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This article discusses the usefulness of anecdotes as a technique to stimulate learners’ interest and thus create a meaningful learning context in the second language classroom. It describes the pattern of an anecdote and how it should be formed as well as the different types of anecdotes. The article offers tips to successfully implement this technique.

Author: Deniz Sallı-Çopur Format: Text
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Using Anecdotes in Language Class
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This Module of the Shaping the Way we Teach English Series contains a lesson plan and accompanying video that is focused on alternative assessment, which is a type of evaluation that directly evaluates learners' language skills; examples include portfolios, journals, peer feedback, and interviews.

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Module 10
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This Module of the Shaping the Way we Teach English Series contains a lesson plan and accompanying video that is focused on guiding teachers on how to bring critical and creative thinking into their classrooms.

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Module 9
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This Module of the Shaping the Way we Teach English Series contains a lesson plan and accompanying video that is focused on guiding teachers on how to choose and use printed texts (books, newspapers), images (photographs, posters), and multimedia (audio, video, computer programs) as authentic materials.

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Module 8
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This article discusses the use of self-directed projects to develop learner independence in academic settings. It describes and gives examples of how self-directed projects are integrated into a teaching situation at Arabian Gulf University. The article discusses how getting students involved in doing self-directed projects can lead to a gain in confidence in their ability to manage their own learning and progress in becoming independent language learners.

Authors: Diane Malcolm, William Rindfleisch Format: Text, Image / Poster / Maps
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Individualizing Learning Through Self-Directed Projects
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This Module of the Shaping the Way we Teach English Series contains a lesson plan and accompanying video that is focused on language learning and communication strategies and metacognitive and cognitive strategies that aid students in learning a second language.

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Module 7
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This Module of the Shaping the Way we Teach English Series contains a lesson plan and accompanying video that is focused on how to manage large classes and covers the following areas: pedagogical planning, classroom learning systems, and discipline management.

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Module 6
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This article discusses the difficulty of understanding noun compounds in professional texts in science and technology, business, medicine, law, and other areas of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). It provides techniques and activities to teach students how to decode noun compounds to see the link between definitions, which are usually familiar, and noun compounds, which are usually not familiar. These strategies can help students overcome this difficulty in reading advanced and specialized texts.

Author: Peter Master Format: Text
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Noun Compounds and Compressed Definitions
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This article presents practical suggestions and tasks to make it easier to teach second language academic writing at the college level. It discusses the necessity of a warm-up period in which learners produce first drafts in pairs or small groups and do peer error correction. The article offers tasks such as reacting to an academic review, comparing two academic articles, and summarizing academic articles.

Author: Magdalena Ożarska Format: Text
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Some Suggestions for Academic Writing Instruction at English Teacher Training Colleges
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This article discusses whole language and phonics approaches to teaching L1 reading. It argues to bring these two perspectives together under an integrated approach to better teach second language reading. The article offers an integrated lesson plan with adaptable activities and techniques that show how to apply the integrated approach.

Author: Thomas Baker Format: Text
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Applying Reading Research to the Development of an Integrated Lesson Plan

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