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1. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to boats.

2. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to fish.

3. Teaching Students to Categorize TOEFL Essay Topics

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author maintains that categorizing TOEFL iBT writing topics helps test takers because they will be more familiar with the topics and thus better able to write about them and because categorizing topics requires critical thinking about the topics. Using some of the 185 TOEFL prompt questions and 10 additional prompts, the article explores ways to code and analyze the prompts, illustrating the process with tables.

4. Supporting Language Learning Using Smithsonian Online Museum Resources

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text

   This webinar explores strategies for finding and using visual resources to tell a story.

5. Social Media as a Tool for Community Engagement

   Format(s): Text, Video

   This webinar looks beyond the framework of our current English language classrooms to prepare our students for the difficulties posed by an unknown future by deepening our teaching.

6. Using Visual Literacy Skills to Encourage Communicative Language Practice

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

   This webinar, "Using Visual Literacy Skills to Encourage Communicative Language Practice," demonstrates how to increase learner engagement in the English language classroom by incorporating visual literacy skills.

7. Animating Your Instruction: Using Comics and Graphic Novels in the English Language Classroom

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

   "Animating Your Instruction: Using Comics and Graphic Novels in the English Language Classroom" explores the popularity of illustrated stories among teachers and students alike and offers suggestions on how to use them to “animate” your classes.

8. Teaching Hospitality and Tourism: Building Leadership, Communication, and Intercultural Awareness

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

   This session, "Teaching Hospitality and Tourism: Building Leadership, Communication, and Intercultural Awareness," explores the benefits and challenges of teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and will share practical ideas for how to prepare students for careers in hospitality and tourism.

9. Questionnaires as a Tool for Teaching English Language through Learner-Create Knowledge

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Christopher Strelluf and Eric Ekembe explain potential benefits of learner-created knowledge which can be particularly valuable in low-resource contexts, and present a detailed, adaptable approach for using questionnaires to create knowledge, inspire critical thinking, and develop language skills.

10. Countering Disinformation Discourse in the English Language Classroom

    In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    Adam Mastandrea presents strategies for helping students recognize, analyze, and counter disinformation, using authentic examples to illustrate the approach. Incorporating aspects of media literacy and critical thinking, the author argues that the strategies strengthen language learning while also enabling learners to counter disinformation online.

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