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This is a step-by-step guide to helping students use online breakout rooms to work in groups to become “experts” in a topic, then share their knowledge with other students in a jigsaw format, as a way to interact and prepare to give more formal presentations.

Author: Terence McLean Format: Text
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Online Breakout Rooms: Jigsaw Discussions and Presentation Practice
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Learn how Bojana Nikić Vujić has made her mark as a teacher trainer, television personality, and textbook author—and as an English teacher at Ivo Andrić Elementary School in suburban Belgrade.

Author: Ivana Banković and Kevin McCaughey Format: Text
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My Classroom: Serbia
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Here’s a way to get students talking while at the same time preparing them to write opinionated essays: using “place mats” as a starting point for expressing, sharing, and supporting opinions.

Author: Michael Horvilleur and Hiram Ruvalcaba Format: Text
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Using “Place Mats” as a Prewriting Activity for Opinionated Essays
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The author explains how to use an asynchronous video app, then describes two specific tasks—one collaborative, the other dialogic—that teachers and students can carry out with the app.

Author: Anna Ciriani-Dean Format: Text
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Using an Asynchronous Video App to Stimulate Spontaneous Oral Interaction
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The authors use peace education as a framework to present an assignment in which students read and write about a peacemaker “to reflect on the meaning of peace and how it can be achieved.”

Author: Jimalee Sowell and Bishwa Raj Gautam Format: Text
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Writing about a Peacemaker
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This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.

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Reader’s Guide
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The author points out that “even the most homogenous EFL class will have some cultural variety” and presents a “buffet” of activities designed to help students become curious about the differences they discover, analyze cultural values, and improve skills needed to communicate effectively with people of other cultures.

Author: Ingrid Brita Mathew Format: Text
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Finding Heterogeneity in Cultural Homogeneity
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The author describes in detail a two-stage reading activity that incorporates authentic materials, task-based learning, and stations. The article includes ideas for adaptation and presents a number of further teaching applications.

Author: Mina Gavell Format: Text
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Task-Based Reading Activities Using Authentic Materials and Skills
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This session, "American English Resources for Virtual or Face-to-face Grammar Instruction" shares fun, practical ideas for using and adapting free American English resources to teach grammar topics in a variety of ELT contexts.

Author: Ellana Black Format: Text, Video
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This session, "The Art of the Running Dictation," provides techniques for how to design and adapt Running Dictations for grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing practice that students will be sure to enjoy!

Author: Jacqueline Peterson Format: MP3, Video
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