ATEL  NEWSLETTER
No. 17 – Issued in March 2008

CONTENTS

- ATEL in 2007 & 2008 (Hanady Mirza)
- ATEL a Shiny Star in the Lebanese Firmament (Mirielle Abou Jaoude)
- A Manual for Evaluating the Cultural Content of EFL Textbooks (Dweik & Abu Nuwar)
- Lesson Planning in Student-Centered Classrooms (Hanady Mirza)
- Common Mistakes in the Teaching Procedures (Antoine Lattouf)
- Back to Square (?) One: Practicing Speaking in Class (Mike Orr)
- Role of Smart Boards in Enhancing Students’ Oral Presentations (Al-Sadig Yahya Abdalla)
- Effect of Musical Intelligence through Using the Suggestopedia Method on the Achievement of the Basic  6th Grade Students' Vocabulary & Reading Comprehension  (Fayzeh Abu-Sneineh)
- Effects of Background Knowledge (Schema) on Petra University Students’ Reading Discourse (Ahmad Al Hassan)
- On Teaching Future Time to Arab EFL Learners: Problems and Solutions (Kadhim Al Rifaee)
- Microstructure of Writing of Lebanese University Students examined in the Genre of Argumentation (Siham El Hassanieh )
- Facilitating Cross-Culture Communication through a Writing Exchange (Natasha Isadora Frank)