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1. Teacher's Corner: A Story of Design Thinking in the Classroom

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   Design thinking is a concept that has received growing attention in the United States in recent years. This approach to problem-solving is also valuable for turning our classrooms into spaces that prepare our students to solve meaningful challenges in the world in addition to learning English language skills. In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we explore the concept of design thinking and consider how we can implement it in our teaching and classroom.

2. 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.

3. Teaching the Native Speaker How to Teach English

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article offers guidelines for non-native-speaker teachers of English sharing teaching contexts with native speakers of English who have no teaching experience.

4. Activate: Games for Learning American English

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

   This webinar introduces teachers to 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.

5. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Business English and Entrepreneurship

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   Within the field of English Language Teaching, the area of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is increasingly popular. Students around the world are seeking the English language skills they need to succeed in their areas of study and work.

6. Teaching Vocabulary to English Teacher Trainees

   In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Non-native English-speaking teachers in a foreign context will sometimes experience difficulty with the words used in their training courses. This article presents a six-step method for helping these teachers learn new, relevant vocabulary. The method is effective but does not require a large amount of class time. Once words have been selected, individual students are each given a word for which to create a word profile. Presentation and review follows.

7. English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 3

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   Find activities to help learners explore and express culture —and much more.

8. English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 4

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   Find strategies for reading online content productively and much more.

9. English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 3

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   Find tips for enhancing your teaching with technology … understanding L1 and L2 writing differences and applying them to your teaching … making productive use of inquiry notebooks … using question grids … playing a paraphrasing game … and much more.

10. Teacher's Corner: Integrating Global Affairs into Your English Lessons

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    In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we will showcase four activities that can be used to incorporate world affairs into the English classroom. The goal of these activities is to inspire students to learn more about the larger world and consider how events affect us all.

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