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1. Developing Fluency through Oral Reading

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The author presents sets of easy-to-incorporate activities designed to improve reading fluency at the word-, sentence-, and passage-level.

2. Media Circles: Lively, Learner-Led Lessons

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article gives suggestions for applying the concept of literature circles to audiovisual media rather than to literary works as a way to support learner autonomy and interaction with the target language.

3. Story Retelling with a Twist

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is a step-by-step guide to carrying out a versatile, well-scaffolded activity that can improve learners’ speaking skills and keep them engaged through the use of stories and jokes with surprising and unexpected endings.

4. A Systematic Process for Assessing Assessment

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   “How to assess assessments is often a dilemma for teachers and English language programs,” the author writes, and then goes on to offer a number of suggestions, charts, and guiding questions designed to help solve that dilemma.

5. Task-Based Reading Activities Using Authentic Materials and Skills

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The author describes in detail a two-stage reading activity that incorporates authentic materials, task-based learning, and stations. The article includes ideas for adaptation and presents a number of further teaching applications.

6. Writing about a Peacemaker

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The authors use peace education as a framework to present an assignment in which students read and write about a peacemaker “to reflect on the meaning of peace and how it can be achieved.”

7. Using “Place Mats” as a Prewriting Activity for Opinionated Essays

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Here’s a way to get students talking while at the same time preparing them to write opinionated essays: using “place mats” as a starting point for expressing, sharing, and supporting opinions.

8. Online Breakout Rooms: Jigsaw Discussions and Presentation Practice

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is a step-by-step guide to helping students use online breakout rooms to work in groups to become “experts” in a topic, then share their knowledge with other students in a jigsaw format, as a way to interact and prepare to give more formal presentations.

9. Activate: Games for Learning American English Part 2

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   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.

10. A Simple “mmm” Technique to Teach Word Stress and Intonation in English

    In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    The author uses specific examples to demonstrate how the “mmm” technique can help students improve stress and intonation of words and sentences.

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