching of English Language and Literature

(Anthony Johae)

- New Technologies Old Mentalities (Ali Al Rabai)

- Open Source and TESOL (John Allan)

- Peer Editing in the ESL Classroom: Just When You Thought It Doesn’t Work (Nuwar Diab)

- Online Support in the ESP Classroom (M.J. Piotrowska and E. Zagallo Lobo)

- Peer Evaluation of Teaching: Definitions, Procedures, Protocols and Issues (Zeinab Mehanna)

- The Quest For Ideal Bilingual Dictionaries (prof. Muhammad Al Busairi)

- Using L1 in L2 Classes: A Case Study (Rana Abu Heif & Jumana Ghannam)

- Teaching Vocabulary: What, Why and How? (Soha N. Karaki & Resan S. Kurdi)

- The Influence of Teaching Cultural Materials on Foreign Language Learners (Dr. Mahmoud Kudah)