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Mingles allow a student to speak to several classmates in succession, giving participating students practice in speaking and listening as they work to fill a gap in information, experience, opinion, or knowledge. This article outlines procedures for mingles and provides detailed information on specific mingles tasks.

Author: Elena Borzova Format: Text
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Mingles in the Foreign Language Classroom
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The co-authors of this article present interactive and student-centered dictogloss activities as alternatives to dictation exercises. The dictogloss activities are flexible enough to appeal to learners with different needs and interests and will encourage students to be active and reflective and to integrate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills through social interaction.

Authors: Benjamin Lee Stewart, Luis Humberto Rodríguez Silva, and Juan Antonio Torres González Format: Text
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Integrating Language Skills through a Dictogloss Procedure
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This article offers guidelines for non-native-speaker teachers of English sharing teaching contexts with native speakers of English who have no teaching experience. The latter require cultural development—including instruction in the culture and functions of English in the country in which they are teaching—and educational development, which involves learning to apply former learning experiences to their teaching practice and creating learning objectives appropriate for the teaching context.

Author: Kelli Odhuu Format: Text
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Teaching the Native Speaker How to Teach English
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Brick Bingo helps students make connections between the spoken and written forms of words in a fun, low-stress game. The teacher calls out individual words and students remove those Words Bricks from their Bingo boards if they have that word. This game can be played individually or in pairs.

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This webinar "Discovering Grammar with Consciousness-Raising Tasks" introduces  consciousness-raising task (CR tasks), which encourage students to notice characteristics and patterns related to form, meaning, and/or use while actively exploring the target grammar feature.  This webinar will examine this inductive approach to grammar teaching through several activities that address a variety of grammar topics and student proficiency levels. For this webinar, you will find an online webinar recording and the downloadable presentation and resources. 

Author: Heather Benucci Format: Text, Video
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Consciousness Raising Tasks
Comparative Adjectives
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For and Since
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Phrasal Verbs and Formality
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In Mime the Words, the Describer is allowed to say the topic and nothing else. Instead, the Describer must describe the words on the Guess What? card using mime.

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This webinar Activate: Games for Learning American English Part 2 is the second webinar that introduces the Activate resource, demonstrates classroom management techniques for playing games in the classroom, and offers tips on how teacher's can create their own games that match their curriculum objectives. For this webinar, you will find an online webinar recording and the downloadable presentation and resources.

Author: Jennifer Hodgson & Kevin McCaughey Format: Text, Video
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Guess What 
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Activate: Games for Learning American English Part 2
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The Trace Effects Teacher's Manual provides teachers a resource to learn how to teach English using Trace Effects, the exciting, collaborative English language learning game developed by the Department of State. The manual provides information on teaching using online games and gives ideas for extending beyond the game using easy, interactive tasks for Chapter 3 of Trace Effects.

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Trace Effects Teacher's Manual - Chapter 3
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The Trace Effects Teacher's Manual provides teachers a resource to learn how to teach English using Trace Effects, the exciting, collaborative English language learning game developed by the Department of State. The manual provides information on teaching using online games and gives ideas for extending beyond the game using easy, interactive tasks for Chapter 2 of Trace Effects.

 

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In Guess What?, players take turns using English to describe words on Guess What? cards.  In turns, one player describes the items with as much detail as possible, while the remaining players try to guess what the student is describing. This game works well in groups of 3-4. It can also be done as a whole-class activity or as a competition among groups.

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