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The authors espouse the need for negotiation in designing and delivering English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programs. Such negotiations take into account learners’ needs as well as structural limitations of the context and candid assessment of ESP providers. The article explores lessons from the field and the importance of needs analysis.

Authors: Spencer Salas, Leonardo A. Mercado, Lynn Hanson Ouedraogo, and Bernadette Musetti Format: Text
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English for Specific Purposes: Negotiating Needs, Possibilities, and Promises
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This article discusses how teachers can incorporate cultural knowledge into English language classes, exploring elements of culture, intercultural phenomena, and high-context and low-context cultures. Activities offered by the author to raise cultural awareness include web quests, role plays, cultural observations, and culture journals.

Author: Jerrold Frank Format: Text
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Raising Cultural Awareness in the English Language Classroom
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In this song, Hawaiian singer and pastor David “Kawika” Kahiapo sings about having done the best he can in his life and always having the strength to fight for his dreams. Kawika invites those listening to his song to also believe in themselves and fight for their dreams, without being discouraged by those who do not believe in their success. In this song, Kawika plays the slack key guitar (ki ho’alu), which is a guitar that has had its strings “slacked”, or loosened, to create a different chord.

In the song Champion, as is the case with many songs composed by Hawaiian artists, you can almost feel the breeze coming from Hawaiian beaches as you listen to the song. There is a sort of upbeat tune to Champion that makes you want to simply relax and enjoy.

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Champion
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Questions, Questions gives students practice forming yes/no questions. Using a Picture This card, a player chooses one item, and the remaining players take turns asking yes/no questions to try and guess the item.

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Picture This – Questions, Questions Instructions
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The board game Use a Word  provides students with a specific word they should try to use in a sentence. For this board game, you will find the downloadable game, game instructions, and game variations

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Travis Haddix’s song The Time is Now is another soul-searching examples of blues music. Blues guitarist Travis “Moonlight” Haddix was born in Walnut, Mississippi, only 30 miles south of Memphis. Memphis was a very important city for the development of blues music, and from an early stage Haddix’s blues style was influenced influence by big-name blues artists such as B.B. King. In The Time is Now, we can hear instruments such as the keyboard, the electric guitar, drums, the bass and the saxophone.

The song has a very positive message: the time has come for us to show love and care for each other and to stand together to build a fairer and more peaceful world. Haddix’s positive messages are echoed not only in his lyrics, but also in a motto he uses at the end of many of his shows: “I am the best that I can be, and since no one else can be me, there is none better.”

Author: Travis Haddix Format: MP3
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The Time is Now
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Same & Different provides students with the opportunity to use their background knowledge about the items on the Picture This cards to create descriptions that compare and contrast two items on a card. This game works well groups of 3, having one student select the two items and the other two students alternate comparing and contrasting the two items.

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Picture This Cards
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The board game What Someone Does gives students a chance to  talk about what people do in certain situations. For this board game, you will find the downloadable game, game instructions, and game variations.

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This webinar "Activate: Games for Learning American English" introduces teachers to 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.

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Activate: Games for Learning American English
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This webinar "Teaching Today's Learners: Oral Error Correction and Writing Effective Assessments" gives practical tips and strategies for how and when to  correct oral errors. This webinar also demonstrates how to write effective multiple choice questions. For this webinar, you will find an online webinar recording and the downloadable presentation and resources.

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Teaching Today's Learners: Oral Error Correction and Writing Effective Assessments
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Motivating Students by Modifying Evaluation Methods
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