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This article describes a fun guessing game that involves objects in a “mystery bag” and gives learners practice with vocabulary and with asking and answering questions.

Author: Wendy Coulson Format: Text
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The Mystery Bag: Listening and Speaking Skills for Young Learners
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This article presents a number of language-based suggestions for pairing students so that over time they get to work with a variety of classmates and build relationships with peers.

Author: Do Na Chi Format: Text
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Pairing in EFL Classes
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The author presents a clever but easy-to-implement extension to standard icebreaker activities that helps students get to know their peers, use the target language, and form strong relationships in the classroom.

Author: Alex Barrett Format: Text
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Extended Icebreaker
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This article describes a highly adaptable approach to peer feedback that includes a meaningful communicative writing task and promotes positivity and mutual support.

Author: Özge Yol Format: Text
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Peer Feedback in Second-Language Writing Classes: “Dear My Friend … ”
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The author presents a step-by-step procedure for using narrow reading—“reading several texts about a single, narrow topic”—to promote reading fluency, with examples and suggested variations.

Author: Guy Redmer Format: Text
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Using Narrow Reading to Develop Fluency
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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 presents strategies for successful team-bonding games along with descriptions of games and suggestions for building a collaborative atmosphere before, during, and after the games.

Author: Pham Huynh Phu Quy Format: Text
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Cooperative Game-Playing in the EFL Classroom
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This article presents authentic, collaborative activities that help students reflect on their own culture and explore other cultures to promote critical thinking and mutual understanding.

Author: Ramin Yazdanpanah Format: Text
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Exploring and Expressing Culture through Project-Based Learning
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This session, "Motivating Your Students with Rules, Routines, and Rewards," defines classroom rules, routines, and rewards in the English language classroom, their role in well-managed classes, and how their creation and effective use leads to learner engagement. The presenters provide participants with ways to achieve buy-in from their students for classroom rules, identify successful opening and closing activities, and point out the pros and cons of tangible and intangible rewards. The session will conclude with activities relevant to the topic that can be implemented in a range of classes taking into account differing ages, language levels, sizes of classes, and technology access.

Author: Sara Denne-Bolton and Lisa Morgan Format: Text, Video
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Involving Students in Classroom Routines and Processes
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This session, "Making Grammar and Vocabulary Learning Stick by Weaving A Critical Thinking Web," shows some ways to weave our grammar and vocabulary objectives into an interconnected web. Unlike babies learning their mother tongue, our learners have complex minds. Lists of definitions and rules fail to engage that complexity, and so most of them fall into forgetfulness. Critical thinking learning activities engage more of their brain’s interconnections. As a result, new words and grammatical patterns stick and become more available for productive language.

Author: Richard Kahn Format: Text, Video
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Language Teaching through Critical Thinking and Self-Awareness

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