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This article describes freshman university students in China. They started their day with Morning Discussion, a student-hosted discussion of relevant topics. BBC and VOA reports were useful sources. The discussions offered opportunities for negotiation, clarification, and building communicative competence. As students took responsibility for the topics, classroom set up, and participation, their confidence grew. This was very successful, as shown by comments in students’ weekly diaries. Instructors stayed out of debates and did not interrupt to offer corrections.

Authors: Leng Hui, Jiang Xin, Jiang Yi Format: Text
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This song in the Sing Out Loud Traditional Songs collection is a traditional spiritual song.

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This song in the Sing Out Loud Traditional Songs collection is a popular Western folk song.

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This song in the Sing Out Loud Traditional Songs collection is about a typical railroad worker.

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This song in the Sing Out Loud Children's Songs collection emphasizes movement and parts of the body. Poster included.

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This song in the Sing Out Loud Children's Songs collection is a translation of the traditional French nursery rhyme. Poster included.

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If students are not meeting their goals, it may be that the reason is non-linguistic. Motivation is an important factor that teachers need to consider. The writer argues that carefully chosen ethics cases can motivate timid students to speak out by removing their fear of making mistakes and by encouraging them to talk about heart-felt beliefs. Since ethics cases may not have clear right and wrong answers, this sets them apart from other discussion topics. Debate will foster critical thinking skills.

Author: Daniel K. Sokol Format: Text
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The goals of this lesson in Teaching Pragmatics are: raising awareness that misunderstandings can be caused by differences in performing speech acts between Japanese and Americans; making learners aware of what they know already and encouraging them to use their universal or transferable L1 pragmatic knowledge in L2 contexts; teaching the appropriate linguistic forms that are likely to be encountered in performing speech acts.

Author: Sachiko Kondo Format: Text, Video, Website
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to raise learners' awareness of pragmatic rules and to increase input to learners and opportunities to observe native English speakers' pragmatic behavior.

Author: Noriko Ishihara Format: Text, Video, Website
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn how to make complaints during service encounters.

Author: Dudley W. Reynolds Format: Text, Video, Website
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