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1. Abstracts from Other Journals

   In: English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 4 Format(s): Text

   “Challenges for ELT from the expansion in teaching children” addresses a growing international trend of teaching English to younger learners (TEYL). Some issues raised are teacher education, student motivation, assessment, and the diversity of levels that exist in secondary school. The second article explores the topic of “Ownership” of English and the NS-NNS distinction. The study asked speakers from India, Malaysia, Singapore, and the United States to rate the acceptability of sentences. Their answers reflected their degree of ownership and perceptions of the target language.

2. Channelling Children's Energy Through Vocabulary Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   In this article, the author shares vocabulary development activities for young learners. These activities channel students' energy and make learning more effective and fun. The author stresses the importance of giving young learners a good language-learning experience, and the challenges of teaching young learners who are not literate in their L1. The author describes six activities that allow learners to laugh, to move, and to make noise while learning vocabulary.

3. Using Favorite Songs and Poems with Young Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   In this article, the author discusses the benefits of using songs and poems to teach young learners. The author explains how songs and poems can be used in English class and what their benefits are. The author explains how teachers can use actions or puppets to accompany the selected songs or poems, or allow young learners to create ideas themselves. Each suggestion includes an activity. The author also offers an example of a song chart.

4. Teaching Techniques: Human Mind Maps

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Teaching Techniques give English teachers the opportunity to share successful classroom practices.

5. Photography Exhibition

   In: Teacher's Corner: Using Art in the English Language Classroom Format(s): Text

   Bring the museum to your classroom! In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students create a photography exhibition to reinforce language learned in the classroom.

6. World Wide Wiki

   In: Teacher's Corner: Integrating Global Affairs into Your English Lessons Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner discusses how to use wikis for collaborative writing in the classroom. Students create their own world fact books with this activity!

7. Week 1 - World Tour

   In: Teacher's Corner: Building Global Citizens Format(s): Text

   In this week’s World Tour project, students will select a region, continent, or country to learn more about.

8. Week 2 - Professional Video Gamer

   In: Teacher's Corner: Gerunds and Infinitives Format(s): Text

   This week, while students learn to use gerunds and infinitives, take some time to learn about the wide world of video games from them!

9. Teacher's Corner: Career Opportunities

   Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we will provide students opportunities to practice English to learn about and practice pursuing job opportunities.

10. Integrating Tech Tools to Support Various Modalities of Second Language Development

    In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    The authors highlight tech tools that they have found particularly useful in supporting the language-learning objectives they set in their classroom. The article includes examples from a unit of study to illustrate how the tools can be linked to specific instructional goals and tasks.

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