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1. Teacher's Corner: Setting Up For Business English Success

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   This month in Teacher’s Corner, we look at how to teach grammar in ways that help students to build their communicative competence. A communicative grammar lesson gives students the opportunity to practice the target grammar item through specific communicative tasks and activities.This month’s article is filled with ideas and resources to help students use the language they are learning.

2. English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 3

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   Find tips for conducting an ELT workshop, starting a community-based English club, and making sense of English homework.

3. Teaching English for and with Communities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article is a reflection of English teaching in Chiclayo, Peru, at a not-for-profit cultural center. It starts with a brief explanation of the authors’ desire to help transform the community through English teaching. The article then explains the concept of civic education and offers a three-tiered approach that has been designed to help the community: Chiclayo reads, summer institute for k-12 English teachers, and the advanced curriculum. The implementation and results of the projects are discussed.

4. A Forum Retrospective: 60 Years of English Language Teaching

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is the second of four articles looking at various aspects of Forum as the journal moves into its 60th year of publication. This article reviews decade-by-decade trends in English language teaching, as reflected in articles published in Forum.

5. Laughing All the Way: Teaching English Using Puns

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article describes four categories of English puns—soundalike puns, lookalike puns, close-sounding puns, and texting puns—and suggests how they can be incorporated into English language classrooms.

6. English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4

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   Find suggestions for vocabulary games, crowdsourced language learning, literary coaching—and much more.

7. English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1

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   Read about pragmatics, learn tips for publishing, and use the latest “Try This” activity in your classroom. All of this and more can be found in the newest English Teaching Forum.

8. Practical Applications of TESOL’s The 6 Principles of Exemplary Teaching of English Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article presents TESOL’s “6 Principles” and suggests a variety of ways that teachers in almost any country or context can incorporate the principles.

9. English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 4

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   This special issue, An Anthology for Teacher Trainers, contains articles published in English Teaching Forum between 1994 and 2000.

10. Teaching Technique: Board Games in the English Classroom

    In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    Learn how to play a game called “Business Decisions” and see how it can help students develop their language and business acumen.

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