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These are twenty pictures and twenty matching vocabulary cards that can be used in classroom teaching.

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Pictures for Classroom Activities
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This chapter in the Peace Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on developing effective communication skills in order to carry out positive interactions in every day social situations as well as in conflict situations.

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Chapter 5: Speaking the Language of Peace
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This chapter in the Peace Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on conflict resolution and presents students with useful peacemaking skills for dealing with conflict in their personal lives and makes them aware of the processes of peacemaking on the national and international levels.

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Chapter 3: Conflict Resolution
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This chapter in the Peace Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal provides learners with examples of situations in which conflict has occurred and a previously peaceful situation has become unpleasant, tense, or potentially violent. As students examine the situations for the sources of conflict or misunderstanding and discuss their own attitudes and values, they improve their social interaction skills as well as their language skills.

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Chapter 2: Analyzing Conflict
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There are four children’s songs that can be used for classroom activities, together with the pictures provided at the end of this issue.

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Songs for Children
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In this article, the author discusses the benefits of using songs and poems to teach young learners. The author explains how songs and poems can be used in English class and what their benefits are. The author explains how teachers can use actions or puppets to accompany the selected songs or poems, or allow young learners to create ideas themselves. Each suggestion includes an activity. The author also offers an example of a song chart.

Author: Caroline Linse Format: Text
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Using Favorite Songs and Poems with Young Learners
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The author states that communicative activities, known to help language learning, can be difficult to use with middle school students. The author offers four suggestions for carrying out communicative activities and presents two activities that are designed to motivate students to use English to express their views.

Author: Carolina Rivera Format: Text
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Classroom Techniques: Communicative Activities for Middle School Classrooms
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The author discusses the benefits of applying cognitive linguistics, L1 acquisition, and neo-Vygotskian (Vygotsky) approaches to the teaching of a second language to young learners, using the example of teaching the preposition “on.” The author briefly reviews how prepositions are taught to adult learners and the challenges of teaching prepositions to young learners. The author then discusses two different meanings of “on” and how Total Physical Response (TPR) activities can be used to help young learners distinguish different meanings of “on.”

Author: Anna Piquer-Píriz Format: Text
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Teaching Prepositions to Very Young Learners: The Case of On
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The article argues for the benefits of drama activities for language learning. The author discusses nine benefits of using drama activities to teach young learners. The author then gives advice on how to use drama in the classroom, including how to choose an appropriate activity, how to start, and how to give feedback. The author presents several classroom drama activities.

Author: Galina Zalta Format: Text
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Using Drama with Children
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This article introduces an approach taken in Tunisia to introduce English as a foreign language to children in primary school classrooms. The author states that in Tunisia, children in primary schools are first taught Arabic and then French. The government does not want to overburden the students with English learning. Then, the author describes in detail the approach of an English club, including the materials and staff members and their training. The article concludes with a list of recommendations based on the Tunisian approach.

Author: Jawida Ben Afia Format: Text
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English Clubs: Introducing English to Young Learners
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