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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.

Teaching Jazz Chants to Young Learners

Format(s): Text, Video

Teaching Jazz Chants to Young Learners is a video-based teacher training resource available on DVD that presents one compelling technique for teaching English pronunciation, intonation, and sentence stress: the jazz chant.

Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual

Format(s): Text

Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual offers twenty-six practical teaching strategies and techniques that originally appeared in Ideas Plus, a special series of publications produced by the National Council of Teachers of English.

Teaching the World's Children: ESL for Ages Three to Seven

In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 1 Format(s): Text

This article discusses teaching English as a second language to very young learners. The authors talks about how important it is for children to have a wide variety of experiences when building language and literacy. The authors explain how the use of various environments, including learning centers, block centers, art or sand tables, writing areas, science and technology centers, and even libraries, can help shape the way a child learns language as well as improve other skills.

Teaching Young Learners

In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 1 Format(s): Text

This author shares her unique approach to teaching young learners. She emphasizes that her approach involves features of communicative styles, the audio lingual approach (AL), and Total Physical Response (TPR), as she believes it is necessary to bring together all three styles of teaching to develop language proficiency. She includes a lesson plan for beginner level students to improve grammar competency.

Teaching ESL Versus EFL

In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 2 Format(s): Text

The author argues for different teaching approaches in EFL vs. ESL settings. He points out the differences in student motivation and suggests how to select different activities for the two contexts (with examples of relevant activities). He gives guidelines for the appropriate role of L1 in each classroom, and explains how the two classroom cultures differ (for example, in term of the learning styles of the students). He argues that keeping in mind these differences will help educators make more effective decisions for their students.

Understanding and Teaching Generation Y

In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text

This article responds to the challenges of teaching Generation Y students, who are tech-savvy and feedback-dependent visual learners. Because "Gen Y" students are less likely to engage with traditional classroom teaching methods, this article is helpful in identifying specific activities teachers can employ to utilize students' attraction to digital media, multi-tasking, and a sense of global purpose.

Creating a Learner-Centred Teacher Education Program

In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 3 Format(s): Text

This article describes the creation of a learner-centered classroom environment, with students who came from a teacher-centered background. A teacher-dominated classroom is one where the teacher talks most of the time, leads activities, and constantly passes judgment on student performance. The authors describe a learner-centered classroom as one where students work on distinct tasks and projects individually or in small groups, developing learner autonomy and control. The authors share steps in their process of creating a learner-centered classroom.

Sing Out Loud Children's Songs

Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps

Sing Out Loud Children's Songs CD includes popular children's songs in the U.S.A. Several posters accompany the individual Sing Out Loud Children's Songs.

Sing Out Loud Traditional Songs