Using clear examples and explanations, this article presents three ways for students to interact with peers and with texts to develop reading fluency.

This session, "Effective Grammar Teaching: Balancing Input and Output," aims to help you enrich classroom time by examining how to incorporate the practice of real language into grammar lessons. The session will consider what “real communication” means and the motivating impact that creativity and opportunities for personal expression have on successful language learning. Participants will work with a template for a sample lesson plan that incorporates communicative tasks and balances opportunities for language input and output. The activity ideas and practical steps outlined in this session are applicable for classes of any age, ability level, or level of access to technology.

This session, "Practical Applications for Critical Thinking in English Language Teaching and Learning," offers an easy way to determine how much Critical Thinking (CT) is already part of existing your materials and practical ways to weave more CT into them on a regular basis. By the end of our time together, we will have (a) reviewed some of the key features of CT and its importance as an element in any learning environment, (b) discussed ways to analyze current materials for CT content, and (c) identified practical ways to easily apply CT in language teaching and learning.

This handbook provides specific instructions, activities, and reading materials for participants wanting to improve their English reading abilities. Topics include strategies before reading, while reading, and after reading, strategies for viewing images and interpreting visual texts, and suggested topics for English Club settings.