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1. My Classroom: Spotlight on Oman’s Specialized Institute of Professional Training of Teachers

   In: English Teaching Forum 2025, Volume 63, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article profiles Oman’s national professional development hub for public school teachers, principals, and supervisors. The authors describe the pedagogical enhancements and professional development support the Institute’s more than 30 ELT trainers provide throughout the country.

2. Peace Corps Teaching and Learning Resources

   In: Peace Corps Teacher Training Resources Format(s): Website

   Peace Corps provides many resources to help teachers develop courses on a variety of teaching and learning topics such as water, health, the environment, and other community issues.

3. Using the Telephone to Teach Pragmatics

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to make requests, extend invitations, and offer congratulations (or other speech acts) and to learn how to open and close telephone conversations when leaving a message.

4. Smithsonian Folkways: Tools for Teaching

   Format(s): Website

   Looking for more ways to use music to teach? Check out the Smithsonian Folkways website that has a section called “Tools for Teaching” with free lessons and activities for the classroom.

5. Teaching Refusals in an EFL Setting

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   The goals of this lesson in Teaching Pragmatics are: raising awareness that misunderstandings can be caused by differences in performing speech acts between Japanese and Americans; making learners aware of what they know already and encouraging them to use their universal or transferable L1 pragmatic knowledge in L2 contexts; teaching the appropriate linguistic forms that are likely to be encountered in performing speech acts.

6. Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels

   Format(s): Text

   On this page, you’ll find everything you need to get started with comics and graphic novels.

7. TEACHING TECHNIQUES: Pair Counting to Improve Grammar and Spoken Fluency

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this Teaching Technique, learn how to help students improve their spoken grammar through pair counting.

8. Webinars: Teaching Methods

   Format(s): Text

   Develop your skills as an educator with these webinars.

9. Teaching with Jazz Chants

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Video

   This webinar "Teaching with Jazz Chants" demonstrates how to use Jazz Chants in the classroom.

10. Teaching Beyond the Test: A Method for Designing Test-Preparation Classes

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

    Test-preparation classes that focus on skills will benefit students beyond the test by developing skills they can use at university. This article discusses the purposes of various tests and outlines how to design effective test-prep classes. Practice activities included.

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