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This session, "Motivating with Gamification: Benefits and Cautions,” examines gamification in face-to-face and online classes and explores ways to include gamification elements in ELT instruction.

Author: Deborah Healey Format: Text, Video
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This session, "Adventures in Grammar: The Power of Stories," shares ways to dramatize grammar rules to make them memorable and techniques for helping students discover grammar as they explore popular stories.

Author: Presenter: Christopher Stillwell Format: Text, Video
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This session, "Look Away from the Screen”: Making Online Learning Three-Dimensional," shares how to push the boundaries in online classes from one-dimensional screens to students’ three-dimensional environments to enhance student motivation, engagement, and well-being. 

Author: Anna Ciriani-Dean Format: Text, Video
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The clues in this puzzle lead to pairs of consecutive numbers. Can you find them all?

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The author presents a detailed, step-by-step procedure for helping students become familiar with and identify narrative elements; the article describes a project in which groups of students create posters that use narrative elements to make stories of their own.

Author: Nicholas Gordon Format: Text
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Learn how Youa Thao teaches English and does much, much more at a school in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district. The article explains how the school district’s support system works and describes Ms. Thao’s approach, classroom environment, and teaching life.

Author: Amy Hanna Format: Text
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The author presents a simple, clever way to make all kinds of multiple-choice questions more interesting and more challenging for learners. Teachers can use the technique with both online and face-to-face instruction.

Author: Matthew Miklas Format: Text
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The author notes that “understanding fast speech can be an ongoing challenge for English learners of all levels” and presents online videos and interactive quizzes that help learners deal with blending, flap, H elision, syllable elision, and common phrases; the article includes a description of a lesson for using the suggested resources in class.

Author: Stephanie Hanson Format: Text
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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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The article describes ways that having students dub their own voices into English language movies can improve their pronunciation and intonation; the author presents a dubbing project that helps students focus on pronunciation in a way that is both challenging and enjoyable.

Author: Tran Thi Hai Yen Format: Text
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